No racing July 12 argh!

Was all set for B3 and B4 races, and was really looking forward to racing yesterday. We had new jib, new main and spin on boat, I'd retuned earlier in the week and had fixed the helm issue (which means the boats sinking slowly, but drives great!) the forecasts were all over the place, but sailing out to the course was done in a light NE breeze and really pretty skies. Once we got out the wind died, and we drifted around watching the gradient breeze battle the thermal. Finally at about 1 o'clock, s SE breeze started up at 6-8 kts, and we were all excited to go race!

Heard signals from RC boat, so started sailing over that way only to see abandon race flags go up. Disbelief on 88, and really disappointing to see them blow off a day of racing just as the wind comes in. They offered to tow us in because of "no wind" but by that point there was plenty of it and we beat the towed boats into the harbor!

I guess we can only talk about what might have been. Kevin was out with a brand new Quantum jib, and both teams were looking forward to tuning it up against the north. In morning practice we felt fast and tight on crew work, which was a nice change from the last day of racing. Tried an interesting experiment and loosened the lowers until they were sloppy on both sides while sailing upwind. Surprisingly the mast sagged only the barest amount to leeward, but it seemed like a good change as the boat developed helm in 4-5kts, which is unusual. Would love to experiment with this more.

Hopefully we'll go out to tune up some time this week, as John S from 130 (and occasionally 88) is interested. Will try some settings and see what goes fast.