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Super exciting Lithuania championship - Slalom

Aloha amigos!


Just one week passed until the thrilling slalom session was done.
This fascinating event took place in current slalom heaven - Ventaine.
On the first day we had to stay alive for 8 races of which 4 were qualifications and 4 scoring races. The second day showed up with a little more relaxing wind and 6 races ahead (3 qualifications, 3 scoring races).

FW Baltic Cup Lithuania, Vente II

Sunday morning promised another good day for racing. The wind was blowing from the shore, so we couldn’t exactly know how much wind is outside. Luckily the organization of this event was very good, so organizers went out by boat and measured the wind – 6-7m/s. It was clear what sail to take (my favorite 11), but I couldn’t decide which fin to take: Z 4S- or Z 0S-, finally I have decided to take Z 0S-,  - even if the wind would get up I wouldn’t start flying with this one.

When I sailed out to test the equipment I realized that this is wind for me. I felt really fast. I just had to make good start to reach good position.

FW Baltic Cup Lithuania, Vente

RytiHi everybody,

Foto by Elena:

https://picasaweb.google.com/elenaj79/BalticCupVente#

The biggest windsurfing event in Lithuania now is taking place in Ventaine - Lithuanian  Baltic Cup.

We didn’t have any races on  Friday, due to the lack of wind, although jury tried to do it twice, but unsuccessfully, - the wind was just teasing us. All in all I managed to plane for 30 minutes.

Saturday greeted us with 20 knots of wind. I rigged all my formula sails: 8.5, 10 and 11. I like 11 at most, 8.5 is for wind over 25 knots and 10 is in the middle. I don’t like this sails really much in high winds, because I often have problems with rotation of the cams.

LR Cup

As usually while 'Eurovison' final concert is being held somewhere in Europe in Lithuania, Vente we have Lithuanian Republic windsurfing Cup competition. This year it was a little bit international cause brothers latvians (Janis Preiss LAT 23, Janis Rencis LAT 0, Richards Omanbriedis LAT 48 and Maris Ozols LAT 40) decided to compete in our Cup instead of watching 'Eurovision' at home (better they would have watched it, because now they have stolen 2 podium places). All in all 5 Formula Windsurfing heats were sailed - 4 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday. Results:
1. Janis Preiss LAT 23
2. Mantas Gresevicius LTU 13
3. Janis Rencis LAT 0
this time I've got the worst place:
4. Rytis Jasiunas LTU 799