Windsor Wednesday Race

This was a start in 10 knots of air to weather to mark B. I carefully watched the earlier starts and took wind readings and thaought the right end of the line was favored. Night Moves got on the line before me and because he did not move down quick enough I had to go underneath him to hopefull pry him over early. Unfortunately it was not enough so we had to tack early to get out of the hole. It was evident that the boats that started on the left side of the line where going to get lifted. I tried to get over there as best I could in a series of tacks. The last tack I let Flyin Irish cross in front of us on starboard but when we tack back on lay line we had them at the mark. The next leg was a run with the .6 oz and when NM had problems raising his we simply ducked him and got ahead. The next boat up was Jayhawker. This is where it got complicated . We were mixed in with a J105 so it got difficult to pass him. At the next mark Merlin had moved up on both of us because of clear air. Fortunately Jayhawker gybed way too early and he was moving slow and low to get to the mark. Merlin gybed in front of us but we magaged to gas him so we kept him to the outside. Because we now had boat speed and clear air we managed to cross in front of Jayhawker to get back over to the left and clear air. Fortunately we kept the boat speed going to DP7 and finished ahead going fast in the river. We did have one moron on a 27 footer who because he did not know how to keep his boat speed going decided to go up all of sudden behind our spinnaker. He started yelling at us and we did not even know where he was. We could of t-boned him. Then he started going on about 40 footers do not have any rights on 27 footers. He is lucky he did not get a sprit up his behind. In any case the Hot Ticket had stayed ahead the whole race so we were never able to catch him.


Result: 2nd out of 6 J/120's
Link: http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/regatta2006/WYC%202006%20Spring%20Race%205.pdf
Course: COURSE B - 7.5 nautical miles
Start to B (065o) leaving it to port
-then to D (261o) leaving it to port
-then to DP8 (208o) leaving it to port
-then to CC (063o) leaving it to port
-then to D (309o) leaving it to port
-then to DP7 (212o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.