A few snapshots from today...
Isaac receiving his trophy for 5th
Markus - Receiving his trophy for 6th
Leonard - receiving his trophy for 8th
The lads, including the honorary Kiwi - Max
Markus enjoying his coconut
Coming in for the last time - first ashore of course..
Isaac receiving his trophy for 5th
Markus - Receiving his trophy for 6th
Leonard - receiving his trophy for 8th
The lads, including the honorary Kiwi - Max
Markus enjoying his coconut
Coming in for the last time - first ashore of course..Well it is all over, now 10.30pm back at the motel trying to get my head around telling you all how the day went, the local beer (el presedente) and the rum and cokes have definitely hit the spot, probably pay for it tomorrow.
Racing got away on time today which was encouraging, still not a lot of wind infact all 4 days have been reasonably similiar around 8 knots max.
It was Chris's turn to visit the doc today, he spent most of the previous night speaking to the porcelain bowl. He was diagnosed as having integestion from the pasta he ate two nights before? He was looking a little second hand for sure (Rob will post pictures later). So we headed out leaving Chris with the medics.
We have been sharing a rib with a family from Great Britian so it looked like their coach Tim was to take over the role of team coach for the day. Tim has been looking after "Max" who has become a honorary kiwi during the course of this regatta. As per usual our guys were the last to leave the beach all the other sailors seem to wait in the water almost for the flag to go up then off they go. In saying that by the time we hook up with our guys and tow them out they are normally one of the first teams out there, except today as our rib would go for about two minutes then die, we would have to restart it and carry on.
The aim for today was to get three races in as this would give the sailors eleven in total and allow them to take the second drop (my apologies for saying the second drop was at 10 races earlier). They did manage to get three races in today which was great. The race committee advised us at the beginning of the regatta that their intention was to have no general recalls and that they would only fly the individual recall flag and get as many as possible that were over, interesting concept as the kids started to realise that if they were screened between boats they were safe, not good practise. We managed to position ourself for race one looking from the pin down to the start boat, it was obvious that not many kids had got themselves a transit as there would have been about a 5 boat length sag in the middle of the line.
After the start of race one we shot back ashore to grab Chris only to find he had gone out on the spectator boat a 46' Beneteau, and surprise surprise we struggled to prise him off in the end we agreed to get him at the end of each race so he could talk to our kids then back to the Bennetau.
Our guys showed again today that they are more than competitive at this level with Leonard and Isaac both winning races.
Overall results Isaac finished 5th Markus 6th and Leonard 8th.
Racing got away on time today which was encouraging, still not a lot of wind infact all 4 days have been reasonably similiar around 8 knots max.
It was Chris's turn to visit the doc today, he spent most of the previous night speaking to the porcelain bowl. He was diagnosed as having integestion from the pasta he ate two nights before? He was looking a little second hand for sure (Rob will post pictures later). So we headed out leaving Chris with the medics.
We have been sharing a rib with a family from Great Britian so it looked like their coach Tim was to take over the role of team coach for the day. Tim has been looking after "Max" who has become a honorary kiwi during the course of this regatta. As per usual our guys were the last to leave the beach all the other sailors seem to wait in the water almost for the flag to go up then off they go. In saying that by the time we hook up with our guys and tow them out they are normally one of the first teams out there, except today as our rib would go for about two minutes then die, we would have to restart it and carry on.
The aim for today was to get three races in as this would give the sailors eleven in total and allow them to take the second drop (my apologies for saying the second drop was at 10 races earlier). They did manage to get three races in today which was great. The race committee advised us at the beginning of the regatta that their intention was to have no general recalls and that they would only fly the individual recall flag and get as many as possible that were over, interesting concept as the kids started to realise that if they were screened between boats they were safe, not good practise. We managed to position ourself for race one looking from the pin down to the start boat, it was obvious that not many kids had got themselves a transit as there would have been about a 5 boat length sag in the middle of the line.
After the start of race one we shot back ashore to grab Chris only to find he had gone out on the spectator boat a 46' Beneteau, and surprise surprise we struggled to prise him off in the end we agreed to get him at the end of each race so he could talk to our kids then back to the Bennetau.
Our guys showed again today that they are more than competitive at this level with Leonard and Isaac both winning races.
Overall results Isaac finished 5th Markus 6th and Leonard 8th.
Tomorrow is the start of a three day training clinic with two time Optimist World Champ Martin Jenkins who is a local here. Then off to Texas Houston for their Nationals, will keep you posted on progress..
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