Winds were 13-15 at the start, and built during the race, to be an even 15, per the RC. All from the South, so we started at A and tacked South to C. Stayed to the left side of the course, but with only three of us in the boat, got knocked a lot and had to ease main to reduce heel. Let traveller out mid to all of the way, dependimg on wind intensity. Once we rounded C, went wing and wing for about 100 yards, and then decided to deploy the spinnaker. The highest wind we'd ever surfed in, and we were able to control it, but we only jibed once, since control was not that great. Spent most of our time dead down wind since if we were above that we had issues staying in control. Team Fiona has really improved, though, to the point that we were able to even entertain puttng up the spin in such wnd. Dowsed early since there was a parade of big boats headed for A and we didn't want to be in that mess with a spin up and very little control. Had to jibe anyway to round A, and then tacked fairly soon to get back upwind to B. Contemplated raising the spin again on the way back to A, but it was a beam reach, and we were able to go 5.8-6 without it, and with that wind, it was too much for a spin. Came acros 12th, and corrected over several boats to end up 10th out of 16 boats who started. Not as good as last week, where we were 2nd, but that was mostly a fluke -- the good news is that we beat all the otherr boats in our start. Job well done by Team Fiona, especially given that we were late arriving -- got there during the starting sequence, which started at 6:10 -- right on time.