Art Lovers??

Hmmm!

This is what happens when you have to sit around recovering from another (and fast) trip to hospital, too much spare time!! not for long though, should be back to work and hopefully some skiff racing in the next week or so, the docs did a great job

Ah well, but it does look sorta cool, something a bit different at least

Now for the real pics, all from the same day on the Bay, the much trusted seabreeze.com quoted around 8-10knts from the N/E, the perfect flat water conditons of the Bay and river made for nice easy skiff conditions, just what we needed for the first official test of the new carbon wings, and the first time we've sailed the skiff this season, still nothing is ever perfect and the crew wants some more minor changes... foot straps and more grip on the shiny new carbon wings, and maybe a new kite!!

But really we dont know how all this will help us in the super wavy Sydney Harbour conditions or against the big fleet at the League, hopefully in the near future!!

Sailing Pics

At last some actual sailing pics, well one anyway and ye it is a bit on the fuzzy side, but im happy all our new changes and new carbon wings survived and proved to be a massive improvement over last year, I can actually feel the boat lighter on my shoulders carrying to the water, not sure Tims back agrees with me though

Yep thats GRSC in the background on the beautiful Botany Bay, but hey im very biased, i grew up sailing the bay and if I had a choice I would sail there everyday

We have more pics but having some issues retrieving from the camera, hopefully soon and a little clearer

So finally we have had 2 perfect test days, both with the big rig, one low end pressure one very up range around 18knts, apologies to the young kids in all the Sabots at GRSC, I hope we stayed out of your race area enough, we did try to stay away but sometimes a little difficult on the narrow sections of the river mouth, we did get a very nice thankyou from one of the race officials for keeping clear

Many thanks again to Tim and Kylie for your sunday arvo time away from the kids

Now all we need is our original team of me, Sam and the much travelled Bendo to get together and do some racing, oh and for me to stop getting sick and going to hospital, but there is light at the end of the tunnel as they say, another few weeks of sail recuts and gear updates and we are set to test the League guys finally, all I have to do is convince my doctors that im fit and well enough for racing, ok maybe not fit but well enough!

More pics to follow soon, maybe some video once we are back racing on the Harbour