Jessica Crisp takes second in Olympics race 1!

Good stuff!

I hope the racing can be posted on the web for all to watch.

How was the wind?

Would you believe ch 7 actually broadcast some of the race!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The wind looked real light and there was a lot of pumping going on. Its a pity they didnt show the whole race.

Now one of the guys at work wants to come and have a go on my board once it gets a little warmer.

Lets hope that a little footage will encourage others to start sailing

Congrats on the finish Jessica

Does anybody know when is on TV? Have access to recorder thingy so can preprogram, record and put on web.

Hang on, no I just gave myself a job.

pumping round a course - yawn

You did not read AUS1111's request?

Not sure but I guess its a triangle course, an upwind leg, gybe around the top mark, downwind to the next mark, gybe around it and a reach to the finish.

Whether anybody reading this forum thinks it's boring or shouldn't be there is irrelevant, it is there and Australia's champion, Jessica Crisp, has a great chance of taking a medal.

The Olympic sailing is a regatta, and regatta-style windsurfing is the only type of windsurfing that can be included due to the format and the light wind conditions.

It is as relevant to windsurfing as any other aspect of the sport, probably more relevant to most punters than the extremes of the sport like speed sailing in the canal or double mast high Ho'okipa.

Whether or not it's exciting is not a criterion for it's inclusion. The sailors who are competing in Olympic windsurfing are elite athletes of great talent and dedication and the gold medallist will be as worthy a winner as that of any other sport.

Course is as follows:



JB

Thats awesome!! Go Jess!!

lookin good also in the 470 men and womens and the 49'ers as well!!

She's now 3rd: www.rya.org.uk/contact-us/Pages/404.aspx?oldUrl=/beijing2008/events/neilprydersxw/Pages/RSXWomensResults.aspx

I just watched the skiffs and it was blowing an absolute gale! Looked really sketchy. AUS was in the lead by about 2 minutes and they capsized twice on the last leg! Boats capsizing everywhere.

my sewing machine instruction manual contains a pic just like this

Hahaha.

I tried this kind of course racing recently.

Couldn't understand the course, couldn't recognise the markers, didn't understand the signal flags, ended up sailing in a big "V" shape instead of a trapezoid with inner loop or whatever...and I was awarded fourth place out of 15 entrants!! Excellent work on the part of the referees!!

The following week there was another race. I didn't know we'd started, and waited at the start line through the whole thing. I was well pi$$ed-off when I found out the race was over!

It was then that I decided to retire from the racing circuit before I did any real damage, and focus on something I can handle, like sailing back and forth on a reach all day long.

It looks like Jess finished 4th overall.
Awesome effort