After 8 hours of flying you expect to get off a plane and arrive in some sort of sunshine, otherwise you might as well have stayed at home! On this occasion this is not the case, I have flown all the way to Washington and yes – it is raining. Annapolis, is this week the home of the USA East Coast IRC Championships.
I am over here sailing a Mark Mills designed King 40. The USA based boat is owned by British businessman Mike Williamson. With a mostly pro crew we are out here as the second regatta in a series taking us through to the Caribbean season next year. Today and for the next 2 days we have been training and getting used to the new setup with symmetric spinnakers we are running on this regatta and the real racing starts on Friday – bring it on!
More tomorrow!