Miami OCR

My first trip to America! How exciting! Coming from the warm Aussie summer I was met by the equally nice Miami sunshine (unfortunately things would turn a bit colder later in the week). Had a little bit of an adventure finding out where I was staying - my phone decided that global roaming was overrated leaving me hoping that everything would magically work out, which it did.

The sailing was tricky (as I'm told Miami always is) but for the first half of the regatta we had good breeze for all the racing. I had my usual issues getting of the start line, but was blessed by some good downwind speed to help pull back some places. On Day 4 of the event we sat around in glass all day and had a very long very light race (almost half the fleet didn't finish in the time limit). Day 5 saw the Race Committee pump out 3 great races in some very confusing conditions. We started off in an oscillating breeze for Race 8, which turned into a persistent lefty for Race 9, before a persistent righty switching back to oscillating for Race 10. This made for some very interesting racing, and in Race 10 three-quarters of the fleet went around the final gate mark at once, for a very intense bottom reach and a very busy crossing of the finish line!

Now I'm up in Vancouver (why did I think that coming to Canada in the middle of winter was a good idea?! Its so cold! Very pretty though...) for a weeks break before heading back to Florida for some more training and a couple more events.

Cheers,
Gabe