Bled race report, the F5g sailing season opens

Bled is a small town, or more a village, located in mid Slovenia, it's glacier lake makes it a big turist attraction.(www.bled.si)
Every year a national championship race is organized there.

The wind is usually allright, generally from 4-10knots, with small waves.

This year the organization was the best of all national class races i've been to. 

The starting fee was 5€for senior competitors(above 18yrs of age).

Every boat got a sticker:

it says bled sailing club below the waves

I think this stickers are great!, a nice touch, and could be collectable if one would be presented with it on each of the events.

Every skipper also got a sandwich and a beer.

The course was a classic triangle. The left side of the starting line was much more promising than the right.

The wind was a bit tricky, sometimes gusty, some gusts were above 10knt, there were also some luls, lasting a few minutes. Everytime the wind droped it went left, and when it went up again it went right, so that was a tactical issue to be considered.

The array of boats was also interesting

There was this wing sailed boat

I goes through a lot of modifications, getting faster and faster but not really competitive

this wing sailor shares the hull with her winged brother, it goes better, but i personally would not opt for the swing rigg

This boat has not seen the water for years, but was sailing great,her skipper bought #44 earlier this year and is coming back to sailing

Niko, a dedicated sailor brought a whole fleet of his boats(and skippers) to the race

A micro magic finished 6th overall!! 

Competition from the sea shore, a fast but heavy boat 

evolution, the original, note the fore rudder

a rookie, perhaps the best rookie of the race, with a new boat

after some help the orange boat started sailing well here with a borrowed rigg

blulife now sporting ex fila rudder, was skippered by my friend, it was his first regatta, a 9th place is a good result.

fila(me) and evolution(father), evolution is getting a carbon keel, and fila spec. rudder for the next race

some pictures of the luls

overall was great fun

Some people were shooting (photos) with real cameras so some more photos should emerge shortly.

Seven races were sailed. All starts were more or less successful. Tangles were often.

The top three got a fancy diploma

fancy pants it is, the wood and styrene sail give it arealy nice feel

here is a link to the results(at the botom):

http://forum.modelarji.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=87701

So i won(! :D) and now?, now the focus is to get more time sailing the boats, all of a sudden we have 4,5 active competitors here in maribor, that is enough to do some practice races.

The goal is also to get all the premissions to organize the Rogla regatta coming in the end of may.

The goal also is to finish revolution, make moulds for fila, get the canting keel sailing, build a shunting footy etc. etc 

The next race is in Koseze coming in two weeks