Coming up on Dwight and Jens from astern, Al was able to avoid/prepare for wind oddities enough that he and Julia were in fact very close behind Jens and Dwight who were virtually tied as they reached #2. All we needed was a good rounding, but alas things did not go as planned. Spi douse difficulties provoked significant and very audible communication between helm and crew - the only time that happened all weekend. Needless to say, instead of rounding within a boatlength of Dwight and Jens, and being able to quickly tack into clear air towards the moorings that had been good to people on the last beat, we limped around a few boatlengths back and ended up with Dwight's and Jens' left-overs.

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Escorted by Y-Flyers on whom they've caught up well over 10 minutes over the course of this race, Dwight and Pat take the Wayfarer first. As I recall, it was Y2546 at whom Julia yelled starboard at about this time, an unfortunate excess of zeal, since I had intended to let him cross and then tack and squeeze across the line at its far leeward end. Instead, Julia's hail convinced the Y to tack into the very spot I wanted. Of course, his tack was slow, and that slowed us down until we could lay the mark. A small thing but one that killed our final hope of sneaking past ...  

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