Stuart drove a great start putting us on the pin end of the line with pin bias as the horn went. We kept the left side whereas the rest of the fleet went right for some reason that I couldn't fathom, I think the two MGC27s came with us though. We'd already established on thursday, if not before!*!, that the left hand side was the lifting tack in this NNW breeze. This put us first to the windward mark.
The race officer had set a course with a 140 apparent, gybe, 170 apparent course so that stuffed our asymmetric schenanigans. On questioning he said that he'd been told to do that....
My investigations recently show that we are lacking 20m2 of spinnaker downwind compared to the class kite, however I think that this maybe down to measuring a kite as a rectangle in PHRF in US/Canada rather than the way IRC measures. Even so we seem to be missing some cloth and lack speed in light and medium airs at these angles and the boats with big masthead kites can get away from us. We had the wrong kite clipped in anyway.
Just about then we forget about the favoured left side on the beat as we see Sapphire headed in front of us, go right and get stuffed. Then we end up loose covered by Hooligan, we carry on out to the starboard layline but, wrong, wrong, wrong we needed to break cover and go left.
At least I suppose if we can identify where we went wrong we can try not to do it in the future! 7th out of 12 boats in PY.
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