Thanks to the Ida Lewis Race Committee for pulling off a race in yet another challenging evening. So, after an AP, two generals, a major wind shift, a line and course re-set, and the dreaded I Flag, we got in a good race. Congratulations to Peter Denton and the Ultimate Pressure team on 226 for the win! Read his take on the night below.

FULL RESULTS

Bullet Blog:

Well 226 had an interesting night. A couple of our crew couldn’t sail, so we were only three. Wind looked light and dying around 4ish and we almost didn’t go out to sail. With the significant incoming tide we thought we would end up north of Gould looking for a tow home. But the wind actually built with the increasing fog and we did find the starting area.

Ultimate Pressure on a clearer night a couple weeks ago. Alyce Athay Croasdale photo.

First start was second row, but a general recall. Second start was great, though we avoided the pile up at the boat, which was hugely favored. Another GR, bad news we thought. Then the RC reset the line – good job by them, otherwise it would have been bumper boats at the boat. So with a new course to the west end of the bridge, off we went.
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Our general strategy was to go right, get out of the tide, and hopefully pick up the right shift coming from the toll booths into Potter Cove. We call this the urban sailing experience. The tradeoff was that there was more wind to the left, but of course more tide. We went left for a couple of hundred yards, tacked, ducked 181 and went off to the right on a lift. Before long we realized that we were all alone in the middle of the course. All the boats to the right seemed to be down speed and we were bow out on them pretty far. The competition seemed to be coming from the left, 74 and 201. We covered them and stayed right middle and seemed to hold our position. Bill Shore followed us around the weather mark by 3 lengths or so.

Our set was fine if not quick and we stayed on starboard high enough for clear air for quite a while, also out in the tide. We had back and forth discussions on when to gybe to the leeward mark because we couldn’t see it! We finally decided to gybe toward what we thought was it and were far enough ahead to have clear air on port gybe all the way to the mark. Meredith and Rex did a great job getting the jib up, the spinnaker down and the boat set up for the beat back to the bridge.

We wanted to stay to the right, but 74 and 201 were not too far behind us, and when they tacked to starboard, we waited a bit and decided to cover them. Meanwhile a large part of the fleet went to the Jamestown shore. We thought they were going slow and that we were way, way ahead of them. Turns out we weren’t! We were in cover mode up the middle of the course, and when the boats to the right tacked toward the finish line they looked in good shape. No tide and I think a right shift.

We had sailed on all the lifts up the middle so we were able to finish well, but I think Mike Toppa coming out of the right might have been second. And Tim Dawson (254) was over early with the I flag up and finished fourth. Tough competition.

Kudos to the Race Committee for getting the starting line fair, and ending the race when they did. We really did not want to go back to Gould and then find our way home. And I think there were 20 boats out – great showing for the fleet.