Last Easter weekend the 37th Vele di Pasqua was sailed at the sea in front of Cesenatico with light wind conditions and some days with a choppy sea. After last year debut of the Dutch build DNA it was this year the turn of the other Dutch build A-class VISION at this major A-class event.
The first comments were coming in by some phone contact with the sailors there and the first signals on how the boat is performing is absolutely amazing. We do know that we made a design looking different then other models around at the moment and we had a Vision on how to do things. In the last weekend we and the other sailors have found out that it was not bad at all.
Sjoerd Hoekstra and Piet Saarberg where sailing the first 2 boats. (Sjoerd was sailing on the prototype).
We have not received the full story yet but what we know so far is that Sjoerd did a very good job but was unlucky in race 2 and race 6. In race 2 he did broke the rope connection between the main and the sail so had to return to the beach to fix this and this means that this race was his redraw for the series.
In the last race he was unlucky at the start to hit the pin end mark and needed to make a 360 penalty turn. Going over the starting line in 75th position he needed to catch up with the rest to make a good result of this race. From the story told he was flying thru the field with a speed nobody could understand and finished finally 7th in this race what means it was 3 points to short. With Teo Di Battista at first place and Sjoerd 2nd it was a fantastic debut of the boat and it leaves a great impression behind on the other sailors.
The first ten places results are as follow.
When we do receive more details,story’s and photo’s about the event we will of course publish this later on at this blog and our website.
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