Chris and Peter update their blog ahead of the Sail for Gold regatta taking place on the Olympic waters this week
6 June 2011
Today sees the start of the long awaited Sail for Gold regatta. There are a tonne of entries in all the Olympic sailing disciplines. I don't know exactly how many 49ers there are but we certainly take up plenty of space in the boat park.We put the boat away to rest last week. We'd had a really good three weeks of training and we we're really pleased with the new boat so it was really nice to go and relax for a while and spend some time at home with the sprogs and our amazing wives.We came back on Friday to a very busy boat park, full of lots of very serious-looking competitors. We've done two days of sailing to just freshen up. 'Bingo,' our battle ship, is in good shape and the team are feeling really good.We're really looking forward to going and having a really enjoyable event in our favorite venue in the world backed by lots of great support, including that of our sponsors, G4S.
Thank you so much all the people that have sent us their best wishes - we are really grateful.All the best,Chris and Peter