This was a starboard reaching start with the first leg at 29 degrees to mark D. The wind was coming out to maybe 100 degrees at 11 to 12 knots. It was needed that we start at the right side of the line. Unfortunately I turned a little too late to get up on the line although there was space 50 yards wide that I could of sneaked through. Merlin stood right on the line and went right when the gun went off so he got a great start with Night Moves following close behind. We only had 5 people for this race so we took our time putting out the code 0. I waited for Merlin and NM to put theirs up since we were in the lane above them. Jayhawker had problems with their spinnaker and the guest appearance of Ihnsanity started low and then took Hot Ticket up and then passed her with her 1.5 oz. chute. As we approached the first mark the wind started going behind us. Ihnsanity almost caught us but had to round behind us. The next leg was a weather leg with the favored being starboard. We simply went to weather of Ihnsanity. At this point we were unable to gain on the boats in front but did not lose any places even though we were extremely light on rail weight. Jayhawker must of had 8 people on the rail. The following leg was another weather leg and we still rounded 3rd. The next leg was a downwind leg where we had Jayhawker trailing us about 5 boat lengths back. We went a little higher than I wanted but Jayhawker eventually gave up and jybed. Before the last leg we put up our .75 under our genoa because the wind was going to be much closer. It was the right move since we had no rail weight. Again we finished 3rd. We did race consistently with a shortage of people so I guess 3rd is not so bad as kissing my sister. Result: 3rd out of 6 J120s
Link: http://www.drya.org/race2006/Results/cs
Course: Start, D, C, B, A, Finish
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