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Adam said he was going to yell blog titles to me on the water as we raced yesterday… but he didn’t. Not that we had that many opportunities, there was a lot of distance between boats at times.

I ended up with a 4,9,5 to put me in 4th overall before a drop comes in. That’s ok, but get’s worse after today’s 5th race with a lot of boats dumping a bad score.

The first race was a pretty boring affair. I started reasonably well closer to the pin, then was the first to tack across the middle from the left bunch. Chris was launched on the right hand side, but couldn’t get back on the foils after the tack and had to low-ride to the top mark. A lot of boats were covering a lot of distance trying to stay on foils, often sailing away from the top mark to do so. In the end it was Amac, Simon then me who low-rode in for 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively around the top mark. Down the run it was more of the same. Simon, Tomaz and I sailed dead downwind for the finish, while Amac reached around searching for a way to foil. Amac headed off to one corner, while the three of us got up and headed to the other.

At the finish of the shortened 1-lapper Amac was way ahead, with Simon & Tomaz putting hundreds of metres on me and coming through 2nd and 3rd.

The rest of the places were all over the map. Not exactly a great race.

The next one was another drag race. Bora and Mark launched through gaps at full speed at the boat end to take a jump on the fleet, and I tacked to the right with Chris. After an overlay on the layline, trying to compensate for the light winds, I rounded in about 9th. I seemed to lose about 100m on the runs to the boats around me, and peg back maybe 50m on the works to slowly go backwards in the fleet. Having a mainsheet strop break and going to 2-1 sheeting probably didn’t do me any favours. I crossed in 9th.

The last race was yet another drag race to the laylines. This time I picked it better and came around the first mark in 5th and held onto that for the finish. Chris did pass me on the 2nd downwind but decided to stop after that and let me take 5th.

So Amac is crushing everyone with a 1,1,11,2 for 15 points after 4 races. Mike Lennon is 2nd on 24 points, with Brad Funk on 25 and me on 26. Full results are on the DOSC site.

While 4th is not bad for now, I’m not exactly going to do much damage with a string of 5th to 10th places, so I’m going to go out on a limb and put the small rudder on. If I can get it up it should be faster. “If” being the big question.

In the meantime Amac has no reason to change anything on his boat, no reason to de-rig even…

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