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<DIV><SPAN class=915441100-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Bonito
will be there.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=915441100-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Michael Andrews</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> tuna-bounces@myfleet.org
[mailto:tuna-bounces@myfleet.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Pete
Trachy<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:06 PM<BR><B>To:</B> List
Satanna 22<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Santana 22] Two Races Down! Who is coming out
on the 9th?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Dear Santanians.<BR><BR>The weekend before
last was some of the best white sails racing I have been in over the last two
years. We had 5 boats out and in both races all 5 finished within 2
minutes of each other. There was never a feeling of sailing alone at the
back or top of the fleet. The day was summed up by Michael Kennedy when
in the midst of a downwind duel for first, he turned to me with a huge smile
on his face and yelled "Isn't this awesome!" Michael, congratulations on
jumping out in the thick of things on your first race! <BR><BR>In the 1st race
we came in last, and I hope Tackful can chime in with some of what they did
right to come out in first. Things not to do are be late at the gun and
sail into less pressure on the beat to the finish. There was a reason we
were the only boat going off to the left after the leeward rounding...
<BR><BR>In the 2nd race we tacked in underneath Tackful at the boat end and
managed to get them on barging. We had a fair start and worked on
covering the rest of the boats and not getting out of touch with the
fleet. We nicked the windward mark trying to shoot it and by the time we
had done a 360 Pariah had caught up with us. The whole fleet compressed
with the boats behind attacking those ahead with their wind shadow. I
feel we were able to break away by the leeward mark by sailing a slightly
hotter angle. Pariah split from the fleet and sailed off to the
left. We didn't want to go over there after our experience in the first
race, but also wanted to cover so we split the difference after working over
to the right a bit. At the finish we were impressed to see that Tackful
had worked back up into 3rd(?) even after having to spin at the start.
<BR><BR>The results are online in the ODCA section of the YRA site:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.yra.org/ODCA/odca_race_results.html">http://www.yra.org/ODCA/odca_race_results.html</A><BR><BR>Michael
Kennedy (Pariah) is not included for some reason. We're trying to get
that sorted out. <BR><BR>The next race will be at Knox on June 9th.
Current and wind made this a very exciting race last year, with the lead
changing hands many times over the first race. Get out on the course
early and try to figure out the conditions. Don't forget to consult your
tide book! <BR><BR>Can we have a show of hands for who plans to
attend?<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>Pete<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>