Monday, August 20, 2007

4am forever

























dammit i cant sleep and its 4.45am now. jet lagging and uncle koh
wants me to go back to school tmro. I'm really glad to have finished
first for this regetta cause we didnt really get enough training on
the water. we had only two full days of trng to get the new boat
up and running well and not to mention that stine and i just came
back to 420 from the 29er so yep, it was a cool feeling except
even in 15 knots of reaching the 420 feels really slow still.

Our qualifying series was sailed in about 6-15 knots of wind
and we scored 13,8,4,1,6,7. The race that we finished first
we had a really huge lead and the wind was around 6-10 knots.
we won that race because of really good speed and stine's tactics
were great. In the final series we did 4,33,2,5,2,5,2,9. The
second race was 3-6 knots in 20-30 degrees shifting conditions
and the rest were sailed in around average 12-15 knots of breeze.

We had some really good starts during the regatta , usually we'll
come in at the first mark around top 6- top 15 and from there its
just playing the catching up game, downwind was really tiring cause
we pumped the whole leg and when its time to down the spin i take
ages. I remember this race when we were gonna round mark 1,

sherm : hey stine i think only top 4 is possible the rest are
too far to catch, just us and the greeks.

stine : okay ons we rip them during the downwind.

sherm, half way on the dw leg : motherfucker lets get the rest,

stine : look back and see the greeks.

and we finished 2nd i think but wtf we had like 50metres on the
greeks when we finished, yes we won JUNIOR euros with that
kind of work rate, pumping 6 downwinds a day only stopping to
wipe the sweat off. oh we had 3 races where there wasnt O flag
' dont tell me you guys dont know what that is ".

okay anw i'll just upload pictures to end off, and probably
catch some sleep. you guys wont be seeing me at nsc for a long time.
I need my "'rehab"" and rest.

i think hannah's pretty

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