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News 2006 |
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Winter training and coming races...
Now it is time for winter training and preparation for the next season. We are
planning to be in Cannes and south of France as much as possible for the "winter classics". Furthermore, we will be training in Majorca from the beginning of January - having base and a lot of activities until Princess Sofia and the early Gold Cup in the end of March and
beginning of April.
If you would like to train or test and sea-trial a Dragon in France or in Majorca please contact us. info@bb-dragon.com
Next races:
France:
January 26-28th 2007
SKI VOILE INTERNATIONAL - Club Nautique d'Antibes Juan Les Pins
February 1st-4th 2007
Primo Cup - Monaco Yacht Club
February 10-12th 2007
CHAMPIONNAT LIGUE VOILE CÔTE D'AZUR - Club Nautique de Golfe-Juan
March 1st-4th 2007
REGATES INTERNATIONALES D'HIVER - Yacht Club de CANNES
Majorca:
March 31st-April 6th
Princess Sofia Trophy
April 5th-14th
Gold Cup. |
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Meet our Dragon in Berlin...
Our dragon will be displayed at the "BOOT UND FUN" boat show in Berlin 23 - 26 November. You are welcome to drop by and have a look and a dragon chat with Andreas Haubold - you can meet Andreas and Haubold Yachting GmbH in Halle 4.2 - Stand A 01.
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Markus Wieser's BB Queen is sold to the Transbunker Team
One of the most successful Dragons of this year, the BB Queen, has been sold to
Sergei Pugachov, CEO of the Transbunker group, which will probably be the main
sponsor for the 2007 Gold Cup in Palma de Mallorca next April.
But Markus will continue sailing our Dragons. His new "Queen" will be delivered end
of January to Palma, where Markus starts his training program with the Transbunker
Sailing Team.
After winning this year's Gold Cup on the Queen as tactician for Werner Fritz and
recently winning the Berlin Match Race 3:0 in the finals against Jochen Schümann,
Markus wants to win his first Dragon Gold Cup as a helmsman.
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 October 08, 2006
BB Queen – Wieser and crew win German Nationals
Markus Wieser and his crew, Thomas Auracher and Markus Steinlein, repeated last year's victory by winning the German Nationals in Berlin. Even a port-starbord disqualification in race two could not keep them off the track. BB Queen once again showed superb boat speed in the light as well moderate breeze.
In second place finished Brennecke, Hoesch and Scheibmair who also came second behind BB Queen at this year's Gold Cup in Douarnenez.
The Queen is definitely one of the top boats of this year by winning Princesa Sofia, the Gold Cup and now the German Nationals in Berlin.
Congratulations to Wieser, Auracher and Steinlein.
Results: www.vsaw.de |
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September 26, 2006
Regates Royale
Be a part of the race click...
Results click... |
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 BB Queen wins the Dragon Gold Cup 2006
Report from Markus Wieser
My decision not to helm BB Queen was in the end the right one. After winning this year´s Princesa Sofia trophy in Palma de Mallorca in an extraordinary good performance especially in the breeze - we were a little confused when we returned home from the Douarnenez Grand Prix in the beginning of May. We had no boat speed in the light and we did not know how to solve it.
Werner Fritz, our sailmaker from Germany, gave us some advices which worked out perfectly. We got back the light wind speed we had when we won last year´s Regates Royales in Cannes!
Sailing in the bay of Douarnenez is not easy. Loosing and wining is closely connected, a little mistake in these big fleets and the race is over. For that reason my standard crew, Thomas Auracher and myself, decided to find a good driver so that I can concentrate on the tactics.
Werner Fritz, who already finished second at the Dragon Worlds some years ago, was our man and he did a great job.
We sailed conservatively without big risks. We had enough boat speed to come back when we were back in the fleet after some average starts. With 1,1,5,8 and 27 we only had one race out of the top ten in a fleet with over 100 boats.
Our winning package was excellent:
We were a strong team, which is absolutely necessary for winning a top event.
We had fast sails, which you need too, if you want to beat the armada from North Sails.
And last but not least we had our boat:
I absolutely like my BB Queen. We prepared her and tuned her and even though we had some small problems we can always count on her.
