Klade Hauschildt

Well hello again, sorry I haven’t put the most recent post on since the regatta ended for I have been a very busy boy and most places and times that Ryan and I have been out and about there has been no chance of internet… well the last regatta was a disaster for me, I received a black flag and a few bad results which locked me in the silver fleet, however I was not alone – even in the silver fleet there is a lot of good sailors in the same position as me all receiving black flags within the first few days . I think it was the last day of the youths or might have been the second last day but it was a very windy day with big waves and made for a fun time on the water, a tiring one but still riding those waves was the most fun I have had in a long time. I even witnessed a spectacular crash on the water – a laser in front of me had capsized and turtled his boat, I was happy with this because I passed him but then I look around behind me and I see another laser flying down a wave loosing control and crashing nose first into the turtled boat in front, subsequently his boat cart wheeled and both people got nailed!! They we ok but a little shaken up, Great to watch though.

For the last part of the trip Ryan, Ben and I have been through Amsterdam and through Paris for a look and see how the locals spend there time and local night life, then it was onto
Singapore where they really do have a laser on there national currency! The flight we were on however from London Heathrow lost our baggage and we were left with nothing in
Singapore, so the airline gave us both $100 each to spend on essentials. We treated ourselves to a massive buffet in the hotel we were staying and we had to thank British airways for their efforts, it ended up being a fun night. The funny thing was though in the morning I received my bags, so I was happy and scored a free 100 bucks.

 

 Overall the 2 regattas that I participated in weren’t of great success and both I was reasonable disappointed with my performance in. However I learnt so many new things and lessons out of both – it may have been a bad regatta for me but it was the best regatta in terms of learning new things that will help greatly with my progression in sailing. This was the first time I had been overseas by myself and I was happy with how I delta with things also…

 

 Now im happy to be home, overseas was the most fun I have had for a while but you just cant beat home and your own bed – overall a fun and worthwhile experience overseas and worlds campaign – now it is onto nationals and New Zealand worlds in March… stay tuned

 

 Thanks for everyone’s help and support

  Peace – Klade out! 

Racing was called off yesterday after a 6 hour postponement onshore – because we didnt sail it meant i didnt get my good results which i was hoping for, this now means that i have 2 bad races and a bfd (black flag disqualification) and now i am stuck in tied 1st in silver fleet!!! This really pisses me off that im not in gold fleet and cant pick my spots back up!!! i missed out by 2 points

I am quite dissapointed with my performance in this regatta, not because of the result just because i know i am way faster and better than most of them and i dont have a chance to show that i am because of a couple of stupid mistakes that shoulnt have happened and that were out of my control. Ohwell things like this happen i guess, and i will learn from it… atleast i can try to  do well silver fleet if i get my head right! yay…

 peace out

Well there is quite a lot to report today including reports from yesterday.

 

I will start with yesterday… we had a postponement flag up all day so we were just chilling at the yacht club and when we thought they would realise what the heck they were doing and cancel racing for the day and send us home but instead they sent us out at around 3.30pm and try to get two races in, this in theory would be crazy just coming from experience of the last weeks and how long it takes to get a fleet away with all the generals. I was in the red fleet which was the last of all 4 fleets to start, we eventually got a couple of races in and in some tricky winds and extreme amounts of tide made it very hard to stay focused especially after waiting all day doing nothing. We eventually finished the races and came in, by this time it was 9.30 at night and I pretty much threw everything on the boat, road home had something to eat and went to bed.

 

 

Today the wind picked up quite a bit and I was missing the 4 odd kilos I lost after my cold last week, that extra weight would defiantly come in handy, now I am 62.7kg but over the last week I have been eating like crazy to try and build it back up to at least what it was. I haven’t checked recently but I think I have made some success. The last couple of days I have been starting very conservatively because I don’t want to get another black flag so I have been staying a bit far back from the line and as a consequence have been getting rolled each start and getting very bad positions and always having to catch back up but to still end badly. Today would have been better but I think over the last week the regatta has been that frustrating that I was more glad to get in on time today rather than hear of my bad positions. I had had enough of getting the bad positions and it wasn’t teaching me anything so I thought just go for the start and I if I end up with another flag then so be it as long as I have learnt a greater lesson. Just when I was doing this and about to get a good start another competitor sailed over the front of my bow and pushed me back on the line just in time so that I couldn’t recover. I didn’t see him so I couldn’t protest and I didn’t have enough time to get back on the start so as a result I was deep from the start and had to catch up, I was 3^rd last around the top mark and probably caught about 20 boats or so back up but still not at all happy with the result.

 

 

Some more news is that on the spare days Ryan, Ben and I went to a sweet water park in land a little bit. It was the hottest day they have had here for a long time and everyone was out at the beach, they even ran out of the Sunday paper at the corner store there was that many people. But anyway we went to the park and had an awesome time but just as we got out of a slide we saw a big fight between a gang of black people and the police and park security. It even got to the point where blood was spilt, pepper spray in the eyes and it even got carried by the wind into us and it wasn’t good (it stung my eyes and it tasted very bad) and physical abuse by the police, it was pretty crazy.

 

 

Overall very unhappy with how im sailing right now!

