Perfect Weather...

Despite my last post, I 've just realised what a fantastic weekend it was.

On friday a work colleague took the day off, but there was torrential rain all day and a thunderstorm thrown in for good measure. Saturday and sunday were blazing hot blue sky days, perfect. Then back to work today and the rain is hammering down again.

I've attached some pics that I took on sunday while I was manning a rescue boat at Papercourt Sailing Club. Needless to say the most rescuing I did involved towing sailors out to the startline so they didn't miss the race...

I even managed to find someone to cover the safety boat for the middle race, so I borrowed my dads boat and competed, I lead the race up till the last leg before I was overtaken by very well sailed enterprise, might just have won it on handicap.



Only two weeks until my foils are ready!

Holiday Traffic..

I now completely understand why my mum will leave the house at 5am if she has a long drive to do.

I dropped my boat off in weymouth today, the sailing venue for the 2012 UK Olympics. I hitched up and left Queen Mary Sailing club at 10:20am, 5 HOURS later I arrived at my destination, I didn't get above 50mph once. I left the return journey a bit later, I left at 7pm only 2 hours to get home. arrgh.

Anyway I had a great sail and met up with alex who was painting his foiling axeman. All I've got to do now is wait for linton to put hydrofoils on my boat.

I've posted a picture of Leaky taken from my new camera phone, Sony Ericsson 750i. Check out the quality, 2mp camera on a phone!

Queen Mary running low

I had a brief sail yesterday in a frustrating force 0-1-2. This was all good practice for keeping the boat upright dead downwind, which is by far the hardest part to mothing. It can be thought of as riding a bike slowly, the unstability is amplified as you have no pressure in the sail to balance against.

The most alarming part of the sail was when I had to pull my boat about 30ft up the 45 degree concrete bank. When I first launched my boat this was about 10ft. Now I'm hearing that if this continues then soon the reservoir may have to be closed because the rescue boats cannot be launced.

The worrying thing i just how quickly the water level has plummeted, it dropped a metre in a week which may not sound like much, but for londons largest lake (well over a mile in diameter in places) this is phenominal.