The Disabled Sailing World Championships are currently going on In Weymouth, England. Team Paradise have several teams competing. Ricky Doer, Brad Kendell and Hugh Freund are currently in third place in the Sonar fleet. Jen French and JP Creignou are third in the Skud18. John Ruff is 2nd in the 2.4mR, ahead of Marc Leblanc in 5th and Danny Evans in 22nd place. Go to the event website for the latest update.
Monday is supposed to be my day off from sailing on Biscayne Bay, but there is usually something to keep me busy. This time it was a prior commitment with BMW at a dealership in Broward County. BMW contributes $10 to the US Olympic Team for every person taking a test drive and I was there to meet and greet potential customers. It was fun and I met a lot of nice people.
I invited some of the sales staff out sailing in a Sonar on Wednesday. We only had one boat in the water so I asked the group to bring a maximum of four people that really wanted to give sailing a try. Sure enough, four people showed up and we went for a short, but very informative session.
The Sailing School was busy last week and we sailed every day, but as the 4th of July weekend arrived, it was time to take a break and spend some quality time with family and friends.
Too bad that Wednesday Nigh Racing was cancelled because of threatening thunderstorms and and rain. We intended to race, for sure, but at 4.30PM there was a massive rain cloud moving in over the area. It cleared by 5.30PM. I hang around Shake -A-Leg for a while to see if in fact it was a good decision and a believe that it was. I looked out over Biscayne Bay from the third floor, the wind had shifted right and it looked very light. We were better off staying ashore.