PWA Fuerteventura 2013

Day 1

Registration! Got myself a place in the tent for the equipment and after I registered. The registration was between 1 pm and 2 pm. I was on the podium together with Heleen since we’re both Dutch and doing the PWA for the first time. The trials for the men were sailed because there were 3 people with only 2 places…Further we didn’t do anything else, although I had an awesome evening session with pretty much all the pro’s! J

Day 2

First competition day! There was wind up to 30 knots so a perfect day for competition! We started with the first two rounds of the man single elimination and right after we started the women, I was in the first heat of the women against Karin Jaggi. I landed one spock and one 1hd spock. I was really happy with it since the conditions are so hard there, especially because I’m used to real flat water. We finished the single elimination with Sarah-Quita Offringa as winner, Arrianne Aukes second and Yoli de Brendt third.

Day 3

No wind at the beginning of the day. They started the men’s double elimination at 4 pm and got two and a half rounds finished. It was a lot of waiting but cool to be around!

Day 4

We had to wait a little bit for the wind but the double resumed at 11.30, since they got far yesterday, I was up pretty early, I was against Svetlana Martynova. I had my best heat ever, landed a spock, flaka, switch airjibe and nearly a eslider but couldn’t win. The double got finished with Sarah 1st, Arrianne 2nd and Yoli 3rd. I was now ranked 9th together with Heleen and Francesca!

Day 5

We started the second single elimination, the wind was pretty perfect so we started early. I had a heat against Svetlana again, this time only landed a spock, still I was happy because I won the heat J. I was really happy with that. Than another 40 min later, I was up against Arrianne which was a real relaxed heat for me, because I didn’t expect to win, although the heat didn’t go as I wanted it too, only landed a vulcan, I had a lot of fun! And again Sarah 1st, Arrianne 2nd and Yoli 3rd!

Day 6

We had awesome wind conditions again and started with the men’s double right away, since I won my heat, I was in the second round of the double so it was a little bit less stressful, I was against Heleen since she won from Karin jaggi which was really good ;). And I won that heat too, than I had only one heat in between there and had to go against Oda. I started that heat a bit wrong because I thought I lost the heat against Heleen, I took me long to get back to the beach and than they told me I won and had to sail in 4 min. My heat against Oda was not a good one because of the start although I nearly landed two flaka’s and a spock! And after this I got 6th in the double elimination, super happy with that! The overall result of the top 8 is: 

1th: Sarah-Quita Offringa

2th: Arrianne Aukes

3th: Yoli de Brendt

4th: Olya Raskina

5th: Oda Johanne

        Maxime van gent

7th: Maaike Huvermann

        Karin Jaggi

 

It was really cool to participate in the PWA Fuerteventura, I’m really looking forward to the next event at Brouwersdam. Fuerte video coming soon, stay tuned!

Special thanks to Zeil&surfcentrum Brouwersdam, Maui Ultra Fins and Prolimit for the support.