Sail rigging before the start
Sailing one short today for our usual Wednesday night race. Conditions were dynamic, with high potential for a thunderstorm. We left the dock with the #1 on deck, planning to run it, got out in some breeze and forming whitecaps and changed to putting the #3 up, then as the gusts backed off ultimately settled back to the #1 again. We started low on course and a little late, and went left by necessity as we didn't have a clean window to tack into. We ultimately made it back across the middle of the course, before putting in a quick pair of tacks close to the mark. We fumbled a couple of them for various small issues, but kept pressing on into the reaching leg. We thought about putting up a spinnaker, and re-rigged to do so, but utlimately couldn't hold the angle and did it as a jib reach. We rounded the second mark and reached back across the course, dodging traffic and staying above several boats below us. We finally got to set a spinnaker on the final leg, and sailed a clean race home. We had to crash gybe after the finish to avoid the shallows. Not our best race, with some notable mistakes and oversights, but we still pulled off a third-place podium finish, and didn't get stormed on, so it's hard to complain too much.