Race: Hot Rum II

Funking Kelp.

Thick blue line is boat speed through the whole race. Guess at what point we cleared the kelp....

Judging by our speed vs polar speed we were dragging it from the start to the bottom mark (halfway). While the wind was higher we were just slow compared to the other boats, when it dropped at the leeward mark we were parked.

This is the kelp.

Once cleared we actually overtook some boats. In fact we hauled ass and caught a load of boats for the finish, overtaking about 10 and getting up on the back side of a clump of 20 odd boats.

I should have checked much earlier, I thought about it.

That is all.