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Final Day at Worlds

On 06/18/2010 By

It’s Over – The weather was fantastic today. Winds of 15 – 20 with big waves. There was a little current, but not so much that you had to worry about it. Margi got out on a spectator boat today and got some really good pics. My position did not change – I finished up [...]

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Wednesday at Worlds

On 06/17/2010 By

Results after day 3

Today was sooo much better then yesterday. We had wind all day and started only 10 minutes late. Got back to the beach by 4:30.

I had to Jens the whole day. The waves were really big and there was a current or tide, I’m not really sure which [...]

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Tuesday at Worlds

On 06/16/2010 By

Results after Day 2

Hi ya’ll – Today was much better than yesterday. The winds were manageable, even light at times. My first race was pretty good, second race was a disaster, and in the third race I was 26th. I got to see many faces that I had not seen before. So far [...]

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Monday in Italy

On 06/14/2010 By

Results after Day 1

Well the real regatta has begun. I am in Italy how bad could it be. I can say that I beat someone (actually more than one as Ellen is in 39th with 48 boats registered) every race today. I seem to be having trouble figuring out the Italian way of [...]

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Burks Worlds Update

On 06/13/2010 By

We got here late Friday night and crashed and burned for 11 hours. Then it was down to the beach to check in and get my boat. Got everything except the dagger board – size issues with all the boards had to be corrected so they came back late yesterday. Got up this morning nary [...]

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