What a great week-end :-)!!!!

On November 15th, I learned that an other sailor from a different class won the Route du Rhum. His name is Francois Gabart. He has also won the Vendee Globe which is a race on a 60 foot boat and you're alone around the world. He has not only won it, but he is the youngest to have won it ever, and the record holder. By the way, he is only 29 years old today. One of the cool facts about him is that he started sailing with Optis. If you didn't know, most of the best sailors started sailing on Optis.

Here is a picture of Francois Gabart sailing on an opti.

 

Here is the wikipedia page of Francois Gabart.

My grandparents are staying at my  house and my grandpa helped out at the RYC this week-end. If you volunteer, you either help putting the boats in the water or serving lunch.

I also went sailing on Jerome Lecat's Folksboat. We went to Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, and had a picnic. When we wanted to leave, we had a problem: we couldn't pull the anchor. What happened is that this really big boat came and got his anchor stuck on ours. So we couldn't move. We ended up cutting our anchor's line and putting a boue on it.

This is my dad and I.

This is my grandpa and I.

Bravo Loick !

During my Opti class last Sunday, we raced and my results were 1st,2nd,1st,1st,1st, and for the 3rd time in a row I won the day (my friends and I count the points).

Coming into the harbor I fell in and after taking 15 minutes to get back in the boat I stood up on the side on the boat and turtled (capzise all the way)!

All day I was excited about this race across the Atlantic Ocean named Route du Rhum. One of my favorite sailor won it and beated the record (in the past, he had almost never finished the race because he either broke something or capzised) his name is Loick Peyron. If you want to check out the web site of the Route du Rhum or Loick Peyron.

Here is a picture of my Dad and my Mom at start of the Route du Rhum in 1998 (this is an antique).

This picture is my sister, my brother, and myself at the 2012 America's Cup World Series (45 feet catamaran with wings) in San Fransico, surrounding Loick Peyron, skipper of Energy Team.