One month to the first race of the Olympics for the Star Class. Took the day off the gym and got down to the boat a bit earlier. Mark and Andy had to go to the airport to get some of our sails which have been impounded by customs for 6 days. We had to […]

No sailing for the red, white and blue today. There was a fairly strong Meltemi(25-30 knots) blowing at 12:00 when we got down to the boat so we turned it into a work day. Reynolds went to the sail loft and did a few things, Phil, Austin and Andy worked on little projects on our […]

Another very good day. Big workout in the gym this morning. Big work out in the kitchen after that. We got down to the boat around 12:00 did a few chores and headed out around 13:00. The Meltemi is still blowing nicely. We had a good session last night reviewing video of the downwind sailing […]

No gym today…the gym doesn’t open until 12:00 on sundays. We headed down to the boat at 0900 and rigged up our new mast. Mark and I measured everything carefully. It was a nice strong Meltemi today so we sailed with the old rig and left the dock at 11:00 with both boats and the […]

Great day today. Six hours on the water today looking at sails and racing with Bruni (ITA) and Neeleman (NED). Mark Reynolds showed up last night and he is here for 10 days to look at our sails and coach us a bit. Mark is the current Gold Medallist in the Star class so it […]