B4, redemption

We were finally back on track for beautiful Wednesday night sailing conditions. Last night was the perfect warm up for the Canaccord Cup regatta being held this weekend at the KYC. Steady Northerly winds at about 8 knots and a course of SDBXCAF would provide plenty of action for this Wednesday night race. A few newcomers joined us on the start line this week, possibly up for this weekends regatta. We did a port tack approach towards the committee boat and tacked under Ghost Rider a little below the line. We ended up getting bad air during the start and struggled a bit during the first beat to D mark. Rounding D the fleet spread out quite evenly with no threat of shore only breeze conditions similar to last week. The J29 and Ghost Rider appeared to be battling it out and both reached B mark first with the rest of the fleet hot on their heels. It was a fast close reach back to X mark and harden up for a mostly Starboard beat to C. There was a nice lift of Starboard on the beat back to C which saved us one tack for the layline. Rounding C most of the fleet did a gybe set running down to A. Approaching A on starboard it was a quick douse/gybe and harden up for the quick beat up to F. Once again we settled in on starboard and got lifted nicely towards the finish. It looked like the J29 and Ghost Rider first across, Woo Hoo and Litonya followed by Pentameter next up. Standby for the race results to be posted as soon as they are provided to me. See you this weekend for the 2nd annual Cannacord Cup regatta and don't forget to preregister for you chance to win an early bird draw on Friday night of a Longarm boat bottom scrubber.