Day One - The Invitiation Race

                     


            I think it is time to give you all a more complete view of the yacht club surroundings and the other competitors here at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.

                                          The Boat Yard

                               
  The Australian team have been more than helpful, letting us share space in their U haul container.........saves a lot of carting back and forth

          As to be expected there are containers and boats everywhere..

    

                                                             

                                    There are even wheelchair salesmen!

                                                            
                Back at the club house , the Media centre has a superior view
                                                         

                            There is still action at the crane dock ..       

                             and places to sit and watch the pre race action..

                             there are old friends found in odd places

                                    .. and other competitors on our dock
                     

 

The Aussie teams, the Italians, and the Netherlands

 

Daniel Fitzgibbon and Crew Liesl Tesch

 

and

Amethyst Banbrook, both our Aussie representatives in Skuds

 

Rolf Schrama from the Netherlands,

 

 

 

and the Italian team Marco Gualandris

and Marta Zanetti

 

                                    the larger view ...

                            

 

 Ray and Graeme spent some time bonding over at the boat shed

 

  

                                                Then our star arrived ....

 

with brother Phil,

 

last minute jobs ...

 

everybody busy ..

a team effort to get Pete aboard..

        and then up to the Historical Fort Redoubt to watch the days racing

         under thick clouds, passing squalls and strongly defined  horizons,

                        the 2.4 metres yachts were just a speck in the distance

                               while the Skuds were way out of sight

                            but .. we caught them on the homeward run...

 
                             Ray and Graeme leading the way
 Pete and Rachael sailed home after  a long day out in challenging weather

                                                 

Now that the official first race is upon us ..

 

It is a Media boat for me today.. so hopefully some good action shots for you all tomorrow.

The last race of the North American Championships and a week of R&R

        Well here we are back in Halifax, after a week of R&R for Team RTL!

                        You might think from the smiles on our faces,
                                        we are spending our days ...
                                         

                          just ..........
                                                        

 

sitting around ...

 

 

admiring the view ...

 

and travelling near and far....

 

 

 

or

 drifting along ,

 

 

 

shopping for projects to take home

 

                                       or little collectables ...




                                                  .. sadly no!

It is full on for the Reason to Live Team...

 

and now that Graeme has joined us , we are full steam ahead ,

 

Last week ended on a high..

 

 

                It was Aussie , Aussie , Aussie, with Ray on a Mark boat

                                  
              Lennie and David, from the Royal Victorian Yacht Club,
                                   who will host the games in 2015...
                      plus and Yve and myself running the start boat...

hmm ......International Regatta, starting sequence, flag lady experience...
                         Don't tell the PCSC  sailing committee....

 

no effort spared.... to the roof for that special angle..

and just in case I needed a mike!

 

 

and then there were the teams....

 

our favourites...AUS 055

 

                                        ... and the rest...

                               The other Aussies ....

                                        The home team advantage

 

They came in from afar..

 

 

sailed to and fro....

                                        The USA team were all tied up..

 

 

                                      starts were aggressive......

                           Pete was on the pin end...

 

 

 

They looked pretty coming back...

 

                                                in their different ways...
                                                                  

The British team beat the Aussies...but just by a whisker..

Same colour kite, another Aussie, Ame

 

                                       the USA team looked cool..

                               followed by Pete and Rachael..
                                                       
                                                     

                10 races completed, a great sense of satisfaction for everyone..

              

Information on the World Championships next week are best found

www.ifds.com or on the RNSYS Facebook or web pages.

 

 

 So now all we have to do is ;

 

Complete classification , registration and measurement,

......all in process

 

The hardest part is done,

 

The Worlds require only two races a day; race start each day is 1300 hours with An Invitation Race on Monday ,

followed by the racing each day until Sunday.

 

I will be updating the blog on a nightly basis once the racing begins, and the fleet size will be doubled! Exciting !!