Conditions were light Southwesterly, maybe 4-8 knots

Wind checks pre start were pretty consistent at 235 magnetic

The tide had just transitioned at around 430 PM and we weren’t sure if was going to be a factor

We had the line dead square to the wind at 145 magnetic, pointing at the Pin

With two minutes to go it looked like there was a bit more wind going to be touching down at the starting line towards the center of the line

We decided to start in the Pin half to 1/3^rd of the line . We weren’t concerned with much at the start other then being able to stay on starboard tack.

We started with a good sized hole to leeward , critical in a Shields in our opinion, and were able to go straight all the way to the beach at Ft Adams

33 crossed us as they won the left and got out of the tide before we did .

It became apparent in watching them that current was an issue so we paid  greater attention to it subsequently.

After 33 crossed us , they on port we on starboard , we were the boat closer to the shore and tide relief. We worked at forcing boats out into the tide and being able to keep our nose clean . When it works it’s great if you can break free .

Luckily Andy Burton wasn’t out last night so we didn’t have to worry about any Lone Rangers coming out of Fort Wetherill and doing an end around .

We were able to round first in a nice puff so we waited to gybe . We gybed after 138 , in 2^nd place, and made our way very slowly toward the center of the course , deeper water and more incoming tide.

We rounded the Green Bell in first , waited to get up to speed and tacked onto Starboard to head toward Ft Adams and tide relief with 138 about 4 boat lengths back.

This was the interesting part . 138 stayed on port tack after rounding for a few hundred yards. After they tacked onto port we tacked onto port to try and keep between them and the finish.

We decided to tack so that they  didn’t have to tack away., tacking straight ahead and a teenie bit to leeward of their track.
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They had made gains and we didn’t want to bounce them out to the right in case the breeze veered.

We both then continued straight until the Fort at which point it was a matter of containment in leading them up the shore.

It’s important to know that when you want to  “camp” on some one to take their wind and when you want to let them live . All too often boats sometime focus on calling “starboard” because they are on starboard tack instead of letting a port tacker cross, or are compelled to  tack right on some one because they can. It’s important ot keep in mind what you’d like the other boat to do and which way you’d like to contain them towards as you go up or down the course

In this case the wind was showing some right shifts and we didn’t want to force 138 right where we’d be on their weather hip going into a header on port tack . So we were happy to tack up the shore and try and tack on them to force them back to the beach , but not aggressively so .

 

Luckily there was one last left shift up the beach when we were to 138’s left which we too advantage of to cross and finish first .

 

Apparently 107 had been studying the “Burton Playbook” in the off season because they threw a “Hail Mary” as best as we could tell to dial long distance to sail out to the right layline to take advantage of the looming right shift that Matt Beuchner , in Peter Schott’s absence, saw . Because they came like a kamikaze fighter coming out of the sun , 107 came blistering in on the starboard layline to sneak in a head of 138 by a bowfitting !!!

 

Great job by 217’s helmsman Chris Murray

Super job by our late crew addition Laurel Gaudet

And , as always , super duper job by or World Class Race Committee

 

Respectfully submitted by team 217