This was a starboard tack to windward start, gust to 22 knots out of the NW with light rain showers, course C. The pin side was favored so my plan was to start there from the middle of line. When I did the initial approach I realized that we would not make the pin so 45 seconds before the gun I had to tack to port to get up the line and then get back on starboard. This unfortunately put us behind by 20 seconds and under the other boats so when we got to the windward pin we were 5th with Flying Irish on the outside. 
Hot Ticket left us a hole the size of a house so I was able to sneak into the inside of the mark to pass her. The next leg was a port jibe almost dead downwind. We put up the .6 oz chute so we were able to go much lower than most of the other J120s. When jibing both Flying Irish and Jayhawker blew apart their spinnakers. It was enough to allow us to jibe in front of Jayhawker. At the top of the leg Night Moves jibed to starboard and since we had an overlap we had to do the same. We had only 6 people so the jibe actually went well. With this move Night Moves was able to get the shorter distance to the mark. Night Moves tacked at the windward mark and we did the same behind them. The next two legs were fetches so although we could gain a little distance due to fast reactions of trim to gusts by the crew, we were also able to hold off the competition behind us. The last leg in the river after DP5 was a number of tacks to the finish. Because of our finish we were able to gain another 2 points up on Jayhawker in the standings for a solid first place for the spring season.Result: 3rd out of 6 J120's
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