A dream week at Pichlingersee Regatta 2017

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Finally we arrived safely back home from Pichlingersee Regatta 2017. I hadn’t got time to write in the blog last morning because races started 1 hour earlier than the previous days. In the F5-M Euro Cup stage we had great wind on Saturday morning, almost top A rig conditions, so the organizers were able to make 5 rounds (race for A and B group) in these great conditions. After that the wind stopped, and there was just one more round in breeze. On Sunday we started in slow wind, but it became stronger, so both days were great for racing.

On the first day in stronger wind conditions I know that I had to push as hard as possible because I may had some advantage against swing rig boats. I pay attention well and I won 5 of 6 races and made one second place. For the next day I have to just pay attention to Ivan Ermakov on the second place and Pavel Novotny on the third to manage the gap between us on the less risky way. I got some weed that day too but everything went well and finally I won F5-M. Pavel finished second and Ivan third, but there was some amazing races between them. Congratulations to them, it was great to see their performance!

The performance of the other Hungarian RCsailors:

9th place: Horváth Zsolt

10th place: Csóka László sen.

11th place: Országh Tibor and 11th with the same score Kiss Miklós

Sometimes they struggled with set up problems, and Miklós has lots of technical issues, but I think it was a big step to compete at Pichlingersee for the World Championship preparation for both of us.

If I look back on the whole week, it was great to test all the boat I would like to use at the Worlds, and mentally this good performance makes me confident after some bad moments with set up problems and poor performance of my own Ten Rater. Finally at Pichlingersee it seems most of the problems gone.

The organizers made a great job, a big thank you for them for the Regatta! I hope we will compete there next year too. 😊

Live your dreams!

Csóka László

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Pichlingersee F5-10 First Day

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The first day of the F5-10 wasn’t so windy. 😀 Until lunchbreak we hadn’t got races, but after that some breeze came and it was able for the organizers to make 2 races. In my mind for these conditions the two most important factors were boat speed management and strategy.

First we had to pay attention for the wind shifts to react on them, but really slowly with the rudder. It was better to trim the sail first to follow the shifts (I mean to go on the same direction when the shift comes, just react on it with sheet out or in the sail) if it was possible. This way it was possible to avoid losing much from the speed, which is more critical in the Ten Rater in these conditions than in other classes I compete. Or maybe it is just with the Walicki Ten Rater, but I realized that rudder movements causes so much speed loss, much more than I expected. The strategy was also really important yesterday. The wind shifted all the time and if you weren’t on the right side in the refreshing breeze than it meant the half of the fleet would overtake you.

I like these conditions, so it wasn’t a bad day for me. I forgot to take photo of the intermediate results, but I lead the race. Also my father is around the 2nd and 3rd place. Yesterday Országh Tibor wasn’t so lucky, he suffered from set up problems, but finally he solved the issue, so he could be better today. He is in the middle of the fleet now.

Today more wind predicted, maybe we will have lots of races today. I hope so. 🙂

Live your dreams!

Csóka László

Pichlingersee Regatta 2017

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Pichlingersee Regatta is simply awesome. A whole week RC Sailing racing in the northern part of Austria in several classes, one of my favorite competitions. Yesterday was the racing days for Dragon Force 65 and for Mini 40, and also the day for travel to me and my father. We arrived safely after some hail on the highway, I hope we will have better weather in the next 6 days.

From the part of the Hungarians we will compete in F5-10, F5-E, and of course F5-M which is the part of the Euro Cup. Today and tomorrow we will race in F5-10 (Ten Rater), which will be really exciting because I think some of the guys will test those boats what they want to use at the NAVIGA World Championship next month. Of course I would also like to test my Ten Rater, I just have a few competitions with it what wasn’t enough practice for the Worlds, but I’m lucky that I can compete here against really strong RC Sailors.

We will see what happens. I will try to provide fresh information from the regatta on my Facebook page (Csóka Sails) and also here on the blog.

Live your dreams!

Csóka László