Race Area
Start
Only 6 degrees of bias creates more than 60m of distance between the boats on each end. 6 degrees is good value to know since it creates bias of exactly 10% of start line length (600m line, 60m of bias). 6 degrees is hard to spot and it is nothing big whenever the line is short. However on this line it is already pretty important. You can clearly see it as Patakin and Rowdy do the gybe, duck boats and still are ahead of right group of boats. Ending up together with Arete that has started clear.
Pin end boats took the lead. Dunlett leading and got overtaken by Tyra.
1st Upwind
Pretty stable wind again allowed that there were multiple ways to end up good at the top. Tyra, Porco Rosso, Liquid Sun and Patakin doing well. Top mark was a bit skewed to the right side. With such a long line, this means that boats starting at the pin and going left are hitting the layline very soon. This caused many boats to be over the left layline. You need to look at the top mark, know where you start and try to get out of the side soon, especially if behind. Otherwise you will get pushed over the layline. For boats starting at RC, course was not skewed at all. For pin end it was skewed by 13 degrees, with 1.68 times longer sailing on port tack.
Note 13 degrees for pin end and zero for RC
- Boats going right on high lane got some nice left shifts
- Arrow shows Tyra, starting well and not going over the layline, pretty much forcing the others to go over it.
Top Mark
In the first pack, big losses for Stubb and Dunlett. For the rest it was a lot about not being over the laylines.
1st Downwind
Tyra, Patakin and Liquid Sun extended more. The best mid fleet was Sail Racing. Going straight set with one gybe and gaining a lot on the boats around them. Early gybe or gybe set sends you into the wind shadow and the wind is to stable to gain that loss back later. Boats sailed with big variety of heel selection.
- Early gybe or gybe set slows you down in the wind shadow
- Gybing later keeps you going well
Very stable wind direction
Leeward Gate
9m of bias. Hard to notice, but still can make some difference. Some boats ended up wide on the outside, mostly at the right turn mark, clearly visible in TTL loss.
2nd Upwind
Even though it looks like the wind went a bit right, eetter sailing happened on the left side. Elvis was in the middle, catching very nice right shift and gaining well. Right side didn’t work well once again. There was short left shift at the very top of the course.
2nd Downwind
Once again, the last leg got a bit skewed due to the position of the finish line. Still, doing the gybeset didn’t pay. War Canoe and Axe went for it, but with more losses. Elvis had another great leg, gaining. Tyra, the boat ahead had the slowest leg of all the boats, going very high on first starboard tack. Rowdy also did solid in the back of the fleet.
