(Marina Port Zelande, Netherlands)- This year’s Grevelingen Cup saw over
200 competitors participate across multiple classes in both ORC
handicap racing as well as one-design classes. Enjoying a strong
turnout this year was the Benelux J/80 fleet sailing both in the Cup as
well as sailing their J/80 Benelux Nationals.
The sailors were greeted with a real mixed bag of weather conditions
that were very “un-fall like”. Instead of fast-moving fronts bringing
broken clouds, sun, plenty of wind and occasional rain showers (which is
quite typical), the fleet was instead having to fight fog, gentle
breezes and light air patches. On Saturday the clouds did break up
enough for a nice sea-breeze to fill in behind the fog. Sunday was even
more challenging as it was generally overcast and by later in the
afternoon the wind simply quit.
The ORC world saw a number of Dutch offshore J/Teams sailing well. GGPM
Van Beers’s J/122 JAM SESSION took second overall while H Zwijnenburg’s
J/111 SWEENY took fourth in their class. For more Grevelingen Cup sailing information
