Exams are finally overrrr. Now its 8 weeks of break. I don’t feel like working, but sadly I really do need money to support my sailing.
Race practice on Sunday was good and bad. The bad was that mid afternoon the wind was dead. The good news is that we had strong winds at the start and at the end of our practice. For the first race, I decided to go for the pin end start because the boat end was really drifting back so there was a pin end bias. So I did a pin end port tack start and it paid off. I got first woohoo. The thing about this race practice is that I’m always the youngest and I get to sail with people who have a heck lot of experience in sailing, so I get to learn really alot from them. Lets skip the middle part of the practice since the wind was dead and even someone swimming would travel faster than me. So we had two more practice races towards the end of the session. I got 3rd and 4th respectively out of 8. I would say I did pretty good. Considering how I screwed up my starting and actually gained places. So my weak point is my starting and I have to really work hard on that, because in sailing races starting is the most important part. Still, I think I did good considering I’ve only been sailing for a year while the rest there have been sailing for like 10 to 20 years or something.
In ISAF Laser World Championship, Paul Goodison takes the Gold again. God, he is like one of my sailing idols. Kudos to him.
