All these days that I have been lying on the beach, here in Astros, I have been watching sailing boats coming in to the harbour. All of them put the sails away and start the engine well before they come in. We, dinghy sailors, do everything under sail. Launch, sail, come back in. We’re even…
As you know I am on a holiday in Greece. I had arranged with Thanasis, a mate of mine, to go sailing. Thanasis holds a Greek Sailing license. It’s for open sea, yacht sailing. He hasn’t sailed a dinghy before, but he likes the idea. He knows dinghies are more responsive to control changes than…
Since the trip with Kenya Jacaranda was called off, I had decided that I would sail today. Tomorrow we are going on holidays so I have to do some packing. Anyway, I woke up in the morning and it was cloudy, so I thought it would be chilly and I wore jeans. As soon as…
I received a call from John yesterday evening. He told me that we are not going to sail “Kenya Jacaranda” because the weather is closing in. The forecast is that the weather is oign to get worse and the skipper decided that they won’t leave Eastbourne until Sunday. We cannot make it back to London…
Today was my last racing Wednesday for this season. I am going on holiday on Monday so I will miss the actual last Wednesday of the series. I went at the club early in the afternoon because there was some Laser training. It turned out to be too basic, and it was decided that I…