Okay. My sailing competition just ended yesterday. Waa... It was fun man! Just that my position was lousy.. Really hoped that i did better. My competition started on Tuesday and ended yesterday. Waa..
Tuesday's wind was crazy! We launched our boats at 11am. (Aww..no AP flag flown) The wind was not strong at first. It was only about 2knots. Then a storm suddenly hit and rose to 15-18knots! Crazy wind! Made me capsize so many times man! We had 3 races on Tuesday, but i retired on the 2nd race. The wind was too strong for me and i kept capsizing. All my energy was drained out of me. I was really struggling to keep afloat. I did not even have the energy to upright my boat, so i just clung onto my capsized boat and drifted away with the current. I drifted for about 30mins when i suddenly saw Noel. LOL. What was Noel doing?? Shouldn't he be sailing the race course? Why is he near me when i drifted away so far from the race course.. Anyway, he told me that he didn't know where to go and he had no energy to continue racing too! Yea. But he was in a better condition than me. So, he tried to help me to upright my boat but to no avail. Both of us just drifted further and further away from the race course.. So, both of us had no energy left in us and we just drifted.. Alas! After about another 30min wait, we saw a speed boat coming towards us. Lol. Perhaps it is the race officials wondering why two boats have drifted so far away from the race course?? Nope. That isn't the reason. It was two Thai guys who came to our rescue! Yes, Thai guys.. Lol. We had a hard time communicating to them as they didn't know how to speak English. Okay. But they could see that both Noel and i had no energy left in us and needed help. Okay.. So they helped us to upright my capsized boat. After a long long while trying to upright my boat, they finally uprighted it. Gosh! My whole sail came out and my boat couldn't even be used to sail now! Anyway, my boat was in such a bad condition that they had to de-rig my boat in water! Yup. Then they asked Noel to sail back to shore on his boat first and i got onto the speed boat and they sent me back to shore. Saved! Lol. Yup. So i put my two hands together and bowed to them saying 'thank you'. Lol. That was the very least that i could do. I should have said 'Sawadikap' right?? Lol. Yea. Sawadikap is the Thai word for Thank You. Anyway, that's for day one, Tuesday. Sounds really like a story right?? Lol. Yea, but it really happened.
Day two, Wednesday had no wind. AP was raised and the races were postponed till the wind picked up. Lol. But the wind didn't pick up, so we ended up not racing! Thursday and Friday had no wind or very very light wind too. But we still sailed due to the lack of time for all the races. Saturday had little wind but we still sailed. Yup. Anyway, throughout the competition, i had four competitors. Erm..my own competitors for the races. They are Sail number 333 from HIJ(S), SIN 450 from Katong Convent, SIN 8006 from Victoria School and SIN 805 from Mayflower Secondary. Yup. At the end of the last race on Saturday, SIN 450 and SIN8006 beat me by a few rankings! Damn! The guy from Victoria, SIN 8006 was tyco lor! For all the other 8 races, i beat him by a lot. But on the last race, he won my by one position!! Yup. Then the KC sailor, SIN 450. She was winning me by one or two positions for the other races. But on the last race, she beat me by 4 rankings i think..! HIJ sailor, 333 was beaten by me. So was Mayflower sailor, SIN 805. Lol. I recognise the Mayflower sailor coz she was also my competitor for the March Regetta competition. Wears a dark blue Adidas cap..easy to recognise. Okay. So there were 138 byte ( Byte is a type of sail boat!) sailors in the competition. We were then split into the Gold and Silver Fleet after the qualifying round of 5 races. I got into the Silver Fleet.. Not as good la. But never mind. TK only has 3 sailors in the Gold Fleet anyway. So there were 69 sailors in the Silver Fleet. At the end of the competition, i got 39.. Aww.. Could have done much better la! I slacked for this competition! I could have got a 20-plus ranking. Never mind. I will work harder for the July Inter-school competition. That is the most important competition of the year. So, jia you!
Okay. That's all for my sailing competitions. Many foreigners in this June Sentosa Regetta competition yea. Foreigners from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Belgium, Germany, Philippines and blah blah.. Whatever la. International competition yea?? Lol. Holidays also the last day le. So..everybody jia jia jia you!! =D