Anthony and Cy

Day 1

Race Fans,

We had a good day. The finishes were 7, 10, 3 out of a 27 boat fleet. The whole fleet of about 78 boats are split up into three different groups. The composition of each group changes each day. The reason for this is that the fleet is just too big to manage from a Race Comm. point of view. We were placed in the red division and started once the yellow had completed its morning three races. This was good for us because all last night it was blowing in the high 20’s but started to die around 10 when yellow started its first race. There were a few general recalls but finally we were released from the beach and allowed to go out.

Our coach, Elizabeth Kratzig, was out on the water early to suss out the previous races to see what was working and what wasn’t. The current had just switch and was going to be runing full speed (about 2.5kts) on our course. We did a few runs up and down and got our rig sorted.

I won’t bother you with a blow by blow of each race but it was the conditions we like the most. We tried really hard to keep out of trouble and try to maintain long lanes so we wouldn’t have to tack too much. We also tried to keep out of boathandling battles and play to our strengths of light air speed and sailing smart. It work well except one start when I tried to get a little fancy and ended up being late. However, it forced us to the right side which came in strong!

We had a very strong group today with the famously fast Italian Sibello brothers as well as the current world champs from England. We finished with-in 2-3 seconds of the Italians twice and beat the Brits once.
Over all, while it means nothing as we are only 3 races into a 15 race series, we are in 12th. The first page!

Tomorrow we are in the early group and the wind looks to be really unstable so we will see what it brings us.

For all of you that have followed and or supported us, I hope we did you proud today.

The results are not up yet but if you want to have a check, they SHOULD be at:

http://www.sscbc.com.au/?ID=33986

It is 10pm and about 95 degrees!

See ya.