Goal Setting 2010

Hey, this is serious!

But without any goals I will just wander and would be as well off taking "T" and going mountain biking for a year out.

My long term goals are

1) a major win in a one design keelboat as crew

2) regular club wins in dinghies

3) a big win of an event, maybe distance. Askøy rundt again

4) to compete in a worlds in either sports boats or maybe a dinghy

5) to re-establish the 59er as a classs in norway, a small sportsboat and a 28 footer 'farr' machine

6) sail in OD in SF, Sydney, Phuket, Solent and clyde again of course

7) do at least one more cork week

If the conditions are right then this is what I would want to do....but if I am in some bum job here locally, then the sailing school will be a necessary thing for my own sanity and some profile in the town.

Given I am either weekly commuting or working somewhere with good wednesday nights-

1) Crew and tactician on an express or other OD

2) my own snipe or laser or laser 8.1

3) some time in the snipe in a fleet doing regular races.

4) Færder'n one more time! Or maybe Skagen if it aint 17 mai

What I want to avoid are -

Being a side show on a J109 ,erm, yeah, being stuck in a HC fleet

Being asked to sail with wallies like RE on C240.

Being on any other no-hope dog OD


Ideally-

1) a place on a regular win OD - express, X99, X35, 31.7 so on.

2) a cheap, or loaned, snipe with no work other than tuning required.

b) a small , close matched fleet to sail in

3) a mentor who can fix boats and teach me!

4) a regional or national snipe event locally to aim for


Færdern next year???

If I am "stuck" locally then i guess it has to be that snipe and loans of helming 12.5 ers. But I would settle for a place on a sociable 5,5 er.

All these goals are dooable, both short term and long term.