Saturday, March 24, 2007

balanced?

today was SUPPOSED to be a good day, i was going to try out my NEW boat. however, my boat was unfortunately DAMAGED!!!... it hit the ramp whilst recovering due to the waves. otherwise today was good, the boat was awesome, i got 1, 1 today with both races held in 8-15 knots. as for the three scratches on my boat, please repair yourself!!!
for a more detailed log:
race 1: start: 2 knots, i started at starboard end and it paid off as the wind came in from the right, i was the 2nd boat to get into the wind (8-10 knots) and stayed on the right hand side the whole leg to maintain my position, rounded about 5 boat lengths ahead of alex. i extended my lead on the reach to be about 12 boat lengths ahead at the bottom mark. i then again protected by staying right and i managed to. finished 1st infront of peter by 7 boat lengths.

race 2: started in the middle with richard, peter and alex, the four of us headed out left in 12-15 knots of breeze, i was the first one to tack as i was lagging behind the other 3, and got a shift on the right that took me to 3rd. at the top mark i was third behind richard and another guy from dbsc who went right. i then overtook to 2nd at the leeward mark, the following upwind i stayed left and managed to catch up with richard, i then overtook him on the downwind before match racing to finish in 14-18 knots!... the wind dropped abit making it easier to maintain my lead, near the finish, i squeezed him out to force him to tack and successfully got water from him to finish 1st, it was lucky as we were going to lose to the third guy.

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