Tuesday, July 13, 2010

July 13 - Still No Wind

So it is mid-day on Tuesday, and we still haven't had any races. They pushed the start time up to 11 am for today so we got up at 6.30 and were at the boat park before 8 to move our boat onto the slipway. They launched the men first, and then us at around 10 am. We managed to get a tow out to the race course with one of the American coaches, as Dave was going to spend today on the men's course. So we towed out in absolutely no wind, untied and promptly started drifting towards Rotterdam in 4 knots of ebb tide. After over an hour of attempting to sail to stay in one place (it didn't work) the race committee finally sent us in to wait on shore. We are now postponed until 3 pm.

However, there are lots of other Canadians who are getting racing off.

From our home club of Royal Vic we have:

Jess Round and Erin Berry in the 29er at Youth Worlds in Istanbul;
Brenda Hopkin and John McRoberts at the IFDS Worlds in Medemblik

From our neighbours at Royal Van we have:
Alex Heinzman in the Laser at the Youth Worlds;
Isabella Bertold at the Laser Radial Worlds in Scotland;
Nikola Girke at the RSX Europeans in Poland;
Hunter Lowden (and skipper Gordon Cook) at the 49er Europeans in Poland
and lots of others who I have missed!

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