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27/03/2023

Season is coming… 5 (1)

Dear FD sailors

I hope you are all doing great and that you are excited for the new season that is about to start.

As you may have seen, during off season we have been trying to keep the social media active and we have gained lots of new followers and reached literally more than 1 million of persons thanks to visualization and interactions with our content.

But is during the season when we plan to get an extra growth and that can´t be done if we don’t have your help. In order to achieve that goal we URGENTLY need these things:

Pictures and videos of all the regattas that take place along the season. The videos are best than the pictures so anything you have can be used.
Reports of the regattas to use them for the bulletin and to post them in the web and social media.
That the persons who have a Social Media account to always repost and mention FD. Also, when you comment and like our posts it helps us to be more in other people feeds.

Many thanks to everyone and specially to these persons that I mention below because they have helped me with videos, pictures and reports.

Carlo Zappa
Niklas Kiel
Nadan Kosanović
Eric Deleu
GER22 sailing Team
GER187 sailing Team
Lukas Greten
Marc Stritmatter
Juan Carlos Gallego Muñoz

Thanks

Guzmán Egea ESP11

Email: guzmanea@outlook.com

Phone: +34 680676615

19/03/2023

Altea Euroflying Cup 2023 4.8 (4)

Events

The Euroflying Cup 2023 started last Thursday, March 16 in the waters of the bay of Altea. This international event that has more than 20 years of history brings together every year the best specialists of the Flying Dutchman light sailing class.

The test is organized by the Spanish Association of Flying Dutchman, the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation, the Sailing Federation of the Valencian Community and the Nautical Club of Altea. The regatta also has the support of the Comunitat de l’Esport project of the Generalitat Valenciana, a program for the Promotion of Sports Activity.

For the three days of regatta a total of 9 races were scheduled, but due to the low wind only 4 tests have been completed, enough to erect this year’s winners. The wind has blown during the three days with intensities of between 5 and 6 knots, allowing two sleeves on Thursday and two on Friday.

The wind made it more complicated for the Race Committee on Saturday. The scarcity and the continuous wind roles left the day blank.

The sailors of the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja, Francisco José Martínez and Jose Luis Ruiz, have positioned themselves throughout the race at the head of the classification, leaving impeccable results, four first in the four races disputed. The couple from Torrevieja has thus been proclaimed champions of this edition of the Euroflying Cup 2023.

His clubmates, Ginés Romero and Álvaro Moreno, followed them in the classification obtaining silver with two seconds as best partials. The third position was for a crew of the Club Náutico de Altea, formed by Marco Sevila and Roberto Sevila, father and son.

At 4:00 p.m. the trophy ceremony took place in the skipper room of the Club Náutico de Altea. The Bon Vent restaurant offered attendees a sweet snack and drinks. The event was attended; Eduardo Revert, member of the Sailing Federation of the Valencian Community, Enrique Egea, secretary of the Flying Dutcham class and José Rius, vice president of CN Altea.

Thus ends this first regatta that inaugurates the European circuit of the Flying Dutchman class. After this test in Altea the circuit will travel to ports in Italy, Austria, Germany and Croatia, where the fight between the best sailors of the Flying Dutchman class to win the European title will continue.

Results: clasdia2

19/02/2023

Worlds 2024 in St. Petersburg, USA 4.4 (8)

World Championship

Dear FD-sailors!

In a committee meeting on 16-2-2023 the IFDCO has decided to appoint the St. Petersburg Yacht Club to host and organize the Flying Dutchman World Championship 2024.
It was not an easy decision in regard to the prices to ship the boats by container to St. Petersburg. This issue has been on the committees mind for the last 6 months. We have been monitoring the container prices constantly.
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club needed a decision in order to have enough time to organize the Championship. At this moment the prices for a round trip from the Netherlands to St. Petersburg are about € 2.100. The prices of container shipping are going down slightly. We realize that it still is a lot of money and in order to emphasize teams to go to St. Petersburg the IFDCO has also decided to support every team with € 400 to go to the Worlds.
We think it is very important to keep our tradition up to go out of Europe every 4 years as we are a worldwide class. This is also a very important signal to World Sailing. Also we want to join the Flying Dutchman sailors from the western part of the World in good competition. We hope to see
sailors from the US,Canada maybe Mexico and Chile?

We do realize that for ‘younger’ teams it will be difficult to raise the money for such an event. We will try to find some extra support for them but also feel that because of this reason we cannot say no to a Worlds
outside of Europe.

Kind regards

Peter van Koppen
President IFDCO

03/02/2023