_13 June 2011_
_D35 Sogeti Cup_
_Geneva, Switzerland_
Artemis Racing had two excellent scores in the first two races of the day
with a 2, 4 and had taken the lead in the regatta.
At the first mark of the third race, Okalys, crashed into us while on port
tack and that ended our day. As we were on starboard tack, we applied to the
jury for redress and it was granted. The jury has quite wide discretion as
to how they award redress. They could have averaged our points of the
regatta to that point, discarding the worst score as that was how the
scoring was done at that point. We would have been awarded 2.6 points per
race in that case. The other extreme was to award us the average of all our
scores including the discarded race. That would have resulted in 3.8 points
per race. They chose the later and we finished second for the weekend.
With four regattas now complete, Artemis Racing is tied for second place
with Volti Group in the D35 season championship with Focia winning. This
being our first season in the class, we have to be pretty happy with that!
Next Saturday is the Bol d'Or, the race that will start in Geneva, take the
fleet to Montreux at the opposite end of the lake some 50 miles away and
back to Geneva.
This race can take anywhere for 5 to 25 hours. Drifting for hours followed
by thunder squalls is not uncommon. Boats leading the entire race and then
falling out of the wind 1 mile from the finish is also not uncommon. It will
be my first Bol d'Or and it should be interesting.
For complete results go to www.vulcaintrophy.com
Paul
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