A good day for us; 2, 1. The day got off to a late start as the wind was blowing in excess of 25 knots this morning. At 1300 the postponement flag came down signaling that the first start would be a 1430.

We headed out to the track and were pleasantly surprised to see perfect sailing conditions; 16-22 knots of wind and fairly flat seas.

In race number one we went a long way left off the line and quickly the lead boiled down to a fight between Mark Reynolds/Steve Erickson, Andy Lovell/Magnus Liljedahl and Phil and I. We managed to get around the top mark first. George Szabo/Mark Strube were on fire again down wind and caught up to us but did not pass us at the leeward mark. Up the next windward leg, we covered Szabo and Eric Doyle/Brian Sharp got out to the left and found a nice shift that caught them up to us. We still rounded first but with Doyle right on our heels.

At this point, with Szabo under control, we went into conservative mode. There was still a bit of wind around. Doyle won, we were second, Szabo third, John MacCausland 4th and Lovell 5th.

For the second race, the breeze piped back up to 20 after a bit of a lull. We started near the right end of the line and immediately noticed that we were on a big headerﾅ10-15d degrees. We tacked, ducked a few starboard tackers and got going on a very high port tack heading. In fact, we were heading just 15 degrees of the mark! We rode that life for 8 minutes. About 10 boats came with us but not Szabo. I did not want to split like that from Szabo but I could not tack off that lift. Sure enough, the wind headed and we tacked onto Starboard about 20 degrees higher than we had been off the start. The bottom line is that we had a huge lead over Szabo that the rest of the fleet.

We kind of controlled things from there and got the bullet. Szabo made a nice come back and got third after being 12th at the first mark. He is passing people downwind with ease.

So after 10 races, we are in god shape. We put three points on Szabo and still donﾒt have a race worse that 6th! 6 races to go; three on Saturday and three on Sunday. A lot of racing left.

Tomorrowﾒs forecast is for good wind, I believe, 10-15 knots. That sounds good to me because light air on Biscayne Bay, on the weekend, is ugly. It makes Marina Del Rey look good.

Steaks tonight with Sammyﾒs special salad and Ickaﾒs browniesﾅ.Giradelli Chocolate Brownies!