Well, a lot has happened in the last few weeks, I feel like I have been permanently on a plane, but on the positive side have had a really good time in some pretty nice places. I am a little sick of airlines losing my luggage, twice in two weeks is a little annoying, but my bags did turn up eventually, even after some interesting 'spanish' conversations with the lovely lady at Iberian Airlines...
After finishing up in LA and putting the star boat away in storage it was off to Spain. I have been lucky enough to have been asked to sail on Alfa Romeo the 100 foot super maxi owned by Neville Crichton.
It is a really impressive 'toy', basically you sit there for most of the day in awe of the power and size of everything involved, the loads are quite incredible. Touch wood I haven't lost a finger yet! Have a look at the above site, there are some great photos of the boat in Europe last year. The schedule for this year is equally impressive, I am hoping I will get asked back to sail on the boat for the whole season, fingers crossed.
The Palma regatta was a reasonably low key event, with mainly cruising Wally boats and swans as the opposition, but was a good opportunity for the new guys to get to know the boat and prepare for the season. The TP52's had a fleet of 9 boats which was good to watch.
We did do one longer passage race about 50 miles around the Mallorca coastline. Great fun, I don't think Mallorca is quite as nice as Sardinia or Corsica, but the Med is a pretty nice place to be, especially cruising along upwind at 11 knots in a Super Maxi!
The flight back to Sydney was always going to be a long haul, especially going via Madrid, London and Singapore. I then had six hours in Sydney to do my washing before flying to Auckland for an 18 regatta, no rest for the wicked!
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