Practice day

Tough, long day...

Early start with the worlds greatest breakfast, I love the Omlete stations in Asian hotels...

Then we started on the boat jobs, a pretty long list is normal for an X40 but we were in good shape until we tried to fit the dagger boards in! I had packed the board cases with teflon strips when I was in Holland but that was in 7 deg temps and now its mid 20's and the black boards had swollen just a little bit, so they were impossible to fit in the case! so we had the crane driver lift the boat so we could sort it, quite a sight to have a couple of guys working away under a 40ft cat suspended over a dock!!

With the boards sorted, we had lunch and Red Bull.. And went for a spin, of course we sailed straight into the restricted area and got in trouble within 2 mins of leaving the dock!

Then we joined some practice races and worked out who does what on the boat (Harry the boat captian was filling in for big Gerd who arrived after sailing) we got around the course without too much drama and generally were pretty happy with the package for a first days sailing.

Today is the start of racing, and we have a good list of things to get done before we start, just little changes and tweaks but they all take time on a boat this size so its another full on day. Racing starts at 2pm and 8 races are scheduled!!

no pics today, but for sure some tomorrow..

Later!!