This was my first race with my main sponsor Team Aqua, but for this event I was not sailing on the boat but helping out as shore crew and support crew on the water. This was acceptable as I was working together with the very best of the sport, I could hardly expect to be offered a professional position on the boat just yet. But I spent time on the boat as grinder and main trimmer on one of the practice days. There was only one day of match racing due to the demands of more fleet races so the owners have more time racing, we had 5 races lined up that day but due to very unstable and unpredictable winds we only had 4 races, the upside was that we won every single one with comfortable distances. This put us back in the leading position of the overall matching racing championship.  

Then there were three days of fleet racing and out of the ten races that were sailed we won six. Even though we had one or two races that saw us finish at the rear of the fleet we still managed to hold on comfortably and go for another overall victory in the fleet racing which also mean the where now leading this championship as well.

These good results where a great boost for the whole team as we had spent days in advance preparing the new boat which really payed off in the end, with the stiffer carbon and slightly heavier keel blade and bomb it sure helped us out in the string winds that we experienced during the regatta.