A Love 4 Sailing

Day Two brought colder temps in the low 60’s and 10 to 17 knot North to Northeast winds. 

Race three we started near the weather end.  With good speed we held the fleet to the left and tacked to the right as a first boat came behind us.  Tacked on the first right hand shift and crossed everyone from the left, hit the next left shift and had a good ten boat length lead at the weather mark.  With a good set we extended away from the fleet.  We jibed on the next two shifts downwind and rounded the left gate back to the weather mark.  As the wind fluctuated up and down we just tried to sail a lifted tack.  This allowed us to extend even more as we rounded the second mark 30 boat lengths ahead.  We sailed conservatively downwind and won the first race. 

Race Four the wind had backed to near 10 knots as we stared one boat down from the weather end.  With good speed we held off the boats on the left and tacked and went behind the boat to our right.  This allowed us to get to the right side early and hit the first right shift.  We tacked back to the left and stayed on starboard as we kept getting lifted.  The wind continued to go to the right as did the fleet.  We stayed on the left waiting for the wind to go back to the left.  Once we tacked we had to ride a header back to the right.  This allowed the fleet to catch up quite a bit as we leebowed them near starboard layline.  We jibed set around the weather mark and rode the right hand shift down wind.  This allowed us to extend from the fleet.  As we jibed back we now have a 15 boat length lead. We rounded the right gate and headed back upwind.  The race committee changed to course to the right.  We tacked towards the right side and covered the second place boat.  We sailed almost all the way to starboard layline before tacking back to the left.  We again jibed set at the weather mark with good down wind speed we held off the competitors to the leeward gate.  We rounded the gate and headed back upwind for last windward leeward.  With another course change back to the left we sailed towards the right side covering the second place boat. As we tacked on the right hand shift we seemed to slightly over stand the weather mark.  We set at the weather mark and again sailed conservatively downwind.  This allowed us to have two firsts for the day.  We stand currently with a three point lead over Karen and JP and 4 points over Scott and Julie.   As we arrived at the dock we found out that Scott was filing a protest against Karen.  We left before we found out the result.  Stay tuned for more tomorrow.  Click here for results. http://208.106.141.167/npt/c/cnt/down/PTResultsday2.htm