Spring has had plenty of wind for Puget Sound racing. For the Center Sound series, we started with a light/moderate wind Blakely Rock and finished third in class behind Flash and the TP52.
Possession Point was an awesome race that saw us hitting 20+ knots of boat speed in 35 knot gusts. Lots or carnage due to the strong conditions. Two boats aground, a man overboard (thankfully not from our boat), and a heart attack victim that needed a medivac kept the coast guard busy. We blew out our 2A spinnaker within a few minutes of the start, hoisted the 4A and took off, passing the bigger boats and rounding the buoy well ahead of everyone. We held off the bigger boats for most of the beat back in 25-35 knots of breeze until Flash (OD 48) and Artemis (Andrews 53) passed us near the finish but we still corrected out to first in class and first overall (out of 70 boats). Great time for all!
Pully Point was a moderate air race in which we were mixing it up with Artemis but couldn't hang with Flash. We finished second in class behind Flash and ended the series tied for first with Flash in points they win on the tiebreaker. We were 4th overall out of about 70 boats.
Next up, Puget Sound Spring Regatta (PSSR).
