Maureen Lanshe

Gusts up to 20 with 3 ft seas below the bridge. Finally sailed under the bridge but it took some work to do it. Wind died before the sandbar and we motored the rest of the way.

Nice downwind sail until the middle of the bay above the bridge when the wind shut down. Made it under the bridge in time to see the start of the schooner race down the bay to Norfolk.

Gusts up to 18. Reefed to flatten the boat since she was sailing slow. Helped a little but not as much as we hoped.

Light rain for most of the race. Winds above 12 at start then dropped to below 5 towards the finish. Crew was Antionette, Allan, Rebecca, Kelly, and me. Most of the race was upwind with a very hot spinnaker angle at the finish.

Spin not attached correctly at downwind start, recovered and gybed heading straight to first mark with 6kts boat speed. Next two legs were reach and last leg close hauled, tacked twice to cross finish. Placed 2nd

Light wind motorboat ride. When we finally pulled back into the slip, we had logged 101.4 nm and 20 hrs and 36 minutes on the water in 3 days.

Winds SE, wind speed was up and down between 8-13. Close hauled the whole race. Managed boat balance by letting main out during periods of being over powered. Most of fleet was on east side of the course. We were off to the west of the fleet but still on east edge of shipping channel. Other strategy; could have had all sails in and manage heavier air by pinching. Leaving main under trimmed likely hurt our ability to point and sail more directly to the mark. However, would have been a little slower. We were getting great boat speed with our strategy.