My apologies to my fellow competitors for bailing out. Supercrew had time constraints and from where we were it didn't look good. IF that wind hadn't come up going back, it would have been a slow day. IF we had been further up front, we might have blown off the other tasks with the justification of a good finish. From that aspect at least, I feel guilty about bailing. She did get to read 50 pages of her book (with only one minor splash); that should tell you how exciting the non-spin downwind ride was :-) I gave her the helm going back upwind; she learned a little there too. Our congratulations to the finishers and winners; great concentration on an up and down day. How about that start where the breeze went away with 25 seconds to go, and EVERYONE was way back off the line? Bet that looked impressive from shore :-) Or the new breeze that brought the whole fleet back up and over the first 5 boats that looked like they were going to break away? That WAS impressive, unless you were one of the first 5 :-(