It was again a nice Ski voile issue. For 37 years now, best European sailors meet in Juan les pins (south of France) to race nice regattas under the sun. With 6 races, weather conditions was perfect during three days. The week end started Thursday with the ski race won by FIN 83 (Lindgren/Tenkanen/Winter). Friday, […]
Now that the dust has settled from the Australian Worlds and Great Britain can boast it’s first ever Champion, (not counting the Man, PRH who was born in Denmark), all Dragon sailors can look forward to a host of challenging and vibrant regatta’s from Portugal to “Russia with love” this coming season………… Yes Lawrie Smith […]
The British Dragon Association has launched its new website at www.britishdragons.org. Part of an active campaign to revitalise club level racing in the UK the new website follows the new Dragon ID guidelines and incorporates a host of new information and elements. Please do visit the site and if you have any feedback or suggestions […]
Lawrie Smith GBR 751 can add the Dragon World Championship to his magnificent sailing CV after squeezing over the finish line yesterday, by less than half a metre, to secure the 6th place required by him and his team aboard “Alfie”, which gave them the title over Markus Wieser UKR 7 on count-back! As the […]
Markus Wieser UKR 7 can only be beaten by Lawrie Smith GBR 751 as the World Championship in Melbourne draws to a close….. With no racing yesterday firstly due to too much wind and a lack of visibility, then as the clouds lifted and the sun shone the wind died away to absolutely zero, nothing! […]
The last time anyone saw rain as heavy as what fell on the waters of Port Phillip yesterday, Noah was preparing his “Ark”…. At times before the start of the 4th & 5th races of the Dragon World Championship’s, visibility was down to 100 metres and most crews were huddled together under the decks of […]
Markus Wieser UKR 7 crewed by Sergey Pugachev and Matti Paschenhave taken the overall lead “Down Under” with three consistent top ten positions, his 6th place yesterday was good enough when added to his previous 9th & 5th to make a 20 pts total and lead the fleet by 5 pts. His fellow team Transbunker friend […]
The 2nd race of the Dragon World Championship started yesterday in a 6 kt south easterly wind, with flat water and almost no current. With a square o.4 mile line competitors had to decide if they wanted to gamble on more wind out to sea (thus start at the committee boat), or make for the shore […]
Lawrie Smith GBR 751 crewed by Tim Tavinor and Ossie Stewart, recorded their first win on the Port Phillip race track since arriving in Melbourne over a week ago. After finishing a creditable 6th place in the Prince Phillip Cup, Lawrie turned on the power yesterday to take line honers in the first race of […]
Joergen Schoenherr DEN 401 rolled back the years yesterday to snatch the Prince Phillip Cup from Tommy Mullers GER 966 grasp by winning the final race by a country mile……. With just over a third of the fleet deciding to not participate in the final race due to seeing gusts of up to 30 kts […]