Christian Mester, the organiser, Surveillance boat driver and Umpire (there’s devotion!) reports that last weekend saw our annual Match Race for dinghies and Ynglings. 7 teams signed up for dinghies, and 4 for Ynglings. On Saturday, the wind was there on time, while on Sunday, it was 3 h delayed. Unfortunately, the sail of one dinghy got damaged on Saturday evening but this did not stop our dinghy teams from racing - they switched to Ynglings, and the race committee was asked which class flag is to be used for dinghy races on Ynglings.

It was a great pleasure to see many teams signing up and competing, and even more of a pleasure to see the numerous volunteers helping out the organisers during the weekend. Special thanks go to Sanja, one of this year’s newcomers, who volunteered to co-organise this regatta. It’s not the easiest regatta to organise, especially if you’ve never done it before and you are left with timing and operating all the flags because the main organiser has to umpire on the Q-boat!

Congratulations to everyone for the good sailing, and to Giulia Benvenuti and Martino Ferrario for the 1st place in the dinghy class (on RS500 and Yngling), to Sebastian Lopienski and Yavor Konstantinov for the 1st place in the Yngling class (on Ynglings only) to the Michałs (Michał Kwiatek and Michał Ropka) for the second place in both the Yngling and the dinghy class.

I hope to see you all for the next monthly regatta, which will take place on Sunday, 19 September. Note that the regatta on Sunday, 5 September is cancelled.

For the Translémanique, a solo weekend race for which member Andrea Messina used our Mic Mac by special arrangement, we refer you to our website and particularly Andrea’s own Blog on http://micmac-andrea.blogspot.com/ to learn how he did!