What I don't understand is the following :

you first state

>>(we were) closly followed by the sloop Tornado and on the upwind to the finish were overtaken to windward by the (sloop) T and finished second.

And than you state

>>Upwind we had a slight edge in hight and speed when we were powered up but in the lulls, suffered.

So did you or did you not have an overall edge when going upwind. If so how can you be overtaken to windward by a sloop rig ? If not then how much of an edge did you momenterally ? Did you loose so too much time on the tacks ? Or did you loose more during the lulls than you gained in the gusts ? What do you call powered up ? Do you have any idea why you suffered in the lulls and not in the gusts ?

How do you and the other crew normally compare on the race course when both sailing with jibs ?



>>>Off the breeze we could not split the two boats but were a little quicker rounding the top and bottm marks as the crew did not have to worry about the jib.

I gether you were both flying your spi's ?

Did the other have a selftacker ?

Wouter