Now it’s our last week of training and packing up the Elliotts to go to Palma for training in the new year.
Merry Christmas! Lucy x
Credit: Wander Roberto
Credit: Wander Roberto
Credit: Matias Capizzano
Credit: Kim Wolf
Credit: Kim Wolf
Credit: Richard Langdon
Credit: Sander van der Borch
2nd in Italy
Wednesday 16th December, 2009
Quick trip to Italy.
Thursday 10th December, 2009
After being in the country for more than two weeks the cold started getting a bit too much, so it’s a quick trip to Italy for me this weekend! While training recently we have been working on a number of areas, but particularly in our communication and how best to split the roles and responsibilities between us — one of the best ways of testing this out is to go racing. Therefore this weekend we have an entry to an open Grade 3 event at Circolo della Vela Brindisi, Italy, sailing in J/22s. The event is a great chance for us to have a good last event of the year against some new competition (all men’s teams) before our next event in the new year, the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, where we shall begin the defence of our ISAF Sailing World Cup title.
Keep sailing!
Lucy
Cold, wet and windy training!
Sunday 6th December, 2009
Despite the cold, rain and wind since returning from Nice we have been back to work, down at Weymouth training in the Elliotts… well we’ve tried! During our first week back the gales did halt our training, but later in the week we had some really productive sessions against the other girls and some guys we brought in to beat us up a bit!
We are now training in Weymouth over the next two weeks, then after a short Christmas break we’ll be preparing for the first event of the 2010 ISAF World Cup Series in Miami. Plus, in the mean time, we’ll be shipping the RYA Elliott 6Ms out to Palma so that the team can train out there during the spring while the freezing cold and short days take over here! So it’s a busy period of planning and preparing for 2010 and our next few months of hard training before the European season begins once more.
Video from Louis Vuitton
Friday 20th November, 2009
There are some great videos of all the action from the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Nice by btsbroadcast. Check out their youtube page for loads more content, or see the following two videos showing some of the knock-out stages.
Being so long and narrow you can see how quickly the bow and stern can swing round, and just how wet these boats can be! In our role as observers (positioned further back behind the camera man) clinging on was at times pretty difficult… but an amazing experience :)
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