FoilTown

I have a 3G thing for my laptop so I’m back online. We have been a bit busy down here the last few days and getting an internet connection wasn’t the highest priority but today the wing went on the boat so she is now all but ready to go sailing.

We stopped in Qatar on the way. When we got off the plane in Qatar it the heat was ridiculous and it wass only 5:30am. If it’s going to be anything like that for the Moth worlds next March then it is going to be a shock coming out of a UK winter.

The best thing about the flight was probably Pauls Atkins diet as he tries to save a bit of wheight in search of that extra knot. This meant he couldn’t eat large amounts of the food being served so I was getting double portions. Given we got served twice from Heathrow to Qatar and twice to Johannesberg and then again on route to Cape Town that all adds up to alot of eating. I suspect that then pasta before bording wasn’t required and the sushi between in between pasta and boarding certainly wasn’t.

We spent the night in Cape Town and went down to the water front to find some food. It would be nice to spend a bit more time there and see things in the day light.

When we got to Walvis the raft was almost exactly the same although they are building a new VIP section on the roof. The only down side was a 10% hike in the cost of bear coupled with the exchange rate means a pint of one the best largers I’ve ever had now costs almost one whole pound.

One more day till the record attempt now!

I’m heading back to Namibia tomorrow. Having left my job after more then 4 years. I went out there earlier in the year with Vestas Sail Rocket trying to break the world speed sailing record. Unfortunately we were plagued by light winds and didn’t manage to break the world record.

This time we will be hoping for more wind then we had at the recent open at Lymington. I think the club must be one of the friendliest I have been to and certainly the friendliest on the south coast. How many clubs great you with a bear when you get off the water. We didn’t sail on Saturday but we did just about get one race in the next day. When the wind died and the tide started to build I spent the last 30 minuets of the race within about 10 boat lengths of the windward mark. A few times I even got past the windward. Still it was enough for me to finally win a race at a moth event for the first time in Road Runner. It might have something to do with the new foils I got from Mike at Aardvark Racing.