The Singapore Story

The Singapore story

Once again, apologies for the slow updates, but I had bit on the past weeks and interweb connection time has been limited.

Onto the Singapore event for the X40 with Red Bull: Roman and I arrive pretty early for the event, I came from Phuket after finishing Kings Cup with Evolution Racing (would write more about that week if it was any good…) and Roman escaped a chilly Vienna to sweat it out in the tropical sunshine.

We wanted to get stuck into the build of the boat so we could have some fiddle time to sort a few systems out and get in better shape than we had been for the HK event, but as usual the schedule slipped behind and we waited for ages on the Monday morning for the containers to arrive, then unloading and all that crap takes longer when it so hot you cant think…

But we did get it all done well in front of time so that gave us the chance to sort things out a bit on the boat. Red Bull Singapore were awesome in their support, they gave us two slaves for the week which we named Hans and Peter because we figured that together they would be as strong as our own Hans-Peter… They were just about as strong! Plus they were great to have around and a big help with all sorts of local knowledge.

When the full team arrived we even managed to squeeze in a training day before the racing started so we felt pretty happy with our setup. We had a new Bowman for the week, David Vera of AC and VOR Telefonica fame. David was very quick to get up to speed with the tricks and sequence of events needed to get the 40 around the course.

For the racing we did really well, finished 2nd overall and we certainly performed much better as a team as the week went on. For sure we are not the fastest boat on the track yet but that will come as we work on the setup a bit more and get some real testing time scheduled.

Next up for the 40 is Oman at the end of Jan, until then I am in Amsterdam and its snowing still… Next report will be about the Xmas trip to Italy and Austria, fun times!