August 18, 2005
August Series 4
Winds were semi-light, We had a pretty bad start, as we were sat upon by three boats. I need to be a little more assertive f or the starts. It's easy to get complacent. in a handicap fleet. As it was, we lost time to the Vanguard -15's, and I was surprised to see that I still won on corrected time by about 9 seconds. I really had thought he did better.
Here's the comparison between Surprise and Cacafuego. Again, Jim gained on us on the second down wind run. Perhaps we are still sailing too deep on that leg. He seems ot be sailing roughly the saame course, so for some reason he is faster on that point of sail. Perhaps he's sailing the boat better, or perhaps his lighter weight is an advantage here. An interesting trend and I'll be even more interested to see what the reasons are behind this.