Little & big blue boats at the start
Today's crew
After our horrible boat and crew breaking experience in last year's Hooper/Point-No-Point race, we were rewarded with much nicer conditions this time around, with sun and breeze around 11-13. We got a clean, if slightly late start, and were able to carry our #1 on a close reach to Hooper's light. We lost some time waiting for a commercial ship to cross, but otherwise sailed a clean leg, though we lost some ground to Diablo. We pulled off a clean rounding and spin set, but the breeze got pretty light during the leg to Point No Point. We got in a rounding situation trying to squeeze inside T-Bone, and nad a pretty sloppy douse as a result. We recovered, and tacked out across the Bay again. As we approached PR1, we found out we made up lots of time on Diablo, who stayed close to shore, but still not enough to get ahead. In the end we took 4th for the day, but we all had a lot of fun anyway and enjoyed a great day out racing.