That was one strange weather map yesterday, with plenty of weather trying to spin counterclockwise onto the Bay and ruin our race day. Fortunately, the black clouds kept to the West Bay, and then it cleared up and we were able to do some sailing in a modest southerly.

PRO Bill O’Hanley of the Ida Lewis YC Race Committee set a course to Q at the Dumplings, then downwind to 6, the green bell southeast of Rose Island, twice around. The tide was already ebbing on the edges, and aboard 107 (Grace) we decided the best play was to the right, catching the leebow current from the Jamestown mooring field near Clingstone. We had our best start of the season, halfway down the line, and after a few minutes, we were able to tack, with much of the fleet to leeward of us, also going right.

Unfortunately, the smart money was still going left where the pressure and perhaps the early ebb current was better. We crossed close with 156 (Bomba Charger) and 254 (Aeolus) near mark R with 33 (Maverick) in the lead, and we played the current by the rocks as planned but lost a few lengths to the boats to our left in the process.

Downwind, we all lined up and sailed towards Fort Adams in a line. We jibed first for the Cone of Rose Island, followed by 181 (Helen) shortly after. Even though we had protected the inside, the leaders held better pressure towards Newport and we were lucky to preserve fourth place, inside 181 at the mark. Fortunately, we came in with good pace to the mark, and regained much of the distance we’d lost as the leaders parked up a bit going into the rounding: 33, 254 and 156.
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We tacked immediately at the bell, betting on the left pressure this time and held a nice lane past the Fort as the others tacked west. We held on for a few extra minutes, finding ourselves alone in a strong ebb with excellent pressure. When we tacked, we weren’t far off the layline, and with the continued strong current and a lift, we overstood slightly, but passed 156 and 254 in the process. We rounded Q not far behind 33 and with a bit of a gap on 254.

Again we ran downwind toward the Fort, and this time 33 made the conservative move, jibing to protect the inside and presumably gain from less current along the edge of the Cone. We took the split and sailed on toward Goat Island for a couple hundred yards, finally jibing and enjoying better breeze. Improbably, when 33 jibed back towards the mark, we had gained enough to cross their bow by a length—it’s pretty rare to gain four or five boat lengths and sail around another Shields like that on the outside, but on this night, the Newport pressure was king.

The RC attempted a second race, but fortunately for Team Grace (Peter Schott, Rachel Balaban, Ted Hood and co-skipper Reed Baer) only the first race will make it on our scorecard — the breeze fizzled and the race was abandoned.

– John Burnham, 107