Great weather welcome at the Europeans

written by Matias Collins  on  May 26  of  2025 and read by 328

Boats wating their appointment time

Fabulous weather welcomed sailors at Mandello del Lario for the first day at the European Championship. The day as usual in Italy started slow, not in time, but inspection of the boats leaded by International Measurer Laszlo Hegymegi went forward with the help pof the usual suspects, finally a goal was achieved, 18 boats out of 34 already had done theirs duties, issues found: a lighter mast, a longer spinnaker boom, many bands not painted properly, a boat found super light and required to add up to 7Kg of lead, another boat that was also light but because it changed all spars into Carbon ones (Mast, Boom and Spi boom) it decreases the total weight in about 4 kg.

The curiosity was the sail inspection where it had to be dismantled fully before the end of the day to allow Tennis players to do their matches.

The weather was so good, that at least 4 boats went out for their training, none of the ones who already had been sailing in Bellano past weekend.
The whole happiness and duties were dropped when late in the afternoon a summer rain came together with some lighting.

At this point only two boats are missing to arrive from the original entry list. Some wifes already did their trekking sightseeing in the mountains and the club staff had been busy working over updates to the SIs and NoR… always want to have the final word, so sailors should expect changes in these documents on Tuesday, all to be announced if LO for the event Alberto de Amicis approve them.

Tomorrow inspection will continue starting at 0930 , some rain is expected in the morning but later should improve.

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Boats in their preparations

The registration table