VindisDad said...
Hi folks,
I have heard reports from others that the beach at St Peter Ording can be a bit on the rough side at times, although I have not been there.
Yep, it can be a bit more than rough , it can have canyons and crevices and all other sorts of big holes ! Thats from the 2009 Euros.
Yes thats me in S290 - We had finished about 2 laps on a pretty great piece of the beach but a tidal surge put paid to our fun. Apparently we hit the water at around 100kmh and it was about a foot deep ( in the previous lap it was just a splash over a wet patch) . The front wheel aquaplaned before bouncing anything from 1 to 3 metres into the air - but if the front wheel goes up the rear of the body goes down and bottoms out . The yachts just buckled in the attempt to flex upwards rather than the normal downwards hence 13 broken Standarts !!!!
I managed to borrow a French tent to put my yacht in before the rain started , a few crates to prop it up and several pints of Guiness to sit and contemplate with others on what next !
We got a huge amount of support from all the other classes when racing for the day completed and the locals came up trumps too. Glass , resin, matting , grinders saws, extension leads , tape, plastic, blow heaters all appeared and over the next few hours and the following day all but one were repaired.
The only reason 1 was not repaired was because we couldnt find one of the missing broken pieces of bodywork !
It was a very unusual occurence and unprecedented but it became a great rallying of the troops and the spirit of landsailers truly shone at the Standart emergency clinic .
After a gap of one days racing the Standarts were back out racing.......
A difficult beach in sections but some great flat areas too, all in all a must do beach if a little bit of a trek from Ireland !
