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Breskens Sailing Weekend.
Friday Offshore day.
Big waves and about 25 knots of wind dictated the day.
The tension on board was high
Our first line up with other 35 footers. What will it bring us?
First mark was 1 mile upwind, than a 24 mile course around the cans.
After the start, we struggled to find the pace in the big waves. Immediately you could see that the other boats were used to this. After a few minutes banging in the waves we found ourselves in the middle of the pack.
After the upwind mark, which we rounded after the 2 J109s, the JPK1010, and all the Archambault 35s it became a drag race. Like ducks in a row we started on our 24 mile long beating.
But we were happy
because the one thing we had in mind for this weekend was already established. We came here to find the same boatspeed as Stiletto. Stiletto is a First 35 from the UK with already a good palmares (3rd @ Cowes Week).
We rounded the mark a few boatlenghts in front of Stiletto. But could we hold our position?
Every mark we stretched away with another 30 to 40 seconds, and after a good 4 hours racing we finished almost 5 minutes ahead of them.
What will the upwind, downwinds bring us tomorrow?
After corrected time, we came in 7th today, 16 boats finished the offshore regatta.
Not good, not bad
. After all, its our first race.
Too bad that we had pretty rough conditions, it was very hard to compare boatspeed with other boats and tune up against them. Maybe tomorrow?
01-09-2010, 09:47
Geschreven door Christopher 
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