I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time*

Full Moon crew Michael “Mooner” Medina, Marcelle “New Refrigerator” Van Houten, Anne “Appropriately Dressed” Gustavson, Daniel “Mr. Clean” Mengedoht, and skipper John “Low Pole” Mengedoht set up well for the Red White and Blue Duck Dodge, on starboard tack in clear air near the middle of the line. This paid off for much of the first leg southbound to the AGC buoy until the very light wind started filling in a bit stronger near the Westlake shore, allowing multiple boats to get past.

Full Moon looking good at the start (bottom center).

The Equalizer was hoisted for the long leg north and allowed Full Moon to pass quite a few boats in extremely light breeze. A late drop kept Full Moon going to the last but there were a lot of boats rounding the Freeway buoy at the same general time, most of them larger, and Full Moon suffered in disturbed air for a while.

Full Moon is catching up a bit. (Black, blue and white spinnaker.)

On approach to the Aurora buoy, wind built a bit from behind and a large surge of boats were able to zip inside Full Moon to round the buoy ahead. The final leg upwind saw some give and take but no effective passing and Full Moon was relegated to somewhere around tenth place, though it was difficult to tell with a mix of similar boats from both second and third starts. So it goes sometimes in extremely light winds – you need to be in the right place at the right time! 

Lyrics from Right Place, Wrong Time by Dr. John