Team Bully Circus Wins 2023 Bridge Fiasco Race

Light air drifter start followed by a southerly ... read the race report

• Low Tide at 9:29am, started at 10:24am

• Averaged ~4.3 knots for the race, top speed of 10 knots.

• Team Bully Circus 🐘🎪

  • Buster Pike

  • Pete Colby

  • Zeth Morgan

  • Troy Rittenhouse

  • Erik Pike

  • Austin Adams

• Course

  Newport Bridge

  Jamestown Bridge

  Mt. Hope Bridge

Gambled on the wind filling from the South/SW first, in conflict with all the course runs on Expedition and HRR weather/Tide Tech.

Headed to the east edge of the bay and sailed south towards the Newport Bridge, trying to stay out of the current as much as possible in the lee of the navy breakwater, etc. Looking at the boats headed to Jamestown Bridge first it looked like they were headed to Warwick with no wind and lots of current. Wind started to fill right as we turned at the Newport Bridge. We carried the breeze and current back to the north edge of Jamestown, then short-tacked up the west side of Jamestown, trying to stay out of the adverse current to the Jamestown bridge. Then headed to Mt. Hope Bridge with a bit of current with us, then slack, then slack/favorable current back to PI and the finish. Phew.