It’s been another full on week for Sailing Logic and Team Logic have just finished their five-day training camp. It proved to be an intensive week for everyone. Day One was spent getting back into the swing of things and working together as a team. Everyone has swapped roles again for the rest of the campaign, (except of course, Philippe, who will have to suffer the chafe to his fingertips a bit longer!!) so we were each getting to know new positions on board. This is a fantastic way to improve all round skills as well, since a great racing team is made up of people who can all work together and think one step ahead for each other.

The rest of the week was spent building on these news skills with classroom sessions on weather and tactics, as well as time on the water. Despite the forecasted lack of wind we managed to pick our way round the Solent and Southampton Water and find enough breeze to get some superb sailing in each day- it certainly put our pressure spotting skills to the test!!

There was only one day that there was so little wind that we anchored for lunch, after which Bol managed to end up a bit muddy. All in all it was a great week, assisted by our coach, Peter Conway, and of course Philippe and Sara. Everyone learnt loads and by the end of the week we were all working together really cohesively, with all our spinnaker hoists and drops improving each time!! (Ref: Craig the Bowman in the photo!!) Hopefully we now have the foundations for a great team for the rest of the season!

Team Logic is now looking forward to meeting again for the Round the Island Race in a couple of weeks time and this is followed by the IRC Nationals the week after. Sailing Logic also has Jaguar, Lion, Bongani and Sidney entered in the RTI race so there should be plenty of competition amongst the crews!!

For the moment though, there is barely a chance to stop and think as we get the boats ready to go again for the next Fastnet Qualifying race this weekend.