I took Friday off to sail in the South African Sailing Flamenca class Nationals. Our team was determined to win, as winning this would give us our colors for sailing. The southerly wind was strong, and the sailing was close but we managed to win 1st place, by about half a meter.
Saturdays sailing was not great, I got seasick during the long waiting period between races, and we got three 3rd places, which removed all hope of winning the regatta due to total points - but we were tied with another boat for 2nd place, and we had to beat them.
Sunday was great, we got two 2nd places, which secured 2nd overall for our team. We almost had a 1st place, but I tripped a set of cleats and both sails came down while we were winning. My bad.
All in all it was a good regatta, and we went home with our silver medals and a Garmin GPS navigation system.
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