Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Foggy


Still going well out here although the fog has once again slowed up proceedings. The Danish team organised a mini regatta to be run yesterday and today. We had good conditions yesterday and did 4 races as well as an hour of tuning. Racing went ok though we definitely weren't as sharp as we'd like to be. I think its down to our minds being focused on tuning and gear selection and not on the racing.
We went down today but the fog rolled in and visibility dropped to around 50m plus there was no wind so racing was abandoned. There was a funny 'lost in translation' moment which caused quite a bit of panic though. Word got round that the Chinese were not going to let us launch or sail on the Olympic waters from today onwards! So as you can imagine the whole team started worrying about training and phone calls and emails were flying around trying to find out why. As it turns out what the Chinese were tying to say is that they didn't recommend us sailing today because of the fog warning!
The plan now is to re-run the racing missed today tomorrow.

In the meantime we have managed to come to some more decisions over kit so far from a wasted day.

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