Saturday, December 6, 2008

We Have a Championship

It didn't look so promising this morning with the forecast for lighter winds than yesterday.  But patience was key and the RC was able to get 3 races off in the lighter winds, which actually were more than yesterday and we now have the minimum to count a Championship.

The wind was a steady 5 knots throughout the day with big swells and chop as well as shifty conditions which didn't make the sailing easy - but then again, this is the European Championships.

No surprise that the Spanish hold the top 4 spots on the leader board, led by local Canarians Gustavo del Castillo & Felipe Llinares.  Their 8-1-1 gives them a nice consistency where further down the results many teams had good & bad scores mixed in their results.  Always fast Rayco Tabares & Gonzalo Morales follow in 2nd with a 5-3-3 and Jordi Triay and Borja Llopis in 3rd with a 1-13-4.  Olympian Fernando Leon and Antonio Castillo Olivares are 4th with Manu Hens & Bart Janssens of Belgium rounding out the top 5.

Tomorrow the RC will attempt 3 more races and again on Monday.  Full results at www.rcngc.com.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Wery good news ! But wy does it seem to be impossible to find the results ? Perhaps am I to stupid...the organizer has a nice homepage but they seem to have forgotten to put in some news and infos in it !!

TeamBiehl said...

Results are up - you just have to keep clicking on links. www.rcngc.com