Fun with the optis

Big events like the Games is always when we get to know more people outside our immediate team. For the most part, we ‘older’ sailors already know everyone else, from previous trips and gym training in Singapore together. But the Optis tend to be an unknown bunch, because there are always new kids coming in as the older ones age out into other classes.

For example, one of the Optis at this training camp, Edward, I had never met before. (He turned out to be a quiet, but good kid. Er, not that the two qualities are mutually exclusive.)

I just wanted to mention them in this post because they are such a tough bunch of kids. All of them except Kimmy fell sick halfway through the camp but they all grunted through and came out the other end strong and healthy again.

Kimmy and Ryan are the AG sailors, but Yukie and Edward were great to have along, too. Thanks for your help, kids, and thanks for being cute roommates! (For the first few days until I moved downstairs, at least.)

2 weeks in Perth

There are 10 days left to the opening of the Asian Games. Where has all the time gone?

The last two weeks in Perth gusted by (with many 20 knot days!) and we’re down to the last three days in Singapore before we leave on Friday. There are plenty of stories from Perth to share, and I’m sorry there wasn’t that much time to tell it as it happened. I’ll try to use these three days in Singapore to recap the fun, though!

Today I popped into Sports Council to make sure the sports medicine side of things was covered. I guess the rest of the team had similar ideas, because it was Sailor Central there – poor Dr Cormac, inundated by sailors this morning!