We were a couple of minutes early approaching the line, so we were luffing our sails. With less than a minute to go, I brought the jib in, and John was trying to go up, but the mainsheet was wrapped around the tiller TWICE. Boats behind us were calling for us to go up, but we couldn't. Got the mainsheet untanged from the tiller and up we went at the gun.
To the windward mark we were fifth behind the two Sharks, the Viking, and the Catalina 25, not too far behind. We gained on the fleet on the reaching/downwind legs.
Cheeky Monkey, the Shark 24 was in the lead, and on the 2nd last upwind leg, a puff ripped their chainplate out of the bulkhead, and their mast came down. Luckily no one was hurt!
Iris was now in the lead, but they sailed an extra leg for some reason.
On the 2nd upwind leg towards mark 9, we purposely went around both Tanker and Mark 9 because that has always been the rules. We lost a LOT of ground to the other Sharks and the Viking who just went around Mark 9. The rules in previous years stated that you cannot cross the finish line unless you are finishing the race.
We came in fourth across the line behind the Viking, and two Sharks.
In corrected time we were second.
However, I was talking to Marty on Time1 in the bar afterwards.
Because we couldn't go up before the start, Berserk had rammed the back of them.
Marty has some damage on his boat and is protesting us.
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| Yellow is our start White from the 2nd windward leg You can also see our finish |
We clearly sailed and extra 1/4 mile to not cross the finish line on this leg.
Trip Odometer: 9.48 miles
Moving Average: 4.5 knots
Moving Time: 02:07:00
Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2013/20130904.kmz
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