I had this little pic I wanted to share with wingsunclipped but it wouldn't load onto the comment, so here it is:


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At the time I did this challenge, I hadn't started sailing the FX. I don't think it had even been introduced yet (or maybe it was just newly established as the new female double-handed skiff Olympic class). Anyway, I first started sailing this boat in 2013. And it was love at first launch ( Read more... )

My Christmas was pretty much spent baking. ♥

( And it was Percy Jackson-themed! )

Remember this?


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This is one of my favourite things to do when sailing. It is, fortunately, part of our training because we have to do it in racing ( Read more... )

This is one thing that particularly sucks when you live in Singapore. The reason will become evident in a moment, but let me expain the basics first. When I say container packing, I'm talking about those big 20 to 40 foot containers that get trucked around and put on ships. They are how we get our boats from one country to another because aside ( Read more... )

The gasket is quite simply a piece of plastic, slit in half, that forms a sort of overlapped opening for the centreboard in a 470 (and several other centreboard dinghies) to slide in and out of the boat. Its purpose is to block water from spouting up through the centreboard casing and flooding the boat while sailing. So it's a pretty good little ( Read more... )

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I think it's time I got back to the challenge, after a week off. Because I have at least one more sailing-free week, I am going to remind myself of the sucky things so I don't get too antsy to be back. :P ( Read more... )

In Weymouth now, and we arrived on a foggy, windless day. So this entry shall be about wind ( Read more... )