Klade Hauschildt

Well a short download of what happened in the last few days. Everyday day has been windy ecept when it lightened off to 10-15 yesterday and thats when i finally staterd to get the good results like a 10th and an 8th. then today much like day 3 it was a constant 20-25 knots and it was bloody hard sailing. yesterday i was 13th oveerall and after today i lost a few places on the line and dropped back to 16th. I am happy with how i am sailing in the windy conditions though. keeping up with the heavier people is very satisfying and statying consistant is a good thing.

Its been so windy and mainly just a speed regatta so far!

Overall i am 16th and tomorrow is the last day i think. see how we go – got to come top 15!

Cheers

Well the racing on day 1 started out ok with my first start a beauty but ofcoarse it was a general! From then on things went down hill, i got smashed by a random guy on the start that i didnt see and got pumped in the race. The second race was slightly better but my main problem was that all i needed to do was just get off the start in good shape and thats it, so i tried that and it worked out ok – not great, but ok. From then i  played the race a little too conservative which lost me a heap of boats which pissed me off but im gettin there. The start line is hard to start on because we have a 70 odd boat fleet trying to start on a small line which isnt quite big enough for everyone. 

Day 2 (today) was different to yesterday because we had a heap more wind and the fullrig rig sailors loved it. i was pretty happy with my results today because i stayed in good shape most of the time and even caught alot of boats that should have been smashing me in this wind (heavier people with an average weight of 75 – 85kgs). Im not too happy with the results so far but there is 8 races to go and a chance to either stay consistant and better my scores…  

My results so far have put me in 17th overall, at this point i cant remember my individual results from the first 4 races.

 Give me more downwinds like these and i will be off no worries lol 

Until tomoz – peace

Righto, its been a while since the last update but this is whats been goin on with my campaign. In a nutshell cause i got a plane to catch!

It started out at Sail Brisbane where it was close competition for first and second between myself and international Radial Penny Clark (GBR). Penny eventually won the regatta and well done to her. Then we travelled to sydney for SIRS and then it was another close battel for either first or second place between myself and Ben Price a very close mate from Tazzy. He won SIRS and i announced that was our friendship finished from that poin onward lol (joking).

Then we moved further south to Melbourne for the nationals where i finished up 9th overall and 2nd Australian which i was happy about but i was more thrilled with coming first male overall, this qualified me for the pole position for words. Then we stayed in melbourne for SAIL Melbourne and the Asian Pacifics which i posted a 2nd and a 4th overall.

Well thats been the summer in a nutshell and today i leave for the Worlds in New Zeland and am feeing very prepared, i have checked everything of my list of things to do and get done and all is going well. Stay reading for regular updates during the regatta.

 pS. pretty annoyed to be leaving for worlds and missing out on the easter bilby regatta – it was a hard decision but i think i went the right way with worlds.

PEaCE