Another light air day on the race course out here in Penn Cove today with winds constantly doing 360 degree turns and about 5 knots of breeze. They only seem to be able to run races with a Westerly wind and constant pressure. They tried to start a fleet of T Birds with a Easterly breeze but that resulted in 3 general recalls. The current flows about 2 knots out of the East and with this light wind they were not even able to fetch the startline. We did have a good race once things got rolling. There was a heavy pin end favoured line with many boats trying a pin end port tack approach. I took the mind set of clear air is king and started mid line starboard. We sailed above the whole fleet and flipped over to port taking advantage of the huge current generated lift up to the windward mark layline. We rounded 4th just behind SLUT skippered by Aaron L and quickly managed to roll on top of them. We had an excellent downwind managing to out sail most of the fleet. We were hot on the heels of Octopussy helmed by Alan Barnes as the number 2 boat heading for the leeward mark but got screwed over by a j105 which set us back several boats. We finished strong but surely played the what if game afterwards. Octopussy took the race with a well deserved bullet.
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