Beer Cans - Race 9 - 6th place! woo-hoo!

Beer Can Series Race 9

Yup, 6th out of 9. For those of you that are as challenged at math as I am allow me to point out that means we beat 3 boats! :) This is our best finishing place yet but ironically one of our worst deltas - time behind first place corrected for handicaps. 21 minutes behind, yikes. (we are often 15 minutes and we are trying to best our 8 minute record). Our worst was the night of the "did not finish". I have to say that with only 2 knots of wind on almost all of the downwind leg, 21 minutes is darn "okay". It was a very very slow moving race but it was hot and sunny and Kim and Jesal supplied some good old greasy KFC to keep us going. Arne was a most helpful co-captain as always and we were joined last night by his father-in-law Reinhardt. The exciting bit of the race came on the first upwind leg as we did a bit of battle with another boat in our fleet. "Inspiration" had us twice to starboard and we gracefully and skillfully fell off behind them and regained our ground without losing but inches. Our third meeting had us on starboard but old Inspiration showed no such skill attempting to tack directly in our path at the last second, stalling out in front of us, and causing us to tack to avoid collision. We quickly dug for anything red, found my dive flag, and hoisted a protest flag. We ended up beating them in the end and so did not lodge the protest, at it would not have helped our standing in that race. Anyway, I think in this series, the proper course of action for a protest is to pelt the offending craft with beer cans but we were rather short on those last night. :)

One more glorious race left! For those of you that were supposedly doing wind dances last night... you need to boogey a little harder! (Becca!)

Here is the link to the results table: http://www.cortezracing.com/CRA2007/2007%20Beer%20Cans/BC07Race9.htm#I