A solid performance so far
Written by Chris Draper | 07 July 2010
Hello Everyone !We had 4 races today in some good breeze. Race
1 saw a big left hand shift before the start so the start line was very
bias and the first beat was alot of sailing on port
We decided with 1
minute to go to start on Port tack. The gun went and there was the
predicted bundle at the port end with a couple of boats crash tacking on
to port leaving a gap for us to sneek through - unfortuanelty the boats
on port were a little out of control and one of them crashed into our
leeward wing - cracking the wing and snapping the tiller extension.
We
powered on making a plan of how we were going to change the tiller
extension without loosing lots of places . We rounded the windward mark
in 3 rd and changed the tiller extension downwind which cost us 2 places
and went on to finish 5th.
Race 2 we struggled for pace and were
stuck in the pack but managed to get the last beat and run about right
which saw us finish 11th a great recovery from 25th. Race 3 and 4: were quite straight forward with some tight racing at the front of
the fleet. We managed to finish 3rd and 4th .
All in all we are
both very pleased with our solid performance today in some very
competitive racing. After 6 races we are 3rd overall - however
it is still very early days and plenty more ups and downs to come.Tomorrow
we will refit our repaired wing and do 2 more qualifying races, then we
proceed into finals racing.We look forward to updating you
tomorrow!
Thanks for the support Peter+Chris