Shields race #3, May 28, 2008 Sailflow’s predicition was absolutely right. They had predicted that the northwest breeze would turn around in the mid afternoon, and it did. The race committee selected course 81 (“Q” off of Fort Wetherall) and “8” often referred to as the Mallory or Shoemaker mark.) Although the race committee had problems with the outgoing tide, they responded to the challenge by making the pin slightly favored and raised code flag India during the first and only starting sequence.
As for strategy we knew we wanted to be in the max current near the boat, but also recognized the pin was favored. We opted for a late start at the boat, but I failed to time it correctly and had to do a 360o outside the boat. As we completed half the turn and the starting gun went off we could look down the line and see that everyone was below the line, but we still hadn’t passed under the stern of the committee boat. The late start did allow us to immediately tack onto port. As we approached the dumpling bell we realized that we had gotten back into the middle of the pack, which included several Navy boats, who obviously had good boat speed.
We rounded about 10th at mark “Q” and jibed back towards the House on the Rocks. I can still picture in my mind in a race last year when Bill Shore and Andy Burton took this route with an outgoing tide and caught all of us who chose to sail the rhumb line towards mark “8”. Again this route near the dumpling bell did provide us some relief from the tide. By the time we reached the leeward mark we were fourth.
My second mistake was that during the rounding we got trapped to leeward of 101 and 38, and opted to tack away. This was a big mistake, since we hit a lot of wakes and we were in less tide. When things did settle down, we tacked back on to port and closed in on the pack. We were able to leebow 254, but overstood the finish line. This did allow us to reach and were able to hold off 254 and catch Jamie Hilton (217); however, Peter Clarke sailing Virginia (224)caught us and we ended up 5th.
In retrospect we felt fortunate to get the fifth after the horrible start.
Congratulations to John Burnham (107), Kurt Edenbach (36), and Bill Shore and Andy Segal (101) who took the top three spots. Talking to John after the race, they and 101 had the good sense to start near the favored pin and immediately were able to port tack the entire fleet and sailed in free air the rest of the race. Kurt on the other hand started near the boat.
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