WYC Wednesday Night Race - Where's Waldo?

This was a weather start in about 8 knots of air with the left pin slightly favored. We came in on port and tacked to starboard when we got close to Merlin on the left side of the line. We could not this time got up in Merlin's lane when she got lifted. We could not get control of her because they managed to stay on our right hip. Up towards the top of the leg she managed to get in our lane and tacked on the layline before us and managed to get lifted to the mark. That put us at the top B mark in 2nd. At this point in went dark quickly with the rain coming on. We gybed back and forth a couple of times looking for mark D and just could not find it. This proved to not be problem for Hot Ticket and Night Moves where they rounded it on top of us and quickly rolled us on a broad reach. As we approached DP8 Jayhawker got inside of us and to injury to insult I steered the boat too slowly and stalled at the mark causing us to touch it. We did our penalty turn and then went up the right side of course because we felt there was more pressure there. We managed to round right after Night Moves and stuck to them until DP5. Since it was almost dead downwind we managed to start gassing NM and then got on the left side of the river where there was more pressure. This put us in the position of passing her to finish third. This race was not successful mostly since we could not find that mark D. In the group of boats ahead of us we just could not see it. Maybe if Colleen had been there....

Result 3rd out of 5 J120s
Link: http://www.windsoryachtclub.com/2007-regatta/WYC%202007%20Fall%20Race%206.pdf

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.