WYC Wednesday Night Race - Nuts

This was a downwind start in about 8 knots of wind. The plan was to start at the left side of the line. We could of stayed on starboard. Then when I got the other 2 boats extended out on right side of the course, we could jibe on port to be first to the mark. Night Moves immediately got a hourglass in their spinnaker and we got ahead. What I should of done is immediately jibed but NM got on our wind and rolled us to the first mark. This got us around second and the next leg was to weather We stayed on the left where Hot Ticket went to the right and was first to round the next mark. The next leg was a near fetch and we still rounded in third. On the next downwind leg we went to the left and then right and jibed on a header. We rounded in 2nd and went down to DP7 just behind HT. We then got caught in small boat traffic when the wind died. We managed to drift past HT but NM managed to get on the right side of the river and passed both of us.

COURSE D - 7.2 nautical miles
Start to D (309o) leaving it to starboard
-then to B (081o) leaving it to starboard
-then to A (187o) leaving it to starboard
-then to D (296o) leaving it to port
-then to DP7 (212o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.

Result: 2nd out of 3 J120s
Link: http://www.wyc.info/2007-regatta/WYC%202007%20Spring%20Race%206.pdf