Well the first race today sucked, the breeze was marginal for heavy weights like myself, and it was up and down all race .. official result surprise surprise a DNF.

Race 2 was a lot better, after an ordinary start I found myself at the top mark with Scott’s two previous boats, did OK on the downwind until I came in too close to the tanker …. couldn’t foil … crap.

For race 3 I capsized pre-start, but had caught the back of the fleet by the top mark, when they headed for shore, I decided to follow instead of cruising around by myself … day over.

So despite the official scoresheet I am VERY happy how the last 3 days have been, I am getting more and more speed out of the boat, and the equipment is quite competitive when it is in the groove in a straight line. The problem is just stringing a whole race together, and that will come with more time on the water.

Once SIRs is done, I can lift my self imposed “gear freeze” and I can start working on some upgrades that I have sitting in pieces in my shed, and the back half of the season and winter will now become R&D time for Belmont.