After a long Covid break from Olympic sailing, we are finally back on the water! Last week, Leopold had his comeback to sailing and won the City Island Cup in New York with three bullets and one second place. Even though the boat was an X332 and not quite a 470, it was nice to be back out there. We will make an announcement in the fall after the Tokyo Olympics regarding our plans for the next olympic cycle towards Paris 2024!
L&M
In the last couple of weeks, we competed in the National Championships and the State Championships. We are quite content with our performance; we finished the State Championships in 2nd. Unfortunately we couldn´t compete in all races at the National Championships, as Leopold had to take an exam. It was still nice to finish the Nationals with a first place on the last day.
Leopold is currently in the US doing some big boat sailing in Miami. We will soon be back on the water.
L&M
We are just back home from the open Europeans in Vilagarcia. We finished the event in 17th position in the gold fleet. Not what we were hoping for but not bad either. Light, tricky winds made the racing very challenging for us as light winds are our weak spot, but we are happy with the progress we made in light wind sailing.
L&M
Due to the lack of wind sailing was just on two days possible. With a protest and a crash not our brightest hour…..
The Princess Sofia Trophy did not start as planned for us, but we learned a lot throughout the event and are happy that we finnished the regattta with a 6th place on Friday. Now we enjoy some days of rest and come back stronger for the Sailing Worldcup in Genoa next week.
We´ll keep you posted.
L&M
After two weeks in Miami, we are back in Europe now. The event did not go as planned … we arrived late and had just one day of training with the charter boat before racing and so the problems started…
On the first day of racing our spinnaker halyard broke, on the second day we had some trouble with the centreboard system and then the mastfoot-pin broke…
Overall we planned things too tight and had not enough time to get used to the boat and give it a little overhaul.
Lesson learned!!!!
Even though we finished the Worldcup just in 35th we had a good time in the States and want to say THANK YOU!!!! to everyone who made this possible and always supports us on our journey to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games.
Thank You to Flir Systems, Raymarine, HS Sprenger, Marinepool, Olimpic Sails, Mallorca Clothing Company, Glogglz, Alpha Ropes, Bessey Industrial Tools and Tactical Sailing for the financial support and the supplies.
Thank You to our training partners Afrodite and Lobke and huge congrats to our other training mates Jordi and Nico for the victory!!!
The most important supporter here was Katrin, who hosted us and helped us wherever possible and gave us some great nutrition advice. Check out what she can do for you on http://katrinmehler.com/
The Palamos Christmasrace is over and we didn´t finish one race! We broke our boom and spipole, so we were not able to compete.
Now we are back in Palma, training until the 6th of January.
We whish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Leopold & Maximilian
We are in Palamos now, doing some last preps on the new boat. First races are scheduled for Wednesday. We´ll keep you updated
L&M
Yesterday we finished the World Sailing Ranking Event in Imperia (Imperia Winter Regatta) in 7th Place in the 470 Men fleet.
In the event were 236 sailors from 8 nations in the classes 470 and 420 participating. Everything was very well organized and the race committee did a great job. The weather played along as well, except for the last day on which sailing was due to the danger of giant waves impossible.
This week we are heading to Palamos for the international Christmasrace.
Photo credits: Andrea Lelli
Am letzten Sonntag ist für uns die erste gemeinsame Weltmeisterschaft in Bracciano zuende gegangen. Wir beendeten das Event auf Gesamtplatz 26 und Platz1 in der Wertung U17. Der 26. Gesamtplatz ist trotz eines Rennens, dass wir nicht beenden konnten, nicht das, was wir erwartet haben, aber ein 8., 6., und 10. Platz in der Finalserie machten es erträglich. Wir wissen woran wir arbeiten müssen und werden daran arbeiten und stärker zurückkommen. Unsere nächsten Events sind der Seglerhauspreis auf dem Heimrevier in Berlin und die Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaft.
Bis Bald
L&M
Leopold Maximilian Brandl 