Bendos Back

Finally the well travelled Ben is back on board the skiff and we wasted no time at all in getting the salt water back in his veins and face, what was looking like a nice cruisy 10 to 15knts to ease Ben back into skiffing after travelling around the world for the past 6 months, turned into a very nice if not a little crazy 25knt N/E(seabreeze was showing 28knts at Kurnell) dash around the beautifull Botany Bay, and to top it off it was my birthday as well.
So Ben was a little shell shocked at being throne in at the deep end after not sailing for 6 months, but really it was like getting back on a bike, no dramas at all
Considering we all had not sailed together with small rig ever!! And the last time for me was over 12 months back, it was very nice to have no broken bits, no problems and in the end a very nice training day for us all. Unfortunately we didnt have either the GPS or video cam on board, so nothing to show for, but we where all very happy boys as we left St.George SC at 7.30pm in a big hurry as I was a little late to my own birthday drinks, the 22 missed calls on my mobile from my partner Leslie meant I was by now running very late, but it didnt stop the party, thanks to all for a great nite

Then only 2 days later on new Years Eve we decided that a very late arvo sail would be a great way to finish the year, on the water at 6pm after a speedy rig up, and the breeze decided to fade away slowly, so we floated around in about 4 knts for an hour or so to see how our super lite wind sailing skills handled the conditions, again some nice training time on the water and good practice for Benny to remember how it all goes in slow motion mode

Even though we have missed a lot of the summer racing allready, its now full steam ahead to the JJ Worlds in mid Feb, and with lots of training still to be done in the next few weeks, me and the guys are pretty happy how things are moving along, and ye will be nice to see where we are against the League guys in a few weeks time for the first race of the Austaralian Titles starting 11th Jan

Maybe next training session we will remember the camera and GPS