Easter Sunday today and I was sailing. Low turnout, since people are away for the Easter long weekend. Pete, Brent and James are in Scotland, preparing a keelboat for the Scottish Series so that’s even less Lasers than usual. For the first race it was only 4 of us. Light winds made things quite boring…

Today was the day of the Open Meeting at Fishers Green S.C. so I went for my first open of the season. We decided with Brent to go together. Yesterday, we met with Brent at the club and we fit a tow-bar on my car. It wasn’t difficult, but it took longer than I expected….

Yesterday and today we had two days of training with two top coaches. Jon Emmett, Radial National Champion and Steve Powell, Laser National Champion. We were divided into two fleets A and B. I was on B fleet. First we were briefed, then checked our boats and we were given tips on rigging and how…

Today was the day of the season’s first RYA course. Last year I was on the season’s first RYA course. So, a year ago I started sailing! Today, though, were the last two races for this winter season. After last week’s races, I was 9th at the Winter Series behind Liam. If I can beat…

Today, Mike McNamara was invited to talk at the club on Racing Tactics. He is really good in explaining things, he is definitely very experienced and he has a way to make things sound funny, so the whole talk was quite enjoyable. He talked about upwind and downwind sailing, mark rounding and he had some…