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Hyeres Final Yesterday was the last day for me racing here in Hyeres. We had another day of no wind, racing only one race after waiting all day. I porttacked the fleet and was looking like I had the race in my pocket, when the wind shifted right and I lost everyone that had a bad start at the boat end of the line. I sailed a good race, worked hard and finished 21st. Then we finally got wind yesterday!!! The forecast called for windy, windy, but our first race was a mixed bag, really shifty and puffy and at the start there was only about 5 knots. I porttacked the fleet and once again thought I had the race pretty secure. Then some girls came out of the right in a huge puff... I finished 6th. The next race was pretty windy and I finished 4th. Then in the finalrace of the day I got launched off two huge waves and catapulted... which had me swimming and I fought back to 14th place. At least it was a fun day. I finished 49th overall, in a fleet which was dominated by light weights. It was actually kind of funny, on windy days we can have 3 races, but we are sent in after the second race for a break before the third race. Being quite windy, it was tiring and quite difficult... I was sitting around with a bunch of friends when some girls came up to us asking if we would join them in boycotting the last race of the day because it was so windy! All of the girls I was with were loving the wind and are heavy air specialists... they were talking to the wrong crowd. It was our turn to smoke the little girls that had been dominating all week in less than 6 knots. I fly home tomorrow for a month, I have 2 training camps at home as well as Hayley Thom, a New Zealand sailor will be joining me for a few weeks of training which is super!Thanks for your support! Nikola-- www.nikolagirke.com posted by editors at 4/27/2007 05:05:00 PM |
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