Todays SE winds gave the participants of the 21st Izola
Spring Cup nearly the whole range that
can be expected in this region. From the Bora (NE), the famous wind of Gulf of
Trieste, over the Tramontana (N) and the calmer winds that can prevail here,
that blew yesterday up to todays 20 knots of Jugo (Scirocco or SE) which have
started the second day of sailing in Izola. Great sailing conditions and a
comfortable sailing site thet YC Burja can offer, proved that Izola and the
Slovenian coast are more than excellent for early Spring time sailing. Six
races in two racing days in six of the seven classes (only laser radial W
has one race lest than planned because of lack of wind at end of first day).
On the racing field of non-Olympic classes, Kristof Kaiser has a comfortable lead of 12 points over the local sailor Vito Batistic. Same score (17 pts) have the third placed Albert Felix (GER) and fourth Nikola Gerin (ITA).
In the laser 4.7 class, we are still witnessing the battle between the three local »musqueteers« and one of the best teams in the class, the local sailors Jakob Bozic (11 pts), Andraz Gulic (14 pts) and Matej Valic (17 pts).
The 420 class has the German crew Gerz-Bolduan in a comfortable lead (8 pts) to Trippolt_Meister (AUT/12 pts), with Felzmann-Lux as trird (AUT/18 pts).
On the racing field of the Olympic classes the Olympic bronze medal holder, from the host club, Vasilij Zbogar, seems to have no problems in the pallette of winds that the local conditions have offered. He has won all of the 6 races and leads 8 points from the second placed Jacopo Ferrari Bravo (ITA) and 12 points frrom Pietro Cerni (ITA).
Marusa Krasevac (SLO) is in the lead of the laser radial W class (5 pts) in front of Cecilia Veraar (AUT/9 pts) and Elisabetta Macchini (ITA/14 pts).
After half of the races in programme, the local Olympic men crew Hmeljak-Nevecny of 470 is leading ((6 pts) in front of the young host crew Mikulin-Princic (15 pts) and Spadoni-Condello (ITA). The leading women crew is still Cerne-Cerne (SLO), only one point ahead of Dekleva Paoli- Maucec. The two crews have a local battle for the Olympic qualifications.