Helsinki-Tallinn race 2012

Now back home. The whole crew is probably tired but happy. We had a very good race. Our start was at 18.00. We got an excellent start being among the first ones that crossed the start line. The weather forecast did not promise too much wind so especially our yacht suffered from it being quite heavy because of its age. The yachts were different 30 years ago. Reaching Helsinki lighthouse was quite painful. We were finally at 22.00 in this firs treal turn point. The whole fleet continued to the east and we read from the forecast that the more west you go, the more wind there will be... (still only between 1-3 m/s max). The decision was perfect. While the other fleet had moved far away yo the east, we were really moving to the west. At Tallinn lighthous we made a mistake that cost us the position outside top 10. We took the spinnaker up too late. Immediately when we got it up (half an hour before Aegna ice buoy) and we moved over 7 knots and even 8 knots as our top speed. We reached the goal at 5.46.10 and almost sailed to he finishing with Spinnaker, but a minute before we changed to genoa... Our final position was 13/30 Yachts in the Business-LYS class (only 29 started). Our second DAY-medical/worpix teamer crossed the finishing line about one hour later, being 26th/30. AquilaDeux got the "Tapio Matikainen trophy" that is given to the best yacht among our own circles (so it is not official trophy). Anyhow the AQ2 skipper can hold it for one year. As always there was a big party on the saturday evening. More than 1000 sailors really know how to party! Thanks Jaska, Stidi, Anssi and Pekka. Thanks also Erkki, Ipu, Per and Ilpo for competition. Next year again!