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That’s blog-worthy news isn’t it?

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Well it was about as close to owning one as I will get for a while…

Nathan got an invite to the Audi King of the Docklands event after winning the Moth Nationals in Geelong last year. As a winner of a division of Audi Victoria Week, he got the entry, but had to form his crew from competitors from the same boat (or in our case division).

So we flew down, did a 1h training session on the SB3, then won our heat to progress to the semi final. In the semis, our group was stacked with top boats including a couple of special invite rock stars, but we took that one as well to get through to the final.

The final was raced in next to no wind. We coasted over the start line in a good position, but the race committee attempted to postpone a minute after the start. A fair amount of heckling later they realised they couldn’t postpone a race that had already started, and they had no provision to abandon, so the race continued and we drifted around the tiny track to take another win and an Audi A4 wagon.

Not a bad effort for a few hours sailing. It’s not as if I can drive it to Dubai, but it will help me get there in one way or another.

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And now the Melbourne weather has followed us home… It’s 38 degrees in the shade and there’s bugger all wind!

The delay between posts is getting longer and longer…

But it’s not part of some grand scheme to deprive the interweb of news on what’s going on around the place. The reality is I’ve been way too busy to think much of sailing, let alone blogging about sailing.

We’ll give it a shot anyway…

In the 18s, we didn’t do much of a job of defending our NSW Championship, with a stack of DNFs after breaking both rigs. 9th placing overall.

With plenty of help from CST we got both rigs back together, and we’re now back on the water…

Though you wouldn’t have known it from the result on the weekend. A solid 9th after rounding the top mark in next to last and battling it out with our big rig when the angles didn’t suit it. Not good.

The Moth has been going along ok. No Nationals for me, but I’ve booked my ticket for Dubai.

Problem is I’m going to go into this one way under prepared. I’ve not been camped out in a tropical hideaway testing equipment, I’ve hardly managed to get on the water at all.

Oh well, I’ll just have to wing it and see. See if I can accelerate my 3 odd places a year that I slip through the rankings.

Heat 2 of the Australian Championships on Sunday, and maybe a quick training session on the Moth. Maybe.

So for another month…