Hobie Europeans, Breitenbrunn, Austria

Friday 5th of August

We arrived in the night of Thursday actually, a few Italian sailors arrived there too (some with 4 Hobie 16's on one trailor, really bizar...). It was raining and it was completely dark over there, so we decided to sleep in the car (some of us in the trailer). Friday everybody was getting his boat ready for Saturday...here you see Sappie ready to go!

Saturday 6th of August

First day of the women Europeans. Good breeze, going fast.




Sunday 7th of August

No breeze...so no races :(.

We became 5th women team, not what we wanted, but we were pretty happy with our performance on saturday.

Because we were free on monday and tuesday, we decided to go for a drink in a nice little cocktailbar. We were joined by Jason, Josh, Macca, Joep, Olivier and Gijs.

On this foto, Josh is trying to get the music louder...but then the bar chick came back and he ran away like a girl.

Monday 8th of August

A free day...so we decided to go to Bratislava, which was only 30 minutes away. We visited the beautiful Bratislava Castle and the city of Bratislava, where we act like real tourists :)

Back home Julie and I prepared a nice diner for everybody, jammmmmmmm......



Finishing this lovely day with a nice drink in our disco tent!

Wednesday 10th of August

We received the Goldfleet sails, this year in the colors of Austria in the top and the colors of YCBB (Yaught Club Breitenbrunn). The first races for the Goldfleet started, lots of breeze, with gusts up to almost 30 knots!! The second race we flipped over, and Julie got hurt really badly, so we went back and missed some races.

Thursday 11th of August

It started with no breeze...postponement.
When people have to wait, they get bored. When they get bored, they find themselves something to do: 1. Who can catch the first wasp that nibbles on a gummy bear? 2. Let's do a bet, who loses has to drink everything out of a green cup for the rest of the week. At the end of the afternoon they make us sail 2 races with just 6 knots....whicked...

Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of August

No breeze again.....so we enjoyed ourselves in the Neusiedlersee :).

To end this day with a little party party! Knowing there will be no breeze on Saturday too. 

And so it was...but they let us go on the water, where we waited for several hours...and then the Europeans were finished....only 6 races....that's really bad.....


But in the end, some of us won a price. Macca and Froukje became 3th and Jason and Josh 2th in the F18 fleet. Happy happy joy joy!!

After the price giving ceremony we left for a long trip back home....

Julie to the F16 Worlds @ Bordeaux

Julie

Thijs Visser

From the 23th till the 29th of July,

Julie is going to sail the F16 Worlds in Bordeaux (France) with Thijs Visser (F18 Team Delta Lloyd).

We'll stay in touch and let you know how things go there!

3th place North Sea Regatta 2011

This weekend we've sailed the North Sea Regatta at Scheveningen.

Saturday was the first day of te event. The first and third race we did quit a good job. The second race we had a bad start and we didn't came back in the up or downwind. We ended the day with our 'SAPPH-borrel' and a performance of Anouk (famous dutch singer). Sunday we had 4 races. We sailed the first race very bad. We endend in the back. The other 3 races we had the same results as the day before: 3-2-5. Today was an exciting day. The first race we sailed not very well. We came back in the first race, we finished as 3th boat. The last race we had some trouble with the mainsheet, we couldn't fix it on the water and sailed the downwind with a closed sail. We finished as last boat. We thought we lost our 3th position overall with that last race. But when we where at the pricegiving and they called our names for the 3th place, we where very relieved and happy!

 

Step Up Days Pics

Giving instructions about what to wear, how to wear sailing gear, the basic rules on board, how to stand in trapeze, where to stand, what to grab if you fall ;)

After all instructions preparing for take off...

And there they go!! 

Julie gave them a real Hobie 16  experience, a lot of Big Smiles came off the water....ehe, that's a Hobie way of life...


...and we are really lucky to have this Hobie way of life and we were really happy that we could give other people this feeling for one day.