2016 Southern Bay Race Week: Sunday

Sunday ended up being the day for wind.  It started out light as we were heading to the course, but as we were arriving it piped right up.  We quickly re-tuned the rig for the windier conditions sailing all the way across and up the river near the naval base.

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Dave, pictured above, was our secret weapon.  As a local Harbor pilot he quickly identified a current line up the right side of the course upwind.  On the other side of the current line we had almost 2+ knots of favorable current.  At one point we were 50 yards from another j70 going slower on the other side of the current line and they couldn’t figure out why they were so much slower going so far as to check they weren’t dragging something.  We made good gains out there before the rest of the fleet started to figure it out.

PhotoBoat.com: J70s - David Baxter dBaxter Photography &emdash; DBP_5752

Downwind in the breeze we played it conservative with the spinnaker keeping the boat under us and getting around the course cleanly.

PhotoBoat.com: J70s - David Baxter dBaxter Photography &emdash; DBP_5820

PhotoBoat.com: J70s - David Baxter dBaxter Photography &emdash; DBP_5819

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A second place finish in the 2nd and final race of the regatta gave us 3rd place for the day, but left us in 5th for the regatta.

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