Very light winds today and again hard to predict. We had many general recalls and postponements. In two races we had good starts, but failed to capitalize on them. It's really amazing how much better our starts have become in the last month. The next step is to improve our upwind boat speed so that we can hold a lane and have options. Right now we just aren't quite fast and high enough, so we end up tacking in places that aren't ideal.
Important lesson from today: Look hard for pressure up the course and pay attention to the boats that are far away from us on the other side of the course in case they are getting some important new breeze.
In race one today we followed our game plan out to the left side, but it turned out that the right side got a lot more breeze, and we didn't really figure that out until we got all the way to the left corner and tacked back. We were too committed with tunnel vision to our plan. In Luther's words "Pressure is King" on a day like today.
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