| Team Boskalis Sailors' Blogs |
| North Sea Regatta report |
| Andrew & Mischa |
| North Sea Regatta 2013-05-2013
The Delta Lloyd North Sea Regatta or NSR is sailed annually during the Easter weekend. This year around 38 F18 catamarans gathered at the start of the NSR. |
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| Jolbert & Niels |
| Eurocat 2013 |
| After a very promising start of the new season with a 2 and a bullet, we were very looking forward to the first big international event of the season. The races were scheduled for Sunday till Wednesday. We left the Netherlands on Friday so we could train on Saturday. |
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| Matthieu Marfaing + Mischa de Munck NED 1910 |
| Eurocat Carnac 2013 |
| On Friday 26 April we started the long drive to Carnac for the Eurocat 2013. We were all excited to race in this regatta because the level is really high and we are doing really well this season. So expectations were high! |
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| NEW Nacra F16 Team back from Eurocat! |
| Froukje & Sam |
| Froukje and Sam, both familiar in the Team Boskalis on the F18 formed a temporary team on the Nacra F16 the past weeks, including racing the Eurocat in Carnac, France.
Just one day back home, here is our brand new blog update!
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| Teamrace Knockout + F18 Class Regatta |
| Team Boskalis |
| It has been an intense weekend for Team Boskalis. Yesterday morning 4 boats of Team Boskalis were present during the start of the first class regatta of 2013 on Marina Muiderzand, Almere. The largest catamaran sailing club in Europe, with over 200 catamarans. Jorden Veenman and Jolbert van Dijk sailed with their trusted crews Frank de Waard and Niels Kleijweg. Froukje Feenstra sailed on the new Boskalis F16 with Sam Frank. And all the way from France, Matthieu Marfaing sailed with Olav Kleijweg on Saturday and on Sunday with his crew Mischa de Munck |
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| Jolbert & Niels |
| Eurocoupe Bray Dunes |
| After a very cold winter in the Netherlands the first event abroad was the Eurocoupe in Bray Dunes (FRA). We were very excited as we had not been sailing the F18 so much this winter due to the cold weather. |
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| Best Dutch Formula 18 Team |
| Jorden & Frank |
| Team Boskalis takes also last price of 2012, the best Dutch Formula 18 team after all Dutch class events. Very nice to end the already succesfull season with this price!! |
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| Training South Africa |
| Jorden & Frank |
| How it’s done, by team Boskalis
After the trip to Tanzania to do the Tanzacat regatta, the African sailors noticed that the level of sailing in the Netherlands is quite high. Gunnar and Frank made a video of one of their races during the Tanzacat bay races. After watching this footage several times the South African Nacra dealer invited us to come over for a week of training. We only had to think over this for about 5 seconds, and then we said.. YES we come!
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| Dutch sailing season ended with a clear win! |
| Jorden & Frank |
| Dutch sailing season ended with a clear win!
The last weekend of the autumn cup is sailed, and we managed to win the series with a clean sweep! Just like the Tanzacat regatta, only 1st places! We were extremely lucky as we had four weeks with great conditions. All days good wind and a nice sunshine! We can look back on this sailing season with a smile. It was a very successful year for us with great regatta’s, a big learning curve and some really good results.
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| Autumn Cup |
| Jorden & Frank |
| After sailing the Tanzacat regatta Jorden and Frank teamed up again to do the autumn cup in Holland, which mostly means cold days and lots of wind. Because of our Boskalis F18 was still in the container until now we decided to do the series on the COMPASS Nacra F20 carbon. Great fun on the boat and it’s incredibly fast. After 3 weekends we are in a comfortable lead with 1 day to go.. Would be great to end this successful season with a win! |
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| Froukje & Mischa |
| Round Tien Gemeten |
| On Saterday 29th of September Froukje & Mischa sailed the Round Tien Gemeten in Hellevoetsluis. The sky was blue the temperature was nice the water was flat and the wind was on!! The Round Tien Gemeten is a nice race to end the season. The start is in front of the Hellecat catamaran club from which around a 80 boats start racing towards the Island Tien Gemeten, over 20 Kilometers ahead. The island has to be rounded to port and than back to the club.
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