RC Sailing Ukraine

15-16 of October there was a Limanskiy sport fest event near Odessa at Krasnoselka village. The idea of organizators - "Academy of leisure" was to bring together all modelers - avia, auto and navi to show to mass people the beauty of modeling sport. We also were invited and held races in 2 classes. 1 day - marblehead class, second day F5-E class. 

 And the results were as follows:

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF RACES

Facebook page of the event 

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This year for the first time one of the regattas of Europe Cup series was held in Ukraine. It was in Bukovel on 8-9 of October. 

The forecast was cold weather and snow, and maybe it scared some competitors and they didn't come. However, in fact there was a comfortable weather, mainly sunny, and all those who have come, enjoyed well this event. 

10 competitors from Austria and Ukraine took part. The wind was light and shifty. First day we held 8 races. The battle was very tight between austrian and ukrainian leaders. Manfred Wolfinger with his new boat Quark dominated in downwinds, but when the wind became near to zero, Scalpels accelerated better than swing rig in upwinds. So, after first day, standings were as follows:

Next day we had 3 more races in Marblehead class. Austrian team improved their results, so finally the results became as follows:

My 2nd place let me have good points in overall Europa Cup 2016 score table, and I saved my 1st place in overall. For the first time Ukrainian sportsman wins this prestige competition.

Manfred Wolfinger takes 2nd position in overall, 

Gerald Oberreiter - 3rd.

Full scoring table for Europa Cup 2016 is available here

 After lunch brake we had match-races in Dragon Force 65 class. 

Here Austrian team was on the top, taking all the podium:

1. Manfred Wolfinger

2. Gerald Oberreiter

3. Silvio Schedenig

Igor Denisyuk from Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy was the only one junior at these competitions, but he showed good skills competing to seniors in both classes and his 1st place junior prize has been earned by good job!

The event atmosphere was warm and friendly. We thank very much to Bukovel resort, providing us with the venue and their great support.

Photos and videos of the event

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For the first time our sportsmen took part in a top ranking IRSA event.

IRSA Tenrater worlds were organized first time in this millennium. Last IRSA worlds in this class was held in 1999 in Singapore. 

Our team consisted of 3 leading skippers in this class - Andrii Kadantsev (UKR 242), Timur Kishubaiev (UKR 134) and Andrii Koval (UKR 35). All three had Janusz Walicki's boat Partner, but some small modifications had to be done with the boats to comply with IRSA rules. 

3 days from 1 to 3 of October, in a quickly changing conditions from A to top C rig, but mainly with the waves, we tried to compete with the best skilled world sailors. It was really harder than our usual competitions in this class. Only when the wind was lighter and the waves were smaller our boats had some advantage and we could be at the top of the fleet. However, if you fall down to bottom fleet for some reason, it is really hard to return back, because the skippers are quite good in every fleet from A to C and sometime it is harder to be between first 6 in C fleet, than to be between first 6 in B fleet. In A fleet the concurrence was so tight, that every small mistake can bring you instantly from top to the bottom of the fleet. In these conditions, we had lack of experience, often touching marks and making some pity mistakes.

However, it was a big experience for us. Andrey Kadantsev was the more lucky of us, by ending 7 last races in fleet A. His overall place was 22. I had only one really good race - the first seeding, where I came 4th and appeared the 2nd race in fleet A for the first and last time)). Then I was mainly in B fleet, sometimes falling down to C. Overall position 32. Andrei Koval was mainly in C fleet, by finishing in overall at 42 place from total 47 competitors.

FULL RESULTS

PHOTOS

EVENT WEBSITE

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