A great day today. Leg and shoulders today in the gym, breakfast and down to the boats by 12:00. Off the dock at 12:45 as we had no work to do before sailing! That is a first. The work list is getting smaller. We tested downwind for about 45 minutes, then upwind for the same […]
Got up today and went and bought a new stove/oven. The second knob in as many nights broke off our stove last night and I had it with that thing. They have the equivalent of Home Depot here so I got a new stove for $250. Charged the owner of the apartment. Phil went for […]
On May 31, 2005 the sailing world lost a great competitor and supporter…Pasquale Landolfi, leader of the famous Brava, passed away in his home in Rome at the age of 76. Pasquale raced internationally and worked passionately in the upper levels of ISAF and the ORC since his first Brava in 1981. The Italian sailing […]
When we think of innovation in sailing we think of the winged keel Australia II used to win the America
For those of us who worry about the future of US Olympic sailing, I happened across a great find during the week between Christmas and New Years. There is an event in Miami called the Orange Bowl and it is not the football game. It is a regatta for youth sailors under 18 and there […]
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 […]
Sailing Scuttlebutt
