Here is a video from Silverminken in this year's Watski Skagerrak Twostar regatta:
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Watski Skagerrak Twostar 2011 winners
We won our class in Watski Twostar Skagerrak 2011!!
Here is an interview with the winners (regrettably in Norwegian) just after the race:
Here is an interview with the winners (regrettably in Norwegian) just after the race:
Updates from the racetrack
It's been quite a while since the last posts, regrettably, but we've been busy sailing, so now I'll try to get some more posts out (and movies) from the recent events.
The Færderseilasen was a great race, considering the fact that I had a hard time getting crew....we ended up with my little brother and a friend who was interested in testing out the 310....not really the best ramp-up for entering the LYS Racing 33 class hehe.
Anyway, we finished 36 of 40, which is pretty much what we could expect under the circumstances. If we had entered the regular handicap class (and not racing) we would have finished 7 of 12, which is quite ok. The race itself was over in just under 15 hours for us, with long spinnaker legs.
The Watski Twostar Skagerrak Race was a huge success for us. It is really a tough doublehanded regatta with two legs, totalling about 300 nautical miles. We were third into pitstop on the first leg, and on the second leg we had some incredible surfs in very extreme conditions. We bore the spinnaker in 32 knots of wind with huge waves over skagerrak, with speeds regularly hitting 14 and 15 knots - max was 15.5 on the log, whereas the GPS had just over 20 knots SOG. Amazing! We hit some great windshifts on the way north again and ended up winning the second leg and winning our class! Yippi!!
I'll get some video footage and detailed posts from both races out as soon as I can.
Here are some pictures from Færderseilasen (images courtesy of Seilmagasinet):
Here are some pictures from the start of Færderseilasen, right after we had to avoid colliding with the windward boat:
Here are some mobile pictures from Silverminken in Twostar:
The Færderseilasen was a great race, considering the fact that I had a hard time getting crew....we ended up with my little brother and a friend who was interested in testing out the 310....not really the best ramp-up for entering the LYS Racing 33 class hehe.
Anyway, we finished 36 of 40, which is pretty much what we could expect under the circumstances. If we had entered the regular handicap class (and not racing) we would have finished 7 of 12, which is quite ok. The race itself was over in just under 15 hours for us, with long spinnaker legs.
The Watski Twostar Skagerrak Race was a huge success for us. It is really a tough doublehanded regatta with two legs, totalling about 300 nautical miles. We were third into pitstop on the first leg, and on the second leg we had some incredible surfs in very extreme conditions. We bore the spinnaker in 32 knots of wind with huge waves over skagerrak, with speeds regularly hitting 14 and 15 knots - max was 15.5 on the log, whereas the GPS had just over 20 knots SOG. Amazing! We hit some great windshifts on the way north again and ended up winning the second leg and winning our class! Yippi!!
I'll get some video footage and detailed posts from both races out as soon as I can.
Here are some pictures from Færderseilasen (images courtesy of Seilmagasinet):
Here are some pictures from the start of Færderseilasen, right after we had to avoid colliding with the windward boat:
Here are some mobile pictures from Silverminken in Twostar:
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Next regatta....
It's been a while since the last post ... a lot of stuff going on at the moment, but now we are getting closer to the focus of the season, the Watski Twostar 2011 regatta! I'll post more on that next week, but this weekend we are sailing Silverminken in the "Færderseilasen" regatta ,which is the worlds largest overnight regatta.
We don't really have high expectations for this regatta, since we will only be three people on board, and haven't sailed together before, so it will mostly be to get some more hours in the boat. But the regatta is always a great social event with great competition. We have entered Silverminken in the highly competitive LYS Racing 33 class, which will probably be a bit more than we can handle. :)
We also talked to another Elan 310 owner and got them to start in the same class - the Elan 310 "Sagitta" that Tom owns. It will be fun to see if we can get some tight racing!
There is a GPS tracking for the regatta here:
http://www.endomondo.com/event/iUZKXMpQuyE#
We don't really have high expectations for this regatta, since we will only be three people on board, and haven't sailed together before, so it will mostly be to get some more hours in the boat. But the regatta is always a great social event with great competition. We have entered Silverminken in the highly competitive LYS Racing 33 class, which will probably be a bit more than we can handle. :)
We also talked to another Elan 310 owner and got them to start in the same class - the Elan 310 "Sagitta" that Tom owns. It will be fun to see if we can get some tight racing!
There is a GPS tracking for the regatta here:
http://www.endomondo.com/event/iUZKXMpQuyE#
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