Long day today with a lot of waiting on the water, but the good news is that we had sun for the majority of the day.  We had three races […]

Lots of sunshine in Santander, Spain today for the start of the Santander City Trophy or, as we call it, the test event for next summer’s ISAF Santander World Championships, […]

It is always a hard day when you need to perform and you don’t.  We are definitely feeling a little disappointed after today’s racing and are eager to get on […]

First off, we want to wish Anneloes, one of our dutch 470 friends, a happy birthday!  This morning we brought her a cake that we baked last night and got […]

After a rough day 1, we sailed well enough to get us into Gold Fleet, barely.  We were postponed on shore for an hour and a half while we waited […]

Of course Day 1 of the Worlds was the most wind and waves we have seen in our three weeks here in La Rochelle, which made for awesome racing!  Our […]

Hats off to the coaches for being extremely persistent today! We arrived to the yacht club early in hopes of a 10:30 am start time and when we headed out […]

Another long day in La Rochelle waiting for the sea breeze to fill in. Today we waited on shore until 3pm and we’re sent out for two races hitting the […]

We are settled in La Rochelle, France preparing for the Worlds that begin Aug 5th. We rented an apartment which is a five minute walk to the yacht club and […]

We made the medal race…barely!  Sorry for the lack of blog posts the past couple days. Our internet situation here is quite interesting. There are three other countries staying in […]