IOM Europeans at Sailing Club of Rijeka, Cres, Croatia - Overall
by Icarus Sailing Media 26 Nov 2012 06:46 AEDT
17-24 November 2012
Brad Gibson crowned champion
The International One Metre Europeans came to an end today. A wonderful week, full and with all kinds of weather conditions just flew away, leaving to everybody here some memorable times.
The last day of the championship was the warmest, but that affected the wind as well and the sailors had to wait for couple of hours before starting racing. Finally, around 11am, Heat A was in held to finish race 13 that was not completed yesterday. Brad Gibson was once again among the first to round the weather mark in a race that was held in truly marginal wind conditions. At the end it was Gibson with another bullet, securing with that the 2012 title. Croatia's Jelacic sailed a safe race and after finishing 6th managed to extend his lead from the second Briton of the podium, Elliott.
After that the wind died completely but the race committee did not abandon its efforts so easily. They pushed for some more racing and after an hour of waiting they had Heat E back in the water for the 14th race.
Winners celebrated their victory at the award ceremony that followed later in a joyful and festive atmosphere with everyone being there, either to receive a trophy or congratulate the winners and renewed their commitment for next year.
Full results can be found here.