Great Race.  Talking to other racers, learned a new starting tactic that would keep us out of future traffic jams.  Spin hoist flawless, on the windward mark, good speed to finish.  Weather beautiful for a late October evening.  A great time with a fantastic crew.  

winds starting 10-12 knots and dropping to 5-9 during the race which only lasted about 30 minutes.  seas 1 foot. 

the race was jsks but was shortened to js. originally 2.8M but probably halved at 1.56M.

we started in port and were pretty early. we did 2 360s and were still early. instead of doing 1 more we headed up the line. we ducked scootalong. as we got closer to rc we tacked back to starboard.  we were next to grey area and leeward. they were coming down even though we were leeward.  Virginia Lee was coming up on port.  Andy was yelling starboard to no avail as they weren't turning on time. we tacked to avoid collision and ducked behind Grey area.  luckily we had room. I think we started the race at this point. grey area tacked as well stealing our air and virginia Lee took the pin for a long ride. 

we got clear air and headed to j. Grey  area tacked early and was going to need 2 more to make the mark. scootalong was to our starboard on a starboard tack while we were still on port.  we tacked behind Arberia which was a great spot as we had just enough room to make the mark. 

in preparing for the mark and downwind with the spinnaker out to port we raised the pole and preset the guy. as we beared away to round the mark we raised the spin halyard and got it flying followed by dousing the jib. with Chris on the bow it went really smooth. 

we had a tweaker on the leech of the sail we noticed half way to the finish. after Susan noticed this and we took it off the spinnaker was much more full and we gained a knot of speed. 

we got passed by scootalong along the way and finished 5th. 😔 

it was a good race and we got the spinnaker flying nicely during the race. 



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