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 2007 ISAF World Championships in CascaisThe 2007 ISAF World Championships are in Cascais, Portugal. This ist he first Olympic Qualifying event; all 11 Olympic Sailing classes arehere trying to qualify their Nation for 75 percent of the Olympic berths. RSX Women will have 28 spots available at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for 28 different Nations, of which 20 Nations will qualify themselves here. It is also the first Canadian Olympic selection event, so wish me luck :-) Cascais is a beautiful old town about a 20-minute drive from Lisbon. The town has a lot of character, great food, is clean and the coastline is gorgeous. Ten minutes up the coast is the famous Guincho Beach, which hosts both World Surfing and Windsurfing (wave sailing) Championships. This is probably the nicest venue I have been to for a sailing championship... hopefully the wind will cooperate too! I arrived in Cascais on the 18th of June, directly after the European Championships. I have had some great training and am looking forward to the start of the regatta. The wind is very tricky here, especially on the course areas that we have been allocated. The wind is offshore and littered with huge gusts, huge holes and big wind shifts. It is not uncommon to be sailing in 20 knots and hit a lull of 4-5 knots, and this can happen several times in one leg. Needless to say, it will bevery important to connect the pressure dots! One day we also had anaverage of 29 knots gusting to 37 knots... not only was the ocean white, but it was sea of capsized boats... it was a hard day and I was happy to make it back to shore in one piece! Today was the official first day of racing for some classes, however the RSX class starts racing on the 6th of July. We will have 3 days of qualifying races followed by a rest day, then 3 days of finals. I finished measurement today, have a bit more gear tinkering to do and then I am set to go. More news to come once the races start. Thank you for your support! NikolaGirke posted by editors at 7/03/2007 10:24:00 PM |
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