PWA Brouwersdam 2013

So that’s it for this year. My first year of the tour is over but for sure this one will not be the last…

After all, this year went really fast, too fast but the positive thing of it ending is that I’m now ranked 6th in the overall ranking of 2013, After getting 7th in Fuerte and 6th in my home spot the Brouwersdam.

Brouwersdam was great. With the first cold days of the year but also windy, really windy. And with the best freestylers of the world around, there was some great action to be shown!

One week before DAM7 started, I checked the forecast every 30 minutes hoping it had changed because it didn’t look too “good” with an average of 4 knots a day. And when I had given up the hope… suddenly there were 40 up to 50 knots predicted for the second day and 20 knots for the rest of the week. Though from this moment on the forecast started to change about every 3 hours: wind-no wind-wind- no wind. After some time it was more like wind-wind-no wind-wind-wind, so I was pretty sure some wind was going to come. So No wind on day 1 but no stress tomorrow was the day. Day 2, getting up early but really excited to start… No wind. Slowly it started to come up in the afternoon. Competition started, yeaahhh!!! 1 hour before the heat, the wind picked up and I decided to go on 4.0. Went well and had a little break. 10 minutes before started, the wind seemed to have pick up, maybe I’ll go on 3.6, tested it out. Good and start, ever so excited to do well on my home spot but after not sailing for a long time because there was no wind I’m quiet happy landing 2 spocks and have won from Francesca Floris. I went out to train a little bit, I improved again, starting to land flaka’s, esliders etc. Only getting a little bit overpowered and rigged my 3.3. Heat 2 up against Arrianne, no way I was going to win that but good practice. Just a few minutes before the heat, it started to get windy, really windy!! I wasn’t able to sail a strait line with my 3.3…. Though happy to have landed a flaka. After this all I got 5th in the single elimination!!!

The next day the wind was up and down. After some time it was enough to sail and so we started. I was happy they finished one round of the dubble of men so it took a little bit less time. The wind picked up and I was on 4.0 again. I was in the second round against the winner of Hanna Heidemann and Eva Chiochetti, Eva won .My heat was not quiet good… I could only stick two spocks but it was just enough, than the next heat up against Maxime, my heat went not really good but also not bad, I had a really fast flaka and 3 vulcans, first I had won and I already sailed my heat against Oda for 5th and 6th but the judges made a mistake in the heat against Maxime and she had won… So I got a 7th place.

The next days were no wind, except the last day, There was no wind at the skippersmeeting 9 o’clock, until it started to pick up, and not just 3 knots but 15 at least, so the small sails I rigged down the morning because it wasn’t going to get windy, I could rig again. There was no time of running a mens single and double so they started the single of the woman with the hope of finishing a double since it was still possible. They started of sailing the final of the double because there was no time on Wednesday to do that. So than I had my heat against Svetlana Martynova, I went well, I had spock and flaka, still not the way I want it to but good enough. I had sailed for myself a little while and it started to go better and better again. Now I had to go to Arrianne, I had my best heat ever, landing Vulcan, spock, spock 540, switch vulcan, eslider and flaka. Of course there was no way of winning this but still really happy and ended up with a 6th place!!! J

See you all next year!

Maaike

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