TREND Regata 2017

Pleasant heat, water temperature, wonderful weather conditions. This ideal yacht weather has welcomed the participants of TREND Regata at beginning of the June in the Middle Adriatic. It has been the seventh start in the competition for our company and the most successful one so far. Chemkostav crew won the first place in the category Bavaria 46 Crusier with gennaker.

Since the very beginning, from 2001, the competition is being organized by weekly paper TREND in order to deepen the business relationships among the representatives of Slovak companies. This year 25 crews were competing in 3 categories based on the yacht type and type of additional sail used. Compared to previous years, the organizations decided to boost up the race from more or less recreational type to the professional and sports level. The main difference was made by additional sails for all the yachts what brought to the race more adrenalin and duelling. Yachts were at a higher speed; the individual trips were sportier and therefore more interesting for the whole crew. This respective change required as well more experience from the captain side and higher demand was placed on the crew itself, which had to demonstrate greater effort and perfect cooperation. In order to maintain the right speed of the yacht, correct tactics and crew coordination, each member of the crew had fixed role assigned.

Chemkostav team work and victory in the category confirmed crew’s qualities also at sea. All this happened under the leadership of captain with many years’ experience, Jozef Hnilica, the brain of everything happening on the boat, to whom goes big thanks.

This year’s area of race was close to the town Primošten and the islands of Murter and Zminjak. The crew spent on the yacht one week, of which the first part was dedicated to training and preparation before the competition. The competition itself was divided into 6 rounds and took 3 days.

Full of energy, positive emotions and new contacts, we are already looking forward to the next years competition, where we, together with our captain, plan to compete again for the first place.