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Not such a great couple of days for the Rag team. We dodged a couple of bullets in Tuesday’s light and flukey Easterly to score a 6th, which could’ve been 4th, which could’ve been 11th.

Then Wednesday’s race was one of the most disappointing. We actually started well on the NE course, and were vying with 7 up the first work, only to stick too hard to the left and lose a bunch of boats on the right hand side. We then put the choke on and got eaten up by another 5 or so boats around the track to score an 11th. Not pretty. Actually pretty ordinary.

At the other end of the fleet, Fiat are slowly closing the gap on 7, scoring another win. They still need another boat in the mix to catch up on that 6th place they scored in race 2. I doubt 7 will be playing silly buggers and dumping on Fiat so hard they are forced to split tacks. Dog would’ve been cringing when they forced separation rather than just shepherding the competition up the course and minimizing risk.

We’re lying 7th overall with 3 races to go. C-Tech is tied for points, and Macquarie will be gaining fast when they drop their 30th place DNF. Time to pull something out of the bag…

Maybe we should go little rig…

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