Rain, rain and more rain. The last 24 hours had been one of the wettest in recent memory. A strong low pressure system went through on Tuesday bringing torrential downpours and thunderstorms to our region. The lingering effects of this system lasted well into Wednesday's racing with steady drizzle and grey skies. Luckily the breeze had build to about 6 knots out of the South and the fleet was gathered all ready to race. After repositioning the startline to square things up with the breeze we were off with a posted course of SADBDF. We pulled off a conservative midline start on starboard and hit the line with good speed. We started getting dirt from the Martin 242 just to leward and flipped over to port just barely able to port tack the fleet on our way upwind. We held onto the lead spot for the remainder of the race and spent as much time looking over our shoulder as we did ahead. It is a much different feeling to be leading the race and trying to keep a loose cover on those behind than our much more familiar position of trying to play catch up. There were definitely some passing lanes on the course tonight with several areas of better pressure and many lifts/headers to pick from. The course was shortened to finish at B mark due to the failing breeze and dark skies. We managed to finish first just a few minutes ahead Blur and Shadowfax. This was the last race in A series. I havent seen the overall results yet but I will post them as soon as I recieve them.
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