We had three races today, the first day of NQR's. There are 7 470's racing in the event. The wind was fairly light and shifty as we had several rain storms move through in the early afternoon. It was very cold and rainy on the water for most of the day.
In the first race we had a poor start and did not tack out early enough, so were behind most of the fleet. We managed to catch up a bit on the downwind by sailing into the current before gybing, and crossed the line second last. This ended up being a 5th as one of the boats had to retire due to equipment issues. The second race had an okay start and got out to the right where there was more pressure, but the wind had lightened quite a bit and we couldn't get the boat up to speed, and ended up last. We tuned up with the other girls after this race and made some adjustments which helped with our speed. In the third race we were over early but so was half the fleet. We ducked the line and then got out to the right and were with the rest of the fleet. Downwind we had good speed but had failed to locate the next mark, so ended up missing a chance to gain on the boats ahead of us. We rounded in 5th but sailed left too far and lost a boat on the upwind. We closed the distance downwind but did not manage to catch them before the finish.
Overall it was a good day. We are fast in a straight line but have major issues going around marks, especially when the laser fleet is rounding the mark at the same time!
Three more days of racing. Hopefully it warms up a bit. Results at http://www.nqr2009.ca/.
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