Back on the race course this couple of weeks. I spent last weekend racing with Team Ninkasi at the shorter-than-expected Melges 32 Nationals in Harbor Springs Michigan. We had one stellar day of training and two nice days of racing before Lake Michigan decided it had had enough and shut down the windmaker for both Saturday and Sunday. Without a throwout, we had to forgo any chance at a comeback and finished 9th. Not only was the sailing nice, but the town was a slice of paradise. We had sunny and warm conditions that I frankly didn’t expect considering we were racing on the 45th parallel. The town is was full of friendly tourists and people enjoying their summer cottages to the point where we began mistaking it for the set of “The Truman Show” and worried about bumping into the wall of the set if we went too far upwind, and kept seeing the same cars go by all the time. Cue the sun…
I was immediately thrust back into reality when I flew across the pond to London the day after the regatta ended and took the train into Weymouth. Grey skies and appropriately bitter Englanders noticeably didn’t greet me all that kindly as I wandered to the boatpark the last couple of days while training in Stars on the 2012 Olympic course.
We prepped for the Sail for Gold Olympic Classes World Cup event to be held here next week. As if lining up with Szabo/Strube, Merriman/Trinter, and Horton/Lyne wasn’t good enough we had two other Silver Star winners: Marrazi and O’Leary as well as two more Gold Stars: Scheidt and Grael on the practice line today for 8-25 knots of both sunshine and English rain.
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Brent Boyd
Comment on August 5th, 2010.
Best of luck Andrew. You are attempting a massive project, but I know will see it through as you always do.
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