The length of this course was not typical, just a logistics issue with the wind direction. The wind was blowing straight across the short dirrection of the bay. The course was set as far as it would allow without just setting it perpendicular to the wind and having a reach fest. The A mark was up under a large row of big condos and C was down against the sea wall any longer course and we would have been doing land tacks. Typical races schedule out around the 45 minutes with larger events being a little closer to 1 hr.

When I lived in the Midwest, I used to hear about how the courses there were too short to allow spins to be used. I used to think this was true until I moved to FL and found out the courses all were about the same size. If we could effectively run spins on that day in Gulfport, with incredibly short gusty, switchy legs, they could be used anywhere.

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