Friuli Venezia Giulia TRIESTE - Match Race report.

Match 1: Wibroe 4 -5 nds.
We wanted the left.
By jibing at the entry as blue you guaranty to have a good speed in position 3 when you’re about to jibe back on starboard.
Good start on the side we want. He turns the boat too fast. Very important to kep the speed up light air start. Light air tactic's: don't play match race play the wind avoid tacks.


“Short court effect”. You'll pay a little bit on the layline sailing slow and high. You build the speed high when he’s on your air that gives you good short court effect faster at the tack and at the hoist you'll keep the benefit of your speed very long.

Match 2: Barker 4 – 5 nds


Right end line. We wanted the right.
Jibe a little bit too late I should had more leverage to push him lower to the line.
We get the side but too slow after the start.

Match 3: Henriksen 4 – 5 nds.
We enter on time but the line was port end and he catch us on a dial down.
In these conditions it’s so painful to be dial up or down than you could imagine to hoist the kite to cross. Pretty radical but we use to do that in J80 or the Cup Boat in 2000.
You don’t get a perfect first hoist at the top mark but you can cross which is crucial.

Good way to get rid from the hook is to sail upwind create a speed difference and tack. Very difficult to get rid of a dial up in this breeze. Especially because the line was so long than if you chose to sail down you ended up far from the line and less time to do anything. We did a circle who is not on the dial but that helps to sail upwind with a good difference of speed fon your side.
We get out with a decent start regarding the conditions it could have been more painful.



Another possibility would have been to sail a little bit longer up wind and try to tack and take his stern to do that you need more space.

Proposal:
The speed is hugely important in match racing because you only have one opponent. If you’re slower you will lose anyhow.
We should sail with proper sails for match race, I mean the new ones.
We’ve got so little time to train than the trimmers will take a lot of improvement to sail with the same sails in the 2 events match race and fleet. We will learn the boat better. There is no dial up so you don’t damage the jibs so much and a good main will last long enough to do the all season.