Practice Race

We led the practice race today for two laps! It was super fun, but we stuffed it hard downwind and spent a while swimming around. We were psyched with our speed though, we were fast and low upwind, and fast and low downwind as well. Altogether a great day and we are looking forward to the first day of racing in some big breeze. It will be interesting to see what happens since the forecast is for 20 kts gusting to 28 during our scheduled racing. Everyone in our fleet is at the beginning of the learning curve for the 49er FX since it is still a new boat, so I expect there will be tons of capsizing tomorrow. Staying upright will pay big!