by Mary Rook | Jun 24, 2013 | Mary Rook
We’ve packed all the boats and kit up and were off to Aarhus in Denmark for the European Championships! As the big warm up to the World Championships that are being held in September in Marseilles all of the big teams will be there including the not so ‘European’ teams from USA, AUS and NZL. There are so far 129 49er boy entries and 36 49er FX girl entries...Read more
by Mary Rook | Jun 15, 2013 | Mary Rook
It was a bit of a tricky end to Sail for Gold Regatta for Frances Peters and myself. Having had Wednesday abandoned due to heavy winds it looked like the final day was going to go the same way after waking up with the windows rattling and seagulls getting blown off their nests outside our house! But the wind subsided around lunch time and they managed to get medal...Read more
by Mary Rook | Jun 11, 2013 | Mary Rook
The lovely english weather was back today wind, rain and fog dominated the playing field and it was pretty hard to even find the race course let alone avoid the boy 49ers that we were sharing the course with! It was a big day in the bay, averaging around 18 knots in the first race! But dropped off slowly as the day went on and we managed to get in four...Read more
by Mary Rook | Jun 10, 2013 | Mary Rook
Another tricky day in Weymouth bay, bit more wind but still the horrendous steep sharp chop that we had to nurse the boat through! but we managed to find a bit of pressure to sail to a win in the first race. Unfortunately in the next two races we struggled to find enough speed upwind to put in any really fab results despite some moments of brilliance! We also...Read more
by Mary Rook | Jun 10, 2013 | Mary Rook
It was a tricky first day in Weymouth, light and very shifty breeze coupled with a nasty chop from the East made it pretty hard to get around the race track yesterday! In our small fleet of 8 boats we have for the first time two Aussies and two Irish boats to race against and three other GBR boats so its very different racing than we have been used...Read more
