MacIntosh Race Summary

Using my handheld GPS:

Trip Odometer: 507 miles
Moving Average: 6.8 knots
Moving Time: 74:37:00

NOTE: this includes time at the start from leaving Marblehead.

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2013/20130710.kmz

NOTE: the GPS only keeps about 48 hours of track data, so the start of the track was lost.

We had lots of time to see where we could have made up 20 seconds.

• Spinnaker topping lift had failed again.
• Spinnaker inboard pole pulley had failed.
• Dirk has cut the panels for a new Kevlar #3, but didn't get time to sew it up.
• We could have run an asym for the first bit of the final leg.
• If we didn't have to duck the trawler in the open ocean.

These were little things.

We gambled on a wind shift and didn't get it.
We should have tacked earlier and not opened the door to Harrier.

This is how close we were at the finish!!!

Talking to some other sailors including the overall PHRF winner Peter Noonan on a Swan 56, the wind shift DID happen about 5 miles east of us.  Peter won because he caught that wind shift offshore.