F16 Europeans: Day 3, Photos by Marco Iazzetta

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Finally some Blade exposure! Bundy behind

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Racing close to shore, perfect conditions

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Christa and Brett leading the pack

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Carolijn and Liz Wardley in perfect trim

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Gill and Katlheen keeping the pace with Vipers

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Mr Bundock crewing the flower power Viper

Photo: Marco Iazzetta – Start
All cristal clear, crisp, & excellent images by Marco Iazzetta
Click each for higher resolution. “La Bella Italia” For sure good wine& food as reported by Helen Goodall, incredible sceneries in pics published, perfect sailing conditions, you can´t ask for more. Checking again in Google Earth, Lake Como is 18kms from Gerenzano, North Italy, near Milan, where the part of the Italian family of my grand-grand father came from, I knew I like this place for something…
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Day 3 – Report By Gill de Bruyne
Day 3 is over and we made it again 🙂 It was a lighter day today but very exciting. We did very very bad in race 2, finishing 11th. Boehoe. We had a bad start in that race, due to this bad start we didn’t have clean air on the left side of the course, so we decided to tack and found ourselves without pressure in the middle of the course. To top it all of we managed to over sail the gate in the last lap and then there was a kite surfer in the way so we had to douse the kite before the gate, so yeah, not a good race at all. So that will be one of our throw outs.
We are currently in a draw for 7th place with Paul and Anne, who are also sailing a Falcon, so that is really great and also very exciting for the next races.
Race 1 was our best race today, were we scored a 6. We had a clean high start and we were able to tack away quick to the right side of the course and that did pay off. We were 3rd at the upwind mark, but then we lost 1 place in the downwind run and than another 2 in the upwind mark (we over sailed the upwind mark a bit).
Race 3 we scored a 7, so also very happy about that. We had great pressure going downwind with the kite (Kathleen had to sit in, because there was not enough wind to trap out) and we had alot of speed and depth.
Overall we are very happy with our results, and we find ourselves as one of the 1st amateur sailors. The top 6 is not possible anymore due to the difference in points but we will do our utmost to keep our 7th place. And I am sure Paul will do the same 🙂
Tonight we have a dinner and party offered by the club, looking forward to that. Gill’s dad also got out for a little ride on the Falcon today after we came back from the races. He just took the jib of, and of he went. He had a great ride and he enjoyed the beautiful lake Como scenery 🙂