Beautiful weather settled over Terschelling for the Dutch Open - making the open-air beach club the place to be. It is
extremely rare for there to be so little wind at West an Zee so the bar was in luck.
In fact, only one race was started on the Saturday but that was yellow-flagged after 15 minutes of struggle toward the
first mark.
Sunday saw even less wind so recovery from the previous nights intake ( a huge meal and some beer ) was very easy.
A few things were learned :
1. Know the Rules. At no time from the 3 min signal may you push on the ground ( you may push on your wheels) - you should
be sitting in the kart with your seat belt fastened all the time.
2. The 5.5 m sail would have made racing possible.
3. The Dutch are great hosts and friends to make
A 5.5 m demo sail was rigged and I had the rather unusual experience of cruising around a number of 4m rigged stationary
blokarts . The sail looks really nice and adorned the only kart that moved most of the day!
Apart from the 7.5m windsurf sail put up for fun
To see some photos including many of the 5.5
