Star Class Intro…
Cayard’s Updates
- Time to TackFebruary 25, 2023 - 3:48 pm
- US Olympic SailingMay 7, 2021 - 9:00 am
Bacardi CupMarch 2, 2020 - 7:56 pm
SSL FinalsDecember 7, 2019 - 4:10 pm
SSL Finals-Day 4December 6, 2019 - 6:45 pm- SSL FinalsDecember 5, 2019 - 4:22 pm
Schoonmaker CupNovember 10, 2019 - 2:51 pm
Vintage Gold Cup 2019October 6, 2019 - 2:07 pm
Sailing Scuttlebutt
- Only USA entry in Rolex Sydney Hobart
- Happy Christmas from Emirates GBR!
- Where is your holiday wreath?
- Schedule set for Sailing Grand Slam
- Complaints prompt investigation into Yachting NZ
- Abandoning a perfectly good boat
- The World Sailing Show
- Sailing (on purpose) into a hurricane
- Curmudgeon’s Observation
- Happy holidays from The Ocean Race
Olympic Games
Star ClassWe hit the gym at 0900-1030. We are shortening up the workouts now in the last week. Higher reps and lower weights..more aerobic. No sailing today. We had a 20-30 knots Meltemi today and all the Stars decided to protect the assets. We finished up some measurement tasks. One of them was putting the decals […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassJust spent 48 hours getting the Olympic experience; Opening Ceremony, then spectating with the family at Volleyball, Diving finals and Basketball preliminaries. Then I took my family into the Athlete’s Village. They met some athletes, exchanged pins, saw the workout facilities. The Opening Ceremony was a lot of fun. The best part is being in […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassParos was a great place to rest. The beach were we went windsurfing over there is called “Golden Beach”. We met a guy named Theo who is a legendary Greek boarder. He is my age and has spent years on Maui windsurfing. He gave us a board to use for a few days and both […]
Athens Training
Star ClassA good day today. We got out of the harbor at 1230 and did some light air gybing practice on the way down to our race course area, course “D”. It was 5-6 knots and there is a very different technique for gybing a star in under 6 knots compared to the technique in 10 […]
Pre-Olympic Training
Star ClassA good day today. We got out of the harbor at 1230 and did some light air gybing practice on the way down to our race course area, course “D”. It was 5-6 knots and there is a very different technique for gybing a star in under 6 knots compared to the technique in 10 […]
Athens Training
Star ClassGym again this morning for Phil and I. I then had some physio therapy from our USOC physio, Scott Weiss. We put the boat in around 1230 and left the dock at 1300. A very strange day on the water. The wind was the most erratic of the month that we have been here. There […]
Pre-Olympic Training
Star ClassGym again this morning for Phil and I. I then had some physio therapy from our USOC physio, Scott Weiss. We put the boat in around 1230 and left the dock at 1300. A very strange day on the water. The wind was the most erratic of the month that we have been here. There […]
Athens Training
Star ClassShort and sweet today. Phil took Austin to the airport at 0600. Then Phil and I went to the gym at 0900-11:00. The wind was light in the am through 1400 so we did some chores. I went to a Travel agent to try to figure out what Island to go to to rest for […]
Pre-Olympic Training
Star ClassShort and sweet today. Phil took Austin to the airport at 0600. Then Phil and I went to the gym at 0900-11:00. The wind was light in the am through 1400 so we did some chores. I went to a Travel agent to try to figure out what Island to go to to rest for […]
Athens Training
Star ClassA little update on the past four days. Thursday morning we went for team golf. We went with Mark Medleblatt the USA Laser representative. He has actually been here so long he is a member of the golf Club and he is pretty good. He won easily shooting 40 for 9. The rest of us, […]