Second Wedneday night race of the season albeit the 3rd one in the series. the second was blown out..
Ideal conditions, falt sea, 12 knots blowing.. who could ask for more. A nice course was set.. A minute before the start one of the competitors tried to sail over us so we started to nidge forward to block.. in the end we were both over the start line and had us coming back to restart.. we gyybed, hardened up and tacked=, now at the back of the fleet and startted to try and work back intot he fleet. As there was lots of dirty wind we tacked back and sailed to clear our air and tacked again.. we then tried to catch up ont he fleet chasing the puffs and sailing in clear breeze. At the weather mark we were still quite far back in the breeze. On the downwind we struggled for speed.. probbaly a bnit light for us without a kite(non spinnkaer race), We lost a posiition on this leg, the next leg being a tight fetch in fresh breeze had us take back two positions. In the end we came 4th on corrected time. It was a great evening on the water. Aboard were: IAn, Sieger, Frederic(From Jenneau), Hugo(a newbie) and Dale. No Problems.
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