Day 2
After a light air yesterday, we started off the day with a light but very strong current and back eddies all over day. It was an amazing experience for all the sailors when we finally made it to the windward mark and sailors were trying multiple times to get around the mark. After a few tries, practice makes perfect and all the sailors were comfortably understanding laylines with massive current.
After a couple of hours, the true San Francisco breeze showed up. It was a blast. We were practicing 720s and Andrew kept trying in the 20-25 knots of breeze. His determination resulted in improved 720s but also 3 capsizings.
The heavy wind gave us the opportunities to hike and surf. Our sailors became very comfortable with hiking, despite the pain and the ones who forgot their hiking pants at the hotel had to tough it out. At the end of the day, the whole group was going up and downwind, it was a great sight for the coaches. We stayed out an additional half an hour to surf extra waves.
Tomorrow we are training with 25 other OPtimist sailors from the bay and we are doing starts. It is a different skill to start with the current pushing you back 20 feet for every tack you do.
So far it has been a fantastic 2 days and we have 2 more days of training before the regatta starts.
Take care
Rob and Tine
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