Awesome Thursday Night Race
17 April 2009
We had our usual Thursday Night Race at Davis Island last night. It went extremely well. The winds were consistent probably 7-10 knots and calm seas. I was port side jib trimmer at first and then later on ended up being starboard jib trimmer.
We had the right amount of crew, flew the spinnaker and gybed the spinnaker as well. All in all, the entire crew jelled really well last night.
We did not come in first because of some choice that could have better planned. We should have gybed the spinnaker sail a little sooner and we should have tacked much later then we did on the last leg. By tacking early we were very high of the last mark. In typical Monday morning quarterback form, by tacking later we would have been closer to the mark and shaved off some time.
None the less, we caught up and passed a lot of boats that had much earlier starts then we did and kept pressure on our competition the whole race.
It was a great sail. The weather was excellent, the crew jelled and worked extremely well together and I got to do some work that felt rewarding to the process. I'm planning a day sail on Saturday.