Posted on Thursday 2 August 2007
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
Klade, so sorry to hear about another frustrating day out on the water, cannot believe you guys are being kept out there for hours on end, plaster on that zinc everywhere (never too much), by Ryan’s text could feel disappointment and frustration also. Hang in there guys, do your very best as we know you are already doing, but you have trained so much and spent so much money to get there, hang in there!
stay safe & healthy and Good luck - Margaret Palk & Co