We were excited to see our biggest fleet yet on the water last night, including Q&A, Hawk and Virginia for their first outings. We had a good breeze for the first race and enough wind to get around the course for a second race. In a relatively weak flood tide, Bill O’Hanley’s RC laid out a course directly up the middle of the East Passage to a drop mark at 0.85 miles, followed by a run of about a mile to green bell #6, twice around for the first race and a single lap in the second.

The course was congested with 18 boats on the line; in each race, one boat jumped ahead at the first mark and stretched to an impressive win—217 (John Dory/Jamie Hilton) and 254 (Aeolus/Tim Dawson), respectively. Top scorers for the night with seven points each were 254 (6-1) and 74 (Karaselet/Bill Shore) (3-4). Bill observed afterwards, “For the most part playing wind shifts was better than playing current. Very unusual for Wednesday racing.”

Tim (254) pointed out that a bit of luck was useful, too. “Race 1 was a tough one for us.  We had a bad start and ducked a big group to clear out to the right. Trying to get back to the left, we got tacked on and bounced back out to the right, which was a big loss for us. I can’t even say what place we were in at the first mark…  Our big gain to get us up to 6th was on the last beat.  The 3 boats that rounded in front of us all tacked and opened up our lane to stay on port. The clear air and only tacking once on the leg got us past all 3, so we were lucky there.”

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The competition is heating up for the Chris Withers Trophy as well. The top scorer among those eligible (boats that haven’t been on the podium for four years) was Hope (201/Simon Davidson)—third for the night (2-7). Of the first race, Simon said, “Our crew are getting to work together well and knowing their roles and positions; getting room to start with some speed and clear pressure was big; then finding a good lane to get right / middle of the course seemed to work. But probably what helped most was mode changes we made (backstay, traveler, and jib halyard) for wind velocity, and dealing with waves and or boat wakes.”

With four races sailed, the other top contenders for the Withers to date are 181 (Helen/Heather Shaver), 156 (Bomba Charger/Mike Toppa). (It should be noted that any boat that does too well and wins a series trophy in our current summer series is no longer eligible for the Withers Trophy.)