Windsor Wednesday Race

The first leg was a beat to mark Dp8 in moderate winds 10 mph. I was a little late getting to the pin side of the starting line but on starboard we seemed to have speed. Merlin and Jwalker hit the pin side but were going slow. After the gun we tacked on port which was a heavily favored board. We got good pressure further down the leg with a slight lift. We managed to roll Flyin' Irish to our right and crossed in front of Jwalker on our starboard tack to the mark. After J. passed behind us I put the boat in point mode to hopefully gas J. We rounded in first and we put up the .6 oz because I thought it would pay off on the following leg. We got headed and started going really slow. Merlin out of last place charged by us with a code 0 and rounded a ahead of us. At that point we caught some distance on the following leg but it just was not enough. The leg up to dp7 I tried raising the 1.5 spinnaker because we no longer had anything to lose to catch up to Merlin. We barely made it past dp7 when we got headed again. The major mistake I made in this race was not recognizing the changing conditions when we got lifted on the first mark. That means on the opposite board we would be headed and I should of used a different chute. We then could of gone to the .6 oz. Merlin did it with our famous chute change gybe. Oh well.

Result 2nd out of 4 J120's
Link: http://www.wyc.info/regatta2006/WYC%202006%20Spring%20Race%202.pdf


COURSE C - 7.6 nautical miles
Start to DP8 (243o) leaving it to port
-then to A (091o) leaving it to port
-then to B (007o) leaving it to port
-then to DP7 (247o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.