WYC Wednesday Night Race

This was a fun race. The first leg was a windward leg. I tried to get on the left side of line but Merlin did a great job of keeping us on the outside. We luffed and started behind Merlin where we immediately tacked on starboard. I could see farther up the course the wind was going right. The mistake I made was to tack back on port and held it to the starboard layline. This caused us to round in 4th. The next leg was a reach so there was no room to pass. The following leg was a run. Although the starboard tack was favored we gibed to port. This allowed us to get to the next mark in a close third, going inside Night Moves. The last leg down the river was a run where it turned into a drag race, Ht managed to round DP5 ahead of us but because they had lost speed we managed to roll them finishing second.

Result: 2nd out of 5 J120s

Course:COURSE A - 6.8 nautical miles
Start to A (110o) leaving it to port
-then to B (007o) leaving it to port
-then to D (261o) leaving it to port
-then to CC (129o) leaving it to starboard
-then to DP7 (251o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.