Breathtaking impressions from Porto.

We have been invited by our suit supplier Marinepool in the context of the “Extreme Sailing Series” in Porto to officialy present our club. Elena and I have never take part before to such an event.

During this competition, different teams challenged themselves using identical 40 feets Katamarans. In this way the winner is not the one who has the best boat, but the one who has the best Team, which consists in a Skipper, a Navigation expert, a Tactician and other two important helpers.

Robert Starke, the General Direktor of marinepool, and his Marketing strategist Christoph Stadler have thought about a surprise for us… Elena and I had the chance to take part to one competition as “ballast” on one boat. So we had our debut in a regata…and it was simply amazing!!!

 

The Regata lasts 3 days, 10 competitions take place everyday and at the end of the week-end the winner take is price (for further informations  and the detailed competition rules take a look at http://www.extremesailingseries.com).

In this week-end we have been lucky and we could both sail on “The Wave” of the Skipper Leigh MC Millan.

 

 

It has been an amazing experience! Elena was not even stepping out of the boat that she wanted to go back again and I have been deeply impressed form the perfect Team work of the guys, who have next been the winners in Porto.

The Skipper gave all the commands precisely and calmly, the Tactician calculated the incidence of the wind and another crew memeber took in mind the position of the other boats. so we have found out really easily own we should handle the boat aswell and which behaviour we should have between us ;)

During the week-end we have officialy presented our project, which has got a really good feed-back from the media. Our reasons and targets have been highly supported and have raised the interest of lots of people from all over the world. We can now say that it has been the right place where to present our project!

We would like to thank Robert Starke and Christoph Stadler for this opportunity. They took a lot care of us and are a flame supporting our project.

We would also like to thank the general organization of the event for putting us in the right light. We wish a lot of luck to all teams for the upcoming competitions, which will determine the final winner.

Here are some links about the week-end:

http://www.extremesailingseries.com

 

http://www.marinepool.de/news-events/news/en/2013-czyz.html

 

http://www.firmenpresse.de/pressinfo917247/sailing-4-handicaps-in-porto-vorgestellt.html

 

 

http://www.boots-boerse.de/news/news/datum/2013/juli/27/artikel/paralympic-sieger-wojtek-czyz-segelt-und-hilft//1117/

 

http://www.segler-zeitung.de/news/segler-zeitung-news/artikel/paralympic-sieger-wojtek-czyz-segelt-und-hilft/

 

The pictures belongs to the photographers:

lloyd Images

Ricardo Pinto

Elena Brambilla