What was impossible happened! None of the weather forecast predicted more than 4 knots for Wednesday. That’s why all the riders were not happy about the decision to make the skippers meeting at 5:30 in the morning. When I woke up at 5:15 I knew that I was wrong about the judges and went really fast on the contest site. The wind was weak but enough for the contest. I was starting with my 5.7 and for a while I was a bit overpowered. In the first heat I was against Domink Kovarik from Czech Republic. I won that one and went on to go against Tonky Frans. Unfortunately the wind was dropping fast and it wasn’t as good as in the first heat. I had advantage over Tonky on starboard tack but on port tack close to the beach the wind was really light so I did only one flaka which of course was not enough. There was no chance for the double elimination that’s why I didn’t think about the next heats and I finished the event on the 17th place.

In the final it was Taty Frans and Steven van Broeckhoven which was a big surprise. Both of them sailed awesome trough the whole contest and landed perfect Culos, Ponches and Shakas in the wind around 12-15 knots. In the end it was Taty who was better and he won second PWA event in a row.

Third place went to Gollito Estredo and fourth to Kiri Thode.

Few word have to go to Maarten van Ochten from Holland who landed a perfect chachoo in one of his heats and in general was sailing great in those tricky conditions. In the end he became 5th.

I’m quite happy about the event. These were not my condition at all and still I was close to Tonky who is number three in the world from last year.

 pics by: Gosia Kosmowska

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