Polish Catamaran Cup. New experience.
Posted on 2008-05-31 14:28:56 CEST.
Pls, forgive me the form. I now try to utilise my N800 to scratch that note.
Edit: Hmm.. using N800 is quite painful when you want to write a bit more than a shor mail. A hardware keyboard would be a bless.
Today we had three races in (in weak wiinds) and it was my first time on a new boat. I started racing on formula F18HT which seem to be an outstanding fast boat. Despite my many failures only two A class's and one Tornado were faster. I thing I'm gonna like it.
After a frst day of 3 races we were 4th, second day didn't bring many changes to score. All regatta won Tornado team before 2 A-class cats. The wind was tricky and changing, but still in a rage of weak winds that preferred leightweight boat like A-class. Tornado team was outstandigly fast, what is reasonable since they spend some 200 days a year on trainings. Anyway, we were very close to beat all when leaders took left side downwards and lost the wind completely while we had some on right side. Unfortunately on a leeward mark, we were claimed to touch a bouy, however we are sure we didn't. Suddenly when we were making a round, a boat that was som 30 meters ahead called and then boats behind us picked it and start calling. What is strange is that normally Sebastian was taking bouys very close \but this time. This time we passed it from distance... but that's life 3 votes against one and we decided to take a penalty without protest risk. Funny, that none of them was able to tell which part touched the bouy.
Next regatta in two weeks. We'll see :)