It's already the 46th of Bonaire Regatta. It wasn't sure if it would have taken place this year, just a few eeks before the event, but lucky they decided to continue this very nice event and wich is very important for Bonaire.
Day 1- The wind was pretty nice. About 18 knots with some gust. I'm in the men fleet so good have some practice with the men/ boys. I sailed on my Starboard I sonic 110 and 7.0 with a 40cm of fin. As we had a back to back race with some upwind course in it.
I did pretty good and finshed twice on the 3rd spot.
Day 2- Today was a lot of miscommunication as it wasn't clear that the scedule of race has been changed so by the time I got my gear read to go it was already the start of my heat. So missed that one with included Jurgen and Gunther.
The second race also was not clear so this time we made it still on time to the start to be able to start, but now the other boys wheren't on the startline. So that made my score a (DNS) and a 4th place.
I was with my Starboard formula 160 and 8,6m2 all day.
Day 3- was a rest day for all the boats and windsurf sailboards. Today was for the BMX competion and freestyle towin sesion, what was again a great show from the world top freestyle riders, like Amado Vriewijk, Kiri Thode and Taty Frans.
Day 4- It wasn't very windy day so we went with formula again and I took this time the NP 7,8m2 sail what was quite good as I had lots of speed and was easy to go upwind. I was very happy with my sailing as it was quite close with the other guys, like Ethienne. I had two times a 3rd place.
Day 5- Already the last day of the regatta. I started of with a 4th place and basicly didn't needed to sail my last race to keep my 3rd place overall, but i did just to have some fun on the water and to have more practice time with the other guys. I decided both races to go with the formula and the 7,8m2 NP sail. It was quite a good choose as a couple of times the wind went away and then a big gust came back in.
It was a very close battle between Jurgen Saragoza and me.
It was a very nice regatta, with very good wind this year. Hope to see you all back next year.
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