Here's my comments from the back of the fleet.

For 99% of the mark roundings it was refreshing to close in on a bottom gate with 20-30 boats and everyone behaved themselves with the outside boats giving room to overlapped boats and everything sorting out within the rules and rights of the situation. This is while everyone is doing 15+ knots, one mistake and it could get very ugly. At the top mark, I only saw a couple of guys try to squeeze in and create a hole from the port layline. Sometimes they made it, sometimes they didn't, and a lot of times they hit the mark. Not once did I see any turns...

On another note, I came into the gate with a bunch of boats all within inches of each other, I powered up faster than the boat in front of me, caught a wave and surged into his transom - it was just a bump, but it was technically my fault, so I peeled off and did my turn immediately. I was not protested or even hailed, but in my mind I was wrong - end of story.

ps - I know there's pics of me when I hit the Pin boat anchor rode and flipped. By the time I righted myself and got going, the leaders were rounding the top mark. Rather than dropping out, I did my turn and took off to see how many boats I could catch - I ended up 83 for that race, my throwout.

My overall impression was that it was the best event I've ever sailed. The competition was unbelievable, the RC was first rate, and the venue and conditions was phenomenal.