Dear FD sailors;
Our friends for Poland had requested our help for those who want to attend in campers. Please fill out this form if you are planning on going:
Many thanks!!
From Friday, May 5 to Sunday, May 7, the Spanish Cup of Flying Dutchman was celebrated in Altea. With fewer boats than normally, a total of 6 were ready to race some sleeves that were fun but very demanding.
The first day the wind was low with an intensity of about 6-7 knots that were a challenge for the sailors. It was the pair formed by Jose Sánchez and Carlos Gastaldi (ESP90) who took the lead at the end of the day after making two first places and a third. The ESP66 of the Enriques Egea also curdled a great performance with two second places and a fourth. The crew formed by Ginés Romero and Javier Cayuela (ESP6) was placed in second place with a first place in the first round.
Saturday was very hard with winds of up to 16 knots and waves that made the boats fly but the sailors had to give everything to squeeze their boats to the maximum. The big winners of the day were Juan Egea and Jerry Vinkestein (ESP-1), who won two races and were second in another. Meritorious was also the performance of the debutant as skipper Pablo Egea with his brother Guzmán as crew (ESP11) who got a second place after leading the sleeve a part of it. The ESP6 after winning the last round was provisional leader and left everything to say on Sunday.
Sunday dawned raining and promised little margin to decide a race that was very tight. Only one leg could be contested with very low winds of about 4 knots. After a rough start the ESP90 managed to win after beating the ESP66 by the minimum and thus managed to win the sleeve. The ESP-11 took third place. This gave the title to the ESP90 in a deserved and very meritorious way after overcoming Saturday’s results.
The final classification was as follows:
- ESP90 Jose Sánchez and Carlos Gastaldi
- ESP6 Ginés Romero and Javier Cayuela
- ESP1 Juan Egea and Jerry Vinkestein
As always, many thanks to the Nautical Club of Altea for the organization and to the beacons and regatta director for their excellent work.
The spanish FD fleet will meet again in Torrevieja for the regional championship and then in Altea for the Yuasa cup before leaving for Poland for the world championship.
Written by Guzmán Egea ESP11
Dear sailors!
I would like to inform you that the procedure of the nomination of Juan Ignacio Egea Moreno for the position of Vice President Development has been started a few weeks ago.
Juan has been sailing the Flying Dutchman for quite some time now with great involvement and enthusiasm for the class together with his suns Juan and Guzman. He is a great promotor and well respected person in the class especially in Spain.
So we are happy that he would like to take the position of VP Development and his great business experience and skills in the english language make him an excellent person for the position.
Personally I strongly support his nomination for the position and hope he will get the support of the whole class once his nomination is effected.
Regards
Peter van Koppen
IFDCO President
Dear FD sailors;
We want to announce the launch of the new hats of the FD class. This are high quality hats made out of 100% recycled material. They have two logos embroidered in the front and in the back. They are two colors avalaible, white and navy blue. They are only 100 units avalaible, so don´t be late!! The price is 27,50 euros plus shipping.
We hope you all like them.
To buy them please contact me at guzmanea@outlook.com or via phone +34 680676615.
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