On May 10, we sailed the CRA Opening Day Regatta. This was to serve as our last tune-up with our new main and jib. While our results don't show it, we had the best crew work out there. We passed boats with quicker gybe sets, better douses, and overall better boat handling. All of this still was not enough for us to make up our rating of 60 on a windward/leeward course. Crew for this race was:
Geoff Davis - jib trim
Bruce Harris - main trim
Christine Pai - bow
George Roland - helm
Adam Storey - spin trim
Our roll tacks and roll gybes were great, things are getting very smooth, now we just need to head up to SF next weekend and compete against some other Melges. Race 1 was pretty clean, and and the new sails did allow us to perform very well upwind, but we still had no chance in the 8-10 knots of breeze in holding off our competition. Race 2 we suffered on the second beat because we got bounced between two shifts and did about 4 extra tacks. Pics of the rest of the racing can be found here.
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