HOT WATER on port with PUFFIN and GIGI coming on starboard.
GUMPTION, VITESSE EXTREME, and MACK DADDY converging.
PUFFIN and RUM 'N JAVA (PAPERMOON under charter).
VITESSE, GIGI, and GUMPTION.
ADDICTION (center) and REVELATION (left).
NO FACE (right), REVELATION (left) and GIGI (center).
Excellent crew placement and hiking technique.
More RUM.
Unidentified upwind boat
RUM at the second weather mark, kite up and drawing at offset.
SAVASANA not quite as quick getting the kite up, chasing DOA.
BLUE MAX and PAINT at the third mark.
KINCSEM's kite almost up and drawing at the offset.
VE ready to hoist.
FLAME took an uncharacteristic 15 in Race #1.
Fourth and last leg.
DOA finishes eighth (second for the day) with lots of boats still to finish.
Start of Race #2 with RUM 'N JAVA getting the pin end start.
UNBRIDLED (right) has seen better starts.
Starting to clear a bit now. Left to right, RUM AT SIX, BLUE MAX, PLANET B, and ZUNI BEAR.
KINCSEM was first around and would win Race #2 (the mark boat replaced the mark on this rounding after the mark was snagged by a Melges 24).
They came fast and furious after KINCSEM. This is MAX POWER.
You can see them piling up at the mark boat.
NO FACE leads this pack.
MACK DADDY, PUFFIN, and ECLIPSE.
ECLIPSE with Kevin Kelly keeping the spinnaker controlled.
ZUNI and five abreast around the offset.
Not a pretty hoist by WET LEOPARD here.
BLUE MAX.
MACK DADDY with good weight placement heeling to weather.
FLAME with nicely trimmed kite. They moved up to 3rd this race.
GUMPTION, BLUE MAX, and RUM turn for the third leg.
MASQUERADE and WET PAINT get trimmed up promptly after the mark with RUM 'N JAVA still bearing down on it.