Star Class Intro…
Cayard’s Updates
Sailing Scuttlebutt
- New allegations against Kevin Escoffier
- Paris 2024: A life changing experience
- Maine is the shorthanded epicenter
- Curmudgeon’s Observation
- College keelboat circuit comes west
- Global festivals for women’s sailing
- Will Auckland fund America’s Cup venue?
- US SailGP Team: “We’re not going to disappoint”
- SailGP returns to France for Season 5
- Elevating women in Australian sailing
Olympic Games Race Day
Star ClassShort 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 […]
Olympic Games Race Day
Star ClassWe 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 […]
Olympic Games Race Day
Star ClassBack 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 […]
Olympic Games Race Day
Star ClassTough Day at the office for USA. In the first race we did two 720’s at the windward mark (Penalty turns-4 complete circles), and fell into a hole on the last beat and got left for dead. In the second race we were over the line early at the pin end, we realized that it […]
Olympic Games Letters
Star ClassI am getting so many nice letter from fans I thought I should share a couple with you. The first is from Sally Dane, Austin Sperry’s girlfriend and John Danes daughter. The second is from Terry Hutchinson one of the best sailors in the USA. The third is from my daughter. Hello, I just wanted […]
Olympic Games Race Day
Star ClassWe had a very good day today. We wont the first race of the Olympics in the Star class. Then we got a 6th and we lead the fleet. That’s just the first day…long way to go. The day started off slowly. We were postponed ashore so that the Ynglings and Finns, who race on […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassA day that left me with the right feeling for tomorrow. We had the practice race today and we found out when we got to the windward mark that we had been OCS with a couple of others. But that did not bother me as we had just sailed one of our best light air […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassGetting closer to the start…2 days to go. I am trying to shake a sore throat and slept a little extra today. Phil got the spares organized to go in the coach boat for tomorrow and every day that we race. We tinkered on the spare mast and put it away fully rigged and ready […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassGot an early start today; no gym and 0900 at the venue. Got the boat on the hoist before anyone else was around and got some final sanding done on the keel. Looks pretty good now. Then we put the stickers on our second mainsail. That is a 2.5 hours job for both Phil and […]
Olympic Games
Star ClassWe had a good day today. Started at the gym as usual, then I took my family to the airport. I got back to the boat at 1230 and we launched and went for a sail. Unfortunately the wind (left over Meltemi -of sorts) was in the process of dying so we came in, ate […]