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Race Area Position
Race area was set close to cap Reamol. It is the area where there can no longer exist the benefit of hitting the shore. Here in long distance races, boats usually cross the lake to the other side. The day was also not usual sunny Garda day and it immediatelly should alert the sailors that the situation can be unusual.
Start
Start line was slightly biased to starboard, but only 4 degrees, making it 14m favored at the RC compared to pin end. Blue and Katna had the best starts and could sail free on starboard, while keeping the high lane. Magenta and Cer sailed fast, but with quite a lower angle.
Fin, Green and Boat6 were forced to tack to the right, with Fin being quite behind at the gun.
1st Upwind
Two Boats going full left did quite some more meters of sailing than the others. Blue and Katna were exchanging lead in the first part of the upwind. Katna had bad approach to the top mark, allowing Magenta and Boat 6 to jump ahead.
1st downwind
Early gybe was the key and Blue has lost the lead to Boat6 and Magenta. Fin also made gains by being the one gybing at the top mark. All the straight set boats in the back were forced to sail pretty high on starboard downwind.
Gybes take a lot of meters on the boats and VMG range is huge with lowest 10% of time sailed under 1.7kts of VMG, while the best 10% of time was above 17.7kts of VMG
Gate
Green and Cer were the only ones rounding the right hand mark and it put them into difficult place, sailing pretty low angles, hardly moving towards the top mark.
Of other boats, Blue had an issue at the rounding and has dropped quite a few places.
2nd Upwind
Except for boats full right losing quite a lot, for the rest of the fleet, it was more about the performance. Once fast and foiling, the angle is the key. Boat 6 sailed at a much higher angle on port tack, approaching the mark. As visible on polar dots, the green boat had quite high speeds, but their dots are much lower on the screen than the Boat 6(black) or Fin. With the low angles this class sails, dropping each degree costs a lot and brings you to the point where you are hardly advancing upwind, no matter the speed.
Looking at the performance colors in the GPS track, it is clear that wherever the angle is low, it is all in the red zone.
2nd downwind
This time early gybe could cause some trouble, bringing you into the same place where Green and Cer were loosing on the 2nd upwind. Fin lost quite some meters after gybing to the finish line.
Boat 6 and Magenta had the best downwind of the fleet with gybing after approx 300m and almost going straight into the finish line.
Blue had some trouble on the starboard tack, losing to Yellow a lot.
The clear speed winner was Katna with 21.5kts of average speed, but many more meters sailed, going under the layline.
