Rudy's Pacific Odyssey: SailBlogs

Div D Winner

Dave — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:50:59 -0500

Without a doubt we won our division having an almost certain 1st place again today, even though Chicken Joe gave us a run for our money actually crossing the finish line a few seconds ahead, but not enough to give him a better corrected time. We will know today's result for sure at the awards tonight, but going into today's race we had 1.5 points and Chicken Joe had 6 (lowest score is the winner) so best he could do is 6.75 against our 3.5. (Continued...)

Race 2

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:37:05 -0500

A snufu with the genoa before the start saw Wind Child in an unheard of position - 2 minutes late to the line. After the air cleared we settled down to having to work a little harder to make up. The course was a windward leg followed by a fine reach and then a run to the finish. Course length 10.4 miles. Not particularly good for making time on the bigger boats. J80 were not doing too well ... too much wind we thought. By the windward mark we had passed all of our division but the reach to the turn mark was only a few degrees off close haul and the gap between us and the closer keel boats, including Thursday's third and fourth place finishers, widened slowly. Will it be enough? (Continued...)

Banderas Bay Regatta Welcome

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:50:24 -0500

Regatta opening show. If interested, copy and paste to to your browser (Continued...)