After the first race day was abandoned with 30 seconds to go before the starting gun, due to increasing breeze, we managed to get one race in on Friday. Ironically, it was a light air day 8-10 knts of breeze. Everyone was excited to get racing and we started the day with a general recall. At the start, John and I setup early in a nice spot on the line and found ourselves swarmed with boats with a few seconds before the start. We weren't able to punch out and had some catching up to do. After some good down wind legs we clawed out way back into 37th place. Looking around we found ourselves racing the usual suspects with Canadian teams in 31st, 33rd, 36th, 37th and 44th. One exception was the K3 which was launched. Top 3 until a crab pot caught on the boat sent Billy for a swim. Still a nice 9th place finish for them.
We started a second race and we were very happy with our start this time around. We found ourselves just behind the leader (Archie) when the K3 on a port tack start flew across our bow. We tacked to follow them to the right and found ourselves in the top 20 (in front of Archie now) coming into the bottom mark but the result wouldn't count. A 70deg shift resulted in an abandoned race, fog rolled in shortly after and we headed for home, which was a bit hard to find!
Today, another tropical storm caused racing to be called off. It looks like another few days of very high winds.
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