We had a very windy first day to The Natinoal Bank International Youth Match Racing Championships, and unfortunately a dissappointing one aswell. Not helped by being over the start line, therefore having to return for two races along with and a few other penalties picked up in the pre-start. Even though we only came out with one win, we are not too downbeat as we know why and how we lost most of our races and also know that we are still capable of winning if we can elmeinate a few of the errors we made.
Even though the boats have keels, they act very much like a dinghy and are very weight sensitive, and as we are 35kilos under the weight limit we are having to work very hard to get the best out of the boats. Despite that, we are managing to keep up with most of the other teams and as a result are have some good races, just never quite doing as well as we could do.
Well, hopefully we will get less wind over the next few days and be able to come back with some better results.
Sam
