The start was at Canadian mark "CC" with the wind at about northeast about 10-12 knots. The pin side was heavily favored and there were 3 other J120's starting. I was a little late getting to the line and Hot Ticket was able to get to the pin to windward to us and take the lead. The leg was a 2.5 mile port fetch so we had to follow her to mark AA. The next let was a 7.3 mile beat and we were able to round behind Ticket. The next 14.1 mile leg was a close reach at about 45 degrees apparent. About 3 miles down in the leg we put up our code 0 because of a little bit of a lift. We managed to stay to windward of Flying Irish and had decent boat speed. We caught up to HT but she tried to come up to us. We were still able to roll her. Unfortunately Flying Irish got a little ahead of us. About a mile before the Thames River mark we put up our .6 oz chute. We rounded right behind Irish, the new leader, but the lazy sheet was not released and we almost got rolled by HT it was such a bad jibe. Later on the next 20.3 mile leg the wind picked up and we got rolled by Jayhawker because they were using their reaching chute. We changed to our .75 but could not make up the difference to the finish. Although we placed 3rd we did pretty well with the entire fleet because we finished with some large boats. Result: 3rd out of 4 J120's
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