The boat was transported to Stavoren on Sunday the 9^th of April for the Vetus spring races. We ourselves went back to Stavoren on Friday the 14^th to prepare the boat for racing. The boat was put back into the water, the mast was fitted and we were ready to sail again. Because the relative large distance between Rotterdam and Stavoren we had a small apartment in the centre of the city in order to spare us quite an amount of time travelling.

During the briefing on Saturday morning we proposed to change the course from one lap into two, resulting in a bit more boat-handling during the matches. Although sadly only six boats competed, all six skippers luckily agreed with changing the course.

The first match began with a bad start; Jurjen had some trouble assessing the acceleration of the mumm30 in comparison with the J/22 he normally sails. This has happened him only ones and all the other starts were perfect. On Sunday we even managed to push Harry Amsterdam over the line, forcing him into a false start. Harry Amsterdam with his brand new Elan 37 "Yacht Vision" was also our biggest competition. On corrected time he has beaten us several times, but on the water we got five line honours out of six matches, and lost only one in a close call photo finish. At the last mark of this match Yacht Vision did have quite a comfortable lead, but in the last upwind leg before the finish we managed to fight our way back to his tail. With a last very good tack we got out of his wind shadow, but unfortunately lost on the finish line by only one second. Although we have lost that match we are quite satisfied with our five line honours in a mostly 40 foot fleet.

We ended the Vetus spring races 2^nd overall, just behind the "Yacht Vision". We have had a really good weekend in which we got the practice we wanted and also a bit of nice sailing.

results:  Vetus voorjaarswedstrijden

Team Triple P sailed with the following crew in Stavoren:

   1  Ernst-Jan van Housselt

   2  Joost Kroon

   3  Ko Stroo

   4  Daan Lammers

   5  Adjo van IJsseldijk

   6  Fezi Khaleghi

   7  Jurjen Feitsma