After 8 great races, we managed to win the tightest of victory at the Garda Cup in Lake Garda. Coming into the final day trailing the bahamian crew in “Blue Moon” by two points, we inched a bit closer with a great win in the first race of the day. The prerequisites were clear, whoever were first of the two boats in the last race would win the regatta.

After a pretty mediocre start, we were still able to recover good on the first beat and rounded the first mark just behind “Blue Moon”. At the hoist we were able to dive deep and sailed the whole run parallelling them for an inside rounding at the bottom. From then on, it was a matter of matchracing covering just to make sure they wouldn’t stand a chance of passing on the remaining leg.

Obviously, the results were great and we are really happy. Especially considering we haven’t sailed the 5.5 for almost two years. Due to other committments we stood out the Worlds last year but are really looking forward to this year’s Worlds in Cowes later this summer.

The crew of “Blue Moon” (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger and Peter Vlasov) certainly deserves a congratulations as well. They sailed really well and pushed us hard. We both finished on equal points but we won the regatta having three race wins to their only one. Most certainly they will be one of the hardest competitors at the Worlds.