Southern Straits here we come!
After a pretty busy week Turicum is ready to go for Straits.
We will have a mixed crew with several vets and a few rookies. The progress of the race can be followed on http://tracker.southernstraits.ca/ and with any luck I should be able to send in some reports from the race course.
For the last several days the weather forecasts have been for very light wind but things seem to be improving. It looks like a High pressure system is going to pass right over the course and produce some very fickle wind.
It's going to be interesting.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Safety at Sea
Wow! Still winding down after a very intensive week preparing for and being part of presenting BC's first Safety at Sea course.
A fantastic experience working with an outstanding group of very high level sailors. I think we convinced people that PFDs are very good things to have on all the time as well as it is worth while to take time to plan for situations in advance rather than just react.
Particularly after the pool sessions with everyone swimming around in full gear, there were lots of grins. Fantastic to see how quickly groups worked as high functioning teams to solve problems and help fellow team members.
You can see that on Turicum everyone has a PFD and we even have the rookie on a safety harness.
While it took a bit of work to put the course together -- mostly done by David Sutcliffe -- I found it a great learning experience talking with other sailors, sharing their experiences and getting ideas from them how we can do things better on Turicum.
One of the things that made me very happy was to see a bunch of people buy into the idea of wearing PFDs al the time.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Van Isle!
We are now starting to ramp up for Van Isle.
This year we will be doing the Van Isle 360 race and following that with a Van Isle cruise.
We have our 360 Race crew together and have had some practices. We have more practices scheduled and then it will be off to Straits and Swiftsure for our Final tune-ups.
Our next practice will be April 9/10 and the big step will be using our Spinnakers -- hopefully we can get some photos.
For both the race and cruise we will be using SPOT to provide ongoing course track and try to provide a daily blog with photos.
Van Isle 360 site --- http://www.vanisle360.com/
Only 2 places left on our July cruise --- http://www.vanisle360.com/
Cheers
This year we will be doing the Van Isle 360 race and following that with a Van Isle cruise.
We have our 360 Race crew together and have had some practices. We have more practices scheduled and then it will be off to Straits and Swiftsure for our Final tune-ups.
Our next practice will be April 9/10 and the big step will be using our Spinnakers -- hopefully we can get some photos.
For both the race and cruise we will be using SPOT to provide ongoing course track and try to provide a daily blog with photos.
Van Isle 360 site --- http://www.vanisle360.com/
Only 2 places left on our July cruise --- http://www.vanisle360.com/
Cheers
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