Great race, and a wonderful evening sail afterwards.  Lots of Navy activity in and out of the creek.  We did beat Set Free on nine seconds corrected.  Arrived at the doc after sunset, then a great evening of banter at our local watering hole. 

winds 5-10 and variable. perfectly clear skies with visibility forever. seas 1 foot. 

race was LKS to starboard.  3M.

let's start off by saying Beth was on fire tonight 🔥. thanks for the entertainment. 

we had a decent start but had traffic to contend with. we didn't have room and had to go around and duck behind Arberia. 

heading out to
L we were holding our own but black widow was out pointing the fleet. set free had a good start but we were keeping her in sight. a lot of boats tacked and we waited a bit longer. none of those boats made it. we almost made it but needed to tack as well.  we went well past the mark before tacking. there was traffic all around the mark as well. 

after rounding the mark we were on a run and put out the jib with a pole on port. not my best work with the pole. we changed course a bit or the wind came more from behind and I switched the pole to wing on wing. also not as smooth as it could be but not terrible. we switched to get the main on starboard and switched the jib to stay wing on wing. switching the pole was smooth. 3rd times the charm for me. it was hard keeping the jib full and I was making sure we didn't accidentally gybe the main. 

we were catching and passing a lot boats on this leg. we passed set free as well but then ended up in there wind shadow and they went by us at the zone. 

rounding the mark we took the pole down and headed up and sheeted in. 

we had to do a small tack to make the line. 

it was a nice day and we sailed back to the inlet. 



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