Better late than never.
The day dawned bright and cool as a cold front moved throught the area bringing a brisk and gusty northerly breeze to the bay.
The RC set up shop as far away from the north shore as they could get and still anchor their boats. St. Margarets Bay is pretty deep. The wind was pretty shifty so our the very particular PRO waited for the breeze to settle in while we got colder and colder.
He finally got the AMs off and abandoned their race at the weather mark when the wind went left 20 degrees.
About an hour later we got going. I got a pretty good boat end start and went right, expecting the ficle breeze to go back right. Wrong. Almost everyone else got a big lefty late in the leg. Had to fight back for my 20th place.
Determined to get some of the big lefty near the shore (if it was still there) I go a mediocre pin end start in bad air, but hung in there for a while until a lane opened up to tack. A bad pin end start is about the worst. There is nowhere to go as you are trapped by the fleet above you with no escape routes.
I managed to get to the left side of the course again and lo and behold, as soon as I got to the layline, a blast from the left came in and planed into the mark, passing gobs of boats.
Did the same thing again the second time up and again planed to the mark. Despite the poor start managed a 13th, best finish so far. Maybe I can reach my goal of a top ten finish!
Great reach back to the harbor. Lasers are such cool boats!
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