I’m in Boston today visiting with my friend Tifenn Judet de La Combe who has been helping me sort out some logistics in France from the French Library in Boston.  We are heading up to Maine today to visit with her Step Father Mike Birch, who is a legend in the world of solo racing, and one hell of a nice guy.  We will also see my friend and mentor Kip Stone who I worked for for a few years during his very successful campaigns on the beautiful Owen Clarke Open 50′ Artforms. 

It will be very good to relax with them and discuss the upcoming events in my life and campaign and catch up with the events in their lives.  They have been where I’m at many times (in fact Mike is building a boat for himself right now) and understand the stress and fatigue factors that I am experiencing at this point.  Honestly, and they may not know this yet, but I need them to help me get my head on strait and to try to help me remember that this is supposed to be fun.  To race and do well means first having a boat which functions perfectly so that it is simply an extension of the sailor’s every synapse,  and secondly it’s all about attitude.  In my case one may be directly tied to the other, but until Myrna is working completely I will not know.  That said I need to improve my attitude to get her to that point.  So I head North for council before I jump into the fire of preparing Myrna for the qualifier in France. 

Please excuse my lack of updates, but I just wanted a break from all things boat for a while. 

I’ll do an Ullman sail update before I leave for France on the fourth.

-Ryan