Sunday, July 10, 2011

MHOR, the start

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Sunday, 19:45 UTC (or GMT, or 4 hours ahead of EDT).
Contrary to the predictions, we had a nice breeze from the south for the beam reach, port tack start from out near Halfway Rock (not quite the Orkneys) in to Marblehead, then a left turn south against the wind.  For the first leg, we were quickly in last place (of 8 boats) as expected from our much slower handicap but held our own until the upwind leg to the Tinker's gong.  Two fleets starting behind us sailed through us before we turned left toward Cape Sable on the SW tip of Nova Scotia.  So far, doing ok with boat speed up around 8 kts, using a 15 kt wind from the southeast.  Hot, sunny.  Boat moving nicely but we are sufficiently in last place that we can no longer see any of the double handed adversaries.  Still, we are pleased with progress so far.  Maybe the handicapping will correct adequately for our slowness.

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