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Another gift of an evening on Narragansett Bay as the forecast very weak southerly surprised most everyone by strengthening enough to get a race in. The RC set up by special mark C, along the Jamestown shore almost in the shadow of the bridge, with a course up to special mark Z (just short of Clingstone), twice around. After a 15 minute postponement to let everyone arrive (with the exception of John Dory, #217, which executed a reverse Vanderbilt start, arriving at the line at the gun under chute!), and with a warning about the strong ebb, we went into a sequence with about 4-5 knots of breeze.

The pre-race plan on Grace, #107, was to go left to get into the stronger ebb, but we noticed that the wind went left at about three minutes to go, making the pin strongly favored. We managed to be first row, about a third of the line up from the pin, and although we had set up a bit on the high side and were worried about boats to leeward pushing us over, we were able to accelerate and ride over them; at the gun we flipped to port and crossed everyone to our right. The majority of the fleet continued on starboard towards Rose Island.

Experience told us that there would be a lefty off Rose Island, likely with better pressure, and so we spent a good deal of time looking over our shoulder, but we seemed to have better pressure, and eventually sailed into more of a southerly, then southwest breeze, getting headed maybe 20 degrees. We tacked to ride the lift over those coming in from the left, who seemed to have picked up more of a south-east breeze, with a bit less pressure than we had. We rounded first, closely followed by #224 Virginia and #201 Hope.

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Team Grace (107) round the leeward mark and tack left on a light-air night. Andy Segal/Robin Wallace photo

Before we get to the run, a word about our set-up upwind. We went with our standard Newport setting of a fairly long headstay, 800 on the uppers, maybe 250 on the lowers. Outhaul somewhat eased, traveller fairly high, being careful not to stall the main with too much fine tune, with little backstay on (I love it when there is enough to put a bit more on to open the top of the main a bit, but we hardly ever got there last night); jib eased enough so top telltale broke maybe 40% of the time. We strove to keep weight to leeward and roll through the tacks. With that said, we were never really alongside another boat long enough to figure out if we had good speed and point….

On the run, we jibed towards Jamestown after a dozen boat lengths or so, hoping to avoid the worst of the ebb and perhaps find the breeze that had helped us upwind. A number of boats, including #156 Bomba Charger, seemed to do well aggressively pushing in towards Jamestown. 224, Virginia, played the right side of the run well, and seemed to come up with some better pressure at times; 217, John Dory, was most aggressive on the right and made big gains on the leg. With our Professor of Puffology Rachel Balaban calling the breeze, Ted Hood trimming the chute, and Dr. Pete Schott handling the foredeck, John tried to sail a conservative, down the middle course, which seemed to work, allowing us to round C with a comfortable lead.

From there we tacked to the left for the current and better breeze, came back short of the layline to cover, (nervously watched 201 make big gains by going all the way to the port tack layline), and were delighted when the RC shortened the race at the weather mark.

Kudos and thanks to Bill O’Hanley and the entire RC for getting in a solid race. BIG kudos and thanks to the 21 crews who came out in mid-September for great racing. Let’s do it again next week!

Reed Baer, Grace, #107