Friday, December 2, 2011

Training Day 3

Today was our third day sailing our new boat "Send It". So far she is very nice. We are still working out a few kinks, but mostly everything is working and she is sailing very nicely. Today we went for a jog and did some stretching in the park (we are very sore what with spending 8 days in a car) then we did some boat work, and then we went for a 2 hour sail. It was a bit cooler today and very humid, and there is a nice low pressure system in so we had 15-18 knots from the NE. The only other time we've sailed in that much wind together was I think Hannah's third or fourth day in the 470, so there have of course been massive improvements! We took a bit of a spill downwind and discovered that yes, Biscayne Bay is really shallow. Everywhere. Stuck the mast in the mud and lost the mast head wind indicator, but otherwise everything was fine. It was very nice to be in warm water and not hypothermic after a minute swimming around sorting out the spinnaker. The waves in Biscayne Bay are very short and choppy due to the shallow water and wind direction, so it was less about surfing them downwind and more about sailing around them and not sticking the bow into them as we were actually travelling faster than the waves.

Now we are making pita pizza and then we go to the gym to row and do weights! We are slowly getting back into the hang of this training thing.

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