The weather was much like two weeks ago; a 7 Bft. south-westerly wind. The committee again opted for a course around existing buoys and send us to the NAM 22 and back to finish.

After a reasonable start at the pin end we hoisted the fractional spinnaker and the speed never dropped below 10 knots, topping at 16 knots. Sadly our main competition, the Mumma Duck (M30) and the Flying Tiger (FT10) had already left the race course.

When we approached the NAM 22, in second place behind the Daikin, we made an error and crashed in a so-called "Chinese gype". Unfortunately the spinnaker got stuck under the forestay and refused to be dropped. After some encouragement it did come down, but in several peaces.

Nevertheless we rounded the mark second and started the long beat back to the finish, against the tide. We sailed quite a good upwind leg, although it is hard to make up against 40 and 35 foot boats.

photograph by: Leo Eggink - www.ijspegel.com

In the end we crossed the finish line fourth and we were also fourth on handicap.

Team Triple P:

   1  Ernst-Jan van Housselt

   2  Gijs Gunneman

   3  Roland

   4  Ko Stroo

   5  Toon van Liebergen

   6  Fezi Khaleghi

   7  Jos Kroon