C22 WYC Race Night

Melissa Chris and I.

Winds were forecast for 12-15 from the ESE.
Full main and #1.
Course was 7 medium.

We had a great start, and covered the two sharks near us.
On a port tack, we could only muster 4 knots of speed because of the waves.
Starboard has a much better angle on the waves, and more speed.
We had to throw an extra couple of tacks to get around the first mark, falling behind the Sharks.

Downwind, we stayed even.  However, I initiated gybing the genea to windard too early, and we lost some speed.

On the next reaching leg, we passed the T-Bird Columbine on the windward side.  He tried to push up up, but couldn't because we had overlap.  We had overlap most the leg.  The Bird had to give us mark room, and as we went to harden up to go upwind, we had an override on the winch, causing us to stall the boat.  Rod on the Bird tried to got up between us and the mark, and ended up clipping our motor that was sticking out the back of the boat.  No damage.  Rod did a 360 because of the foul.

It was a good learning exercise for Melissa on the Helm  (and for Chris) about pushing a boat up without overlap, overlap, room at the mark, collusion avoidance, and penalties.

Coming into the finish on port tack, we had to majorly duck Gruntled coming in on starboard.  This caused us to miss the comittee boat, and throw in another tack to make it.  We tacked WAY too soon and almost didn't make the pin, having to sail a LOT more distance.

We finished fourth 10 minutes behind the three Sharks in corrected time.

Trip Odometer: 10.48 miles
Moving Average: 4.3 knots
Moving Time: 02:25:00

Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2015/20150919.kmz