International Melges 32 Class Blog

Hedgehog pulling away from the fleet for possible victory!
Heartbreaker in hot pursuit…

Three way coming into the finish…
Left to right… Heartbreaker, ML and Hedgehog!
ML going after HB who still has to jibe to the finish!!!

Hedgehog
ML
Heartbreaker
Samba
Catapult
Warpath
Swing
Pisces
FS
Celeritas

Back upwind the battle for first is fierce… Mascalzone pulling up to try and make a move, Hedgehog still out left for pressure, hanging onto the lead!

Breeze is 8-10 at the top…

Hedgehog now coming in from the right, looking really strong. Heartbreaker chasing in second, Mascalzone in third

Hedgehog
Heartbreaker
ML
Samba

Hedgehog still left, looks to be gaining ground downwind…
Heartbreaker and Mascalzone battling out on the right!

RC announces change of course to 030…

It’s a fight, Hedgehog takes the lead!
Heartbreaker
ML
Warpath
Samba

Around the top…

Heartbreaker
Hedgehog
Mascalzone
Warpath

050 @ 1.5nm, Course 4

First start is a general recall! Do over!
Black Flag Start!

Reggio just gave fair warning… “If you are OCS – you are out!”

Breeze on the lighter side of 15 knots for the start!

A really tough race for Hedgehog. A bad start, then at the final mark, blew the spinnaker right after the jibe set.

Heartbreaker has gotten ahead if Samba! Warpath looks to be fourth…

Heartbreaker
Samba
FS
Warpath
Arethusa
Pisces
Robertissma
INTAC
Mojo
ML
Swing
Hedgehog
Sicktrix
Esmeralda
DNS
Celeritas
RoXanne

The breeze came in fast…
Heartbreaker and FS holding their own coming back upwind.

Samba takes a dramatic lead just ahead of Warpath and Heartbreaker… And the fly downwind as the breeze has picked up a couple of knots!

Breeze is still steady… Peaks of sunshine coming through…

Warpath looks to have lost position coming down the left side, Flat Stanley not looking’ so bad.

Heartbreaker first to the gate!
Warpath and Flat Stanley turn second and third, splitting the difference – Warpath left, FS right

For the first upwind beat, the breeze is 8-10 knots… Calm seas, cloud cover now across the course, relatively calm seas…

Warpath in the lead at the top…
Heartbreaker
Samba
Flat Stanley
Pisces…

Fleet is officially under short postponent… Waiting for breeze…

RC has signaled that the breeze is increasing gradually, they are moving to set-up and will be back shortly to announce the first warning.

AP still up.

Here comes the front…

020@ 1.4nm – Course 4 – signal coming up very soon…
Wind shift, AP back up until 11.00

Four minutes to the warning…

We are in sequence… Here we go….

Celeritas and Mascalzone Latino are OCS… Sled over too but did not realize until about 100 yards from the line…