scott.projectsomewhere

We played russian roulette with the rig choice in today’s race 5… and lost.

While the NE seabreeze was building, we made a late switch to the little rig, while every other boat in the fleet went big.

We were either going to be famous… or not.

The breeze looked good on the practice sail out to the course, we were three stringing and looking good on the Rag in what we thought would be a building breeze.

Then we looked around and saw the cloud bank over the city. Fark.

By the time the race started the cloud had rolled in, and the breeze was fading.

We started well, and hung on for a top 8 rounding, but then had to battle around watching the fleet sail through us. In the end we finished 23rd.
So there goes our regatta.

Not bad luck, but a bad decision. We rolled the dice, hoping the conditions would go our way and we’d lock away a win over the ever-consistent Cocko.

But it wasn’t to be.

Now we’re fighting for a top 5.

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