Surprise's Log Day Sailer 11750

May Series Race 2

We had a big wind shift occur sometime after the starting sequence began at 6:15pm and when the Portsmouth fleet began at 6:32. Winds were originally out of the east, or east southeast. but shifted southeast so we had a long starboard tack. If I had gone to the right first, I would have made out better. As it was, Dick Hoover in a Lido-14, went right first, and when we crossed 4/5 of the distance up the course he was ahead. I got stuck behind Paul Shields in his Flying Junior and I thought I was holding my own, then I saw that Jim Wells, in the other Day Sailer, had made substantial gains on us, after having to do a penalty turn. Lesson: get out of bad air.