A-Cat 2014 Europeans @Bordeaux: Day 5, Ashby secures Crown

No official images… check previous post for some courtesy Paula Kopylowicz – Below report I wrote at IACA website: “Three Races were held today in mixed conditions. First race was 4-5knots, top rider and light wind specialist Matthias Dietz won took a bullet from Ashby, who proceed later to standard labor day winning the last two.
The second and third race had good trapeze conditions upwind and pressure for the downwind legs with some going for foiling in the Silver too.

Steve Brewin had two RDG/3 to climb upto the 3rd place overall after scoring today 5,2,2.
Sandro Caviezel continued his average excellent results with 3rd & 4th for the last two races, but got a 35th in the 4-5knots first race.
Steve Brewin placed a protest on that race, more info tomorrow.

Jason Waterhouse also got caught offguard on the calm with a 24th and later recovered with 5,5.

Tomorrow a final 10th race is scheduled for 11AM.
Glenn Ashby is virtual European Champ 2014.
No images available from the organization and Paula still has to save us a again posting her great daily pics
that were the only source to show some action this week at Lac d’Hourtin.”
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Personal experience:
On my sailing I could finish 3 more races. The first one still hard to get the A going in 4-5knots downwind. The second race had perfect trap conditions and I scored a 16th,  best results so far and was for a better results if I could nail tacks/transitions better, my speed is quite good with the Scheurer G6, a real weapon upwind once more.

Third race there was some good light breeze to trap upwind but I didn´t race the course well.
That 16th in the Silver was as close as my aim  for this event , with now 6 days sailing an A.
Next year the Arg fleet might return to Europe with even more boats. We were 5 this time.

On the way back, I saw Jason foiling as stable as the FP , he was not racing but quite impressive.
In the Silver fleet some try foiling but it didn´t payed as the breeze was not that stable.

Top 20 Below.
Full Results at https://www.cerclevoilebordeaux.com/classeA/resultsA/resultat/european-final-vendredi.htm
Official website https://www.cerclevoilebordeaux.com/classeA/home.htm