Today it was at most at 9 to 11 knots wind speed. In the first race we got in the second row on the right side of the starting line. We thought Loose Fish in front of us was over early but it was enough for them to gas us. So the first part of the first leg was getting clean air. With the terrible start we managed to rope in boats ahead of us 1 at a time by good boat speed, tactics and handling. We had some good mark roundings especially in the leeward gates. We managed to polish off Cash Flow on the final leg and tied with El Ocaso. Unfortunately with his aluminum spar we give him 3 seconds a mile.In the second race we got right up to start with a good carved hole. We got crushed a little when a Ben 40.7 was over early to our right. But he eventually bailed and we obtained free air and again started out move up the fleet. We first nosed out El Ocaso at the upwind mark and then polished off Perrigrine on the downwind mark. By the bottom of the 2nd downwind leg we got ahead of Emocean. On the last upwind leg I think that we sailed the boat a little too full and Emocean managed to pass us again to finish ahead. Bounder had a great second race by placing 1st. It was their type of conditions for the Sydneys, Ben 40.7 and the Hadley. I did like our boat speed most of the time in both races so I am still optimistic.
1st race: 6th
2nd race: 5th
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