Three ORR classes started on Saturday between 1300 and 1400 hours, which included the Santa Cruz 50/52’s and the “70’s” sub-classes. About until about 10pm, the entire fleet stayed close together, inside the rhumb line, making the most out of the light winds, keep maneuvers to a minimum. By the time they reached San Diego, each of the ORR classes were grouped pretty close together. In the evening, as the wind increased, the boats started heading further off shore, still grouped fairly close together, and by midnight, the ORR1 class is well offshore traveling consistently above 11 knots with the rest of the boats following their lead.
At about 0500 on Sunday morning, and about 80 miles offshore, the first boats gybed heading inshore and by 0700 all the boats had gybed moving fast in the good morning wind. The ORR’s will be passing up the PHRF fleet within hours and will be sailing into building winds all day Sunday. Track all the action online http://yb.tl/nhyc2cabo2015
Current position reports and standings are available on the website Results Page.
