Two races in at the Soling European Championship
With a nice sunny and windy day, racing start for all the 10 countries present at the Terme di Boario European Championship. Starting with winds of 11 knots and increasing, first from 215 degrees and then going to 230 on the second race. The fleet fight hard to stay on the shifts, it was challenging and many local boats gave surprises at the first mark.
The event clearly had two packs of solings after the first lap, where on pack went forward and the other kept holding. President of the ISA Johan Offermans, Bas Dusee and Oliver Dusee (the whole family) sailing together NED 25 took the first bullet, - the new mast paid off with a smile -, followed by the Marinepool team GER 300 with Roman Koch, Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann also called the maremma boys, would them be also the Iseo boys?, current World Champion SLO 1 team with Bostjan Antoncic, Gennadi Strakh and Mitja Nevecny placed third at this first race where it paid off to start at the race committee and keep the right side of the course.
At the second race a bit more wind and now a bit more from the right and an even start paid of the left side of the field, Marinepool team jumped in the front and kept leading the legs, followed close by Thomas Maschkiwitz Christian Oehler and Jorg Goletz from GER 304, the current Austrian champion Carl Auteried, Martin Kendler and Udo Moser followed at the finish with an excellent race from the middle to the front.
4th overall is also team Marinepool – Ramadabalaton HUN 77 with George Wossala, Karoly Vezer and Peter Nemeth who managed to place 4th in both races.
The boats after mooring are being received with PASTA and beer, but no one will forget that in about 2hrs the sailors will go to the winery Ferghettina (Frantiacorta ) for a night buffee and wine taste. It is all about sailing, drinking and eating + lots of sun…
Complete results:
www.soling.com/results/ShowResults.asp?ID=535
Article wrote by Matias Collins
