Jacqueline Schmitz Photography will have more shots up tomorrow…
The wind howled out of the north down the mountain passes overnight and this morning but eased just in time for us to start our final race today at 11am. The course was set close to shore for a 30-minute long two lap race. Seeing that the breeze was starting to get fluky in the middle of the lake I opted to wait patiently for a gap at the boat end of the starting line an immediately tacked and headed for the beach. After a minute or so a nice header gave us the opportunity to tack back and cross the fleet as they scrambled to get to the shore after seeing our success. We hooked into a nice left puff at the top of the course and never looked back. Xavier Rohart the former world champion from France was one of the few boats we needed to be concerned with and by winning the race put enough points between him as well as one of our german competitors to pass them in the series to take a fourth place finish. George and Mark, the other Americans in the race today had a tough start near the pin and never recovered, they took second overall. With Rick and Phil tied for tenth, we had a strong showing as a team taking two of the top four and three of the top eleven. This is in large part to our week of training here ahead of time as a group with coaches Leandro Spina and Mark Ivey. With their help hopefully we can capitalize on this performance as we look forward to the European Championships also in Italy in two weeks.
Full results at the Fraglia Vela de Riva website.
Top Ten Results: http://www.fragliavelariva.it/clientfiles/classifica/classifica%20finale%20STAR.pdf
Patrick Donegan
Congrats Andrew on a great event and lagon style domination in the medal race. Keep up the solid work/training leading into the Euro Champs.
