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10 June 2012
D35 - Open de Versoix & Geneve - Rolle - Geneve
The D35 fleet was racing this past weekend on Lake Geneva. The three
day event consisted of windward-leeward buoy racing on Friday and
Sunday with the classic "long distance" race Geneve-Rolle-Geneve on
Saturday.
As usual, the winds were pretty light for the most part all weekend.
The Artemis team tied for 4th place over the weekend and we are now in
4th place for the season. The "Kids" on Realstone dominated the
weekend winning the buoy racing, as well as the distance race.
280 boats participated in the Geneve-Rolle-Geneve. The starting line
is about 2 miles long and divided into three parts. The multihulls, of
which there are several classes amounting to about 50 boats, start on
their own line. As last year, the going was quite light in the early
part of the race up to Rolle. In fact, the wind was so light that up
at Rolle, we drifted into the mark and had to make a penalty turn. On
the return, a squall arrived and suddenly the boats were making 20
knots. The 32 mile race took about 5 hours and Artemis finished 6th.
Yesterday, the racing was delayed one hour and we finally got underway
around 1230 in four knots of wind. Artemis Racing, with Torbjorn
Tornqvist at the the helm, finished third in the one and only race of
the day in as the wind dropped to two knots at the finish.
Next for the D35s is the Bol d' Or next Saturday, 16 June. This is the
big event on Lake Geneva and about 400 boats participate in the 90 mile
circumnavigation of the Lake.
Paul
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