Sailing is awesome. Moving a high tech object at high speeds through a beautiful landscape only propelled by harnessing the wind. No noise. No stress. I love sailing and fell in love with it the first time I was on a sailboat (the unplugged).
But racing is not sailing. Racing is the coordinated effort by a team to win seconds in a wildly unpredictable environment. In most car racing series your course is rather clear – in yacht racing there is no clear path. And only when you see the score do you know whether your strategy was the right one.
Tonight we sailed a great race. Through pockets of no wind to the occasional dicey situation. A full hour of focus and constant improvement to lose by a mere 23 seconds. And even though all gears clicked, every maneuver was executed reasonably well – you still know: there were 23 seconds in there we could have saved. So you go back out there next week to have another try at sailing the perfect race.
Link to scores: https://yachtscoring.com/event_results_detail.cfm?Race_Number=5&eID=16283