 

 

Well that’s all for now – time to go to bed – yet another day of sailing tomorrow! Missing everyone ; )

 

 

Cya

 

 

Well today was pretty shocking again, there was about 15 knots of wind at first and I thought we would actually get a couple of races in… Would be the first time! Then before we knew it the conditions changed again, the wind dropped out and we were forced into a postponement again… we were on the water for a very long time again today, just short of 7 hours i think. The wind eventually came back in after the two fleets in front of mine races got cancelled, then came the generals again… I was in the last of 4 fleets to go and so I had to still wait general after general through – this made me the most frustrated I have been all week because I was so eager to race today in that wind, I was itching to race so much and I just couldn’t. Finally it came to my start and we had a couple of generals and I think a combination of being to eager to get off the line and everyone around me moving forward on the line forced me over the line on a black flag start even though it was a general… it was the worst feeling seeing my number as being disqualified in the first race of the series and after being out there all day to do one start and get flagged on it made me soo angry it wasn’t funny. Then it began to rain and the wind dropped out again and we were sent in without a second race…

 

Oh well I had an OCS in my first race of the 4.7 nationals and I still won them by 30 points so I know I can do this also… not completely the same level of competition but still the same concept and I am staying positive. But still it doesn’t help my cause to get this amount of points straight off.

 

 

Well im tyred now, sorry this one was short but it’s been a long day and I need my rest… Until tomorrow – lata

Well hello

One regatta down one to go… the past couple of days has been relatively normal except for the extreme amounts of time – the only bizarre thing is how competitive the whole of the gold fleet is. Everybody (60 odd boats) are in such close range throughout the whole race, there is no room to breathe lol you could go from a top 10 position back to around 40th and then back to top 10 again – it all depends on what mistakes you make. And because everyone is that close everywhere you look, it makes every mark rounding an experience in itself. Buoy room no longer means anything because nobody cares about the rules only getting around the mark less than 10-20 boats wide but most times it just ends in carnage and if you play it smart you could pick up 20 places just by avoiding them even if it means going the wrong way!

Today was my best day though, well the first race at least, throughout this regatta I have been getting crappy starts and keep getting rolled and that makes me end up back in mid fleet somewhere and forced into catching up – today however I had nothing to loose and everything to gain and so I thought I would get a good start and after a couple of generals I did just that. I was about 8th around the top mark then 4th by the bottom mark and by then finish I came 2nd!!! Things are that much easier at the front!!! And the key is just being able to get of that start and into clean air. Then my second start I was still on a high I think and didn’t concentrate and got rolled again lol I didn’t mind though – it was a little too late but it put me at 25th overall and im happy with that – considering the conditions I am happy being the 25th best radial sailor in the world lol

Now the regatta has finished and they have planned a massive party on the beach and happy hour starts in 10 minutes so I got to get going lol a very good day in the office I think!!!

Talk again soon — peace

  

(Damn media boat got in the way) 

Hey everyone

This is gonna be really quick – i will put a more detailed one in when i am not so tired!!! Today was pretty much exactly the same as yesterday… we were on the water for another 8 and a half hours and only did one race. By now we were sposed to have about 8 races done but we have only done 4 so i think they will still split us into fleets – ryan and i will be in the gold fleet so thats good. but my result in our one race we did was so crappy!!! i got like 50 something it was impossible day though, they whole 60 boat fleet was in the space of about 20 metres of each other with tide pulling everyone together and made for absolutly impossible mark roundings. i was in an alright position and i caught back up only to be denied a spot in the last mark and about 30 boats passing me – a very frustrating day indeed and a very sunburnt one at that – only my hands thankgod!!! i dislike the decisions of this race committee alot to put it as nicely as i can. they even had soothing music playing when everyone came ashore so that everone would settle down and not be so mad… good idea!!!

 well i will elaborate more another time – cya

Well today was pretty much a joke and so was yesterday but both for their own reasons… Yesterday the conditions were much like the first day but more hostile and dangerous, so much that they postponed the race for 5 hours!!! so we thought what can we do in a 5 hour postponement and we came up with the idea that we would go bowling and subway among other interesting things to do around here… once we finished those activities we then went back to the club at 4pm to see if the race committee had made a decision to actually race us or not – when we arrived we found out that they had postponed it another 2 hours longer!!! A 7 hour postponement!!! Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? So Ryan Ben and I went out along the pier where we saw the full extent of the waves that we would possibly be sailing in that afternoon if they decided to send us out. I feared for my life when I saw those waves crashing over the lighthouse at the end of the pier and wetting us as we ran away. We still had an hour to go so we went to a beach shack to have a few cokes whilst overlooking the shredded up water over the ocean and watching the Dutch trying to surf it. We eventually made our way back to the club at 6pm and the race committee finally made the decision to call off racing for the day… deeerrrrrr!!! We were really happy though – we couldn’t be bothered sailing after sitting around all day waiting. And then there was today… today was a joke… we hit the water at 10am for an 11am start and there was no wind so half the fleet count make the start yet the officials still started the races – lucky for me and the rest that didn’t make it it was a general recall!!! Then it started – black flag general after general all day. We got one race off in my fleet and I had a bad start due to the fact that we weren’t moving and there was a huge amount of tide but I caught back to around a top 5 position after catching up on the downwind only to see a power boat rush past me saying that the race was cancelled. That pissed me off for a top 5 would have been very good for my score. We all sailed back to the start and then the generals began again and when we finally got another race away there were 18 black flags in my fleet so I had a small fleet to race against. The winds were variable and I lost big time when I got caught on the wrong side of a shift and ended up 23 overall. Once that race finished they we waited for the others to finish then they wanted to move the start – we did and then waited for even longer in the hot sun for another race. After a while people just started sailing in due to pure frustration and the officials finally called it off. We got towed in and got in at 6.30pm that’s 8.5 hours on the water doing one race and not anything else because there was no wind… a lot of burnt faces and red skin at the end of the day – lucky I had a load of zinc on!!! I wonder what tomorrow has in store but overall so far this has been the weirdest and most frustrating regatta I have ever been to… Good fun though – they have free pasta meals for the sailors after sailing – hooray!!! Peace