The Donzo Week 13: What Have I Learned Many of you know that one of my greatest passions is competing in races with my J/24 sailboat. Sparky is a 44 year-old fractionally rigged keelboat with a conventional mainsail + genoa + spinnaker (symmetrical) sailplan. There are almost 6,000 J/24s that roam the globe and our little fleet consists of almost a dozen who show up for our Wednesday night racing series named "The Donzo" - after a larger than life member of the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association. Wind And Current Week 13 featured an evening breeze out of the East, which usually means rain in the forecast. The tide was low and the flood tide was already whisking us past Groton Long Point on our way to the starting line. The committee boat (Eddie Maxwell) was in her "usual" perch just east of Horseshoe Reef. The other end of the starting line (the pin) was slightly favored in angle toward the first turning mark (Intrepid Rock) and in proximity toward the shore