This was a triangle course starting in front of the Grosse Pointe Club with marks to starboard with the first mark Z. We were the 18th start so we started behind a bunch of other sailboats. The wind was pretty much on the nose at 7.5 knots for the first leg with starboard being favored. I had watched the earlier starts and the boats closer to shore seemed to get a little lift and were coming out ahead in their groups. In our start were the farthest left on the line but a little late. We managed to just keep clear air from Hot Ticket to our right. Merlin bailed early when they got bad air. When it got a little shallow we tacked and HT covered. We tacked back on starboard and HT fortunately did not cover. From that point on as we went up the leg we managed to put the other J120s behind us. After rounding Z I decided to stay on starboard a half mile to cover HT to our left and tacked when Merlin tacked at the mark. At his point the air got fluky and Merlin managed to squirt out ahead of us with a little more pressure to our right. Further up the leg the wind almost died. Merlin got the new air first and with a lift to the right HT and Merlin rounded at Mark C before us. I noticed that Merlin was having problems with their .6 oz runner with the light air (3-4 knots) at maybe a 60 degree angle. I had the crew change out the spinnaker to the .75 oz all purpose before putting it up which is better on a reach. Both Merlin and HT ahead of were going a little slower and higher. About 2 miles into the leg HT started going real high on the course. In fact they went so high they were nearly on the Canadian shore. They said later they got on the wrong side of the dumping grounds. In the light air we kept moving where a few times Merlin lost their spinnaker for lack of pressure. In any case we gybed down to the finish and finished a couple of minutes ahead of the next boat.
This race was highlighted by good boat trim by Mike, Colleen, Lynn, and Nathan. Lynn was especially helpful in finding pressure on the course. After the race most of the crew went to the BYC summer party and managed to serenade a chorus of Oh Canada to Mike Kirkman who tooked the ribbing good natured.
Result: 1st out of 4 J120s
Link: http://www.drya.org/race2006/Results/gp
This race was highlighted by good boat trim by Mike, Colleen, Lynn, and Nathan. Lynn was especially helpful in finding pressure on the course. After the race most of the crew went to the BYC summer party and managed to serenade a chorus of Oh Canada to Mike Kirkman who tooked the ribbing good natured.
Result: 1st out of 4 J120s
Link: http://www.drya.org/race2006/Results/gp
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