The transport to Deauville was flawless, so we arrived as scheduled early Tuesday morning in Deauville. The boat was lifted into the water and prepared for racing. By five o'clock the rest of the crew arrived, finding the transport group resting in the pool at the apartment.

Wednesday the lock opened at half past twelve, so we went out for some training and tuning. We also participated in the practice race at three o'clock, where we finished second.

Thursday the first race was scheduled an hour after the lock opened, so all the 12 mumm30 left as soon as the lock opened at half past one. We sailed three races with a 7-8-7 result. Not too bad, but not extremely good. Thursday only two races were sailed due to a lack of wind, we finished a 6-8, just about the same as the day before. But we were more satisfied with the boat speed.

Saturday we had a really good first race, we were first at the top mark, finishing third in the end. Unfortunately we started too soon (although we do not agree) and were disqualified. The second race a dense fog made it difficult to even find the finish line and therefore the last race was cancelled.

Deauville international week, J.M. Liot

The last day we sailed an amazingly amount of five matches. The first we sailed a decent sixth place, the second we totally screwed our tactics and finished last. By doing so vanUden-TUDelft-vanOord finally officially beat us. Something they have been training for all winter, and we were trying to postpone for the last regatta's. The last three races we sailed a 4-7-9, of which the fourth place was the top five finish we were aiming at.

In the general ranking we were 10th in the professional ranking and 5th in the owner driver ranking. The other Dutch mumm30, vanUden-TUDelft-vanOord finished 12th and the British Asterix-Joules won the event.

event website: Deauville international week

Team Triple P will sailed with the following crew in Deauville:

   1  Ernst-Jan van Housselt

   2  Adjo van IJssledijk

   3  Rob van burik

   4  Ko Stroo

   5  Joost Kroon

   6  Fezi Khaleghi

   7  Daan Schutte