Yes sadly we performed very poorly on Wednesday with a last fastest and a second last on handicap. The divers will check the bottom before the next race but as it is not long since the last antifouling I do not expect they will find much wrong.
On the first down wind leg we were not well positioned for the gusts that seemed to pass to windward and not come over the course. Gwhizz and Star Ferry both now in division 2 started five minutes behind but by half way down the leg had all but caught us and L Eau Co. Now reaching is not our strong point and it was an awkward broad reach where we had difficulty flying the genoa as well as our competitors. We had the black carbon genoa up which is great for windward work but does not seem to fly so well on the light air reaches.
When the breeze did set in for the work home we were already well back. L Eau Co pointed higher and soon passed us. There were some huge shifts on the way back to the finish line and if we had been on the right side of two of these it might have been a less somber story.
Apart from our individual place I have no more details as the results are not out. The previous system worked well but someone thought they might fix a not broken system and now it is fully broken.
Some of the RANSA winter Wednesday fleet before the scooted away to windward