We spent most of the day waiting around for a little wind. Sailed two races in the afternoon.
In race one we had a decent start, held our lane and sailed a good tactical beat playing the major shifts and getting to pressure. We rounded in the top 5. We continued to sail heads out of the boat looking for pressure and paying attention to angles for the rest of the race. Could have sworn we finished top 10 in that race, but the results posted say 14th.
Race two started on a poor note when we fouled two boats at the start. The lesson there has to do with pre-start communication. I broke a major rule by making a suggestion at about 3 minutes that we switch to a port tack start since we were having a hard time getting to the boat in time to get a spot on starboard and we wanted to go right for pressure. It was doomed from the beginning because once she accepted my suggestion, our roles were unclear, and our actions were becoming a discussion instead of one person making decisions. We ended up in indecision on the line at the pin head to wind at the gun because we were each expecting the other to be decisive and say what we were doing. Lesson learned.
The plan now is to practice and discuss port tack starts during our training so that we can add it to our repertoire, and to use it when it is our game plan, but to keep it Kristen's job to make the starting decisions so that we can execute our boat handling decisively.
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