Jun 06 2007
Race #3: Half-Handed Sailing
Either I was dragging an anchor in this race which no one told me about, or I officially have the slowest boat in the fleet.
Still I will take a solid dead last finish over a day of yard work anytime. I did have some slight revenge as the fleet had to circle for an extra 10+ minutes just waiting for me to finally get across the line. I was all excited that I had finally added tell tales (a present from my dad) to my sails, and they were working great. I was reading the puffs with ease and sailing as well as I have at any event to date. I had always planned on using my
I did manage to get one race (during a nap from the little one) where I could focus on wind and water. This race I managed to catch a big right hand shift on the upwind leg and rounded the windward mark ahead of Rascal which is always a good sign for me. On the downwind he ran me down from behind to go ahead. However at the downwind mark Rascal ran a little wide on rounding while I came in with a puff and passed Rascal again. I stuck to the right side hoping for the same luck I had on the first upwind leg, and I caught another shift. I finished ahead of two boats including Rascal.
At this point I know the only way to be competitive is to sail away from the fleet and get lucky. I have some work cut out for me to get Limpet competitive with the likes of Wooglin.
