Can't quite get there from here

Saturday, September 22, 2007

That is the phrase that I heard Peter and Whitney discussing in the bar last night. It pretty much sums up the past two days of racing. We have endured impossibly light conditions which makes for extremely frustrating sailing especially when you get towards the back of a 51 boat fleet. Hence the phrase. You cant quite get the lanes you want. Things finally clicked in the third race yesterday when we posted a 10th in race 6 that was later abondened on shore. This abondonment has caused quite a contoversy as some of the players did well in the race, and the regatta leader did not and picked up a 20% penalty for being over early. There were alot of heated discussions involving the race committee in the bar last night. I am dissappointed we are not sailing as well as we hoped, but I am very happy to not be involved in the shoreside antics that is taking place around race 6. We have one race to go today which will give us a drop race, and if we can pull a good score we should move up the board a bit. Out the window conditions look tough as the harbor is still glassy. www.kattack.com has been supplying GPS receivers to each boat so they can post actual race data on their website. Anyone interested in replaying the race can download it off their site. We are sail # 728.
Signing off -