I agree with Dermot. Most of the major races I've been in, the pin is slightly favored.

Committee boat owners prefer that, too.

This is a perfectly set line:


The vantage point is from the pin boat. You can just see the committee boat on the left.

With about 20 - 25 seconds to go, nobody is crowding the committee boat and there's a healthy group headed for the pin (as it turned out, the left was the way to go in this race, but we didn't know it yet).

From right to left, it's Wally Myers, Dan Borg (blue sail), Steve Leo, Pedro Colon (rearing back), unknown, Tom Korz reaching down the line, Peter Nelson, Pat Bisesi (Heineken sail) and myself (also reaching to the pin).

Wally won the pin (although it looks like Tommy got the better start - Dan is getting spat out the back):