How the other half live
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010I took a bit of a mental health day from work today and instead spent a few hours on the water… first training session for the Moth Worlds.
Nathan, Slingsby and Stu came along. All of them seem to do nothing but sail. Or windsurf. Or kitesurf. Or play golf. Or whatever it is you do when you don’t have a real job. And it shows in their sailing.
We did plenty of runs up and down the harbour in a gusty Easterly. To be honest I was pretty happy with the performance against Nathan, but there’s plenty of room left to improve. And after sailing against Tom both on Saturday and today, I have a new benchmark for upwind straight line speed. It is no fun seeing someone walk away doing another couple of knots through the water. I guess I know how most Laser sailors feel.
It was all good fun no doubt, but I don’t know how you’d go about doing it day in day out…
