Holiday

I have had two very good sailing trips this year. Sailing with the Team Puma in Galway and the Europeans.

After the europeans I have sailed a day at the 'Kaagweek'. Which is a dutch lake race with a lot of traditional and modern dinghies competing. It was great to show the speed of the Moth against the backdrop of the 'holland-friesland' regatta. This is a regional team race event sailed in an historic dutch class, the 'regenboog'. The plan was also to show the bladerider during the 'sneekweek', which is the biggest lake sailing event in Europe, with over 1.000 boats participating. However during the transport to the north of the Netherlands the socket head came off. I was ready to launch when I noticed that this small, however crucial part was missing. I didn't had as spare so no sailing, however together with friends and family I could enjoy the famous 'sneekweek' parties. This helped to overcome the pain off not being able to sail while there was a very good breeze.

Now it is off for a family holiday for a week. I could not fit the worlds in my schedule for this year and as said I was happy being able to do the Europeans. While on the family holiday next week I will try to follow the worlds.

It is great to read the many updates on the moth blogosphere and I'm exited to follow how the events will unfold.

It will be interesting to see how the form guides of Scott and Simon will play-out. To see if these are lists of doom or that the pressure of being on the top of these guides will make Arnaud & Nathan only stronger.....

Secondly it would be great if the hard work of Giovanni on his self engineered wand system will pay off and that he finally can show his warp speed!

Good luck to all at the Gorge!