Practice Begins

The Bella Mente team arrived in Sardinia a couple of days ago. The first 2 days were spent working on the boat and getting it ready for this event. Yesterday was our first day on the water and that was spent looking at most of our sails and a few small changes. Today we worked more on our light air boat speed and spent a couple of hours straight line sailing against Stig. It was another light air day with the breeze not getting about 9 knots.
Little by little, the rest of the boats are coming in and the crews are arriving. Racing doesn’t start for quite a while so we have some time to work on many aspects of the program. We will again work on windward leeward sailing tomorrow and continue to work on our light air performance. The list is long for things to do. We still have all our furling sails and coastal set up to look at and work on. The boat also has to get weighed which is usually a bit of a fiasco.
We have quite a bit more practice to get through before the regatta comes about but it will do us some good.
Doogie