Day 2: no wind. We were APed on shore for 3 hours before the decided to send us out. They threw a very light wind race which the cancelled it at the windward mark. We were leading the race after catching a 30 degree shift in the middle (!) of the course.

Day 3: lots of wind, cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. We had a middling day: 11th, 18th, 2nd, and 28th. We missed being first in the 3rd race by 1/2 boat length. We missed being 13th in the second race by about the same. The fourth race was a diaster – we dug in too far to the port layline and got buried so deep there was no recovering.

We’re in 12th place now—we’re 8 points from being 6th and 2 points from being in 16th.

Today is the long distance race. The forecast is for the wind to drop out, but the forecast was very wrong yesterday, so who knows. Good results now are essential.