ecc 2012 logbook - ECC 2013

Engineering Challenge Cup
05 th to 12 th of May 2012
Who made / makes ECC 2012 comes true?
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Here we are - but how did we get here?
It all started in May 2011 when David Boocock, his team and their
supporters organised a fabulous ECC 2011 in Turkey.
We got a very well maintained yacht the ‘Kan-Avel’ from Sunsail (thank you) and my fantastic crew,
Christiane, Anke, Christine, Ralf and Simon (thank you very much and my deepest respect,
indeed), brought the goal – Overall Winner ECC 2011 – within our grasp, but was that really the goal?
After three or four days we had quite a few discussions about the pros and cons to at least try to win,
but some encouraging chats with our Admiral John Hall Hall and some former Overall Winners
(thank you guys) brought us to get the decision – let’s go and try it!
So we sailed on – successfully – and came in overall second behind Louis Krijger - after the fifth race.
And now it was Alen Kustics’ turn. With his assistants he set
up a triangular course in the bay of Marmaris, exactly what we
had dreamed of (thank you to everybody involved).
After a beautiful start we reached the upwind mark first and
extended the lead more and more till we crossed the finish line
as first ship home with an unbelievable clear margin of several
minutes - a moment we won’t forget.
But what about boat 62, Louis Krijger and his crew? Half an hour after berthing we knew,
we won – OVERALL!!!
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