OLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Another solid day
After a long wait for the breeze to settle down this morning we finally got our turn in the boats this afternoon and started the gold fleet.
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Winners of the Gold fleet
A short but successful day for Mary Rook, Kate and I at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta today as we finished our two final gold fleet races against Skudina (RUS) and Tunnicliffe (USA), and won...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: In our second home, Palma
Miami feels like weeks ago now and Annie is doing a good job of recovering so we are on to the next period of the winter now which is training in Palma.
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Gorgeous day 'in the office'
The first day training here for us today in Palma and we couldn't have asked for better conditions, waves, sun and 10 knots greeted us as we turned the corner out of the harbour in S'Arenal, it was...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: New training partners arrive
The past few days have been windy and wavy in Palma for our first session of training here. Today we had a great day with blue skies sun, wind and some friends to play with!
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: European season fast approaching!
Annie, Kate and I are home this week taking a week away from the water but still putting the delightful hours in at the gym and doing some admin work so we are all up to date.
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Through to quarter finals in Palma
A solid day for us today at the Princess Sofia Trophy our Sperrys and Oakleys helping us win two out of three races put us second in our group overall and therefore won us a ticket through to the...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: All even in quarter finals
A long long day for us today finally getting off the water at 8pm even though we only sailed 4 races!
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: 7th at Princess Sofia Regatta
Well for the first event together in the Elliott for 8 months, it has been a good event for us this week.
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: 4/4 wins on day one in Hyeres
It was a good day 1 for us today at the French Olympic Sailing Week in Hyeres. Once again we are in group C so it was a late start and late finish for us with our first race getting underway around...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Gold fleet is round the corner
Another good day for us today, two wins and one loss meant we have won our group and has therefore put us through to the gold fleet and quarter finals. Second and also going through to the gold fleet...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Waiting game
Well today was mostly a waiting game for us. There was a little bit of breeze this morning so the repechage group got out in good time and by 1pm we had finished our final two matches of the gold...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Gold in Hyeres!
Finals of the French Olympic Week today here in Hyeres and we won! We were once again up against Barkow's team (USA) and this time it was a win to us, and quite a convincing one at 3-0.
View ArticleSkandia Sail for Gold countdown begins
It doesn’t matter how long you spend training in a venue there is still always something new to learn about it every day.
View ArticleDay one Skandia Sail for Gold
Day one of Skandia Sail for Gold and Annie, Kate and I just got down to the venue. Although many of the fleets are still hanging around onshore, the Match racing started on time and now are moving...
View ArticleOLYMPIC HOPEFULL: Big day tomorrow!
We finished the gold fleet round robin today in 4th place so we're ready and rearing to go for the playoffs tomorrow. It's going to be a big day with quarter finals and then all being well straight...
View ArticleMatch Cup Sweden
A year ago Annie, Kate and I were here in Marstrand ready for our first event together as a team and now were back and looking forward to another Match Cup Sweden.
View ArticleThrough to the petite finals in Sweden
Today has been a tricky and frustrating day for us. We started off with very shifty conditions and short courses, we had 3 races of the round robin 1 which we lost against Tunnicliffe, won against...
View ArticleA good weeks training!
We are just coming to the end of a great week training in Weymouth preparing for the Pre Olympic Test Event starting a week on Monday. We’ve had a good group of guys to train against and done way more...
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