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       Race summary
       By: CarlToad Date: March 24, 2019, 9:03 am
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       A difficult race with the winds light and fluky with huge swings
       similar to last time.  On more than one occasion turning
       180[sup]o[/sup] in <30 mins.  Auto-helm at you own risk!  For
       example a boat 3nm ahead of me tacked onto 110[sup]o[/sup] with
       only about 3nm to go to the line. Result was when he got to the
       line his auto-helm had him on about 290[sup]o[/sup] having just
       shaved the line but not crossing it.
       Because of these conditions I tried the Autosail card function
       and regretted it immediately as it kept changing the sails more
       often than I would, incurring the sail change penalty time after
       time.  Don't think I'll use that again in these conditions, if
       ever.
       OK, I finished in 763rd place (3.79%)  in 2d, 19h, 51m, 34s.  So
       it took just over an extra day due to the lighter winds (1d 15h+
       &  3.38%) and required far more monitoring and input.
       ... and now the important stuff:
       unused cards:       105
       credits earned       609
       Total crs earned     714
       less net cr exps       80
       net cr profit           634
       Expected VSR        502
       So yeah, worth doing.
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