Windy opening to Cleanport Winter Match Race Series 2013/14 in Izola, Slovenia with 15 to 25 kts...we started Day 1 with a win againts Binder (AUT) leading all the way around the course but they came very close at the finish....Match 2 againts Litkey (HUN) was a different story we made a small mistake just before the start and there was no coming back...3rd Race we dominated from start to finish giving our opponent no chance...then came interesting 4th Match with our opponents not wearing Personal Floating Devices as asked from Race Committe with the Y Flag....with big puffs hitting us in the prestart we made a bad judgment just before the start letting opponent start windward of us...but we learned one new useful information after the hearing....last all important match in Round Robin 1 was an easy win againts Sadowski (POL)...with a 3-2 score we finished second in Group A behind Litkey (5-0) and in front of Binder (3-2).
Results:
We qualified to the top Round Robin 2 - Group A for places 1 to 6....in Match 1 we again dominated prestart with 2 pens to Kircher (AUT) and an easy win...next up was a match with our training partners Gorazd Rajar...with a small advantage to them just after prestart we managed to come back in 1st upwind and hold them off until the finish....last match againts Zbroja (POL) was deciding the finalists...in interesting prestart we missed the pin layline giving them a small advantage at the start as they managed to keep the 3 boat lengths lead all around the course....
Results:
With finishing 3rd in RR2 Group A we qualified to Petit Final againts Binder (AUT)...we made 2 bad matches with small mistakes we will fix before the next event in just 3 weeks....
