Jen here,
Okay, remember when I said that we were supposed to have "light winds, warm conditions, and gee, I hope that we can get Erin on the wire!" Well, I the wind gods were paying attention because yesterday had a 12-14 knots...and rain! We sailed out to our race course, which is roughly four miles offshore, and once we got there, it occurred to me that I had no real concept of where our harbour was...particularly after we got a wind shift! Fortunately, we had compass bearings and so had nothing to worry about. The waves were beautiful out on the course, bigger and steeper than the ones that we had even in Weymouth last month, and it was great to work on surfing them downwind.
We worked for about three hours with our Russian training partners, Natasha and Diana, as well as our good Polish friends, Agnieszka and Yola. We warmed back into things with lots of upwind tuning and working on sailing the boat accurately for the choppy conditions in the harbour and then the rollers out at the course.
On the way in we worked on reaches, and things got a bit hairy. Although is wasn't too windy, we were struggling with shifts in the breeze as we reached behind an island. Unfortunately we capsized and Erin got a pretty big scrape on her neck. She landed on the boat and hit her neck on something, we think the shroud. It was a disappointing way to end the day, and she came home and iced it for the evening. I'm sure that things will end on a more positive note today as there were definitely moments of shaking off the rest from two weeks away during yesterday's sail. Looking forward to getting back out into the waves though!
Cheers,
Jen
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