Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Day 2 results and sailing

Start was delayed by 2 hrs as standard French organisation was shit.
We hit the water in 10knts but built to 15-18 during the day.

Race 1. Bad position second row and flopped onto port, not a good
move. Ducked 90% of the fleet but still stayed in there.

Race 2. Pin end start, smoking. Rounded top mark in 10th spot just
behind Bundy, kite then hooks behind mainsail battens and we loose 20
spots.

Get going and pull back a few places to windward as we are in the
grove this rime around. Finish in the top end of the fleet and more
than happy.

Race 3. Bad bad start. some frenchy stuffs us up so we gamble and flop
to port and thread the fleet. Pays off and top 15 to the first mark,
we have a good downwind but loose a few spots into the gate but still
strong.

Doing well to windward, high and fast and do a clean race but just out
of the top pack.

Overall good results with a 50th, 16th, and 28th. Sitting in 58th out
of 161 boats.