Nordic Championships for Thomas Paasch

Sent by Thomas Paasch.

Nordic Championships.
In the past weekend (7th and 8th of September), the Nordic Championships where held at the Skovshoved sailing club, just north of Copenhagen/Denmark.

Besides national championships, the Scandinavian countries have a long tradition of having Nordic championships, gathering sailors from all the Nordic countries. For the A-Class this is somewhat limited to Sweden and Denmark, but nevertheless it’s a nice tradition.

For this time of year we had sensational weather with 22-25 degrees, blue skies, 12-16 knots of wind and a bit of wave to make it a little more challenging.

The races where short intensive races, on a race course shared with Hobie Cat 16s and F18s. 20-30 minutes per race, and a total of 11 races over the weekend. While the first couple of races Saturday where a bit light, the rest of the races had sufficient breeze to allow downwind trapeezing, making it a lot of fun to race.

Even though the winner was clear (with 11 straight wins), there was a hard fight for the following places and with 5-6 race a day, nobody had a sure feeling of where exactly they ended in the final ranking, before the list was published.

Besides the sailing club of Skovshoved, we also would like to thank the prize sponsors from Adidas sailing gear and the Danish sailing magazine BådNyt.

Top 5:
1st DEN 1 Thomas Paasch 10.0
2nd DEN 007 Bo Ehrhardt 37.0
3rd DEN 18 Jørgen Hansen 39.0
4th DEN 20 Peter Boldsen 45.4
5th DEN 19 Tom Bøjland 49.0

Full results can be found at: http://www.skovshoved-sejlklub.dk/dc/6/documents/SKS/A-cat%20-%20Race%2…

More Photos here: http://www.a-cat.org/?q=node/272