It’s day 2, and after no racing yesterday, the race committee set an 8am start time for the day. We woke up at 6:00, hit the water at 7:15, and started our first real race at 8:30ish! Off the line we had a nice conservative start and great boat speed towards the favored side. When we tacked on starboard layline I thought we would round the first mark first, however, before we reached the mark the left came in hard, and we fell out of pressure. We rounded 3rd, and battled down wind against 4 boats, picking up 1 initially, but losing 2 late in the leg. Around the gate a bad gate decision dropped us to about 10th. We picked up 3 more boats around the rest of the course to finish 7th-ish.
In race 2, we came off the line with no
lane, played the first few shifts beautifully to pick back into the top 10, and rounded the top mark around 7th. We immediately started sailing a low mode, and promptly launched on the 6 boats ahead of us. We were first around the bottom mark, but half way up the next beat, the race was canceled for lack of wind…
We waited on the course for about 1.5 hours before it started raining and the fleet boycotted and sailed in. The race committee finally got the message, and postponed racing. One obstacle to racing right now is an island of trees and driftwood that floated into our course shortly before the fleet boycott.
The fleet is currently awaiting the rc’s next move…
