Icicles Rennen in Westward Ho!
Gray Wass gewinnt 2. Platz mit der Spririt!
Trotz schwierigen Wind-und Kurs-Bedingungen fuhr Gray Wass mit seinen Spirits ganz vorne mit und erzielte somit eine Top Platzierung mit dem 2. Platz.
Wir gratulieren recht herzlich zu diesen tollen Erfolg!
Sensationell ist auch das Ergebnis des erst 15jährigen Juniors Rob Wells. Er fährt mit der Zebra Z2 in der master class und belegte dort den 5. Platz in der Gesamtwertung.
Herzliche Glückwunsch! Weiter so!
Report von Gray Wass
I had a great start in extremely light winds but I was right to select my 10.5 Spirit and soon established myself as a contender. For the first hour I managed to hold the lead for most of the time whilst a lot of pilots suffered in the light turbulent cross offshore wind particularly at the top turning mark at the far end of the beach. Around the hour mark I too made a mistake there and could only sit in my buggy and watch my kite drop into the shallow water. I bundled my kite up and scooted back to the technical zone where I was able to change kites and get back into the race on my 9 meter.
After 2 hours the wind swung around to offshore and strengthened this forced all the Pilots in again to change down to smaller kites and speeded up the lap times considerably. This helped some of the pilots who had experienced problems earlier to get back into the race. I was comfortable on the 6.6m Spirit and was able to keep the other pilots behind me. The other factor in the last hour was the oncoming tide, the marshals were having to constantly reposition the turning marks which made navigating the course a nightmare. It truly was an endurance event because you could never relax because the conditions of the wind the course and the sea were always changing. 20 + started the race and only 15 managed to complete 1 or more laps that’s how testing it was.
Rob Wells had a great race and finished in 5 th place!