Last day of Training before New Zealand
We have now completed our last day of training before we leave for New Zealand on Wednesday. This weekend, we had another match racing team come to Oxford Sailing Club for some training. We mainly focused on our Pre-start but also did some other general tactics on situations that may come up. With this final productive weekend, we are now ready to go to New Zealand and give it our best shot and hopefully return with an acceptable result.
Also in the last couple weeks, we got some more training on the SB3’s at Farmoor Reservoir to improve our crew work. Also, after doing my sextant sightings on my last Atlantic crossing I did my Yachtmaster Ocean exam and fortunately passed.
The whole crew will have arrived in Auckland by the morning of Saturday 7th February, and then have the weekend to acclimatise and recover from the flight as much as possible. We are going to go sail the Elliot 6’s on Monday and Tuesday, on Wednesday there is a pre-event training day and then the event runs from Thursday 12th February to Sunday 15th February.
Once in New Zealand I will up date this Blog as regularly as possible and keep you updated on our training and results.
Sam
