Martin_Cph
DEN 182275
I just had the worst sailing day ever…..yes I am looking for sympathy
I frostbite here in Denmark during weekends; water 2 deg C, air 0 deg C.,
Rigged and almost ready to go a friendly sailor offers to push me backwards out in the basin…only to end up in between the poles with you boom off and mainsheet everywhere….my rudder wasn’t down and I didn’t make it. Hmmm great start.
Well I made it to sea..only to realize that my new gloves (Mares diving gloves) were shite…at least for sailing (nice and warm for diversJ). There was no rubber or grip inside of the palm: so holding the sheet and the tiller was a nightmare.
Had a nice run but then everything just turned on me….I felt cold, felt “fat” and clumsy in my wetsuit hikers and drysuit…and the damn gloves…dropped the tiller and…Bang in the drink…I only just managed to get up in the boat again. The gloves had no grip on the dagger…like it had been varnished in Teflon or something. I spend excessive power on this maneuver.
Then same thing happened again. Only this time I also did a San Fransico roll and got even more tired….all together I capsized 5 times and was completely busted….so tired.
Hmmmpf!
I frostbite here in Denmark during weekends; water 2 deg C, air 0 deg C.,
Rigged and almost ready to go a friendly sailor offers to push me backwards out in the basin…only to end up in between the poles with you boom off and mainsheet everywhere….my rudder wasn’t down and I didn’t make it. Hmmm great start.
Well I made it to sea..only to realize that my new gloves (Mares diving gloves) were shite…at least for sailing (nice and warm for diversJ). There was no rubber or grip inside of the palm: so holding the sheet and the tiller was a nightmare.
Had a nice run but then everything just turned on me….I felt cold, felt “fat” and clumsy in my wetsuit hikers and drysuit…and the damn gloves…dropped the tiller and…Bang in the drink…I only just managed to get up in the boat again. The gloves had no grip on the dagger…like it had been varnished in Teflon or something. I spend excessive power on this maneuver.
Then same thing happened again. Only this time I also did a San Fransico roll and got even more tired….all together I capsized 5 times and was completely busted….so tired.
Hmmmpf!