A Love 4 Sailing

    Three races were held today in 8 to 12 knot NE breeze. Temperatures where in the low 70’s with 2 foot chop.

Race 7: We attempted to start at the weather end right at the race committee boat. Just before the start a GBR (British) boat attempted to squeeze in between us and the race committee boat. We had contact and it caused us both to be over the line. Fortunately, we had the right away, but we still had to return to the starting line and restart. This put us behind early as we tacked to go to the right side of the course. We tacked on the first shift and crossed over to the left side of the course. Hit the next shift, and caught up big time. This put us in fifth around the weather mark, not far behind the leaders. After a good downwind we rounded the leeward mark in second. Stuck with the race leader on the right side, as we both extended from the fleet. Next weather mark we rounded closely behind. Stayed on the leader’s tail downwind and rounded right on her stern at the last leeward mark. Played the left side of the next beat as the leader went right. With good speed and a small left wind shift we took a commanding lead as we crossed back towards the right side. We finished first by 20 boat lengths or so.

Race 8: We took the leeward end at the start, went for a short distance, tacked and crossed the fleet. We extended on every leg and won by minute and a half.

Race 9: We started at the leeward end again. Headed left and tacked on the first shift. We crossed all but one boat as we led towards the right side. Tacked back to the left and crossed the one remaining boat. Held on or extended on the next four legs and finished well ahead for another first.

This gave us a 1, 1, 1 for the day, much needed. We have moved into 3^rd place. Hopefully, if we can get in 2 or 3 final races tomorrow, we have a shot at winning. Send winning thoughts. Thanks everyone for your support. You are with us in every race.