Day 1 - Race 1

The day didn't start well for the team. Somehow, what can go wrong had gone badly wrong for us. First up, we forgot to bring the sailing instructions but managed to get a spare copy from the office. Then as we were about to get a tow out to the race area, we forgot to bring the compass which we in the store. The fleet finally were towed out of the marina together.

We had our first hoist of our "We love SMU" spin and boy was it beautiful. Not before long, the Race official sounded the horn for race 1 signaling for windwards/leewards course. Off went the starting signal and 2 boats were OCS. Boat 155 and 154. Yes, our team is one of the OCS boat sailing on boat 3 (sail no. 154). We only realized we were OCS after about 15 - 20 boat lenght away. We turn back and at the point we were last place.

We worked hard and caught up to forth. However, just when we were gaining on boat number 3, we had our spinnaker caught under the keel during a take down and had to retire from the race. The crew will need to cover the holes made on our new spin. *Sad*

This race, we scored RTD. =(