Month: June 2007

Odd Weather

When I arrived at the club it was fairly windy. When I was rigging it was quite hard because of the 13-knot wind. When I launched it started raining cats and dogs and just minutes before the start, the wind dropped to almost nothing. I had a quite good start and I was second off…



Wembley Open Meeting

Today was the Wembley Laser Open Meeting. Last year I was last out of 32 boats. This year I knew I wouldn’t be last. The point was to get as high in the fleet as possible. The weather wasn’t going to be very good. Light to medium winds and rain at times. The format was…



Windsday

Nice wind today just over 10 knots and many of us thought, that it was our day. There was bit of rain which spoiled things a bit, but it seems that June is not a good month, this year. I didn’t do as well as I expected, but I had lots of fun and that’s…



Sailing and Repairs

Yesterday I supposed to meet Steve to fix the club boats and also sort out the rigging on Rob’s boat. It was raining for most of the day, so we didn’t. We said we would do it today if the weather was good. Once again there were light winds and I felt it would be…



Fluky Wednesday

Today I left the office later than usual and I was worried that I would be late. Fortunately though, I managed to avoid traffic. I picked up David from his work and with our shared knowledge of shortcuts, we managed to get there early. The wind today was supposed to be at around 6-7 knots….