(Breskens, Netherlands)- The tenth edition of the Gaastra Breskens
Sailing Weekend was blessed with great weather and, especially, big
breeze and big seas almost all weekend long. With gorgeous sunny days
on Friday and the finale Sunday punctuated by a rainy, cold front early
on Saturday morning meant the sailors could go home happy after sailing
hard in seven races over three days! In fact, the Chairman of the
Gaastra Breskens Sailing Weekend, Roy Aller, said "unlike the past few
years, we were blessed this year with great weather!"
A
number of J/Teams sailed in the J/111 One-Design class as well as IRC
handicap divisions. The five-star performance of the weekend goes to
John van der Starre's famous J/111 XCENTRIC RIPPER, simply dominating
their class with straight firsts. Sailing fast up the learning curve
was K. van Vliet's SWEENY, taking mostly 2nds in the four boat fleet.
Third overall was K. Cleeren's J-BIE just 1.5 pts back.
Sailing photo credits- Anusjka Martens For
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