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Photo courtesy of Sean Trew at Pacific Fog Photography

Photo courtesy of Sean Trew at Pacific Fog Photography

Chris Snow has a great write up of the final race to win North Americans this year. There are many details about his preparation, strategy, and tactics, including this description of the final approach to the line:

Now it was a waiting game. Main in Genoa out the boat can stop and lose very little distance to leeward. 15…10,9,8, genoa in main out, get the boat rolling, now point slightly below the pin, 4,3, genoa in main on slight luff to clear the pin and we are off, Klatt on our windward quarter, all clear, off to the races we go.

Full article: http://www.northsailsod.com/class/j24/j24_whatsnew.html#55

Emails and phone calls and emails and phone calls and emails and phone calls and who’s in this week? Damn it’s been nothing but vacation schedules and work conflicts and weren’t we supposed to be racing the boat this summer? Ok we’ve got almost all the regulars back and Travis is actually threatening to leave Redmond early enough to get out and race for the first time this summer.

I arrive at the parking lot later than I wanted, hopefully Peter is setting up the boat.

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I am getting psyched up for racing tomorrow night. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve been out for one design racing due to vacation schedules, windless nights, and the hiatus for Whidbey Island Race Week. But tomorrow night’s forecast is looking great, and we have some solid fill-in crew for the night.

Unless the mast has been knocked down by the enormous motor-boat tsunami over Seafair weekend, we should be in good shape.

Check back for the Race Report on Wedneday.

8-10 knot winds and only 20% chance of precip? Glorious conditions…