After an hour postponement ashore the RC called us to the course for racing in a fading Northeasterly. Wild conditions yesterday relented to a timid 12 knots and quickly subsided to flat calm after the first race. We started the second race in painfully light air, but it quickly died and shifted 100 degrees right [...]
After a short postponement on shore today we were rushed out to the racecourse to try and get one race off in a fading northeasterly. The offshore breezes here are very unstable and as the island heats up the seabreeze is quick to dominate the weather pattern. Sure enough after an hour and a half [...]
Stellar Day 4 at Palma - 2nd into Final Day before Medal Race
Team USA Lineup. Photo by Leandro Spina It was a long day at the RCNP today, but well worth the time for us as we scored three big races in a light seabreeze. The day set up very similar to our training days with nearly flat calm upon our arrival to the yacht club, clear skies [...]
Day 5 is a Rough One, Medal Race Saturday 1250pm Local Time
We had a couple tough races today and slipped back into 5th overall going into tomorrow’s medal race. Heres’ the interview from sailingteams.ussailing.org. The medal race is tomorrow afternoon, and if you’re awake to follow along check www.trofeoprincesasofia.org. We’ll be on Echo Course at 1 o’clock.
Unfortunately, we had a bit of an ugly start to our medal race in Palma. We were pretty fired up to have a good race with good potential to move back up the leaderboard and get onto the podium with a good finish in the ten-boat final race. The only potential snag I could foresee [...]
In the break between the Spanish and French World Cup events in the Star, I headed to Long Beach for the four-day annual CISA Clinic. CISA sets the standard for youth clinics in the US with more than 100 elite junior sailors and 15+ coaches. Six classes are filled by resume: 29er, I420, C420, FJ, [...]
We’re two days into the next regatta on the Sailing World Cup here in Hyeres, France. The south of France is living up to it’s name on Day 3: Sunny and warm but not a breath of air so far. The training leading into the regatta showed why tourist season doesn’t start until May. We [...]
Three Races on Day 5, In 5th going into Medal Race
Ian and I managed three good races today in Hyeres. The breeze slowly crept up into reasonable conditions this afternoon as we pushed through three races. We had a 3, 8, 10 according to the scores. The final race of the series was a battle for the finish. We had been in about 18th around [...]
Three Races in the Final Fleet Racing Day at Hyeres, 5th into Medal Race
Ian and I managed three good races today in Hyeres. The breeze slowly crept up into reasonable conditions this afternoon as we pushed through three races. We had a 3, 8, 10 according to the scores. The final race of the series was a battle for the finish. We had been in about 18th around [...]
After such a windy start to the week the breeze has fizzled here in Hyeres. Today we had an early start time and got a race going in a light and fading easterly. While the Sonars got around the same track just fine with two races, the Star class had a few fitful starting sequences [...]
The weather as soon as our race finished turned into a day of stellar sailing here in France. 12-16 knots, sunny and 70 degrees, waves picking up… The key phrase: just after our race. Luckily* for the stars, we sailed in the drainage breeze off the mountains at our 1015 start (* asterisk denotes sarcasm). [...]
For a little light reading in support of the ISAF meetings going on this week in Russia, here is the Star Class’ case for its inclusion in the Olympic Program for the 2016 Games in Brazil. http://www.starclass.org/PDF/ISAFmeeting2011.pdf
Oversight: ISAF Drops the Star from 2016 Olympic Docket
In what seems like yet another major oversight by the ISAF Council, the two keelboat classes: the Olympic Star and the Women’s Match Race formats were both dropped from the next Games in 2016 in Rio. This happens to some class or another every time there is a vote for classes at the Olympics. The [...]
Notes and Film from Balboa YC 2011 Rose Cup Clinic & Regatta
This past weekend I traveled to Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach, CA for a clinic and qualification regatta for the Governor’s Cup, an annual Youth Match Race regatta held at BYC. Recently they have added feeder regattas to enter competitors into the Gov Cup and created the Rose Cup to encourage coaching and race-training [...]
We’ve been here training in Weymouth for two weeks and now the regatta is finally here. Breeze and chilly weather have been the dominant weather patterns during our training. The sun broke through for a record heat-wave the last few days encouraging even the locals to break out the ol’ shorts and t-shirts. Two days [...]
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