Day Eight & Nine, St. Pete – Wind and big chop
Saturday night St. Pete put on good food and a banquet for the fleet. SPYC is 100 this year and this is the 62nd annual Winter Championship hosted by SPYC. Lucky for us St Pete and Lightnings are securely connected. Junior sailors and the under 30 sailors are strong, close to half of the fleet. An all girl junior team from
Had our last drink in the bar for this year, hope to be back soon.
Sunday started out in 16/17k with lots of chop, a little colder too. 5 legs at 1.1 miles. One general recall with a zee flag on the second start. We started better but still could not hold our lane. We did tack out on port in clear air and were 11 or 12 at the weather mark. We finished 29th so over all a pretty depressing race. Second race, 3 legs at 1.1 miles. Our start was the worst yet, Oxygen mask were about to deploy before we could get underway, and we round the weather mark not last but close. Worked back into the fleet downwind and on the third leg finishing 38th. We actually felt better about this race but obviously need help on starts.
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John Sawyer, Lightning 14318
RESULTS
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