We’ve been asked to repost the video of our illustrious IDA Chairman Rob Campbell and Secretary David Dale leading the choir on the Bakery Party in Balaton. While we were posting we thought you might also like to see our European Champion Markus Wieser Hungarian folk dancing! […]
There are now some lovely official photos from day 4 and 5 on the Event Website (scroll down to find them as the days are not posted in order). […]
Here is the official final press release Balatonkenese, June 11, 2010 – The German Markus Wieser defended his European Champion title after he finished fourth in the last, seventh race of the Erste Private Banking Dragon European Championship in Balatonkenese. The Russian Dmitry Berezkin won the race under ideal condition with a breeze of 10-12 […]
Firstly apologies for not being able to update the blog earlier today. Sadly various airline delays and heavy Friday night traffic meant my run up to Budapest took a lot longer than anticipated so I’m afraid we are light on interviews tonight. As I am sure you will already have seen from the Official Website […]
The start of the final race is scheduled for 11.00am and right now it looks as if they should be running on time. The boats are just making their final preparations to leave the dock and the race committee is already out on the water. I’d just like to take the opportunity to say thanks […]
Hooray! We’re all set for a fantastic last day here in Balaton. For the first time all week we woke up to the sound of the wind in the trees outside our house and from the media centre I can hear the waves breaking on the lake shore just across the lawn from us. The […]
Here is the official Day 4 press report from the organisers:- Balatonkenese, June 11th, 2010 – After a hard day with lots of sailing in a Southerly breeze on Lake Balaton, Markus Wieser still leads the ranking on the Dragon Europeans in Hungary. The weather copied the day before, as the Southern wind came in […]
I must just take this chance to say well done to the organisers for the great job they have done of providing post racing drinks and food every evening of the regatta. Despite the fact that the boats haven’t been getting off the water until after 8pm our hosts have made sure that immediately the […]
Going into the final day of the regatta Markus Wieser, sailing for the Ukrainian Transbunker Team, has a six point lead over his nearest rival Anatoly Loginov, while Germany’s Stephan Link list just three further points back in third place. As the sun finally set Markus kindly allowed us to drag him away from dinner […]
Although one of Hungary’s top Dragon sailors, this week Vilmos Naray has not been racing in the competition. Instead he has been playing a key role in organising the event so we caught up with him to find out he feels the regatta is going. […]