Hi Guys,
Thought it was about time you all deserved to hear from us and we do apologise for the lack of reports. The reason for this is that we haven’t been Match Racing since Slovenia back in June but we have kept up our sailing along with a bit of touring. We all parted ways after Slovenia to see the sites of Europe. Phil and Garth took a trip to Hungry again to do the famous ‘Blue Ribbon’ round the lake race in a Melges 24. After 16 hours and 100 miles on the board we finished in a solid 20th position out of 600. It was a sight to see off the start line(which was 5.2ks long) with 600 colourful spinnakers behind you. A month later the team meet up again in Hamble, UK to compete in the ever so popular Cowes Sailing Week. We competed in the hotly contested J109 fleet sailing some outstanding races in the challenging waters. Finishing in 8th place we were happy but would have been 5th if it wasn’t for the DNS in the last race for starting incorrectly. We have now just spent the last 9 days in Portorose, Slovenia launching a new RC44 and doing the much needed work involved to get it race ready. Hopefully all going to plan we will be able to compete in the Regatta back there in 6 weeks time.
Thought it was about time you all deserved to hear from us and we do apologise for the lack of reports. The reason for this is that we haven’t been Match Racing since Slovenia back in June but we have kept up our sailing along with a bit of touring. We all parted ways after Slovenia to see the sites of Europe. Phil and Garth took a trip to Hungry again to do the famous ‘Blue Ribbon’ round the lake race in a Melges 24. After 16 hours and 100 miles on the board we finished in a solid 20th position out of 600. It was a sight to see off the start line(which was 5.2ks long) with 600 colourful spinnakers behind you. A month later the team meet up again in Hamble, UK to compete in the ever so popular Cowes Sailing Week. We competed in the hotly contested J109 fleet sailing some outstanding races in the challenging waters. Finishing in 8th place we were happy but would have been 5th if it wasn’t for the DNS in the last race for starting incorrectly. We have now just spent the last 9 days in Portorose, Slovenia launching a new RC44 and doing the much needed work involved to get it race ready. Hopefully all going to plan we will be able to compete in the Regatta back there in 6 weeks time.
This brings us to now. Flying to the USA tomorrow morning to continue with the Match Racing programme with 3 grade 2 regattas back to back. We have set our sights high with a big hunger to perform above ourselves. These will also be a great warm up for the boys before our second World Tour event in Denmark from the 8th-13th September. We will continue to send reports on the regattas but if you would like to follow the racing closer we will give regular updates on our site http://www.wakaracing.blogspot.com/.
Thanks again for all the support.
Waka Racing
Thanks again for all the support.
Waka Racing
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