There were only fourty-five 505s on the startline, and not so many boats as expected. We had one week of wonderful sailing in 24 degrees water and 35 degrees air temperature. On the first day we had one race with 10 growing up to 20 knots wind. Krister Bergstrom's forestay broke in this race when he was in the lead after the first lap, so he had to retire. On the following two days we had three nice races with about 15 knots of wind. After the layday we had two very hard races with maximum wind under the cliff over 35-40 knots. On the last day it was very windy again.

Krister and Thomas sailed very good with the places (DNF), (5), 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2.

Goerges had a safe second place overall. The following boats were very close.
We had races only in the afternoon, and so we had big parties every night.

Now I will not terrorize You any longer with my bad english. A detailed report will come from Ian Pinnell. But everybody who wasn't at the Europeans missed the best event of the year.

See You,

Wolfgang Stueckl
GER 8633