This was another goofy race. The wind was consistently blowing out of 30 degrees at 20 to 21 knots. The committee boat was anchor challenged. They delayed a series of starts because they drifted downstream. I think they gave up because by the J120 start they had drifted nearly 3/4 a mile near DP7 (entrance to the Windsor Channel). Since the 3/4 mile line was parallel to the wind I chose to simply aim for the pin from a little up wind. Fortunately Merlin left me a big space to sneak in on starboard. Since eventually Merlin was going to wax us underneath I decided to go port for the long part of the leg. We just came in right of the mark but that was ok since Merlin would have to go behind us before tacking. The next leg to D was just a close reach so we held our lead there. Going down to DP8 Hot Ticket got their 1.5 spinnaker up before we did and got a little lead. Merling start catching us with their 3/4 when they had a catastrophic spinnaker failure.We rounded DP8 behind HT and went to the #3 genoa again. No changes there. It was when we passed D that I decided to go to the 3/4 since it was run. We were not hurt until we hit DP7 when the fact that the port sheet was led over the lifeline. Because we were not able to get in our spinnaker we lost distance to Merlin who then passed us. It still was a close race considering we were only 11 seconds behind Hot Ticket. In any case it was a lot of wind and I think we were all exhausted by the end.
Result: 3rd out of 6 J120s
Link: http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/regatta
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.
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