Ryan Palk

Last nights strong winds proved to be to much for the mooring line of the 2008 Terrigal Worlds start boat, finding itself beached just near the cliff in front of the club. The boat is a fair way up at the moment but the race committee brought in a bocat to trrey and dig out a start boat that so far doesn’t look to keen on being out there.

Today I went for a sail and I can see why. It was about 1 knot with 2-3m swell which made for a thrilling 20min session in which I got seasick. Still, a positive can be taken from this session as I learnt to now take a pack of kwells with me all the time, plus roll tacking, gybing and general pumping made for an alright physical and balance workout. At the moment the low that is dominating the coast seems to be staying put, hopefully a little more breeze tomorrow for the practice race will let us get under way with no seasickness and the start boat in tact.

cheers

ryan