Well there are probably 9 year old infusions here that are being competitive.. we had a bad race for us yesterday, but still mid fleet and were nearly beaten by a 2001 Hobie Tiger. So yes it's true. It comes down to almost entirely the sailor.
Absolutely brutal conditions today. Just like the second half of yesterday, light wind with brutal chop that is difficult to steer through, though the chop was smaller today. I was lucky enough to spend my first day on the blue course where we had 5 general recalls and spent over 2 hours trying to get a race off while the yellow course got a race off with just one recall. Luckily we had great starts every time and the 6th start finally went off managed to force a hole and win the left side against some really good sailors. We were 6th around the windward mark, the wind died way down on the downwind and it became a crapshoot. Not sure where we rounded the leeward mark as we were a bit busy, the course was shortened at the windward mark and we were able to finish 11th but the wind nearly completely died and a lot of boats didn't finish. IMO the race shouldn't have happened but our RC was under pressure to have a race to match the yellow course.
Looks like 15-20 the next two days, will be good for the top 4 American teams. But the Euros are all fast in this stuff, will be fun racing at least, not the head pounding of the last 1.5 days.