Day Two
Today was the second day of the Miami OCR and the Lasers sailed two more races in similar conditions to yesterday. We started at 2 PM today to allow for the 470s to try to make up a race from yesterday. We had about 6-10 knots, flat water, and lots of seaweed.
In the first race I had an ok start near the boat and played the right. I wasn't looking that great, but towards the top was able to piece together a few shifts to round in about 6th. On the reach and run I passed a few boats and moved into 3rd at the bottom. On the next beat, though, I played the middle right and lost four boats on the left. I rounded in 7th and stayed there until the finish.
In the second race I did a similar thing by starting at the boat and tacking right for some pressure. The pressure never really came though, and I got pin-balled around a little at the top. I ended up rounding in 20th place and rallied hard throughout the race to catch up to 9th. I almost got around a couple more boats at the last mark, but just didn't have enough! But a 9th is a good comeback after such a bad first beat.
The sailing out there has been very tricky. Pressure differences are huge, and being in the pressure means having a better angle.
Tomorrow is the last day of qualifying and then we will split into Gold-Silver for two days. We should be back to our 10:30 AM start time again. Right now I'm in 8th with a 3-5-7-9, but the points are very close!
