It was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon for sailing in the Okanagan today. The racing started at noon with VERY light winds out of the North. Nine boats showed up for this last Tune Up race of 2011. The first race had the fleet on a SAF course. We were right on the start line with good positioning and held our spot with the lead group for the first upwind leg. We made a tactical error by sticking too close to the shoreline and over sailing the port tack layline to the A mark. We rounded the mark and started downwind towards the finish. The winds were extremely light and variable and had many boats swapping between spinnakers and headsails all the way back down. The second race was a carbon copy of the first with only the position of individual boats changing. Finally, the third race looked good with winds filling in out of the North at about 7 knots. The course was SCF. We did a starboard tack start at the boat end and worked our way quickly upwind. The fleet was grouped very tight with lots of close maneuvering upwind. We rounded the C mark near the head of the fleet and quickly put the kite to work. It was a drag race downwind between Litonya and Jumping Black Flash with a photo finish right at the line. All in all a great day for a sailboat race.
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