WED NITE RACE #3
Nice evening, not to hot with the breeze from the NW 9-12knots. Good start but close to the wall on Starboard with boats tacking calling for water etc.. we got caught going back by a starboarder so we had to tack away. Immediately they tacked with us tacking back and the chase for the first mark. We had lost quite a bit with the extra two tacks. On the downwind we were concerned wioth the bigger boats behind so we went deep. Unfortunately we sufered here as the boats higher up got the new breeze first and increased their gap. We managed a good leeward mark rounding and worked the boat quite hard on the beat, getting us good speed and a nice wind line allowing us to pass the other two Farr 38's. In the end we got a 3rd overall which still leaves us number one on the leader board. Aboard were: IAn, Siger, Sarel, Dale, Massimo, Elena, Tony, American guest. Boat and crew performed well.