The first leg was a beat to mark D in moderate winds 5-10 mph. I wanted to start on the committee boat side but got caught barging by Merlin and did a circle to round behind them. We could see there was more pressure on the right side of the course so we immediately tacked on port and went on the right side of the course. Fortunately when we crossed Merlin again we were slightly ahead on starboard so we controlled them from then on. I even overstood the mark a little bit to keep speed on the rounding. The next leg was a run with the .6 spinnaker and we managed to stretch our lead to mark a. The next leg was a close reach so we dropped the spinnaker and went to the next mark. We tacked to port about 1000 ft past the mark but I could see that there was air closer to the Canadian shore so we again tacked on starboard. At this point we just kept stretching the lead. We beat the next J120 by 11 minutes and just ended up with a nearly perfect race. The crew work was near perfect so they deserve kudos.
Result 1st out of 4 J120's
Link: http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/regatta
COURSE D - 7.2 nautical milesStart to D (309o) leaving it to starboard
-then to B (081o) leaving it to starboard
-then to A (187o) leaving it to starboard
-then to D (296o) leaving it to port
-then to DP7 (212o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.
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