SORRY – HERE IS A CORRECTION TO OUR EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENT! – Jens Christensen, Kim Andersen and Anders Bagger of Denmark have won the 2011 Dragon European Championship in a thrilling final race showdown. Germany’s Markus Wieser, Mattias Paschen and Sergey Pugachev have taken second place with the Ukraine’s Evgeny Braslavetz, crewed by Segey Timokhov and […]
This evening 2011 Dragon European Championship sponsor partner BMW is throwing an amazing party at the Regatta Centre which is being much enjoyed by all the crews. Here are a few snaps of the early evening action (sorry but we have an unwritten agreement that we never published the late evening photos – what goes […]
After day four at the 2011 Dragon European Championship in Boltenhagen Stav interviews race six winner Markus Wieser and second placed Ted Sawyer. […]
The wait was well worth it for the competitors at the 2011 Dragons European Championship in Boltenhagen today as the PROs postponement until mid afternoon enabled a very nice breeze to fill in giving the teams an excellent sixth race. Reigning Champion Markus Wieser went into the race with the single goal of victory and […]
We have a postponement this morning in Boltenhagen at the 2011 European Championship. The sun is out and there is a light but unstable breeze so the PRO has announced a postponement and will make his next announcement at noon. We have hopes of some sea breeze so with luck race six will take place […]
It was such a lovely day on the water today that I couldn’t resist going afloat and Jury Chairman Tony O’Gorman kindly allowed me to join them in the jury boat. Here are a few happy snaps from my day on the water. I will upload the rest to my website as soon as I […]
The official photos from today are now available at the Online Gallery (scroll down to find the latest images) The day 3 provisional results are now available here. We’ll have some unofficial photos for you shortly too. […]
After racing on day 3 at the 2011 European Championship Stav chats to race four winner Lars Hendriksen and second placed Mikhail Muratov and to race five winner Olga White […]
Today’s third day of racing was the best so far with warm sunshine, a moderate wind of around 7-10 knots and two more races (four and five in the series). The discard now comes into play much to the relief of the 18 competitors all black flagged on the first day and there have been […]
Good morning from day three of the 2011 Dragon European Championship in Boltenhagen, Germany. After yesterday’s long day on the water and long evening enjoying more of the fantastic hospitality on offer post racing we have plenty of tired sailors here this morning. At this morning’s briefing we had announcements about this evening’s Russian Party […]