It is the end of the season. I am sitting here in my house in California realizing how lucky I am that the sun is shinning and it is about 65 degrees. It has been a year in which I sailed a lot of days but did not get the results I was looking for […]
The Olympics in Athens was a fantastic experience. A once in a life time experience
The Olympics will be over by the time you read this article, and that will be the big news. I am in Athens right now training for the month of July. I am treating this as my only chance to go to the games and I am really hoping to get a medal out of […]
I am not going to spend time here analyzing what I could have done better. I do that every night in bed. I would just like to make a few observations and thank a few people. First, Phil and I are truly blessed to have had the opportunity to race in the Olympics and represent […]
A long tough day for us. Serious character testing stuff. Not much good to report. We got tangled up with the Spanish and the Irish as the start and got off the line behind. Then we worked the left, mostly because the right looked sickly light. The left looked good for about 5 minutes, then […]
Today, of course, would have been one of the best sailing days of the last two months. 18-25 knots of breeze from the southwest. Nice big waves. We checked over the boat and just relaxed today. Phil spent the afternoon with his family. I am watching the Olympic on TV between naps and eating everything […]
Tough day for the USA. We got a 6th and an 8th while the French got a 3,1 and Canada got a 8,2. So we are 5.8 points out of third and 9 points out of 2nd. Torben Greal of Brazil clinched the gold medal with his 4th in the last race. Athens served up […]
Short story. We gained a few points on Second place CAN. Slightly longer story; The race we sailed poorly, we won. The race we sailed well, we finished 15th. Torben Greal of Brazil all but won the gold today with his 2,7. He has just outsailed everyone so far, no on is even close to […]
We were more lucky than good today. We finished 6th and moved into third place. The scores are very tight except for Grael who has a big lead. Today we had Meltemi wind, (wind off the land), about 22 knots at the start and as light as 14 knots at times during the race. The […]
Back on track today. It was a very difficult day wind wise. 30 degree shifts and unstable wind strength…8-12 knots. To give you an idea of the day, the Spanish led at the first mark and finished last. And there weren’t spinning 720’s. It was just that tricky out there. We had a good start […]
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