Day 5 – Morning

The European Championship has been a truly learningful event for our sailors. The level is just amazingly high. Several times our sailors have been at the top mark in the top 15 boats only to be passed by 10 – 15 boats on the reach / downwind and another 15 boats on the last upwind. You have to be BEST technically on every part of the race, AND think about current, pressure and tactics vs. other boats. Otherwise, 5 boats will pass you in a second.

The whole setting with all sailors at the same venue works really well. Our sailors eat tehir meals with other nations, are together on the water and form friendships for life. The coaches have a good time with each other and so does the team delegations. We have had several invitations to come to events in other countries and we have extended invitations to come to our nationals in January.



You might wonder what our day look like. Here it is:

Daily programme:

07.45. Wake up – quick look out – is there wind ?
08.00 Meet Ryan. Exercise, weather discussion, swim, stretching, team talk.
09.00 Breakfast
09.30 Rinse boats, get sail. Go over boats – anything that should be replaced ?
10.00 Team leader / Coach meeting
10.30 On the water (if wind). Our sailors towed to regatta area with US / GBR
12.00 First start (Boys first – two flights, Girls next – two flights)
16.00 Racing (normally) over.
18.00 Boats washed. Shower, Briefing with Ryan – look at races on the computer. What did we learn ?
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Social w/ other sailors
21.30 Bed.

Today there is wind ! Probably around 15 knots. Hopefully the wind will stay up and we will get 3 races in.

Ryan has been working with our sailors this morning to get them to become more aggressive, especially on the start line. Georgia’s OCS yesterday was really quite good news, as our sailors’ starts generally have been too timid. Let us cross our fingers for todays races !

All sailrs are in good spirits. We are hoping for 5 more races so we can get another drop...