Marseille Not the day we were imagining on Artemis. One positive of the day was that our speed seemed fine. We made a few adjustments and carded a more powerful jib so our speed appeared to be as good as any other boat on the track. However, our 6, 8 finishes are not going to […]

Tough day for Artemis in the light winds of Marseille. We did not have good speed upwind or downwind in the sloppy seaway. With scores of 7, 10, 9 we are firmly in control of last place. In fact in the second race we will probably get another point of penalty for racing with a […]

We had a pretty good day on Katusha. The winds were 15-20 knots from the west and very shifty. Fun downwind! Guenaddi had to leave last night so we had a guest helmsman, Maxim Logutenko who is also Russian. In the first two races we did very well passing boats downwind in the planing conditions […]

No racing today. Too much wind. Better forecast for tomorrow. Unfortunately, our owner and helmsman Guenaddi had to leave tonight for a work appointment tomorrow so he won’t be here for racing tomorrow. We will have a replacement helmsman, also from Russia, Maxim Logutenko. Gala dinner tonight for the teams. 1030 start tomorrow. Paul

June 11 will be a day Guenaddi will remember for a while. It is the day he won his first sailboat race. After a three hour postponement, the fleet racing got underway at 1500 in 12 knots from the southeast. Four races were run today with the last one finishing at 1915. Long day. The […]

Well, that makes two of the worst days of sailing in my career. Today, we did not do much better than yesterday, despite fully debriefing yesterday and really focusing on what we were doing. We did manage to win the friendly rivalry match we have with Cereef today, where the skipper is Rod Davis. Rod […]

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