That boat's really bow down. Two guys on the bow and what's that chick doing forward of the mast? They just canceled out any benefit they got from the bloop.
Funny that bloopers are coming back in IRC. The boat I crew on was protested for flying a blooper in last year's BYC Mac. I don't think it made much of a difference in the race. It gives us about a 1/4 of knot more going dead downwind. I believe we used it twice for about an hour each. I...