Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Last Training Day in Canada!

Today we met down at Royal Vic at 7.45 am to go sailing. I'm not sure if I've ever rigged before the sun was fully up before! We were on the water at 8.30 am for almost two hours. We had a really good session in 5-10 knots from the SE. It was really nice to have slightly more breeze and be able to fully trapeze. It also made the accelerations off the start line a bit easier, something we have been working on (and struggling with) every day for the past week.

Mathew Kerr came on the water with us today. He is a local sailor, photographer and friend. He took a ton of photos for us to use on our new website so hopefully we will have some of those up for everyone to see soon! Thanks Matt for getting up so early and freezing your butt off in the coachboat for us today!

Once off the water we quickly de-rigged and changed in order to whisk coach Bunny off to the airport. Of course some where in the rush the keys to my car got misplaced. A bit of a disaster; but we managed to get my spare key from my house and Bunny made it onto his plane! Hopefully my car/house keys turn up soon...

This concludes or intense training month in Victoria! Since Hannah and I started sailing together on Sept 27th we have trained 22 days and sailed 18 days. Our sailing has improved massively as Hannah has picked things up really quickly!

We have packed up our gear and will go back to dry land training for a few weeks. Then we will be heading down to Miami to train! More on that later. This weekend we are going surfing in Tofino to celebrate our hard work and new partnership!

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