Anthony and Cy

Day 2

Race Fans,

Today was a ok day but not as good as yesterday. We definatly aquired a few points around the course that were not needed. We had finishes of 13,18,6. We did a different schedule today, as we went out in the morning group, did two races then sailed to a different course, waited a bit and then did one afternoon race.

In the morning races, we got side tracked from our game plan of avoiding little boathandling battles and found ourselves in some tight knit racing. We also had some bad luck, the biggest being that we shrimped the kite on a hoist. We had a great top mark rounding with lots of speed and I put the bow down so Cy could hoist the kite. We found ourselves on a huge wave and were going really fast which was great. The problem was, as Cy was hoisting, the kite gets pulled out of the launcher on the bow and gets taken out to the end of the pole. Unfortunetly, the timeing of the kite being halfway there and unstable conincided with us landing at the bottom of the big wave and the luff caught water and we went from about 8-10kts to zero fast! Usually, this is a 1000% gurantee flip over but some how we survived it, got the bow down and the boat under control and Cy just purly muscled the kite up. I am not sure how the block did not pull out of the deck or how Cy didn’t pop a hernia or blood vessel in his neck but the kite came up, and off we went.

The other unfortunate event was a black flag start were the boats around pulled the trigger and I thought we were all too early so we got rolled but they weren’t over. I guess I was just too cautious.

After the small break, we got sorted again and had a great start near the pin end, away from the fuss and sailed a good tricky race to finish 6th.

Qualification wise, we are 3rd of the 14 countries looking for the 5 spots. Brazil an Norway both had good days and are ahead of us. The Finnish, Swedes and Irish are right on our ass so it will be a good fight. Tomorrow is suppoed to be windy so we are going to have to be firing on all pistons. Tomorrow is the last day of qualifing for the fleets, so after tomorrow’s scores are tallied up, we will be split into Gold, Silver and Bronze. Gold will have the top 25 boats in it and we are in 24th!

Its getting exciting!