Beiträge von Hans Schuttert

  • KA 2011

    Jesper Orth hat richtig gas gegeben mit die 2011 Koncept:


    Lancelin Ocean Classic 2011

    Great start of the year for KA Sails rider Jesper Orth AUS.

    3’rd in the Marathon
    1’st in the Slalom.

    Here is what Jesper had to say:

    “First off all, respect to all sailors finishing the 2011 LOC race. It was indeed hard conditions out there. The day of the race started up good, with a solid sea breeze kicking in. Choice of weapons where the RRD Xfire 102 or 112 and KA 2011 Koncept 7.5 or 6.4. For me the race is a lot about comfort over the distance, so I was pretty sure to use the 102 board with a small 30 fin. 7.5 were the right choice as well. In comparison Bjoern was on 7.8 and Chris on 7.0.

    For the development of the 2011 Koncept sails we been working hard with the whole team to tweak them up and the result is more acceleration / speed and better performance on tighter reaches for slalom. For speed and deep downwind it has kept its renown performance and rotation is just unreal.
    I had some time on the 2011 sails, so I was pretty confident that I could achieve a good result, but again you never know what can happen in this race.


    The start was not too good, so I was catching a lot of sailors on the first leg out. At the first mark I could only see Dan Engdal who got the best start and then Bjoern chasing him in front of me. On 2'nd leg I passed Dan and could see Bjoern was not going as deep as we where, so at the 2'nd mark Bjorn was just 10 m from me ( he already jibed).


    From then on he gained some distance and I was sitting in 2'nd for a while. I looked back to insure nobody was catching up from behind, but didn't right away spot Chris Lockwood who past below me,,, So from then on "our battle began". I managed to just pass Chris again after fighting very hard, over 1 long downwind leg, and even gained a little distance. Enough so I thought "OK that should secure 2'nd place for me".


    Straight after I catapulted over a chop,, and went hard down on the boom and heard this crack noise from the boom head and sure enough I broke the plastic and shredded the boom head line. I thought for sure the race was over for me!! But some how I managed to water start, with the boom now sided all the way down in the boom cut out and only holding itself together with a 2mm shredded line and wobbling like crazy. I still can't believe it hold together to the end. Chris past me when I was laying in the water. I did manage to get up fairly quick and decide to give it an “all in or nothing” to catch Chris.
    So on the last leg towards the finish, I first past over the top of him, then we had to point upwind a bit to make it to the gate and my "low setting" boom was just so inefficient pointing and I could hear that Chris would come around me and he did. Think we hit each other in the process as I tried to push him high.


    Pretty stoked to make the podium and in the end very lucky that the boom held up.”

    Next day we had 4 rounds of slalom and I used the Xfire 112 with Koncept 7.5. Great and fun racing and I ended up winning it.

    I’m happy to say that the 2011 koncept has gained another level in performance.


    Junior KA rider Felix Spencer got 3'rd in the Junior class. Very impressive as it was his first time ever on slalom gear (Koncept 5.8 and RRD Xfire 80). Ben Newson was 15'th in the Elite , after fighting with some problems on the adjustable out haul slipping.


    Jesper