We had no gear failure, no major breakdowns, which happened on some other boats from different boat builders.
I am only able to repeat that my decision to sail a BB boat was the right one.
There are rumours everywhere about the boat, but all of them do not count as long as these boats are on the top.
And I am sure they will continue to win because Peter Johansen and Vejle Yacht Service is moving the right way forward.
We work together and the inputs from Bo Selko and myself will not make the boats worse…
See you in Cannes
Markus. |
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 The Queen - Fritz, Wieser & Auracher winner of Gold Cup 2006
Werner Fritz, Markus Wieser and Thomas Auracher took the trophy in the race of the year - Gold Cup 2006. On 2nd GER 1007 - Brennecke & co -3rd the old champ x 3 DEN 375 Schönherr & Co. Congratulations to the team. Detailed report and review from the race will follow. Final list click here….
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Gold Cup 2006, Douarnenez
108 Dragons are racing the Dragon Gold Cup in Douarnenez. (BB) Queen is leading helmed by Werner Fritz and crewed by Markus Wieser and Thomas Auracher - a new constellation! Further race reports will follow.
A sad start on the Gold Cup for RUS 888 who had damage on his furling system. We have for the sake of good order - and to remove all doubts announced that this dragon is an old Børresen dragon hull – fitted by another shipyard. For further information please contact Thomas Egeskov at +45 22 95 94 73.
Be a part of the race: http://www.dragongoldcup2006.com |
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Next event - Dragon Gold Cup 2006
We will keep you up-to- date from the first start on August 25th. Link to the Dragon Gold Cup in Douarnenez, France click... |
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 Danish Nationals - 4 days in atypical summer weather...
A very strong fleet with 40 dragons was fighting for the Danish Championship and the Marblehead Trophy. The weather was very shifting - from no wind to more than 20 knots and shifting directions... Frank Berg and his crew, Søren Kaestel and Dickie, won the Championship in the renovated wooden dragon Get-A-Way - Congratulations once again. From a BB Dragon point of view it was very nice to see 6 new BB Dragons on the starting line all doing quite well. Overall results please click here... For the first time in dragon racing we tested a new kind of GPS tracking system where the dragons were equipped with a GPS sender to make it possible to follow the boats on a large screen on land and on line.
If you click here you can see more...Thank you to Marselisborg Sailing Club and the fantastic crew on land for a brilliant regatta.
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July 6, 2006
The Danish Championship - 2006 - Helnan Open
Latest news from the regatta... Read more news from Aarhus and much more: click here... |
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 July 6, 2006
BB Dragon is now being built in Vejle!
With effect from 1 May Royal Denship has through its parent company acquired 50% of Vejle Yacht Service ApS.
Since Peter and Royal Denship took over the rights and building licence to build the BB dragon, the objective has been to find the best team of designers, dragon sailors, sail makers and craftsmen. This has led to that today we have a very strong team to build and develop the most important – the ultimate dragon.
And we must admit that we succeeded both as far as the results on the course and the finished product are concerned.
In the month of June the total production apparatus including all moulds, “vacuum infusion” system etc, have been moved from the yard in Faaborg to a refurbished facility in Vejle. In the future Thomas Egeskov will thus be the manager in charge of the production and completion of the BB dragons.
Thomas Egeskov has a long experience from Børrresens Bådebyggeri and he has a team of competent boat builders behind him. Since the start-up of Vejle Yacht Service, the yard has worked with refitting and completion of among others Petticrow dragons as well as service work on Petticrow dragons in Scandinavia. – New as well as old.
By now we can see that the partnership with Vejle Yacht Service is the right constellation and we look forward to delivering new dragons, which can now be delivered with teak deck and tree superstructure.
Possible guarantee repair of previously delivered dragons as well as service work on older boats will also be carried out in Vejle.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact us. |
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 June 27, 2006
Kieler Week- only four races, no discard
- Markus Wieser's review...
Kieler Week (part one) once again has a big problem: too many classes, lousy race committees and the ability to prevent races. On the last day of racing the time limit was posted for 14.00 and the harbour start for the Dragons was 9.30! Even though there was a great westerly breeze, the race committee set up 2 long courses instead of one short and the chance for a fifth race.
At the end we had only
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