Regatta Report
4/9/2006 - Princess Sophia Qlf Day 1
The first day of qualifying brought light and extremely fluky conditions. Only one race was sailed in battling breezes.
We were in the first heat (yellow) and found a great hole near the pin end of the line. We had a great start pinching off several of the boats on our hip sending them deep right. A few other boats beneath us on the line that had bad starts also tacked out. After a near collision with a French team (they had to spin a penalty turn) we tacked out and found our lane. We took another tack out left for a new breeze line filling in and found ourselves rounding in 4th. We caught up to the leaders on the downwind to round in an extremely close 1st – 4th. After a few tacks at the bottom of the course we moved into 3rd briefly. Unfortunately shortly after when we elected to go left, the wind clocked hard right. We found ourselves sailing in a completely different breeze than the rest of the course and actually set our spinnaker twice to the weather mark! We rounded further back in the high teens and continued to play the massive shifts on each leg. We were able to catch back up to 15th which is still a solid score for qualifying.
The other heat weren’t able to finish within the time limit so their race was abandoned. The 2nd heat is to sail their make up race this morning so we get a small break. Conditions today look just as light, but much more promising for a sea breeze.
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