This was the same course B as last week with maybe 5 knots of air. I thought the left side of the course the boats were getting lifted on a port weather tack so I chose to start on starboard on the pin end of the line. I starboard tacked to the left of Jayhawker before the start. Right at the pin end Hot Ticket came across on port. Needles to say I had to duck HT (he was definitely fouling us) and then punch up to clear the pin. As we continued on I saw that we had clear air and tacked on port. Fortunately for us we continued up the leg with most of the J120's tacking behind us. I saw there was a increase of wind velocity ahead of us so I overstood a little to reach it and we came into the mark at 6.5 knots with Jayhawker. We decided to to do a bear away spinnaker set while Jayhawker did a jibe set. We did one jibe to the mark while Jayhawker gibed behind us and kept going. This gave us an inside at the next mark. So we were able to stay ahead by a few boat lengths. At DP8 we had difficulty taking the spinnaker down and Jayhawker got inside of us at the mark. The next upwind leg was only 3/4 mile and Jayhawker rounded first. Again Jayhawker jibe set the spinnaker and we did a bear away set. At the next mark we jibed clear ahead of Jayhawker but Jayhawker got an hourglass and we managed a 10 to 15 boat length lead to DP7. The rest of the way we held them off and beat them by at least 15 seconds.
Result: 1st out of 6 boats. Link:http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/re
Result: 1st out of 6 boats. Link:http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/re
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