Happy Xmas- Sweet as, as they say around here

Father Xmas came here early this morning, it was so hot at 0830 that he almost melted. After 5 days of training the team are having a well earned break over Xmas. Most of us are going to a BBQ with the Gill Taylors this afternoon, The Norburies are swimming with Dolphins, and Matt and the rest might be going surfing to the aplty named Ocean beach.

Looking out on a sunny Pacific Ocean, people walking and cycling by, its only 0830 but we still need suncream as we have our outdoor breakfast.

Iain, fine tuning Jamies sail. Team GBR well covered up Everyone is working hard and getting on the pace Vinyards galore

Arty shot of a shag or cormorant on a post by the club Tony with the snapper he cought close by where we are sailing- thats his Xmas lunch

So thats all for now, have a great day.

Yesterday Xmas eve, and during the day most of the parents arrived so now we have the Norburies, Calders, Whitfields,Gill-Taylors, and Burns's all here. We had lighter easterly wind so we went out over the lunchtime period with lunch, speed work, setting up the rig, and a lot of starting followed by some short races.

The RIB broke down in the middle of the bay- the battery was flat- interesting, I was about to txt Jen to get someone to come out for us when a tiny RIB turned up, it was Tony and his wife who had been out fishing, so they joined us for an hour and then towed me in.