Neck-in-neck with Wicked Good
Racing on Dangerous this weekend in the inaugural Patuxent Pursuit. The event was born out of the vacuum created by Screwpile's cancellation, and a number of friends are involved in its planning and execution. Today's race was a pursuit race for all competitors. We started at PR3 in light conditions, and close reached out to PR1. We clawed back a lot of ground and nearly led the fleet rounding PR3 again, but got caught in light air close to the next mark, involving a tight rounding and nearly the whole fleet rolling us from over by Drum Point. We did manage to gain back a lot of ground in the river, but only managed a 6th of 9 boats. Despite the mediocre result, the pursuit race was a tremendously fun format, and got us thinking outside the box sailing the boat on a lot of reaching angles we don't usually spend a lot of time on. A great afternoon and a great start to the weekend!