Fireworks at the Eurocup

Competitors at the 29er Eurocup experienced a variety of conditions over the three day event

Real Club Nautico Denia was the venue for the first round of the 2007 29er Eurocup. Their hospitality and organisation is legendary and as usual they lived up to expectations.

The event included lunches and suppers and was sponsored again by CCTV. The weekend coincided with the festival of the Fallas which was basically very loud fireworks all day and night and the burning of amazing sculptures in the middle of the town.
Competitors from France, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Denmark and Spain all made the trip and had three days of excellent racing.

The first two days were very light and gave some of the newer teams a chance to get to grips with both racing and sailing the boats. Fridays wind held all day enabling the race team to get five races in, Saturday proved a little more difficult and a fading wind meant only two races were sailed. The final day brought typical Denia weather – Sun and wind. three races were competed in 20 knots giving some spectacular sailing and a great memory to go home with.

James Rusten and Ben Saxton proved to be steady all round putting together a very constant series and sailing well in both the light weather and the breeze. They didn’t make it easy on themselves giving a first away with an OCS. The Danish team of Oliver Rechnitzer and Peter Lang were not so consistent in the light weather but stormed away in the breeze to leave the fleet in the dust with three firsts on the last day. Lukasz Prybytek and Krysztof Mongrid from Poland were neck and neck with the British team of Rusten and Saxton until the last day when the breeze allowed the heavier teams to have their day.

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