Last weekend, we had a great race against another cat in which we were changing places regularly; we'd be first to the top mark, they'd be first to the bottom mark.

Just before the last tack to the finish line we were pretty much equal in terms of ladder rungs, both on port tack, but we were to windward and astern with about 5-6 boat lengths separation. We kept footing down onto them so that they had to think twice before tacking, but we couldn't get near enough before they reached the layline.

They tacked on the layline about 1km to the finish line, they didn't accelerate well and we thought we might cross, they accelerated and we realised we wouldn't cross. At this stage it was too late, too avoid a collision we quickly luffed past head to wind and capsized (we were still on trapeze). They luffed as well but weren't on trapeze so didn't capsize.

If it had been a monohull race, we would've just lee-bowed them and accelerated away. However being new to cat racing, we didn't think this would work.

What would've been the best thing to do? Tack early and hope to make the finish line? Duck them and tack later? Leebow tack and hope to not get left behind?

It was a great race and really close. They were cool about it after the race. That is how racing should be, down to the last tack.