Happy Days

Hey Guys,

Just an update on where the team is and what we have been doing the last couple of weeks. We have all been in different places, visiting friends and trying to keep the cost of living down. Phil has been to Switzerland for a week and then to England. James has stayed in London for most of the time, Garth in Valencia again with Mike Drummond and Sam has been to the Netherlands and is now in London.

Phil, Jimmy and Sam made a trip to Cowes for the weekend to compete on a J109 in the Vice Admirals Cup. We were stoked to be back on the water and do some more yachting and had a great time at Cowes. We finished the regatta in 3rd place but were kindly asked by 4th place to retire from the first day as the owners couldn't make it so Phil steered the boat. The owner decided to retire as he didn't want to cause and trouble in the fleet as he is new to the class. The fleets standard was very similar so the racing was always very close. A little bit more local knowledge on the tides in the Solent would have helped out tremendously as you can easily get up to 4knts of it. The weather was fantastic with blue sky and 10-15kts every day so a great first experience of Cowes.

We have all spent the end of last week desperately trying to get our visas for Russia sorted out and are hopefully going to pick them up today. We then fly out to Poland tomorrow for our next match racing event this weekend. After that we are off to Russia for the grade 1 event. This is then followed by a regatta in Poland again, then Slovenia and then hopefully back to Poland for their grade 2 regatta.

We will keep the site updated and let you all know how we get on. Bye for now.

WAKA Racing