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Memo from Medemblik

May 24th, 2009 in Travel, Training, Regattas.

There are few other experiences like loading boats in a strange country after walking off an airplane after a sleepless redeye. The eight hour flight between Washington and Amsterdam was shortened by a tailwind effectively shortening my night’s sleep. But, when we walked out of the doors of the airport bracing for the typical Dutch May conditions (51 and raining) we were instead greeted by cloudless skies and temperatures near 70 degrees. My crew Brad Nichol arrived a few hours after I did, so with some logistical magic, I and 470 sailors Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving hopped in a rental car and met Trevor Moore, a 49er buddy of ours already in Europe and pulled my borrowed Star and the girls’ 470 out of storage. They started the hour-long trek to Medemblik and I ran back to the airport to grab Brad and Mark Ivey who will coach the 470s this week. Sound complicated? Now try it with only a couple hours of sleep. After an afternoon of rigging I could barely keep my eyes open, so we went to get some food* and off to bed. *Please note: normal habits in my new class, the starboat are to “get some food” before everything, and often times after as well.

Today we went sailing for a couple of hours. When we first went out on the water, we managed to break the forestay under the foredeck. The thing made a bang so loud you thought somebody had been shot. Thank goodness the breeze hadn’t filled in completely so the jib cloth took the load and kept our mast up as we limped back to the dock for some quick repairs. As soon as we hit the dock we started the re-rig process, scrambled for the right pieces, wire and tools, and got to work. We got a new forestay rigged in an hour or two and went back out on the water (after lunch of course), only to head out and hear the moaning and groaning of the new forestay trying to pull out of its crimp. Tomorrow’s project: permanently solving the forestay issue so that the week goes without any trouble.

More to come from Medemblik and the Delta Lloyd Holland Regatta 2009

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