Race Area
Start
Large bias, 8 degrees is not much, but start line is very long.
The 1st minute of racing, sorted by VMG
The 1st Minute of racing DTL
1st Upwind
Boats arriving first to the top were the ones starting closer to RC and going a bit to the right. No boats went full right so is not possible to tell what would happen if someone went even more. Pin end boats sailed low and slow after the start. Rogue, RacerCC and Tango were in the front. First Tracks was leading for most of it, but had to dip down below the starboard boats at the top mark.
Pin end very red after the start. Approaching the top, the wind had more left direction.
Flirtation the best, not accounting maneuvers and start/top mark.
Top Mark
1st Downwind
Pretty skewed course. Boats sailing very low and even the smallest movement of the mark creates much more sailing on one side. Early gybe paying in this downwind with Triad, Tiger and The Don the fastest.
Gate Rounding
No bias at all, so all about smooth and clean rounding. Rogue outperformed the fleet by quite a margin. Once again, all the sailing past the mark needs sailing back just to get back to it, so big loss for those going wide.
2nd Upwind
Top 3 fastest boats had a bit different tracks, but looks like they could all work. The wind went a bit to the left.
Right at the bottom, left wind at the top
Clean sailing
2nd Top Mark
2nd Downwind
Triad and Tango the fastest by going more to the left hand side. Rogue got caught by First Tracks, also, from the other side, but managed to fight back at the end.
