Carbon Footprints

For a number of reasons - often convenience - I'm train much more nowadays.

I'm just off to Weymouth by train and am feeling very virtuous after having compared the journey by car or train on this website: www.transportdirect.info
I'm using only 9.7 kg of CO2 emissions rather than 20.5 kgs.

Have a look for yourself.

Olympics and Paralympics

What a difference a few weeks makes! By the end of the Olympics all the sailing world in GB were flying high with a record number of medals – 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze as well as the accolade of top nation for the third Olympics running. Delightful for me as I had coached sailors in not just the four gold medal boats but also the Spaniard Fernando Echaverri who won the Tornado Gold (as well as Sofia Bekatorou – Bronze - as already mentioned).

This last week has been the Paralympics, and as a selector of the Team I have taken a very keen interest. Unfortunately they’ve had a rough time, and have finished 5th Skud, 6th Sonar and 7th 2.4mR. My commiserations to all the sailors and coaches. We have a wrap-up meeting at the Sail for Gold regatta this week so the priority has to be learning the lessons for next time.

Sail for Gold www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk/ kicks off this week and no doubt will get many visitors now looking towards 2021. I think a number of our now (justly) famous medallists will be there. They’ve produced a Mac widget to get a direct link to news in Weymouth which is fun for me as a Mac user!