Hello to all,
Apologies for the (very) long time between blog posts. I have been pretty slack in terms of keeping in touch with friends and family for many months. I used to be pretty good at keeping in touch. Firing out regular e-mails from my travels over the years, firstly with Cameron Miles, Andrew Hunn and James Mayo aboard the Soling in our campaign for the Sydney Games. (more…)
Earlier this month, Iain Murray and I were selected to join the Australian Sailing Team, which is a squad of Australia’s best performing sailors from the eleven Olympic classes.
We attended a two-day series of meetings and presentations and a dinner at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron to launch the new concept of the AST. The main objective of the Sailing Team is to win medals in Bejing through a more focused approach from the management and for the sailors to be better supported and coached. There is also better oppurtunities for the sailors to share ideas and experiences across the classes by mixing together more than in the past.
The team has it’s own website (linked on the left side of my home page), which has well wriiten biographies of all the sailors by Yachting journo Di Pearson. There is a whole lot of info and pictures there.
Congratulations to Yachting Australia for getting this far.
On April 12th I was involved in my first motorcycle accident in almost three years of riding around Sydney.
I was travelling south on Eastern Valley Way, heading to the CYCA for a match racing coaching session with Seve, Sam and Rob. It was about 3pm. (more…)