Back at home after a intensive training weekend in Athens.
I’m sure we all could learn from each other. Personally I was strongly impressed about the cohesive spirit of all the involved sailors, independent from there sailing career.
Due to not really favorable weather conditions, during the first 2 days we had the chance to analyze together many typical match race situations and strategies that happen during the pre start and on the on the course.
Was very happy that Luca Babini flew down to Greece to join us who gave on top of his expirience a special spirit specially during the theorie sessions.
Finally the long expected the strong wind from north wind came in for the last 2 days and we could run a double round robin on Saturday and the sailors could apply many of the situations discussed previously.
Sunday the north wind became even stronger and with 15-20 knots we sailed the finals and some additional training match.
2:0 Sofia Bekatorou – Zois Tsouropanos
2:0 Thodoris Tsoulfas – Simon Kabouridis
The results of the first Gr. 5 Athens Mecca Match Race are:
Skippers Final Position
1. Sofia Bekatorou
2. Zois Tsouropanos
3. Thodoris Tsoulfas
4. Simon Kabouridis
Beside Sofia Bekatorou also many other successful Greek sailors who normally sail in the Olympic classes enjoyed the match racing such as Katerina Giakomidou Yngling and Andreas Kosmatopoulus 470.
I’m sure that beside the Dream Race other match race events will be organized in Athens, the infrastructure is available, many motivated sailors and superb wind conditions.
A special thank also goes to Dimitris Gerontaris our race officer the 2 Greek judges (Tsantilis, Skylitshis) and Georgious from the Mecca Bar.
Have a nice week
Jürg
