Getting Good Race Starts in a Busy Fleet of Mixed Rated Yachts 

If you’re one of the slower boats in a mixed fleet. Consider a port tack start and take the lift off the back of the starboard tack boats. It gets you into cleaner air quicker and you also don’t get pinned and exhausted by the starboard tack boats. If you’re unable to point as high as most of the fleet, but have good boat speed, start at the port end on starboard. If there’s no-one to leeward of you, you can sail your fastest course without being squeezed.

Ryan, thanks again for showing us how the sausage is made.

I’m not so sure what’s a good about the start. At least three boats behind the start line deeply in the shell of other boats.

It would be great to have the Skipper/Tactician comments overlaid so we know what they are thinking....good or bad.