Hi Rolf,

That is from Day1 Race2 of the Pre-Trials, and no, this is not Glenn in the crew position (the organizer's didn't update the team lists between events for some reason). That is Jonathan, my 140 pounder on his second race ever. We are in a close battle with Kelly & Ollie in that shot. Looking carefully at our spin, I see we're not fully hoisted (rookie error!) and I'm eased on the main, likely due to a puff hitting just before the shot was taken. We may be headed high to make the mark and I do sometimes ease the main in response to gusts when I don't need to go lower (yes, you can ease the main with the carbon stick without fear of snapping it!).
If you check the next 2 shots in the series, you will see USA 699 beat us to the gate.

It was someplace on the following windward where Jonathan got slammed against the gunwale and hurt his butt. He wanted to keep going and wanted to do race 3..Helm's trapline let loose at the 1st top mark layline in race 3...Ollie & Kelly had just tacked under us at the layline, we were set to try to drive onto their wind when I went in the water, boat heeled severely, tiller smashed to bits. She gracefully spun up the weather and came back down. We had to DNF that one. Jonathan could no longer contiune and was limping around the boatyard afterwards. Had to get two further crew for the remaining 2 days. But, at least we kept sailing.