What a race.  It was fantastic,  great crew, great synergy, good banter.  (Even if we did have to get up early).  Oh, and top notch sail trim by the Creek Water Team.  😎🥃

sunny and 75 with 2 foot seas in 10-12 knots of wind. 


the race was 8.5M and the start was perpendicular to the wind close to the shore line and aimed right at the g15 channel marker which was the next mark.  the course continues to j and back to the start. starboard roundings


we did a starboard start and got to the line in good time but were leeward of the line, heading more to the pin. part of this was because halalah to windward on port tacked but didn't have room. we had to move to leeward to avoid them and out comes the protest flag. 

we were able to make the line and head windward. we went for a bit and decided to tack early back to port. much of the fleet followed our lead.  we were in a good position but other boats were more to windward and therefore the mark. Marge remembered the backstay and we were then able to out point living the dream. we were able to catch up but it was neck and neck. 

we tacked back to starboard and set up for rounding the mark. 1/2 way there and Andy wanted to tack again. this made sure we were coming into the mark tight on starboard. that worked out.  we tacked one more time quickly, back to starboard and went tight for the mark. living the dream had already tacked to port to pass the mark from the other side. we got the the mark at the same time. Andy didn't go turn immediately around the mark and called starboard so living the dream would needed to tack. and oh boy did they ever lose some time. we also tacked to round the mark at the same time. that was exciting. I don't know how close we came but it was close. 

we started heading to j. we were on a beam reach to a broad reach. I put the pole out. note. when we lower the pole we have more room to pull the pole back which is necessary closer to a beam reach. the spinnaker boats started to catch up on this leg. we had a good view of the fleet behind us to start though. I took the pole down and we rounded j and headed for the committee boat.

living the dream was catching us to windward and Andy was pointing them up to try to stop them from passing, but eventually they did and we headed up behind them to get out of the bad air. 

at the finish the advantage was to the rc boat. there were two spinnaker boats finishing when we did and they tried to cut us off a bit. Andy reminded them we were leeward boat and they didn't interfere.  I'll have to ask Andy, because I didn't think we had overlap yet but soon would have if they turned toward us. Andy turned to cross the line and i think we got a first place.

the sail back was lovely. tom took the helm. Marge took the helm. I took the helm and what a nice race and celebration on the way back. I regret not having that beer. cheers. 

BBSA Equinox Race

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