Fall Series Race 3, Report
Race 3 was the second race of the day. We were first to the windward mark in the first race so we modeled our strategy on that race. We planned to start as near to the pin as possible yet staying out of danger. With a few minutes to go we saw that the pin end would be a bit crowded so we delayed our tack to stbd for about 20 seconds. Tacked into a nice space below 222 and opened some room to leeward then launched with very good speed. We sailed parallel to the bridge until we got our first 6-7 degree left shift. We immediately tacked to port. Now we were in the lead. Later we did have to tack to stbd on a shift that allowed us to protect our lead over a few boats gaining on the left. We did a bare-away set and stayed in phase down the leg. We round the leeward gov. can overlapped with 224 but in the lead. We held the lead up the short leg to the finish. In Chuck’s Race 2 report, Wendy and Chuck won the first race in very much the same conditions but emphasized current over wind. We did just the opposite; we emphasized wind shifts over current. We actually ignored current because before the start we observed almost no current on pot-buoys and on the new mid channel gov. buoy in the middle of the course. This often happens on the flood tide as it comes in underneath the fresh water after 3 days of rain.
It was a good day for Team Karaselet 74. Curtis, Dwight, Ken and Mary; thank you for a job well done. Nice work Robin and crew.
Bill Shore