Measurement woes…the moment of inertia test..and pin trading!

Hi everybody! Here's me...8:15 PM on Sat updating my blog in the USA dorm here at the athletes village (a.k.a Pan Am Jail..we are locked in by guards with machine guns)


The good news is official equipment measurement is OVER and we were blazing fast in the practice race today! However we were at the sailing venue from 9:30AM - 9:45PM last night trying to complete measurement. For my non sailor friends, official measurement involves a lengthy process where an official measures and weighs almost everything on the boat to make sure it complies with class rules. At 4:00 yesterday, the officials decided to do the Moment of Inertia test for each boat. The process started at 6:00 PM and ended at 9:45. Approximately half of the boats failed the test initially. Unfortunately we were one of them. Fortunately we were able to shift the lead weights in the boat aft and forward until we reached compliance.

Moment of Inertia Test


Augie shifting the weights until our boat passed the test


Another part of measurement involved putting the official country codes on our sails
Go USA!


Me with our boat at some point during measurement..I lost track of time


Also...Pin trading is huge here...see my WIP below