Raced two other Harpoons this weekend

Posted By: Jenny, Harpoon 5.2
Date: 11/6/06 5:19a.m.

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Record Harpoon turnout (in recent years, anyway) at Wurstfest. I am hoping to talk the new guy into coming out for the circuit next year. He was only there Saturday, so there were three 3-Harpoon races and yesterday it was me and Grant mano a mano. We had an exciting photo finish in the last race. We had gotten ahead of him on the previous upwind leg, after he got inside us at the leeward mark, and on the downwind half-leg to the finish he was catching up (he has a much bigger spinnaker than I do) and we crossed the line within a second or so of each other. I really thought he'd gotten us at the end, but the race committee thought otherwise, so we got a fourth-place finish in that race, our best of the regatta (there were 20 boats in the Portsmouth fleet). Wound up seventh overall, and fourth among the circuit boats, so that was a throwout for us and we wound up second in the circuit for the year.