The day started badly and ended up costing $5K. I woke up to the uncomfortable feeling of stomach flu. That was at 03:00 so the rest of my night wasn’t any good. I layed around in bed until 11:00 then headed down to the boats. Phil had gotten everything ready so we left the dock […]

One really special moment I forget to mention last night was when we arrived at the dock and the Olympic Sailing Center. There were the top 60 Optimist Sailors(15 years old and under) in the USA standing there applauding Phil and I. It was touching and very much appreciated. I celebrated the best I could […]

Short day at work for us. We got 5th in the first race of the day and wrapped up the victory. Step one accomplished. The rest of the fleet stayed out there and completed the last two races. Our training partners Andy Lovell/Magnus Liljedahl finished second. This is a fantastic result in light of the […]

A good day for us; 2, 1. The day got off to a late start as the wind was blowing in excess of 25 knots this morning. At 1300 the postponement flag came down signaling that the first start would be a 1430. We headed out to the track and were pleasantly surprised to see […]

We were in boat preservation mode today and got a fourth. The wind was 25-30 knots from 080 max; gust 32 knots.. Quite a bit windier than any other day so far. Mains sails ragging upwind and mast snapping downwind. We rounded the first mark first show with good speed upwind. On the run we […]

Short one for now at least. I have to go make a speech to the USA Elite Optimist Team that are training here this weekend. The bottom line is that we beat our man 3 out of 3 times today. He is no longer our man. Someone else is. Tomorrow we have to get one […]

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