Back to the Training

After our FULL-ON windy and wavy training camp in Santa Cruz concluded, we drove the boat up to Richmond Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay where we will sail till the end of October. But before we began our second training camp, we took a break from 49er sailing to compete in the US Team Racing Nationals in Seattle. It was refreshing to get in another boat (Zander helming for the first time in 12months!). Though reaching 5th place on the second day, we fell back a bit on the final day seeing our team end up 7th in the highly competitive, invite only field including two World Champions.

On Monday we flew back to the Bay area, and since have commenced our training with a few American boats. We have put some serious TLC hours into this older boat over the last few days and she is finally looking and feeling good and staying dry! The sailing here can get especially gnarly as on our first day there was a 12-18knots in some severe ebb current-induced chop. As you could imagine, the sea gets very messy making for sailing this boat rather tricky. Yesterday was a little tamer, which allowed us to get out further in the Bay. We actually made it beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, out to the beginning of the Pacific- such a cool place to sail with the dramatic landscapes!

So as we forward with our training here, we will continue to work on our boat handling in waves and breeze, whilst also doing some speed work with our training mates.

Keep posted as we will hopefully have some new video clips thanks to some friends coming out and filming!