I like Monday-morning quarterbacking this regatta as much as the next guy, but this course turns typical match-racing strategy on its ear. Usually, it's get right, and protect right.
However, depending on the current, in the upper part of this course, you want to be left. Way left is even better, especially if slightly behind, because you can use the boundary as a weapon to acquire rights when on port tack.
Besides, if they weren't having tacking duels, the AC purists would probably all have blown a gasket by now (and it would be pretty boring for the rest of us).
One thing I've learned is that the local Hobie racers that I learned from were completely wrong when they said to ignore the current on a cat...
