Just back from the International German Championship. 130 boats on Lake Constance and surprisingly for the Lake there was wind.12-18Knots the first two days some puffs to maybe 20, then lessening for the last two days. Sailors from 13 nations.
If she is interested in a 14 I have a friend with an older but very fast hull laying around unused, Not sure about the state of the foils and would need a rig. Was a special build for Hasso Platner built in Australia. Sitting a bit south of Bremen in a horse stable now. Woluld love to see it...
""Garcia submitted an employment inquiry indicating that he was interested in obtaining employment as a hit man," the announcement said. "Garcia followed up on this initial request and submitted other identification documents and a resume, indicating he was an expert marksman and employed in the...
Here in Germany a lot of clubs do the wine thing, makes a great participation trophy.
Getting excited for our Nationals, 140 boats so far from 11 Nations.
https://www.manage2sail.com/de-DE/event/IDMFinnDinghy2023#!/entries?classId=9be1d675-8a11-446a-89c6-5cd68e56642c
Ohhh schön war noch nie weiter Nördlich als Hamburg,. Wohne seit fast 23 Jahre hier, will irgendwann nach Norden ziehen. Bin von San Diego und hab meine Deutsche jetzt Ex in England nach ein FD WM kennengelernt :-)
I still think about the the Ukrainian women I met staying at an AirBnB last spring. Had to go to Geneva for work and decided to make a bit of a motorcycle trip out of it. First night I stayed in an AirBnB in France. Walked in and they were sitting at the table and invited me to sit and have some...
In the end if I knew someone was likely going to hit me in the head with a stick and I had the option of wearing a helmet or not I would choose to wear one.
Like when I was climbing, for me helmet use was situational, clean steep rock with little rockfall chance I might not wear, alpine, chossy...
We have now a small fleet in my club and I have managed to get in touch with the class assoc. here in Germany and get a class regatta here and am looking forward to doing the race committee. Happy to have them but yeah I will stay with my Finn :-) We are just a small sailing club on a little...
The part about fiddling time is an advantage to the Finn, almost none really needed. beyond maybe putting a mast block in or out for different conditions there is not too much else to do. Maybe replace a line or 2 or fix dings but that's the same for any boat. I spend no more time fiddling than...