6 months left - Karpathos Speed

In less than six months the course will open again. A lot of Europan speed-sailors plan to join this year. Speeders from England, Nederlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Greece are planning to join, what we heard so far.

If you are a first-timer; this is the course to the left. Start with a  challenging upwind to the reef or passed the reef on the top, then a jibe or jump off for some rest, before you line up and bend up into the acceleration zone, if you are lucky a gust will hit you and bang, you are on the green line where another gust throw you scary fast towards the stopping area. Normally we jump off here and take a rest, look at the GPS and chat with the others about their last runs, before the next round is entered. After 5-6 runs you parked the gear on the hot beach and take a cool drink, beer or water in the shade at Chris Schill´s beach bar, watching the traffic on the course. Aaaaaahhh Karpathos Speed!

Time to Book 2013

When the rain is hammering on the window, you should give a gift to yourself and book the trip to the magic island of Karpathos.
For 2013 we will run the event July 26:th to August 7:th. There will be some change of the format.

We will run one heat per day and we will have a scoring 0,7 to the winner, 2 for second place etc. But we also will have generous with discards. The best 6 days will count and if not 5 riders or more post above 33 knots over 250 m the raceday will not be valid. In this way there will be some more action than in the past years.

We also will prepare some prizes except of the Trophy, not equipment but something that is a lot more monetary!
Stay tuned and dont forget to book! You can also join at this Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/events/487369741307387/

Markus Emanuelsson - King of Paradise 2012

King of Paradise 2012

With easterly winds all day and a weak forecast for tomorrow, we decided to end the event.
The undisputed King of Paradise 2012 became Markus Emanuelsson from Sweden. With his Mistral boards and Simmer sails he was the fastest rider 5 days out of 12 and the was by far the rider that sailed most kilometers this year too. Congratulations Markus!

12 fast days in a row

Maybe it sounds like we had a bit to many light wind days and that we are disappointed? Well the truth is that we have had 12 successful days in a row. Here is the best 2 second peak speeds and 10 second runs every days (in knots):

	2-sec	10-second
26-july	38,02	36,3
27-july	40,58	39,16
28 July	38,98	36,93
29 July	40,14	38,03
30-july	41,63	39,53
31-july	42,17	40,18
01-aug	37,62	35,27
02-aug	41,38	38,87
03-aug	38,61	37,11
04-aug	39,96	37,67
05-aug	42,62	38,96
06-aug	38,79	36,91

Closed course today

In the morning the wind was around 2 knots from north east. At noon some gusts came and a handful of sailors went out for some minutes and than had to swim home or where picked up by boat when the wind disappeared again. Dirk Jan seemed to have a few good runs though, before his swim back to the shore. As the event manager I decided to closes the course for today, since the rolling waves did the water very messy. The important thing with this event is to have fun, not to swim nor take unnecessary risks.

Monday a new week and new competitors

Markus Emanuelsson, winner week 2.

Today we had weak winds in the morning, well some gust came and Daniel (no surprise) hit the best run early. In the afternoon the waves came rolling in from the north and the wind turned to almost west. Very strange conditions for Karpathos. Still we manged to to runs over 37 knots in these conditions. In the evening we had prize giving at Bella Karapthos and we all had a great meal with their famous UFO´s.

Prel results week 2

The last day of week 2 we had a lot of wind but from the north with rolling waves in the course. A lot of runs where top speed over 40 knots and Daniel and Henrick posted new PB on topspeeds.
Here is the results (not complete yet).

Rank	Sailor	30 July	31 July	01-aug	02-aug	03-aug	04-aug	05-aug	Average
1	Markus Emanuelsson	38,79	39,16	32,7	37,72	34,89	35,73	38,21	38,98
2	Anders Björkqvist	38,19	38,28	33,6	37,08	33,98	35,59	37,86	38,24
3	Erik Larsson	37,49	37,59	DNP	36,56	DNS	DNS	DNS	37,54
4	Daniel Borgelind	35,64	36,76	34,83	35,99	36,1	36,83	37,92	37,38
5	Vladan Desnica	37,9	35,92	DNP	34,26	DNP	31,51	DNP	36,91
6	Markus Tauber	DNS	35,31	32,04	36,44	31,41	33,45	36,64	36,54
7	Robert Stavnås	35,95	36,24	24,58	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	36,10
8	Björn Enqvist	36,67	35,48	31,07	34,11	33,53	34,25	34,84	36,08
9	Henrick Schill	36,25	35,44	30,14	35,95	32,44	34,38	35,75	36,00
10	Magnus Bengtsson	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNP	33,87	35,38	36,59	35,99
11	Armin Höfer	35,02	35,13	31,29	34,18	32,75	34,06	35,61	35,37
12	Henrik Mård	35,13	35,24	32,03	33,95	DNS	DNS	DNS	35,19
13	Oane Kingma	DNS	DNS	DNS	33,59	29,92	32,69	34,95	34,27
14	Anders Lundvall	33,73	32,9	30,46	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	33,32
15	Thomas Althin	33,33	33,29	30,6	32,73	DNS	DNS	DNS	33,31
16	Magnus Lundvall	33,5	33,08	DNP	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	33,29
17	Mick Born	DNS	DNS	DNS	31,91	DNP	31,57	33,01	32,46
18	Birgit Höfer (Fem)	31,23	31,87	DNP	30,59	29,41	32,01	32,72	32,37
19	Adrian Kezele	DNP	DNP	DNP	33,44	30,57	DNP	DNP	32,01
20	Urska Desnica (Fem)	DNP	31,19	DNP	29,12	DNP	DNP	DNP	30,16
21	John Fjällström	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	28,7	DNS	14,35