ABW March 2024
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Race number 3 had the starting line even. Most of the<br />
participants hit the starting line at the same time until some<br />
300 meters away from the starting line, the first wind shifts<br />
went to the left and gave my team an advantage to take the<br />
first lead as the fleet simultaneously tack over to port and<br />
never looked back as we claimed again a bullet followed by<br />
Emerson Villena, Maria Vidoeira and Alaiza Mae Belmonte.<br />
Some exciting duel<br />
between Jun Avecilla<br />
... Ashley Best took<br />
and Seymour Saldavia<br />
the opportunity of in this race but team<br />
from Taal Lake Yacht<br />
the dueling teams to<br />
squeeze in and was<br />
able to put himself in<br />
between them at the<br />
finishing line ...<br />
Club represented<br />
by Ashley Best took<br />
the opportunity of<br />
the dueling teams to<br />
squeeze in and was<br />
able to put himself in<br />
between them at the<br />
finishing line as Seymour Saldavia placed 4th, Ashley in 5th<br />
and Jun Avecilla in 6th place. With a wind gusting up to 15<br />
knots from time to time, Emerson had to change his genoa<br />
because of the sign of stretched in two panels, to avoid<br />
more damage on the next race.<br />
The fourth race of the day had a little bit of favor at the<br />
pin. Everybody lined-up with my team at the pin slightly<br />
ahead of Emerson and Maria. Exciting battle happened at<br />
the first leg of the course as the wind swinging from 70<br />
degrees to 90 degrees east but my team again emerged<br />
victorious. The remaining teams found out to have good<br />
battle, as Seymour protested Maria, while Maria claimed<br />
the 2nd placed and left Seymour on 5th placed.<br />
Throughout the day, the wind strength has been very<br />
consistent, blowing around 8-10 knots gusting up around<br />
15 knots with a wind shifts from 10-20 degrees all over<br />
the course, but the sudden changed gives a challenging<br />
situation among the sailors when it shifted 40-50 degrees<br />
moving to the left of the course on the last leg of the<br />
leading boat as it approaches toward the finish line. But this<br />
situation never changed our team’s consistency for claiming<br />
again the 5th bullet. This race also, team Watercraft Venture<br />
helmed by Ricky Sandoval, found out guilty of cruising the<br />
starting line early.<br />
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