The final day of racing in Terrigal was called off due to rough weather and a passing system. “The ducks [power boats] never would have been able to survive mcuh less set a course,” said one of the volunteers regarding the increased swell and 20-25 knot breezes. The weather was probably raceable, but just not practical for the race committee. With the local atop the leaderboard I’m sure that the decision was not difficult to make. Jokes aside, the conditions were marginal at best and unfortunately, that’s boatracing.It is a bit irksome that we’ve had two of the last three Laser Worlds in locations where racing was often unsuitable due to overpowering seastates. Jeju, Korea turned to a complete bust for both the Standard and Master’s worlds and this year saw nearly two day’s worth of racing canceled because of too much weather as opposed to the more common problem of not enough breeze. Next summer (2009) in Canada will most likely be a shift back to a slightly more protected racing area, although the NA’s we sailed there in 2006 were almost called off halfway through because of a strong tropical depression blowing through.Terrgial was a good place to have us in reality. The people were fantastically hospitable. The volunteer group was more than ample. The cricket pitch was soggy but good for our size of fleet. Unfortunately the mooring situation was lacking (we had a coach or RC boat washed ashore each of the first three days of the regatta). But the rugby club that we used as a facility was a decent and dry place to cower under during the rain and lightning, as well as the hot antipodean sun. At least three lasers were written off during the training and racing period in the point break very near the launching beach, but mostly due to operator error rather than unsafe location. The sailing was largely outstanding with more than two thirds of the days seeing between 8-18 knots with a large variety of seastate. Australia has gotten expensive as the US dollar has weakened, but it was not a bank-breaker worlds like it can be. With a $1500 entry and additional charter fee, the even is exclusively expensive to very committed individuals and olympic campaigners anyway.To have finished 29th is by no means a dissappointment for me. Unfortunately it is exactly the same place as I finished last year and I would have very much liked to improve on that score. My ranking has improved to 19 and that was certainly my goal, but having been a relatively breezy regatta I cannot say I’m unhappy with the performance. The first day of Gold fleet I had the fourth best day of the fleet. Obviously there are areas I am looking forward to improving on, and luckily there are still six months to go before the Games. I think what it proves is indeed how difficult the Laser worlds can be and how if the US can put two guys in the top 30… and I have to publicly congratulate my buddy Brad Funk for having a phenomenal finish inside the top ten… we are certainly warranting some full-time US Sailing Team attention. Having Brett Davis down here to help the US squad for the week of the regatta was a great help and an important part of all of our sailing well, but the training leading into the events are really where the gains are made. To be taken seriously at the top level is no easy task. The Youth Devlopment squad sailors here had a rough time with the sailing and its not getting easier. This is my fifth Laser worlds since 2001 when I was 17 and the same age as the young guys coming into this regatta from the US. The training and US team coaching I was able to take advantage of paid huge dividends down the road, and I must admit that I have never finished outside of the top 65 largely because of the standard of sailing that I was exposed to as a young sailor. I look forward to having that attention reappear when I go to Europe next month. There needs to be a way to bridge the gap between the youth years and the Olympic Team.For this week’s forthcoming Monday Morning Tactician I’ll publish some of the lessons I’ve learned from this worlds and others and hopefully offer some insight on how to better prepare yourself for such an endeavor.——–www.CampbellSailing.com is written by Andrew Campbell
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