One year ago, right before the pandemic hit mankind, we spend the winter in Vilamoura Portugal. One of the difficult things in the sailing business is to find training partners. Unfortunately most of our training partners quit their Nacra 17 campaign after a few month of trying. Probably Nacra 17 sailing is a long and stony road and only few are tough enough, only few are brave enough to dare to take that risk. And unfortunately, if you ask me, good training partners are the key to success in sailing.
But sometimes we where lucky. It happened that 2016 olympic gold medalist Igor Marenić also spend his winter training time in Vilamoura. Not to mention his two wold championship titles and 5! additional medals at world championships! All that lead to one of our greatest sailing experiences we ever had.
We played out our strength, wich is our amazing upwind speed and we could built up our lead even if the maneuvers could have been better. A quick hoist and we were both on the downwind. Conditions where not easy but Igor managed to skim a bit better. So he was a little bit faster and could sail a better angle. We both missed the lower mark because training marks are way too small in choppy conditions. But racing on par is absolutely the most fun thing about sailing.
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15 окт 2024
