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.
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