Month: May 2006

Bad Start

Today I arrived at the club nice and early for the evening race. I was planning to race a Laser unless someone would ask me to crew for them (quite unlikely) . Since nobody asked I rigged a club Laser (one of the good ones with all the XD fittings) and I was quite early…



Swimming

The title says it all I am afraid! But, let’s start from the beginning. I arrived nice and early this morning at the club and I checked if anyone wanted to sail with me. You see, during the week, there were couple of emails from people saying that they wanted to sail with someone else…



Wind at Last!

Today, it was windy enough to enjoy sailing. It was a bout time I think, because I was getting sick and tired of the rain and lack of wind. In the morning the wind was not that great but it picked up in the afternoon. On the first race it well pear shaped from the…



WETnesday

This morning there was a bit of a breeze and made think that today sailing would be really nice. I managed to leave the office in time, so I arrived at WSC at 18:30. It seemed still a bit windy. I started rigging a Laser but I asked to crew in a Merlin Rocket for…



The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Results

Today, Sunday, there two races as usual. This time I was early, to make sure I rigged the Laser properly. I went out for the first race and I managed to mess up the start. On my last tack before crossing the start line I managed to get in-irons. By the time I started moving…