Today we sailed 3 races with 3 wins to take the Sheldon Clark regatta, as well as the Nutting Cup (hee hee) which is a combined score from the Memorial Day (1) regatta and todays SC.
It was originally another ho-hum forecast, but last night and today it got bumped to 15-20kt with 2-4 chop. I was both excited and nervous about this. We've always been fast with more breeze, and big breeze is fun, but we hadn't have much practice at all in it, so would be going in a little rusty compared to the other teams who had big air for the Verve Cup last month.
Lots of good racing today, with us, 45, 196 and 150 out. Although it was only 4 boats, they were the top 3 boats from the season, and Kevin, who's always fast. We did well at starts and had decent speed, but we all were a little clumsy at boathandling, especially downwind.
Tuning was 48" on the headstay, 800 uppers, around 250 lowers. We felt fast in the first race (~18kts with monster waves) but felt a bit sluggish once the breeze dropped to below 15 I found the boat hard to drive, wanting power. I think I should have gone to 48.5 on the headstay, even with the chop, as the main was plenty deep at 48", and I could have used more helm/rake. It was me, Jacob, Katie and Niki at ~600lbs total.
Jacob had the GoPro camera out, so I'm really hoping to have some cool video from today. Some of the waves were real monsters!
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