The Start was in Time

The Start was with many boats and all in time . I choose to sail out into the Sea as I had seen stronger winds up there, while the wind direction was more or less same everywhere: head wind upto the Gate#1 at Uku-Shima.
Some boats took the route closer to the coast and gained initialy good places.

A sudden unexpected wind shift occurred at 1200 gmt, but it worked out good for me and by 1500 gmt, I had a placing amongst the first 40 boats.
The night I sailed on the WP scheduler and passed the gate#1 properly.

In the morning however, I see that I took a course to much easterly, which is shorter distance to the next gate#2, but due to a big wind system the winds were weak and I lost considerable places.
Now I try to pick up some speed by keeping more to the South Wets, but it might be too late to stay in touch with the leaders.

For a complete Ranking you may have a look at the LiveSkipper ranking pages  or have a look at the special trending sheets for the boats in the English Fleet on the link Ranking - Japan Sprint (also in the list on right side)

A FLAGSHIP competition is also on-going during the Japan Sprint Race. 

see Flagship competition A Flagship is a sailing boat where several members of a club in LiveSkipper are changing the helm and try to give a round-the-clock attendance on the helm in the hope to gain. 

Target for the next day is Gate#2 Yaku-Shima, which will be the most Southerly point on this route and afterwards it will go Norht East.