More pictures of the new boat coming together.

Carbon XXX

You should get a good view of this on the race course.

lol.

Winter Program

In past winters I've done sailing in a sunny destination but this year is a little different.  If you've been following the K3 blog, seen the recent pictures on facebook or noticed that I haven't been around in the evenings or weekends (sorry Erin), you know I'm getting a new K3 I14 for next year.

On Monday Patterson Composites started building my boat using the design and build specifications that Jason and I have been developing with Steve Killing for over a year!  And I've been known to show up in the shop and get my hands into the carbon and glue too.  Three days later and we already had the first part out of the mould.

Its been a BLAST working with all these people who are so dedicated to making this the highest quality, fastest boat in the world! And having a lot of fun doing it too.

Fun and Embarrassing ...

GoPro captures all....

i14 Crew Abuse from Hudson on Vimeo.

what?...

i14 Sailing - November Dip from Hudson on Vimeo.

Happy Halloween!

What a wonderful fall weekend, the boats are back from the UK so why not go sailing?

Is that Justin Bieber?

Windy Weymouth Wrap Up

John and I were really happy to back on the water and do some sailing after way to many days on the hard.  Even though we arrived with a lot of time to practice it didn't seem to matter after several days of extremely high winds.  Luckily we were able to get some solid racing in during the last few days of the regatta and make up for lost time.

I had some personal bests at the regatta including an 18th and 26th place finish.  A 35th overall is also a PB but of course I was hoping to crack into the top 30.  John and I found that we were going best when the wind picked up, which is a surprise since we weigh 290 combined...  Thinking about it, John and I both love the big breeze and we've made an effort to practice and set the boat up for those conditions.  Who would have thought that we would be sailing in light air at the same regatta where we couldn't sail for 7 days because of too much wind!  We will be looking to improve our speed in the 5-10knt range in the future.

Lucky my crew kept fit when we were waiting for the wind to moderate:

Squeegee Squats