Windsor Wednesday Race - Spinnakers, Schlimakers

This start was a fetch to starboard with the committee boat being favored. After watching many of the starts I knew it was going to be a fight to get a good start at that end because everyone would want the pole position. Instead I decided to come in on port and tack to starboard when I met the first boat. That seemed to work as we hit the line right when the gun went off. We had Jayhawker on our right hip and it was a struggle to get enough of lane and distance gain to shake them off. With this we rounded the mark first and went to a .6oz. chute about 2 boat lengeths ahead of Hot Ticket. We managed to lose enough on this leg where Hot Ticket passed us and then messed up the jybe by not releasing the lazy guy. However we still rounded in 2nd place and jybed. This is where I made my first tactical mistake. I should of done a mexican takedown and then we could of put up any chute we wanted. Instead we went slow with the .6 oz and then had to take replace it with a genoa as we got headed. Night Moves had put up their headsail up early and were higher than us when he put up his code 0. The rest of the way down we put up our code 0 trailing NM and HT to the mouth of the river. As we got in the mouth the J105 Windshadow took HT up and I took the opportunity to go low as I saw there was more wind ripples in the middle of the river. We managed to stretch out a 100 yard lead to HT to finish second. Thank you Al Fick!

Result: 2nd out of 6 J120s
Link: http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/regatta2006/WYC%202006%20Fall%20Race%202.pdf

COURSE 1 - 6.0 nautical miles
Start to A (110o) 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.