After a nice third place two weeks ago Team Triple P was ready for the last IJspegel race. On a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon we went out for some practice. First we did some tacks and a short spinnaker leg; but when we wanted to join the two other Farr30 for some speed training the mainsheet block broke. So we went back to fit a new block and base plate.

 

Sunday we went out in a strong 18 knots northwesterly breeze, which would slowly decrease to 6 knots at the last finish. The first start was quite good, we just reached the pin end, and were able to lee-bow the Daikin after the start. We tried the left side, which was wrong, and were second last at the top mark. At the downwind mark we messed up our drop, so we lost our gains downwind and joined in at last place. The remaining two laps we got back to a moderate sixth place.

 

The second race we had a brilliant start, but we lost some concentration and due to that also some places in the upwind beat. The boat handling went smooth and we extended our lead on the big IRC boats. However the other two Farr30s were just out of reach. In the end we finished a nice fourth place both on handicap as well as on rating. In the overall IJspegel series we finished fifth, just above the Mumma Duck. Daikin Airco won the series with supremacy.

 

photograph by: Leo Eggink (IJspegel.com)

 

Team Triple P:

 1 Ernst-Jan van Housselt

 2 Alex

 3 Mathieu

 4 Ko Stroo

 5 Toon van Liebergen

 6 Fezi Khaleghi