We have been struggling to keep our upwind height and speed this season and we had finally come to the conclusion that our main sail (after serving us for way too many years) had to be retired. So this was the night to make the debut of the new crispy North main sail complete with Chuck Allen onboard to help get things organized. Compounding our difficulties we also had some major tuning to do to the rig at the last minute…so after scurrying to get this done, we left the mooring at about 5pm.
Once we sailed under the bridge on our way to the race course we realized that we may be, in fact, already racing to the start…this was not a good to be a place to be …no real time to tune up! We decided that the right looked good, complete with good pressure and about an hour left on the ebb. So the first start we absolutely nailed the boat and with great speed…but guess what? … GENERAL RECALL! Why does it always seem that you have the best starts on general recalls….? After observing both the I Flag (around the ends) and Z Flag (20% penalty)…we knew the RC was determined and serious to get this race started in the dying breeze. Again we started at the boat end with speed and after a few minutes we tacked on port and thought we really were looking great. It was after about 2 minutes on this board that we noticed the boats on our port hip (on left side of the course) were getting a huge lefty by about 10-15 degrees…there was nothing we could do as we were committed and could not get back left. So suck it up…and just sail fast, get a good lane, and round the mark. The boats coming out of the left corner looked great and really separated in the last 1/3 of the leg.
After rounding the windward mark in the cheap seats, the wind was still so left on course that this was basically a starboard broad reach to leeward leg; not much else to do but join the parade. The wind was dying…so the rich got richer with leaders extending. Looking at the leeward gates most everyone but a few boats rounded the starboard gate. After rounding we decided to stay left on starboard and this paid off as we picked up 5-6 boats half way up the leg…only to give this back at the top 3rd of the last leg with a dying breeze and the boats on left making out yet again.
Moral of the story this night was being on the correct side of shifts wins; while we were trying to connect the dots with breeze and get things going with our new main…the big left north shift is where the gainers were this night! While our speed and height improved…being on the wrong side loses every time…yet another humbling evening in a very competitive fleet! We still had fun, learned a ton and were thankful of camaraderie, competition, and good times.
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