This from the Tartan is just after they have passed us. Now, my reefed headsail is showing obvious problems as does the boat directly behind us. The Catalina 30 with laminated tri-radial sail is rapidly gaining and will soon be out in front of us, but will trail the Tartan until much later in the race.
I think we're trying to point to high but I'm guessing the furled headsail is not a good shape. That tri-radial sure looks nice and fast! They'll soon be gone. Just after the first upwind mark we took the reef out on the mainsail, but we continued to reef the headsail on upwind legs. I think that hurt our position a lot.
Racing is over for me until September. I had my gall bladder removed with emergency surgery on Thursday and I had a small hernia done while they were at it. Recovery is 4 weeks and then we are travelling in August, so my season is over pretty quick! I think we have an event or 2 in September or later that we can enter.