Koh Samui Day Four. A long day at the office

I don't have the results yet, just off to the Tavern to see them, so this is day four short version. Very, very short version: [update at bottom]

Leading the fleet in Race Seven, Day four

Race Seven: windward-leeward, twice round. Wind 10-15 knots.  We led at every mark and at the finish, raced well, but lost wind on the final run to the line, with others coming on building breeze -- how often has that happened!... So we can't have been good on handicap, as the followers were a following a touch too closely.  Baby Tonga beat us (corrected).  Update below.
Race Eight: windward-leeward, twice round.  Breeze 8-9 knots.  We raced a shocker, going out left looking for breeze, finding it too late, and right turned out favoured, with two completely different breeze lines on the course and we finished mid-field on the water, an unusual place for us to be. Baby Tonga beat us (corrected).  Update below.

Cam pings the start

Race Nine: windward-leeward, twice round.  Breeze 4-5 knots.  You can tell from the so-called "breeze" that this was a dodgy race to even start, to say the least, and there were mutterings....  We drifted round in shifting light winds, up and down, back and forth, but some canny tactics brought us second over the line, with some possibility of an ok result.  We beat Baby Tonga (corrected)
That's it for now.  More later, maybe. [Update below]

Sailing in 3-4 knots of alleged "breeze", Race Nine

Update: 5th Race Seven, 10th in the shocker of Race Eight, and 6th in Race Nine.  Beat Baby Tonga in Race Nine by 4 places, for a net lead overall of 4, which is what we go into tomorrow with.
We're lying equal 7th on points with Katsu, and have a chance to move a few places up tomorrow if the breeze is decent (all we need is a touch above 10 knots and we're happy -- we don't ask for much....) and we'd prefer to do an Islands course, if breeze enough.  The best we can hope for is to move to fifth.  Meantime, we have to hold off any challenge from Tonga, our nemesis in King's Cup (equal first on points, second on count-back).