Almost Round Antigua Race
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Amendment to the Sailing Instructions came out last night delaying our start to 1000 so got a lie-in this morning.
We left the dock at 0900 for the race without any practicing with our new recruits. Sails up no problem and a good start. The extra weight on the rail helps and we had equal speed or more than those around us which is most unusual. On the
water we lead for a good part of the leg upto the 1st mark getting overtaken by a KK28 that does have a higher handicap than us so OK. The mark was missing, and a rib was on station not anchored, due to some incompetence somewhere the rib said we
touched them so took a precautionary 360 and carried on. That let a J99 get by. Initially a tight reach we caught her then when spinnakers went up the KK28 & J99 put asymmetric ones up we went for the symmetric which paid later as we could really push the
downwind angle to 170 degrees true. On the water we finished 2nd. On corrected time we
WON the class by 2 minutes from 2nd. Our 1st podium spot in a race in the Caribbean.
Tomorrow is the start of Antigua Sailing Week, just really hope we have not peaked too soon. |