Getting visual
14 November 2011
My third post, and my third week. Today was also the third training session that I have filmed on my new camera which is adding a completely new dimension to my training.
Highlights of the week on the water were some brilliant breezy sails on the Spiral; on Thursday and…
Phase one
7 November 2011
After another week on in the journey, I have lots to fix as well as lots to learn. A windy week in Canberra resulted in a few breakages here and there and lots of lessons, mainly to re-learn.
There are two parts to phase one of my sailing program for the next five years.
The start of a journey
31 October 2011
On the 27th October, I started a journey of getting to know my 470 sailing dinghy, Havvok. With daylight savings in full swing, and the kick off of the Canberra Yacht Club twilights on Lake Burley Griffin, it was the perfect time. After a winter of fiddling with the mast and…
The day after...
27 April 2005
Well I guess it is just the day after Grandpa’s funeral…
It was a beautiful, tiring, painful and‘together’ in a wayI have never experienced in such force.
Memories flooding forward, tears flooding everyone!!! And a sense of family, and thankfulness…
The Sailor Girl?
30 June 2004
Today a funny thing happened…
I got to the point where I apparently sail so much that it should become my name. I have been called “Sailor Girl” as far back as 2000 (that I can remember) by people at the sailing club… sometimes by kids at…