The Dinghy Show
My final break before the season started was a three week trip to Margarita (Venezuela) to do some windsurfing. As well as being a lot of fun I feel it really helps my balance and core strength both of which are very important to my sailing. The Club Vass instructors there (John, Jamie, Nancy and Marco) were absolutely awesome and made sure that everyone had a great time. I certainly didn’t miss much sailing as apparently it was snowing most of the time that I was away.
I also had the opportunity to do some holiday type stuff like visit the mangroves and eat fresh water mussels, and go trekking in the rain forest which is where the picture of Jamie and the spider came from! Then unfortunately it was time to come home although there was one scary moment when there was a major drugs bust on my plane and the airport security started looking very closely at my tub of protein powder!!!
Upon returning to the UK I went to the Dinghy show where I was talking to Laser sailors and prospective Laser sailors about the regional training programme I run as the UKLA training officer. I also had a chance to speak to people who had bought my book Be Your Own Sailing Coach (a book for anyone without their own coach – which let’s face it is most people) which is always nice.
So now the sailing season is upon us, I have just one little job to do before I start racing again…
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