2025 FBYC ILCA Spring Regatta
We had a beautiful day for the first ILCA Regatta at FBYC this year. 8 boats came for some shifty winds out of the NNW and clear sunny skies.
The first race was a short 1 lap H3 course. The pin was favored and I had a great start just up from the pin while a few boats missed the mark and had to restart. I sailed out to the layline and led at the top mark and held that to the finish.
The second race was similar, I had a great start and pulled ahead on the upwind leg. This was two laps and I led until the final leeward rounding where I flubbed the gybe, put the boom in the water, and capsized while Mike M and Mike C sailed by leaving me with 3rd.
The wind continued to be quite shifty. It would go left and come down the river strongly with some whitecaps. Then a few minutes later it would shift back to the right and get light and patchy. At times there were different winds on different sides of the course, but there was no consistency, sometimes the right had wind and sometimes it was the left.
I sailed the next few races about as inconsistently as the wind itself. I would catch some shifts and other times miss them while others caught them.
Mike M had a great day finishing first or second in every race to win the day. Mike C was just ahead of me overall and I finished in 3rd for the day. This was a great tune-up for next weekend’s Atlantic Coast Championship in Annapolis.
Thank you to Holly, Mason, Marc, David, Jen and Jen’s brother for being out there and running our races today.
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