Walked out the bus this morning and wasn’t really sure if I was actually awake yet! There was a huge cargo – ship at the terminal, no clouds, a massive glacier in the background and another huge peak on the other side of the valley which I all haven’t spotted before because it was covered in clouds before. I really thought this place couldn’t get any more beautiful but I was wrong …

Meeting was at 11am. We discussed a few rules and went over the starting sequence. I was lucky to find a guy who could borrow me a sick raceboard. Adam (he won every single race today) had another prototype of a highwind – raceboard with him that he didn’t use. It’s a NJS board designed by Nils Stolzechner and it worked just great! It was cranking today and the board was perfect. On the upwinder I could ride it flat and get the maximum upwind performance of the four fins and on the downwinder I could lean back, pull in the bar and shoot towards the buoy.

The first two races I came in at 4th place, the 3rd race I screwed up the start and ended up on 5th place and the 4th and final race of the day was just great. I was battling with Adam for first place until the very end. Unfortunately I didn’t win but it was alright. It was good racing out there today.

Now we’re gonna go to town and see if there might be some party.

Later

Sebastian