Apparently Talia has been reading Trent's emails about our ability to win the Ballard Cup. With the Cup on the line in the last race of a 5 week series, we needed a bullet or to beat Delirium by 2 places and she knew it. Needless to say we didn't, and I have been hearing about it ever since.
We had a nice mid-line start with good boat speed, and we were able to go right to get into the beach when we wanted to and cross the heavy hitters in our fleet at the same time. We rounded first, failed to jibe inside, and watched Delirium leg out underneath us in the stronger shore breeze. Damn.
Spent the rest of the race trying to reel her in. With Bob Pistay and new sails aboard, they weren't giving us many breaks. We are faster uphill, and closed the gap, only to round the leeward mark behind them again. The boat felt sticky and slow all night. Hoists were slow too, but only part of the problem.
Ended up 2nd across the line, 3rd on corrected. Delirium wins the series, we take second. Sorry, Talia. We will try to get our boat speed back so we can bring home some shinier stickers.
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