ALEX CAVIGLIA BLUEWATER CLASSIC

This regatta was a just a three day event over the weekend starting on Friday. The purpose of it was to use it as a warm up before the Mid Winters and OCR, starting next Friday.

After 5 races I was lying 3rd overall, with the Canadians (Paul Tingley and Bruce Millar) in 1st and 2nd.

The forecast for Sunday was 30 knots in the afternoon, so an earlier start time of 10:00 was posted in hope of getting some racing in before the breeze got up too much. Unfortunatley the race committte had their mind set not to send us out, even though the entire 2.4 fleet said they wanted to race, and went out anyway to compete in three races organised by the coaches. The wind never got above 20 knots and most of the time was around 16. I had a good day posting a 1st 2nd 2nd, which pulled me up to second overall, only a coulpe of points behind Bruce Millar in first.

I had good speed and if I iron out the silly mistakes, look to be in good shape for next week.