Blogging Updates - Rolex Middle Sea Race 2010 and Some Other Stuff

Nothing has been put up on the blog for a long time so here are some photos. The biggest event was coming 2nd overall in the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2010 on ''ARTIE''.




Team 'ARTIE'

Before the start

First out of the harbour in our group after the start

Photo taken by Kurt Arrigo for Rolex

After crossing the finishing line

Celebration!

Team 'ARTIE'

Yachtmaster Done!

This week have been in Gibraltar and did my Offshore Yachtmaster and passed!

See this link where I did it.

YACHT RACING THIS WEEKEND

SAILING ON 'MISCHIEF' AGAIN THIS WEEKEND. THINK IT IS COASTAL AND ROUND THE CANS. JOHN

BMW Gozo Weekend

John at the helm of Mischief

I did the BMW Gozo regatta last weekend. Wind bad. No wind. Sunday we had a race from Gozo back down to Marsamxett and we had a light to moderate wind and I helmed nearly all the way which was really cool!

No News

JOHN REPORTING! SORRY NO NEWS JUST BEEN ALOT OF HARD WORK FOR MANWEL AND ME DOWN AT THE WATER SPORTS CENTRE ALL SUMMER. WE HAVE DONE A LOAD OF WAKEBOARDING WHICH IS GREAT FUN, MANWEL DOING GOOD 360'S AND ME GETTING SOME GREAT HEIGHT. I ALSO STARTED TO MONO SKI WHICH IS FREAKY FAST AND EXCITING WITH GREAT WIPE OUTS - OUCH!

THIS AFTERNOON HOPE TO GO AND DO SOME TIME ON A THUNDERCAT WITH A FRIEND.

FISHING HAS ALSO BEEN BAD - SEEMS THEY ARE NOT BITING RIGHT NOW, THINK THEY ARE IN DEEPER WATER COS THE WATER TEMP. IS PRETTY WARM .

Yacht Racing

Hi Guys! We haven't been writing much in this blog this winter - mainly because we have had such a bad time with the wind. Basically not much or gale force! But I, John, have been down a couple of times in the past week. The last time was in Ghallis which was really great. Massive swell (for Malta anyway, but it was BIG) and I got some really good high jumps on the point. I used my Fanatic wave board and my favourite sail which is the Tushingham Rock 4.2m. I just LOVE that sail. Had some good wave rides too. If only we could get more of those conditions - I just love it in the waves.

I have been doing some yacht racing too and I am hoping that I will become a full member of the team on the J109 'Artie' belonging to Lee Satariano. I did one race on it a couple of weeks ago and we won and this last weekend we had a weekend of racing in Gozo. On Saturday we raced from the harbour to Gozo, on Sunday we raced round Comino and yesterday we raced back down to the harbour in Malta. It was great fun and the wind was pretty good too. You can see me in the shot above - I am at the front leaning out of the boat.

That's all for now. Hopefully we will have some more stuff soon to show you on the blog.

JOHN