Day 1 Two goals for today. One -- win the race to leave the harbor. Check. Two -- Get blind drunk. Check. Honestly can't remember much about the starts, other than trying to defend a hole just to left of right boat and then accelerating off the line, did not pay off for us today. Breeze was forcasted to be light, so I made a change to the higfield lever set up so we could rake the rig forward. I left it at the light air setting. We on pace with the C fleet, but way off the leaders. After race one, we put the rake back to base (we thought) By time we finished Race 2 we were up 30/20. Turns out the rake setting was 1" back! Downwind middle of the course works when the fleet is compressed. On the second lap, splitting from our competion does not work.
Back on shore it was Pusser's Rum night. 5 grogs later, Jen and I crashed Matilda's party. Had a tremendous evening with Matilda and Smokin's crew. Richard and I have a bet for a 2 lt bottle of rum. Doesn't quite seem fair as his pro is a coach for the UK olympic team and my "pro" is an ex-computer jockey for 3DL! Anyway all in good fun.

Pic is a leeward gate rounding with our "velocitek" logo showing.