when you work hard to acquire new skills sometimes things go (a little bit) wrong. we were lucky and managed to catch those but it could easily have gone the other way. i also think this looks funny. anyway, enjoy!
burning lap.
nat was away with friends for the weekend but the training must continue and luckily rob was again available to help me improve my helming. and i agree it needs improving: my tacks in particular were really bad today, but my steering keeps improving. i also didn’t mind overtaking the two a class upwind –…
telemetry!
that little action cam we use to film our f18 sailing actually has an in-built gps unit. obviously the data that captures can be used to calculate all sorts of interesting metrics: course, distance, heading and of course also speed. given the formula 18 catamarans are anything but slow that is definitely interesting. sadly the…
searching for the groove.
nat and i had a few tries to get out on nopantsdance together, but somehow it never worked out well. last week the wind was a bit too strong and the waves too high for people still very much on their ‘L’ plates, which is why i sailed with rob. yesterday, however, the weather forecast…
this is (sort of) how you do it.
the weather forecast was for a fair bit of sea breeze swinging in in the afternoon just in time for racing, after a light morning northerly. based on that information and because nat had an exam she wanted to study for, we decided i would sail with rob. the breeze was very light to begin…
fire fighter.
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rip snowflake.
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mo’ fixin’.
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well here we go.
time for nopantsdance to get back out there, under new management. nat on all the sheets and most of the controls, and me on the tiller. we were hoping for light winds and sunny weather, but in the end it was neither. i guess twelve knots counts as light but for a first outing we…
snuff this.
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keep your change, please.
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