Plans are starting to come together for this seasons sailing. By next week I will be in Antigua preparing this Class 40 for the crossing back. And, hopefully we will leave at the beginning of April providing the weather is looking kind. My plan is to then do as many of the RORC offshore races as I can and hopfully, by then we will have some of our Match Racing funding in place and we can start competing instead of training.
Over the weekend we had the two Match Racing boats at Oxford Sailing Club on the water and we’re doing some racing against Abingdon Schools NSSA team, helmed by our Match Racing teams bowman, Nick Wilkinson. We mostly focused on pre-start but, noticed the boats were very unequal which, puzzled us all day untill we came to winding up the keels and found out that one of them hadn’t been wound down.
A lot of the final plans for the events this season have not been finalised yet but, there are lots of options and hopefully it will be a successful one. I also hope to do some of the Mini Transat events with my own boat or crewing for another boat if I am unable to get use of one myself.
Sam
