Day Two Racing in the North American championships or Pre worlds

                The weather has been more Melbourne than Queensland, but we're tough and we can take it..

There are two classes of yachts racing in Halifax Harbour, the 2.4 metre class single handed yachts and the 18' Skud two handed sports dinghy, while the three man sonars will be racing at Lunenburg, further down the coast.

Amongst the yacht fleets are the general harbour traffic of a busy commercial port, so it gets interesting.....

                                               

                  .. of course the day starts back at the dock, where crews prepare   in different ways...
                                                              
                                                         

                                                 One of the Aussie teams...

 

 

and where getting into the boat can be more than a leap and a jump!

 

 

and lots of willing volunteers are spending their days helping out at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron..(RNSYS) ..

 

That's Mike ..

 

 

and Dennis ...

 

and the summer holiday students

 

and a few aussies in there too.. if you want to be out on the race track

 

You find a job!

 

 

that's Matt...through the rainy window.. where I stayed dry and he got wet....

 

               ........... and a few more I haven't met yet...

 

On Day one , I went with Rob the chief Race Director and spent a

day with the 2.4 metre yachts .. like a mini etchell..

 

                  there were 17 starters, but next week there will be 45...

                            the aussies did well......

                                The Canadians were a bit ODD

                             The whole thing looks a bit odd really....

   so today it was time to go and see what Pete and Rachael had been up to..
                                   Note that sail number AUS 055
 

 

conditions were grey, with 10 - 15 to start.

 

                               The backgrounds sort of homey....

                          The spinnakers colourful..

 

some with good Reason

there was too-ing and fro-ing

                                   there were nice lines...

                         and untidy looking moments...

                    There were four races, so lots of starting practise

                            a bit of yelling and up up up!!

                                  pleasing patterns of behaviour...

   
                                            and some a bit cheeky..

  
                 with 8 races now complete, and only two to go tomorrow..

                                   Pete and Rachael are in 7th place