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wThursday, April 05, 2007


68 girls in Palma de Mallorca!

I have been here for one week now, and we just finished the 4th day of racing. Since Ive been here the weather has been pretty chilly, whenI first arrived it was 9 degrees and the rain was just bucketing down. Luckily the rain has stopped but its still a bit chilly. We have got a really big fleet here, 68 girls, so we have a qualifying series which will decide who will race in Gold and Silver fleet. This is only the 2nd time that we have had a fleet this big and have had to do qualifying!!!

It had been windy every day prior to the regatta, but on the first dayof racing we had no wind and were postponed onshore for a few hours before getting sent out into "china-like" conditions of no wind and big seas, only to send us back home after an hour of waiting around onthe water. Day 2 was much the same, a long wait. This time however we were able to get one race off before the wind totally died. Day 3 we actually had some wind and were able to get 3 races off. I was sailing fairly well and had some decent results in pretty tricky conditions. The wind was offshore and we had anywhere from 5 knots to puffs over 20 knots...

My highlight of that day was leading the 2nd race until about 10 meters to the windward mark when a HUGE gust catapulted me... then it happened again... and of course I lost my lead and was well back in the fleet by then. On the second upwind, I did something right, rounding the top mark in 2nd. I lost 4 boards down the last run to finish 6th. After 4 races the qualifying series was over. I was in 22nd overall. Day 4, today presented us with very tricky conditions. Marginal planing and shifty. My first race was not very good and I also broke my boom. The second race was much better until I found out I was OCS (over early and disqualified) after the finish. Now I stand in 30th overall.

The final day of Palma had us waiting for 7 hours before they call edit off due to lack of wind and rain squalls. So the regatta ends with only 6 races on our scorecard, out of an expected 10. I feel like I have been waiting for almost a week now... each day we had very long postponements on shore before we finally were sent out. I finished up 30th, as nothing has changed since the previous day. Tomorrow I head to Hyeres, France where we have a Canadian training camp for 5 days followed by more training, and then the French Olympic Sailing Week during the last week of April. Hope the weather is warmer at home than it is here! Till soon, Nikola Girke

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posted by editors at 4/05/2007 11:17:00 AM


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