October 6, 2011
They’re in! First leg is pretty much finished. It’s been an interesting leg. Lots of upwind, light and variable conditions, which is not traditional for this race. The top protos seemed to favour West of the rhumbline and the top series boats favoured the rhumbline mostly. It looks in the end like the skippers with the most stamina, strength and endurance prevailed in the constantly shifting and changing conditions. Can’t wait to see how leg two goes!
http://www.charentemaritime-bahia.transat650.net/en/
Diane
October 2, 2011
September 23, 2011
The 2011 Mini Transat Race “La Charente Maritime Bahia” starts this Sunday the 25th! Woohoo! One Girl’s Ocean Challenge will be there in 2013!!!
http://www.charentemaritime-bahia.transat650.net/en
Diane
Sept 17, 2011
Home Safe and Sound and back to the grindstone. There’s deviation cards to complete, sails to develop and fall training plans to make…the work never ends 🙂
Diane
Sept 13, 2011
You don’t see this in Toronto every night!
Fish Tales!
Sept 13, 2011
Check it out! I caught a fish!!! Ignore the crazy girl in the picture with the goofy sunglasses and CHECK OUT THE FISH!
It’s about 600kms north of Toronto…..yikes! And the lake is only 20ish miles long! I’m here with Paul my husband and a buddy and we’re here for a week of holiday….I’ll be fishing and blogging when I can. yes that’s right….fishing! No sailing this week for me!
September 6, 2011
There were two divisions each in the JAM fleet and the Spin Fleet for the Omnium Champlain Regatta, with the JAM boats heavily outweighing the SPIN boats in numbers. Saturday we had two Olympic course races on the JAM course and Sunday saw one nice long 16 mile race for each fleet. Etoile D’Argent finished 4, 1, 1, giving us 1st in C division, and 1st overall in the JAM fleet! We had a great team of wonderful people on the boat who were there to have fun, work hard and learn along the way. What an awesome bunch! Thanks for the great weekend!!
Diane
September 2, 2011
I’m off to race with Aquafolia http://bitly.com/le6qXN at the Omnium Champlain regatta http://www.omniumchamplain.com/ in Plattsburgh NY. Have a great long weekend everyone!
Diane 🙂
Planning for France 2012 qualifying year has begun! Uk Halsey are designing new sails for France as we speak. Max sail area, max life and max speed are the key factors. Brian and the whole UK Halsey family are definitely the talent pool to be putting this together. Hopefully we’ll be able to show you the new main at the Toronto International Boat Show this year!
