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Written by Kevin Pritchard
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
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Woke up at 630 to get down to the skippers meeting. It was finally windy for some wavesailing again!! Started off on 5.0 then 5.3 then 5.7 then almost 6.2 and then they cancelled it. I managed to get through my early heat and that was good. I was against Peter Volwater and he is always really good in these challenging onshore port tack conditions. The next heat had to wait for 8 hours to do. I went against Klaas Voget and advanced to go against Victor Fernandez. I sailed the next heat against Victor then they ended up canceling the heat against Klaas and I after I had already sailed the semi final saying that they missed a wave ride on one of the judges sheets. I was already pretty tired from going racing in the middle of the day then doing a full heat against Victor then needed to resail the heat against Klass. All seemed pretty sketchy to me to have at least 40 minutes to figure out a way to resail the heat.. anyhow.. onwards and upwards. I was pretty pissed off to say the least but what can you do.. It sure helps to have about 50 germans looking over the scoresheets all at once pushing to have something be wrong with the scores. Klaas was sailing good that is for sure. Victor ended up wining the waves here in Sylt, and Kauli ended up wining the world title for the year!
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Written by Kevin Pritchard
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Shots by JC/PWA Well the conditions here in Sylt are not getting any less testing. Yesterday we had a nice big gust of wind and we got out there and then it completely died. I had to get brought in by the boat then broke my battens in the shorebreak. Not too much fun. Not super happy about that. Anyhow.. onward and upward. Just keep waiting for some good conditions. We will see.. I am hopeing for some more winds and more racing..
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Written by Kevin Pritchard
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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picts by JC/PWA Well we finally got another race down. It took all day though. Waited around as usual and then around 330 a major storm came in. It was pretty cool to watch the storm come across the North Sea, we were all just waiting for it to hit. Made for some beautiful shots. I went out on a 8.2 and after the first heat came in to get my 7.6 and then after the next round had to come right back in for my 6.7 so the wind was ragging there for a bit. It was nice to finally do get rolling, to bad it wasnt earlier and we could have gotten a few more under our belts.
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Written by Kevin Pritchard
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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Man it is really tough conditions here in Sylt. Waiting in your wet suit all day long for no racing.. Takes its toll on it you. I want some more races cause I need to get going on the upward direction. IT is raining gusty and chilly..
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