Regata Copa del Rey Audi-Mapfre: Coastal Race Day

Today was a rough one. We had one coastal race, which we had a rough time with.
We ended up quite close to the start line and struggled to burn the time off. We had an ok beat and managed to stay in contention by the time we got to the top mark. At the bottom of the first run, we rounded the leeward mark at the same time as Shockwave but had a small problem getting the jib on the lock. The issue was quickly resolved and about 5 seconds after going around the mark we were trimmed on and going upwind. Back up to the top again but this time to a rock about 35 minutes away. The fleet got to the right of us and had better pressure and shift coming into the top. We had a decent run but still not good enough to get us to the top of the fleet. We rounded the leeward mark and headed back to a different weather mark. The next leg was 125 true wind angle which meant Code 0 time. The set up went well and we hoisted about a minute from the top. We tacked and went for deploy and from then on, it was a disaster. A mis-communication and some other issues resulted the in the sail not fully deployed. So we had to quickly go to the kite. Kite up, then struggled to get the Code 0 down. We sailed with the A2 for a while until it was time to get the jib up and kite down. We started the drop with the string, but the high angle and some other problems resulted in the sail catching water and over the side it went. We had to cut the halyard, kite sheet, and tack line. We reached into the finish pretty bummed out and frustrated with ourselves.
Before dinner we all sat down and went through the issues and seem to have them sorted. So now onto the next day and 2 more windward leeward races tomorrow.
Doogie