We arrived in Lake Como which is just south of the Swiss Alps. We had to tow the boat through one of the mountain passes around 7000 feet maneuvering the boat trailer through more than 30 mountain road switchbacks. The first day at Lake Como we setup the boat in between several thunderstorms ...
Read MoreThis Chronicle focuses on the F-18 European Championships which are held whenever the world championships are not in Europe. This year the F-18 Worlds are in Argentina in October. They scheduled the Europeans to be immediately prior the Brest Week which is a huge festival similar to Kiel Week. Brest Week is only held every four years so it is very popular...
Read MoreThe Surendorf Cup regatta was a surprise for us. It shows how strong F-18 racing is in Europe. We were expecting 6-8 boats but there were 19 that raced right off-shore from a cozy beach catamaran club including everyone who finished in front of us at Kiel Week except for the Sach brothers (1st place finishers)...
Read MoreWe were the first F-18 to arrive in Kiel even though we arrived only three days before the event. Most of the boats showed up on Friday but a few arrived on Thursday so that we had some training partners for Friday. We had a two hour practice session on Friday in 13-15 kts of wind and then rushed back in to the beach when thunderstorms started to approach...
Read MoreMatt Morris (my teammate) and I had been talking about competing in the 2015 F-18 World Championships since we left Italy after the 2013 Worlds where we placed 39th out of 161 boats...
Read MoreTime has been flying by here and it has been hard to find time for an update. Kiel Week is now over and we are half way through our two week training period for the Worlds. ...
Read MoreMatt and I have been talking about and planning on competing in the 2015 F-18 World Championships in Kiel, Germany since we left Italy after the 2013 Worlds where we placed 39th out of 161 boats overall and 3rd in the Masters division...
Read MoreHere is the final of our chronicles for the F-18 World Championships in Grosseto, Italy which includes the race results...
Read MoreDefinitely the best day for practicing with a lot of boats so far. We started by doing upwind speed testing with the boat from Oman and we continue to be able to hold even with them. We then had about 25 boats doing practice races on a fairly short course twice around. This was great practice for what the races will be like...
Read MoreWe went sailing against the team from Oman again with their coach in an inflatable power boat. Wind started out light (8 kts) but built very rapidly up to 15 kts. We were able to handle the sail trim transitions better than them and had slightly better speed upwind ...
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