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[[posterous-content:pid___5]] First to get to the leeward mark on that race: El Raton[[posterous-content:pid___3]]2nd to get to the leeward mark on that race: Elise shown dousing its spinnaker[[posterous-content:pid___4]][[posterous-content:pid___2]]Elise rounding the mark - I could have steered upwind much earlier since the flood was pushing us way past the mark and could have been a lot faster there - lesson learned for next time and future optimization opportunity.[[posterous-content:pid___1]]Peaches dousing their spinnaker, Libra doused theirs more conservatively[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Peaches rounding the mark. Peaches passed Elise up on that upwind leg right after the mark because Elise was pointing a few degrees too low for a little while:our jib wasn't all the way up right after the mark (remembered we basicall jury-rigged an external halyard)[[posterous-content:pid___6]][[posterous-content:pid___7]]
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