2nd place in Austrian Match Race Championship

Last day started with rain but at least there was good wind to start races as planned at 10:00. At the breifing we made the draw for the semis and finals. Christian Binder (AUS) as Round Robin winner picked Nathalie Keller (SUI) and we were left to race Ute Wagner (AUT). We won the semis 2-0 with better prestarts and boathandling in the other semi Binder made no mistakes winning 2-0 againts Swiss girls.

Last day crew Dejan, Gabriele, Mitja

We started finals with a perfect race from start to finish the score was 1-0. In the second prestart we penalized them for gybing to close but he started just ahead of us. They manage to do there pen in 2nd upwind cause of our small mistake with spinaker drop but we were just 1 boat lenght behind at the windward mark. They just manage to stay in front of us with a photofinish. The score was tied 1-1. Before the last race the wind increased to 15 with a lot of gusts and shifts. We manage to start ahead of them about but couldn't cross them at left layline so we rounded the top mark just behind them. Again we had problems with hoisting the spinaker and they just extend for a safe win. We are happy with our performance as we had to make last minute changes in team with no training. We would like to thank Mitja Nevečny for great effort in 3 days of sailing and Gabriele for racing with us on the last day.