It is less than five days until we start the first official race of the Worlds.  It’s going to be hard to focus at work this week.

The plan for the week is to practice tomorrow night with Paul and Matt, pick up Crazy Ivan in Ottawa on Wendsday, and take the day off sailing on Thursday and get things cleaned up at home.  Friday I’ll head off as soon as I can after work.  I can’t wait to get to the club and get settled in for the week.

I just checked the registration page and see that there are 50 boats entered so far and the deadline has been extended.  All the usual suspects are there, which is kind of reassuing since we beat them all at the Canadians.  I know most of the boats, but there are a few folks from over seas that I don’t know.

The weather is a little volitile right now so there isn’t much point in trying to make predictions this far out, but I’ve been keeping a close eye on the systems that might come into play.  This is Hal’s gig anyway, but I like to know what’s going on in the big picture.

My gig is make sure that the lines run smoothly and that everything will work through manouvers.  I’ve seen pictures of Ivan’s deck layout and I like it.  Should be much more clean and simple than Scallywag, the boat we had for the Canadians.  This boat was Shark of the year last year so we know she is fast.  At least we will have the practice race to sort out any modifications in our crew work for the new layout. 

My blogging may be sporatic this week, as things are really busy.  I’m told that RCYC now has wifi all over the island so I should be able to write from Toronto.