Ground Hog Day........
For those not familiar with the term it means 'same, same' (Google it and get the movie out....)
I write, glass of wine in hand, at the 'midweek Splash party' at the Hotel Racek (seagull in Czech apparently), Kiwi sailors gone to bed, Dutch still having a great time. At least a happy ending to another day of waiting for wind.
Beach volleyball, SUP riding, playing 'Scum' at cards, talking to extremely pretty Dutch girls was again the order of the day while the temperatures soared to the high 20's. At 4.30pm the Flag was lowered, the siren sounded and the sailors hit the water only to get to the start line and watch the light breeze die away to nothing.
Sam and I, plus a new Dutch chum, grabbed the SUP's and once again paddled furiously for the Start line, only this time we were faster than the sailors. A friendly driftathon took place, plenty of high energy swimming and after a suitable period, the order came to tow everyone in.
Us intrepid paddlers headed for a 5 km paddle around the Island again to justify the great food and wine, beer etc at our hotel for the party.
Two more days to go for the Splash Worlds. Forecast tomorrow is for light winds but more than today and up to 12 knots for Friday. The best we can hope for is 4 races tomorrow and same on Friday if they post an amendment to the Sailing Instructions enabling us to start early. We need two discards to get all our sailors up to where they should be.....it will be a very big ask.
Seriously, we are thinking of you all freezing back in NZ in the grip for the latest polar blast....that sunburn is awful.....
Photos attached are mainly from Jonathon Masters, he is fantastic ..and has the long range lense ...the ones from the SUP are mine.
As always, a huge thank you to all our sponsors, supporters and well wishers
Happy sailing
Rob
