Great race.  Team performed flawlessly.  Great start, solid tactics, clean tacks and jibes.  Second in line honors and second corrected time.  We even beat the spinnaker fleet 😎🥃

winds 8-12 knots. sunny and clear skies. 

race was KJS about 2.5 M.

the line greatly favored the pin on the starboard side and was fairly close to parallel with K making it hard to determine which way to start (or finish)

we got to the line right on time but there was a lot of traffic and we pulled in behind to not be involved. after crossing the line we were windward off the other boats and in good position. we ended up only being behind Arberia. 

on the start Arberia was windward boat and pushed widow out of the way instead of giving way and going around. there was no protest but there should have been.  this is the second week in a row. 

we tacked toward k and had plenty of room and didn't have to point hard.  maybe we could have tacked a little earlier but we probably got more speed a little off the wind. 

after rounding k we eased the sails and headed toward j. we got the pole out and went wing on wing.  we had to turn towards starboard a bit and gybed both sails.  putting the pole up and gybing went smoothly but there was some acrobatics i had to do in order to get on the correct side of the pole. 

we had good speed on both legs and were moving well again only behind Arberia and catching her a bit. 

at j we took the pole down and trimmed the sails in.  we had no clue which was the coarse side of the finish line as again it was pretty parallel to the JS layline. 

Andy called over the radio and I took the helm. we had to keep rc to port. meanwhile I was slowly bearing away by accident. whoops.  Andy got back and took the helm and straightened us out. 

we tacked to get into position for the finish. we tacked behind Arberia in good position and crossed the line. 

it was such a nice day and sail we just kept on going. 

LCR S5R2

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