First day of racing…

Hi everyone,

Arrived to the lake with light winds and warm temperatures forecasted. Both proved accurate.

As expected, given the number of top ten sailors many had to sail the qualifying gauntlet including me. The gold fleet had 12 spots you have to qualify for by sailing the first silver race.

The bronze qualifier was in very light wind, but by the time of the silver qualifier the wind built to about 7 knots and many of us lighter weight sailors were debating sail switching and wished we had once arriving at the second downwind leg when the wind dropped out. A fuller sail would have helped a lot. By the end of it, I finished in 10th which placed me in the golf fleet. Jeff just missed it and finished in 13th. This means Jeff’s first silver race will be scored as a first place finish.

Then there was a long wait for the gold start. I decided to put on my F01 with a super soft batten. I zoomed of the line and tacked earlier than most as they just seemed to be going beyond the layline. That moment was a good call as I was 4th around the windward matk. 4th!

Well, I should have followed Anja Fiedler who made a quick gybe almost immediately after she rounded after me. I never saw her again! Anja is the best female DN racer in the world. I have never had the opportunity to race against her. I lost a lot of boats on that downwind leg and the. the breeze completely died with lots of boats pushing and having the BART rule in effect. T had a good race but we are now back at the hotel as results have not been posted. I’ve been told a protest about the race has been filed so we have to wait for folks to be heard and a decision made…

The bronze fleet and silver fleet were supposed to race, but we are not sure they got any more races in as the gold fleet was sent in.

Thanks.

Karen
DN 5630

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