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Archive for October, 2009

The iSONICS 2010

I kept on testing the new 2010 wood carbon iSONICS at my homespot and got cool conditions for the next Formula session. The Formula session was definitely sweet. Grey in grey, clouds, late afternoon and 5 - 10 knots eastwind with super flat water. Pfaffi, my local testpartner and myself sailed along the reed. I got the chance to test a →


iSONIC 131 wood carbon 2010

I was waiting a while to get the right conditions to test the 2010 iSONIC 131 wood carbon. All the last week we had too strong wind conditions, which were great for small Slalom gear. I had a session with 5,4 and 86 fully powered up. Today we had the perfect 131 conditions, 7 - 12 knots in the afternoon and →


Austrian Nationals

Last weekend I was participating for the very first time in the Austrian Slalom Nationals. The competition took place at Lake Neusiedler in Weiden. We had a good fleet of 30 sailors and a lot of rain on Saturday. But on Sunday the sky cleared up, the sun came through and the wind picked up to a max speed of →


Sylt and the PWA tour 2009 are done

Sylt was tough! Wind, waves  and massive rainfall. I definitely struggled while racing, but felt much better than in all the years before. But my result did not proof it. The final points I got for the 48th position were another discard. I lost 3 positions in the overall ranking and felt back from 24th to 27th position. But it was →