Musto Skiffs at Skiffania Diessen Germany on Lake Ammersee
by Michael Hübner 29 Apr 2015 18:50 BST
25-26 April 2015
Musto Skiffs at Skiffania Diessen Germany on Lake Ammersee © Frank Reger
With family, my sailing time is limited. So I was very excited that my family accepted a sailing weekend at the lovely Bavarian Ammersee Lake, south west of Munich.
I made a nice package of activities like steam boat riding, museum visits, visit a blacksmith for knives or have a look in a tin figure shop and museum.
Due to not so good weather predictions I went on my own. No traffic on the German Autobahn, but the skippers' meeting at 9 was still to early. The Club facilities of DSC gave easy room all the participating classes with 10 49ers, 4 International 14s, 18 Moths and the 9 out of 11 Musto Skiffs.
Sleeping in the car was also not a problem. Getting in the water is a little bit difficult because of 200m muddy flatwater with some hidden Stonehenge stones. This time they were marked, last time I found one and my boat caught it with the trapeze line and never gave it back.
The Moths got in the water on the front side of the boat stage, so no problem with all the boats and the wind direction. I could not get the overview to analyse the races like you do, so I make it short:
2 races on Saturday, nothing on Sunday. The wind direction showed some North Easterly till it settled to North Westerlies. So I got time enough to fix the main block and get the grip to some "waves".
Both races showed the pin favoured and with the private gusts and some wind shifts a lot of lead changing took place. Nicolas, Bernd and unmeant me and the "Porsche" were fighting in the front with a lot of risk taking to catch that dark stripe somewhere on the shore.
Some shouting could be heared at the lovely monastery and brewery Andechs like: " trying to keep the too high reaching boat upright" or "how can suddenly be the Porsche so far in the front" or "why can't you give me fast enough room on the lee buoy?" or "why is this lowrider in my way to the finish?".
At the end Bernd and Nicolas both finished on 5 points with Bernd winning due to a first place and the Porsche and me got 6 points with advantage the Porsche due to the other first place. A very good and very big piece of lasagne with enough free draft beer was offered in the evening.
The bottom line is that a new headsail offers unknown positions and the Max Eyth lake in the middle of the Mercedes and Porsche city Stuttgart is not so bad for training.
Full results can be found here.