Thats it! I can't believe another summer of Wednesday night races is behind us. We finished off in fine style tonight with a gentle 5 knot breeze out of the North and a course of CDBDB. We got off an average start about midline with much better pressure towards the Easter shore and certain death waiting in the duldrums towards the West. We flipped as soon as we could and headed up to the starboard layline for D mark. We rounded just behind GR and ahead of Blur. We gybed as soon as we could and headed back for the better pressure of the Eastern shore. We played a few shifts and gybed to keep outselves ahead of the pack and quickly found ourselves on starboard gybe on a great layling for the B mark rounding. My crew pulled off an awesome Mexican douse right at the mark and back up we went. I wanted to stay right initially but stuck a little closer to the middle with decent pressure all the way up. We called an early layline in anticipation of a starboard tack lift to the D mark but it never materialized. Instead we got dying breeze and a header instead. We lost quite a bit of our lead as we flipped back and forth trying to time the shifts and watched GR and Blur compressing right behind us. We set the kite and gybed right away and sailed a hot angle back to the Eastern shore in search of better pressure. It was only one gybe and we were set for a hot angle reach to what was now the finish at B mark. It will be interesting to see the results but if I predict correctly I think we will take a second about 5 seconds behind Peter on Blur. It was a great regular season this year however I regret having to split it between two boats. There is no chance of us getting a podium finish on Eclipse however I do not regret having made the move mid season. See you all this Sunday!
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