Elise got 3rd place in the Farallones race

* 10 seconds * after 2nd place...

Even though all the other boats finished hours before us...this is the weirdest thing. You race and you have NO IDEA where you are in the race because all these other super fast boats that race between 9 and 50 are long gone...(Elise rates 129...)

Well, we did sail right next to a Synergy for about two miles, so we weren't doing that bad then.

So it was all about boat speed, route, etc...(when you tack, since you are not using a straight line course to the mark, if the wind shifts to one side, you actually end up having to cover less distance to get to the mark) - we had a strategy before the race and we were joking on the boat saying that 'we did execute well on our strategy' - by then, we couldn't really see any boat behind us...

Results are: http://www.yra.org/OYRA/docs/Results/OYRA_farallones_2010_results.pdf

Nathan will do a full writeup