Race Area
Start
6 degrees bias. Creating more than 60m of upwind difference. The best example are two boats at RC that ended up behind even the worst boats at the pin. You need to go to fight closer to pin end or at least mid pin. Is better to start bad there than to start good 60m behind.
Noticia started the best, keeping the lead until Arete, a bit to windward of them, overtook them.
1st Upwind
Once again, top mark a bit right and starting at the pin makes starboard sailing quite shorter. Layline comes relatively quick and if you are behind, you want to find the way out before you end up way over it. All the boats that went left more than leader arete went over the layline. Good to go just saved it since they were not that much over. The wind went a bit left, not allowing right boats to use the benefit of more space.
The only red zones were over the laylines and some after the start on port tack. Right side looks less green.
Top Mark
TTL is a bit messed up since the leader Arete was loosing GPS signal at some points. The key is to round without wnding up too far upwind, so you do less upwind meters. Also, all the boats over the laylines lost some good distance.
1st Downwind
The wind direction was very stable. It looks like gybeset was good option, since some boats gained to the group. Can be it was only due to more space to sail and less dirty air and boats around. Stubb and Sail Racing did well there. Also, the more wind there is, the less significant is top mark and offset wind shadow.
- There was quite a slowdown at the bottom.
- Gybe set boats going pretty quick with a lot of space
Leeward Rounding
15m of bias, forcing the boats that do the left turn to sail 30m more upwind distance. Is an opportunity to swap place with another boat just by doing the right thing. Example of Solyd and Noticia is there. Solyd trailing by 13m before the mark and leading Noticia by 13 after the mark.
2nd Upwind
Quite more sailing on port than on starboard. For boats outside of the leading pack, this means that is easy to end up over the layline. Also, beind a bit more in the middle on a long port tack gives you chance to wait for a shift and tack across. Jelvis did this, went earlier to the right and had gained significantly to boats around them.
Just too crowded at the left side and no wind shift or any benefit that makes left better.
2nd Downwind
Stable wind. Once again some boats that gybesetted or gybed early had fast leg. It pays to be alone when wind is equal across the course. Especially in planing conditions, group always goes at the speed of slowest boat. Elvis, Sail Racing, Solid Fun and Stubb did well by being alone. Arete was pretty slow, losing a lot of meters. Patakin and Solyd the fastest.
Traffic puts some red lines at the left side.
