Registration and Training

Today was a busy day, at the Yacht Club by 9 am to get ready for registration and measurement. After checking in since we preregistered came the measurement...fortunately we were at the front of the line and we were able to get eveyone through by 11. They did the full meal from the full safety check to measuring sails, boards and hulls. After a quick lunch they hit the water for some full out ocean sailing......

Tonight Roberto reviewed the sailing instructions and went over the winds conditions and current. Hopefully an early night for a full day tomorrow......(with pictures hopefully)

Sat,Aug 20

Hi all, sorry to have taken so long to update the blog. It has been a whirlwind since Tues. Cork racing this year continued to be very "Uncork"like. Light and shifty conditions that even the most experienced sailors had trouble with and along with a very difficult RC made for some very inconsistent race results. Although, Ceci managed to get a 3rd red and Mikey a 4
th blue. We had a great team dinner at the house after racing, how great was that? Shannon brought the most amazing personalized LOOT cake with every sailors name and sail #,which of course each kid ate their own sail. We said goodbye to Sebby,Cameron and GPS(
also known as Declan)-Boohoo. Mikey decided to wrap himself around Cameron's leg and prevent him from going out the door. The girls were team hugging Sebby and I caught a glimpse of a tear or two. We all bemoaned GPS's departure as we needed him to be our GPS to get us to Nova Scotia and keep us all organized! We miss you guys already. We hit the nova scotia trail by 9:30 the next morning and had an uneventful drive,with the exception of roberto's speeding ticket! We arrived at yacht club shortly after 5 yesterday,unloaded, hooked up with jillians dad and went to
Jillian's grandparents cute as a button cottage for a BBQ,swim,hermit crab,lobster and star fish search...along with the some very hilarious two person Btye sailing.
Let's just say they should stick to opti sailing for awhile! I have fAntastic pics to post which I will to post later. The LOOT adventure continues as Barry and Barbara take over the reigns. Measurement and training with ocean sailing today,
Practise race tomorrow and official racing Monday....
CHEERS!


Measurement and getting used to some ocean sailing today, practise race tomorrow and official racing Monday....Cheers!

CORK Day 1

The first day of the CORK regatta is finished. The weather man served up a day of chances of rain and very shifty winds. The kids were definitely challenged and had a chance to get a taste of trying to play the shifts on the race course. Not easy! I overheard Roberto spending allot of time going over and reviewing video on starts as well. I think for most of the team the day will be remembered as another day with lots to learn.

Kids having fun again.......

Kingston day 6

Last day of training before CORK begins Monday.  Light wind, sunny skies and warm temperatures was what they had to work with.  They tried sailing "blind" today - learning to feel the wind and learn where it is coming from by feeling it in their ears and on their face's.  After training the girls were whisked away by Ingrid the Fairy Pedicure Mommy and they all returned with lovely toes complete with Opti symbol on the big toe.  While the girls were doing that the boys and I headed to the grocery store.  While Mikey tried to weigh himself by hanging from the scale in the vegetable department, Benjamin cheered him on while Cameron took it all in while giggling there was Declan pushing the cart around for me.  I told Declan I wanted to keep him but he informed me Leslie has dibs on him all ready!  Tomorrow is boat repair day  and we are hoping the wet weather that is forecasted stays away.