Antipodean Training Programme, Episode 3: Nautical Training Plan?
Well, looking at the RW week-2 training schedule, it says I should be doing a warmup followed by "3-4 miles at a brisk pace" today. The only problem is that I'm supposed to be crewing the foredeck of a J24 in the New Year handicap out of the Royal Perth YC tonight, and there's a big prize at stake...Combine the two? Not very windy, so bound to take ages to sail the course... brilliant, Jeremy! So, let's see - a J24 is about 7.5 m long and 3m or so in the beam... makes it about 25m round the gunwales. A 4-mile run is about 6.5km, and Jeremy's training route will be: along the port cockpit rail, over the companionway, swing out past the side-stay, over the rail onto the foredeck, round the fore-rail not putting too much weight on the dodgy stanchion, hang on for grim death to the forestay, back onto the foredeck, round the starboard sidestay, down the other side of the companionway and cockpit, over the transom-rail (stepping on the helm's head on the way), along the port cockpit rail, over the companionway, swing out past the side-stay, over the rail onto the foredeck, round the fore-rail not putting too much weight on the dodgy stanchion...etc...
errrrmmm.... 260 times.
You know, I don't think the skipper is going to be too happy with that. It could well be the first case of crew being hung from the yard-arm in WA for 200 years.
Hmmm.. Best make today a rest-day then...
posted by Jeremy @ 8:33 AM
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