Race Area
Start
Square line, all about how you manage to pull it out. Tyra and Happy were over, SailRacer popping forward, but getting caught a bit by Fin 787. Happy got nice lift later to catch up a lot after returning at the start.
1st Upwind
SailRacer used the left shift at the 2nd part to keep the lead. Interesting was that Tyra was catching up a lot by going right, just had no right wind to help them cross back well. Happy also got solid lift on port tack on the long way to the mark. They have lost a lot after the start with a few lanes with very low sailing. Removing the start, rounding and tacks, Tyra even ended up the best performing boat, catching up on the leader.
Top Mark
SailRacer, Fin and Happy with solid rounding. The other three way slower with traffic issues.
1st Downwind
Interesting leg with different modes sailed. Spika did the whole leg dead downwind and after the initial loss, was mostly gaining. Fast mode boats gained when in good shift, going down the ladder faster. Happy sailed fast, but with way worse angles.
Dead downwind boats with stable colors. Fast mode got some red areas.
Fast mode only works if you are going down enough. Do it against the shift and your VMG suffers a lot. Two polar graphs below are in the 1st part where some boats were gaining on Spika and 2nd where Spika was mostly better.
Gate Rounding
SailRacer alone and free. Fin787 had a solid rounding, others doing some extra meters.
2nd Upwind
The more right the boats were, the better it looked like. I can see losses always for boats more on the right side. Spika gained well, but went far over the layline.
- Good way to get to the right
- On the right side sailing much greener than on the left. Possibly better pressure.
2nd Downwind
Liquid sun by far the best. Straight set with low angle
Nice low green lane of Liquid sun after the hoist. Right side boats had hard time to get to the finish.
