Another Monday; August 6 2007 the crew dispersed to Berlin’s airports, the boat had to be delivered to Breskens in Holland for the further journey by truck, having about six days to spear I invited Ewa and Chris Zaleski to join me for few days with Marek and Maja. I hand picked ten most qualified [...]
Porto Rotundo’s round harbor turned into spectacular auto show for next few days, Audi being only exhibitor did not spare funds to create memorable experience, as elegant and sexy as their product.
With an exception for dry sandwiches, but perhaps that is a local custom since we did not eat fresh bread in Sardinia once. The [...]
Gosia and Stefan arrived and we were ready to go, weather was great again, after two nasty Mistrals, wind turned Gregale opposite to Zephyrus predicted by local meteorologists; we soon got used to those discrepancies.
Stefan being new guy and local got few more jobs assigned than others.
For another week he shell be responsible for collecting [...]
My friend PJ joined Andrzej and I for delivery back to France. It was rainy and gray through atrocious waters of Strait of Bonifacio, but the sun came out on the second morning and than came the wind straight from the Rhone Valley right when we entered the Gulf of Lion.
That was my 4th Mistral [...]
Daniel organized our next regatta in Canary Islands, he invited us, paid almost all expenses and flew to Palma to help us assemble our cradles, drive us around and make sure we are happy, sort of superior Peter Craig.
I spent 15 days in Lanzarote waiting for delayed ship on both ends of the regatta and [...]
Despite the busy schedule on Better Than, and absence of crucially important crewmembers, J24 Twins had delivered unprecedented number of victories in 2007. Team won US NATIONAL CHAMPIONS, DISTRICT CHAMPIONS and EAST COAST CHAMPIONS titles and the line honors in Newport and Mid Sound regattas.
Bravo!
Krzysiek,Waldek, Randy, Maciek and Jahoo have won J24 Newport Regatta after dominating the fleet in wild spectrum of wind conditions over 6 races!.
We have missed that great event only once since 1990, and as Brad Reed nicely put it in his announcement,”mighty TWINS finally took first place trophy”.
That was my first J24 regatta after 50, [...]
The Key to Key Westby Kimball Livingston for Sail Magazine April 2005
When you run across a 45-foot boat whose owner works the pit, you’ve left the ordinary behind. In this case, Andrzej and Gosia Rojek’s Better Than… also left the fleet behind while distinguishing itself as a family-and-friends boat of the Swan 45s. Not [...]
A large welcome to everyone a part of the ‘Better Than…’ team. I am very excited to have been a part of the progression of our program in the last three seasons. Our efforts have transformed our campaign into a truly unique and one-of-a-kind program. Key West ‘05 was a large turning point for the [...]