Anthony and Cy

X-Mas Downunder

Friends and Family,

Yesterday was blow out again as it was really windy. Some braved the conditions only to return with in 10-15 mins.  We took on some longterm projects such as rigging our third mast and making some spare halyards.

For the afternoon, Cy and I split up as he went an spent time with the other young USA teams and I went to the older USA team’s house for dinner.  The dinner was a lot of fun as the Norwegians, Danish and Germans were there.  We had a huge feast and then some minor drinking afterwards.

Todays was our Christmas.  We relaxed this am.  I tried to fix Cy’s shitter bike to make it more ridable and he made some eggs.  We came down to the club and there were a few boats going out who are usually pretty good so we did a quick rig and headed out.  There was extra incentive today to get out early as the flies were at a all time worst.  Words can’t describe how bad they are.  We joined in on some very short course racing with about 5 other boats and did well.  It was later joined by some good teams and things got a little tougher but we still gave hell.  The racing stopped and we did some straight lining vs the Danish, who were breaking in a new boat and the Portuguese.

The highlight of the day was sailing along upwind out on the wire when a group of about 5-6 dolphins went right by us and we were able to look straight down and see them.

Thats all for now!