Sebatian Col takes the trophy home

Sebastian Col from france won 2 - 0 against Magnus Holmberg in the finals of portugal Match Cup. In th petit final, Mathieu Richard won over Damien Iehl.

Finishing the Round Robin

After two days of few racing (yesterday we did not sail) we finished the round robin racing against Ian Williams and Paolo Cian. In the first we won with a big advantage from the start, and in the second we lost after getting it close in the last downwind. That makes 3 wins out of 11 races.
Tomorrow the semifinals and the finals will be sailed. Magnus Holmberg, Sebastian Col, Mathieu Richard and Damien Iehl will fight for Portugal Match Cup.

Portugal Match Cup - World Match Racing Tour

Pablo Torrado as bowman

Rubrio Basilio as pitman and tailer

Luis Brito as trimmer

Fede Armeñanzas as trimmer

Manu Weiller as skipper

This is the team for our first WC grade event. Yesterday was the first day of racing, we started with a win against Alvaro Marinho's team, but then we had 4 loses... we had a bad first contact with the SM40 boat, we are the only team that never sailed this boats before, and it looks like we are paying for that on our first time.

The team did an awesome job, and we were really close to win against Mathieu Richard but the photofinish gave him as the winner.

Today we'll start our second journey, we'll improve our boathandling and will fight for every point. We'll have a more positive post tomorrow, for sure!!!

We lost our second final this week...

Everything started fine, we won the first race of the finals clearly.
After that, the wind started to raise, and we arrived to 20 knots.
The portuguese team did a great job in boathandle, much better than us, and no matter if we won the starts, they would pass us and win 3 consecutive races. So we lost another final this week, but we'll keep trying!!!
Thanks for following, we'll be in Portugal Match Cup next week!

We just got into the finals!

After finishing the two round robins in first position, we had to choose our opponent for the semifinals, we chose the russian team that ended fourth in the second stage.
We managed to win 3 - 0 and get to the finals. We are very happy with our performance and are prepared for sailing the finals tomorrow. Our opponent is not clear yet, Alvaro Marinho and Simone Ferrarese are in a tie right now, they are still sailing.
Thanks for following! See you tomorrow!

Image of "Stadio del vento", name of the racing area.

After day 1 - tie on the 1st position

The championship began with an awesome day of racing. Good wind and awesome temperature after moscow. The Race Comitte was able to finish the first round robin and to start 2 flights of the second.
After this, we and Alvaro Mariño's team from Portual are on position 1 with equal points.
Tomorrow the second round robin will be finished, and the pairing for the semifinals will be set.
See you tomorrow!

Nations Cup - Europe regional final

Manuel Weiller Vidal as skipper
Miguel Santa Ursula as tailer and trimmer
Joan Fullana Leal as bowman

We are in Brindisi ready for the Nations Cup regional final. The training has been cancelled due to heavy winds. So we'll take a look at the opponents. In this event we'll find:

Jure Orel from Slovenia
Simone Ferrarese from Italy
Alvaro marinho from Portugal
Eugeniy Nikiforov from Russia
Orkun Soyer from Turkey
Sebastian Ripard from Malta
Alexander Denisiuc from Moldavia

and some more...

2 days of relax between Moscow and Rome

After finishing the Europeans in Moscow and before the Nations Cup regional final in Brindisi we spent 2 days between moscow and rome. Here are some pics.


Moscow (red square)





Kremlin

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22nd in the world rankings

After a great grade 1 event, for every crew that is beginning with match race, a big climb shows in the rankings. We managed to end 2nd in Yava Trophy - European Match race Championship, so our ranking improved a lot.


We climbed from 37 to 22. We hope to get some new good results on the rest of our races this year, so our goal could be to end between the 18 first in the rankings this year. That would bring us to great events on 2009.

Let's see what happens...

finally second

After losing the final against the russian home team, we ended second in the europeans.
We are happy with the result, although we strongly disagreed with most decisions in the final (thanks pierre).
the points we got for this second place will bring us up in the ranking, and also we are ready for the nations cup.
See you soon, next time in Brindisi!
thanks for following our blog

We are in the final!

Tomorrow will be the final decision, Russian team ( Eugeny Neugodnikov ) and us went through the semifinals winning 3 - 0 against Nick Cherry and Staffan Lindberg respectively.

On the day before, on the quarter finals, with hard rain 2 degrees and 15 knots of wind, we managed to get 4 wins out of 7 races. That gave us the pass to semifinals, in 3rd position.

So the pairing for the semis was established.

Staffan Lindberg (Finnland) - Manuel Weiller (Spain) 0-3

Eugeny Neugodnikov (Russia) - Nick Cherry (Great Britain) 3 - 0

Today, we saw the sun! it was good conditions to sail, and the racing was fun. Tomorrow will be finals, you are invited to wish us good luck!

See you tomorrow, with our medals (gold or silver?) !

Second day of racing - End of qualifying series

After completing the qualification round (7 races), 8 team from the original 16, pass to the next stage - the 4 first of each group.In group A, Francesco Bruni with 6 wins finished first, followed by Nick Cherry,Alvaro Marinho, and Eugeny Neugodnikov.In group B, we finished first with 6 wins, and in our group Tomislav Basic, Peter Wibroe and Staffan Lindberg, also got the ticket for the next round.It was a cold day, with more wind than yesterday, and rainy all day long...But we are happy with our performance, and can´t wait to start the next stage!!

A nice beginning!

After a tough first day of racing, first results for the qualification stage appear. The fleet was divided into two groups (A and B). In group A, the italian team with 5 wins out of 5 races and the portugese team with 4 wins out of 5 races are in lead. In group B, tie between the croatians and us, with 3 points out of 3 races each.

In our first race ( against german team - skipper Carsten Kemmling) we managed to get real well off the starting line, with a double penalty lead. We were able to keep the advantage until the finish line.

Our second race was much tuffer, Andrew Arbuzov (Russia) got a penalty advantage because we entered the line touching the starting mark, we went to early, and tried to hold as much as posible out of the starting box, we went to close to the starting mark, and hit it with our boom. We managed to get enough space to do the penalty in the first upwind, and things got very close until the finish of the second upwind, there we got a some boatlenghts between the russian team and us, and managed to finish the race infront.

In the third race we sailed against the winner of the last edition, Staffan Lindberg. A close start and a close first upwind, that ended in split at the second half of the leg, as our side went favoured, we got a 4 boatlenghts advantage we kept until the finishing line.

First stage: European championship - Moscow, Russia

Manuel Weiller as skipper
Matias Bonet as trimmer
Miguel Santa Ursula as tailer
Joan "Fulli" Fullana on the bow

This is Team Weiller for the European championship starting tomorrow in Moscow.

After the first skippers meeting, the pairing list has been set, crews and umpires have been presented.

Today was training day, sailing infront of the club complex, the 16 crews had 2 hours time to get used to the boats used in this event (ricochet 747). Some incidents happened. We had a rock contact as we were sailing fast upwind. Our Bowman, Fulli, was close to fall into the cold russian waters. No injuries were suffered, so we are ready for some racing tomorrow.

We'll keep you informed!

Illes Balears - support from the balearic government

Team Weiller gets support from the Illesport fundation.

In Our next trip around europe ( Moscow, Brindisi and Troia ), we'll take
the Illes Balears logo as our sponsor.

Fundacio Illesport decided to give us support for promoting the balearic sport
around europe.

We'd like to say thanks from the blog, and promise to do our best!

Team Weiller starts new blog!

Team Weiller is starting a blog, to keep you informed of all events,
results and news involving the team.

Stay tuned!!!