after 3 windy events back to back, today's breeze ended on a bit of a whimper, 8 knots hiking petering out to a patchy 2 knots of breeze. at least we got 2 half races done - the radials only did a few practice starts before racing was canned for the day.
a quick roundup of my results from this latest european circuit:
hyeres SOF regatta - 21st in silver fleet, 73 overall, difficult, frustrating light air regatta, many learning points, some happy moments from the first and only strong wind day where i posted a 17 & a 14, as well as the 6th on the final qualifying day.
delta lloyd regatta - 53rd in gold fleet. the windiest regatta i've ever done! happy to make gold fleet but unhappy that i was unable to handle the survival conditions as well as the guys around me...
skandia SFG regatta - 58th in gold fleet. good first day, just about hung on to make gold fleet again, but failed to really make an impression again, didn't have the legs to last the duration of the regatta.
kiel week regatta - 28th in gold fleet. good moments, some good starts, but still making mistakes around the race track and not always thinking clearly and making good decisions.
i did manage an impressive start in the kiel week day highlights video though, hiking hard out to the right with simon and kristian. watch it here (i appear 3 times!).
elizabeth is doing the medal race tomorrow!
bon iver - woods
