It was a significant competiton. Of course it was not because of the rain. Practically I didn’t have a clue, how I would finish in the end of this international match, as I didn’t have any reasonable results form the last year. My M-boat was brand new, so much so that I couldn’t finish all of its rigs. I still hoped that there won’t be an….
Luckily there wasn’t. Let’s look at it chronologically.
Thursday 10-er competition.
It started well. Very well. Straight away I was able to win the first race with my new boat. In spite of the fact that my 10’s sail had become rather worn-out by the time it has arrived to me, I wasn’t slow. Naaay. I couldn’t rejoice much as I have been in this situation before, in Orfû on my first competition, where I won my first race, but after nothing seemed to happen my way. It nearly happened again here.
In the first 6 races I made 4 early start whereof I realized where I should stand not to loose the line. This way I managed to win another heavy wind race, but with the lot of places out of the top ten I couldn’t get much further. Fifteen contestants were able to start in one group. The competition by the way was the Austrian Championship as well, and Manfred Wolfinger was winning off-hand, who only didn’t win in 3 races. (15/8)
Friday E competition
With 24 racers a good little field gathered, to labor and get soaking wet on four races of the wind-less in two groups. It was a bloody match. The buoys were in a fair distance, so in the contrastless, rainy, sluttish weather, I realized why the boat side and deck are of a different color. Sometimes on my completely black boat I couldn’t decide where is it facing or where is it going. I had lost a lot of places because of this, so when I arrived home I started an exasperated repainting (It’s too bad because it was really hot). I was even in the top of the field in the top field, moreover in a forth, but sadly there I got stuck so much that I lost six places in one section. In spite of it all it did not count because even like this I ended at 4th place. The race in a close match was won by the German Markus Grienwald with a Disco, and the after him again Wolfinger with an Ares. (24/4)
Saturday M competition
39 boats, 3 groups. That’s a Europe Cup already. A probable winner doesn’t participate he is organizing instead. He is much needed because we are plenty. Nine nations are attending the derby. First round. Qualifying race group C. I’m leading for two rounds, then after in the second round after the lee-buoy on right track I don’t step up and I get stuck on the border of the upraised wind by the land. Four people overtake but at the finish line only the Czech guy can beat me. It’s not a bad start; I’m in group A straight away.
The race is in HMS system, so the first third of the qualifying groups allocated by a simple draw starts in group A, than the next to group B and the last to C. From there always the C group starts, and the first 4 can start in group B, and if one gets again in to the top four, then one continues in A. One doesn’t gain points until he can work up.
The most dazzling is if somebody starting from group C and finally wins the A race in the same round. So did, Kiss Miki who was seedy up until then, who from C as 2nd, from B as first got into A and there he straight away won his race. But let us start in the beginning.
In short after the qualifiers straight group A. Out of the six Hungarian contestants only Fejes Jani starts together with me in the A. Even though that his boat seeps everywhere. The wind is scarce, but it’s blowing well. For Me. Straight away I win the first race in A. Wowww! After two races, I’m on the top of the list! Aaah, this is too much to be true as a start…In spite of this in the 3rd race I arrive from a fully lost situation I arrive in 4th place to the finish, this way I raise my vantage even more. Not a bad start in this genre.
Meanwhile the wind starts to blow and by the time it’s again the turn of group A I have to change the rig. Brilliant. The B rig hasn’t even been blown yet. Still I have to change, because it’s abundantly growing. I manage to set the rig. I’m very hasty. I feel, that here my boat doesn’t have the same advantage, as in the lighter winds. It doesn’t matter, I’m still leading!!! First kreuz, first. After I have the second raum, and then come the second kreuz, and although they are really on me, I have two boat-length of gain still. I think it is just enough, and I turn. I would turn, but I botch the turn. My boat is standing in the middle of the water, neither forward, nor backward whilst the others are spinning past me. Great. By the finish 7th place remains, it’s still not too bad, but it is lousy, because I freak out. (amateur!!!!)In the next race I make the same fault again, and I fall out from group A. Now if I come back instantly then it’s no problem but if I stick down there I can burry myself. Well I didn’t manage. I stuck down, and I closed the day like this. I’m 6th on the list, and I start the next day in the group B.
Sunday M competiton.
So group B. I’m a bit low, I don’t excite myself anymore. It has the result. I get into the A in the first place, where my fock string breaks after a down-turn. That’s it. There is no way... But the jury comes up and asks some things, and gives me an 8th place. Good, because I would have never thought, that it’s possibly to ask for remedy (amateur!!!)
So in the last two races I reborn and I bring a 3rd place. After, in the last one, thinking that I can’t be on the podium, leading all along, in the last section I try the vigilant tactic. But by the time I turn two, the Swiss runs out under me and wins the race. Moral: It’s not rewarding to turn a lot, because the range is so pocket-sized.
So I reckon that I have the 4th place if I was such an amateur several times. But it seems that I defiled enough because I caught the 4th with a point as well. Not Bad. My first International competition, 3rd place with a new boat. And in a way, that I lost it because of the lack of routine. But it is attainable. You see. Now I can go to Kolin to the second match, if I started so well on the Europe Cup. Sure I don’t really mind. Since I got myself into the RC sailing, the dependence is only greater and greater…
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