It's been a while since I posted on the Blog and we're not sailing as much as we were last year due to work schedules. We did the SMSA Little Choptank race Saturday. It's a 33 mile race from The mouth of the Patuxent River, north to the Choptank River and back. 7 boats raced, 3 boats finished. It was an ugly 14 hour ordeal. VMG around the course was 2.62kts for us. After the start, we tried to hide from the current below Cove Point by sailing in the shallows and playing a big eddy there. We came so close to shore we had to tack away because of the swimming area. This paid off big and we came out on top of the fleet around the point. After that it was a drifty ordeal, mostly upwind. After dark (and long after we were supposed to finish) some of the boats that were behind us dropped out. Also in the evening we had to deal with quite a bit of ship trafic. Maneuvering and planning to be out of the way was difficult in the ghosting breeze and haze. We were slow boat in the fleet and 1st to finish!! A good day for Akoni even if it was a bad day of sailing. Here is the track from the race:
http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/LittleChoptank2011.htm
Last month was the Sharps Island race. Not very eventful and caught by a dying breeze we finished 8 out of 10. In our fleet, we were 2nd out of 4. Here is our track from that:
http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/AkoniSharps2011.htm
