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May 10 2006
Training Day

Now, I am really getting into the layed back culture of Victoria. Not only is the scenery great here, but not many people look stressed out. This morning we walked around downtown Victoria and along the Inner Harbour. The Clippers are in Victoria right now and we spent a good chunk of time checking them out. The Clippers are 10 identical boats owned by Sir Robert Knox-Johnson that race around the world, stopping for a week or so at 10 Cities (Each boat is named after each City that the race stops at). The picture shown is the Victoria boat. There are people that pay $5000 to sail a leg of the race, crazy eh?

After Lunch we went back to CFSA, and when we got there we met 2 guys from Slovenia who were busy working on their boat getting it ready to sail. Slovenia is becoming a hotbed for Fireball Sailing in Europe, who'd of thunk it. As we were getting ready to go out sailing the 4 guys from Japan arrived and we talked with them for a bit, all of them could speak decent English, show its not too hard to communicate, which is good. Meeting them was cool, and I look forward to meeting more people from different countries while I'm out here.

Sailing this afternoon was great, we had a decent wind and I was able to trapeze when the spinnaker was up, and we got some good training on our tacks and jibes in.

Thats all folks, 3 days worth of posts in a short amount of time, but I got caught up and should be posting regularly from now on. Please leave comments, it be great to hear what you think of this.