A lot of things needed to fall just right in the medal race Saturday for us to make a move up the leaderboard after barely squeaking into the tenth spot. The breaks we finally got on Friday didn’t last as we lined up in a gold-star-studded medal race. Seven of the top ten have previous world championships and about half have medals in one class or another. We finished seventh after the left side came in huge and both brazilians we needed to catch came in with it. It is always a lucky thing to race on the last day when the majority of the fleet is packing up. Frankly the race was a little boring because everybody knew what they were doing. There wasn’t much cat and mouse or horseplay. Everybody lined up, tacked on the first shift and pretty cleanly went around the course. Congrats to Peter and Mr Kleen for winning the event.
I’ll be chasing them down in my new PStar just as soon as I can get it rigged. I flew back from London to Chicago Sunday and blasted over to Gull Lake to find a bright new 8423 waiting for me. This is the biggest step that I can make to winning an Olympic medal at the moment. I’m very much looking forward to getting this boat into high gear. Lots of work still to do, but it’s fantastic to have an American boatbuilder as such a strong option for this class. I will keep you updated on the progress here at CampbellSailing.com.
Thad
Well done in the UK.
Glad to see that you have chosen to go with the P-Star and look forward to seeing what you guys do with the new boat.
