This is a short review in bad english ;-)



We arrived at the 13th June in the morning after a 12 hours roadtrip through the night from switzerland.

got the boat to the beach and rigged.

It was allready blowing around 6 Bft. and the waves were hitting the beach. as we had totaly no expirience in starting from the beach we decided to wait for the next day. some boats allready didnt make it through the surf at there first try.

after allot of talk (I had to knew everything about beach starts and return, thanks to Dirk, Guido and Thomas) and a first great party, we had easy sailing on the next day.



The wind and the sea were easy too (2-3 Bft) and no big waves.



The next day was the race day. the boat was perfektly prepaered but we forgot the watch to take with us..... :-/

So we had a reallly bad start (I guess we were about the last boat witch crossed the line )

the wind was blowing with 6 Bft. and the first leg was a downwind leg. We didn't pulled our kite as allready many boats capsized and other boats had allredy some major breakdowns, broken beams and mast loses.

Still we were nicely catching up.

Then on the upwind leg we really got the boat going. the waves were bad because of the current running against them. many competers gave up at this point. the ventilo was still hammering through the waves and the boat felt very stiff. we were quit overpowered as we only weigh 130 kg (260lb).

after we made the upwind leg in the waddensea, the last downwind leg to the finish apeared.

we were still to scared to run the kite as we were quite exhausted. many boats capsized here again, because of the lak of concentration (I guess), our friend thomas capsized just in front of finishe line and ruined his main.

We were very happy to finish without damaging the boat, as half of the baots didn't made through.



In my opinion, when the wind is blowing hard like this with a light crew and not flying the kite, it is very hard to compete with hc16 and other small cats as the rating is quite high.