Light Winds, Strong Currents

Just returned to shore from training before the practice race tomorrow. It was our very first training together as a team. We managed to iron out our specific roles and teamwork which will help us a great deal for the next 4 days. The external challenge to us here is the conditions at the racing area. It is our first time experiencing light winds coupled with very strong currents (4 knots). The currents are so strong that that our boat speed was 4 knots but on our GPS it shows 0.3 knots meaning there is 3.7 knots of current against us. In the end, we resorted to motoring back to the club. Right now, we are coming up with strategies to counter this.

On the lighter note, the make up of our team has changed from 5 singaporean boys to 4 singaporean boys and 1 japanese boy - guess who is that? Renfred Kaneshiro..