On August 21st we had the final race of the 3 Double Handed races in our new Summer Series. The crew for today was just Ivan and I as my wife and kids were away at our place in Parksville.
The course turned out to be the same as the previous races but today we had a steady 8-10 knot breeze that built to 14 at the finish line.
We set the course at just under 2.5 miles but decided to go with start time #4 which would hopefully get the slower and less experienced sailors a bigger head start but the big boys came charging on........and it worked!
All of the boats got off the start line promptly and made there way down the course on starboard going nicely upwind. We were chasing Mad Dash and they were trying thier best to cover us. The two of us were going into the beach, closer than I normally like to go but they were inside of us and took some comfort knowing they were closer to the shore than we were.
Finally we were able to roll them and then tack out to some deeper water..........what we found was that our obsession to play with MAD DASH had taken us back a bit in the fleet, fortunately not too much but we did lose some ground.
We go to the mark and were the 5th boat to round and right behind was balance of the fleet - to say it was a busy mark rounding would be a big understatement.
We went with a jibe set and Ivan did a nice job of getting things down smoothly. We managed to pass Diversion and Toucan but EX and Plus Ten put too much ground between us and we never got close enough to scare either one of them.
We finished 3rd for the day which was good enough to win the series, so my family is very happy:)
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