Thursday, November 16, 2006

Star NAs - Wednesday
Miami

If every day could be this nice…..80s, 12-16 knots, sunshine. Biscayne Bay is the best on days like this.

The racing is extremely difficult. There are so many gold stars on sails and I think I heard that 23 countries are represented. Both Coral Reef and US Sailing Center are PACKED with boats (85 total, I think). Talk about a race to the hoist….there were boats being hauled for about 2 hours.

Mark and I had a decent day. We sailed a solid 1st race and finished ~10th. The 2nd race we rounded the top in the top 5, bottom in 2nd and then got caught on the left when the right came in…lost a few. On the run we suspect that we might have had some weeds because we had been fast all day downwind and we were a touch off the pace…..lanes are very tight as well. Finished the 2nd race ~10th as well.

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