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:
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