A4

I think FUGLY would best describe the conditions on the prestart for race 4 today. Conditions consisted of 20 knot winds out of the North with heavy snow pellets mixed with hail. Boats were screaming around under sail just working to stay under control. This quickly turned into 4 knot winds out of the North at the 5 minute warning and the snowball fights began (nice shot Russel). The course was posted as SDXCAF and the fleet was stacking up on the boat end of the line. We set up near what we thought was the layline for the boat end of the line but as we did the wind lifted about 20 degrees and the leeward boats quickly slammed the door on us forcing us to spin in order to find a hole on the start line. The first leg was sailed quite evenly with boats seemingly reaching D mark in close to their same order as their starting sequence. In what proved to be the biggest disappointment of the day for us the only downwind leg was the reach from D to X with the remainder of the legs sailed in very shifty upwind conditions. Notable mention goes out to Woo Hoo once again easily getting another bullet today.