Some of you have indicated that the frequency of our posts may be a little bit slow.  We appologise for the delay, and here is a backlogged story from Tuesday.  The regatta here was actually 2 regattas, first International week, and then the World Championships.  Day 2 refers to the World Championship regatta.  Just in case my ramblings are confusing (who am I kidding, we all know they are!)…

Day 2 here at the worlds proved to be the windiest one yet.  The winds were gusty and approaching around 15 knots, but it was the waves that made the day impressive.  Steep, and tall (some of them approaching 6 feet), the sailing was tough both upwind and down.  The name of the game seemed to be keeping the pointy end up (which Noah and I failed to do in the second race, although it was our first Thai capsize).  But win or lose, boy was it fun.  Surfing down some of those waves on the reaches and downwind legs were wet n’ wild, and often times you got going so fast on a wave that all of your sails would go limp and leave you in kind of an eerie quietness, even though you would be traveling extremely fast.  Then, if you didn’t nosedive into the next wave or capsize spectacularly, the sails would load up and catapult you onward.  It was a fine line, and it truly was a wonderful feeling to get to the downwind mark unscathed (equally frustrating when you didn’t!)

Noah and I had one good race and one not-so-good one (note to self:  don’t tip over), finishing 34 and 47.  Unfortunately, we had a bit of an altercation on the start line of the first race and had to go through a protest  hearing in the evening, but in the end we won and the other guys were disqualified from the race.  I feel bad for them, but on the other hand, they shouldn’t have hit us!

All in all, it was an extremely fun day with very intense racing.  Hopefully there will be more sailing pictures to post soon!