Over the last ten days we have had five days of training-followed by a day of rest-before we participated in a four day regatta called the Perth Olympic Cup. After the POC, we loaded the boat into a container to be shipped vi train across Australia to Melbourne. In Melbourne, we will sail the first ISAF World Cup of the season, Sail Melbourne, starting on the 12th of December.

Before coming down here, all we could think about was that famous poster of Dennis Conner in the 87’ America’s Cup plowing upwind in a his blue 12 meter battling 30 knots of breeze. After being skunked for breeze three out of five days at the Perth International Regatta, it was hard to believe that this place is the home of the 1987 America’s Cup with the epic breeze. As you may have been able to guess, we just had bad regatta luck, and the breeze came back for our training. In fact, we had four great days of sea breeze and one day of off-shore breeze that felt like we were propelling our boat with wind from hair dryers. If you could get a grasp on the crazy wind, stay focused with sweat dripping in your eyes, and ignore the flies swarming your ears, you could do pretty well!

　

We got some big breeze too!

After the Perth Internationl Regatta and a day off, we jumped into the coaches-run Perth Olympic Cup. A collection of 29 470’s sailed 13 awesome races in varying conditions making it one of the best, and most valuable, regattas we have participate in. The competition was so good that it was just like sailing two gold fleet final series at a World Cup. We had our ups and downs, but we were able to work out a lot of issues tactically that we have been having and in the end, we were 10th. Check out full results here.

In the end, we found that Fremantle can have anything from a light off-shore breze to a 30 knot sea breeze. We are really glad we came down here, and we're looking forward to sailing here next year in our World Championships and Olympic Team qualifier!

Thank you so much for your support!

Adam and Nick