NoveNove Maui Aloha Classic

Day 8: Victor Fernandez and Klaas Voget look ahead to resuming the double

The PWA fleet remained on hold on Day 8 of the NoveNove Maui Aloha Classic with another lay day officially being called. Earlier in the day we caught up with Victor Fernandez (Fanatic / North / MFC) and Klaas Voget (Fanatic / Simmer / MFC), both of whom are involved in the next heat of the double elimination when the action resumes, which will most likely be on Friday, to see what they’ve been up to over the lay days and how they are feeling ahead of the resumption of the double. 

Victor Fernandez, who is still in the hunt for the title: “All good, it´s been fun days even with no competition in the last few days. I was sailing a bit at Ho’okipa and today I was at Kanaha with my wife as she is learning how to windsurf.”

“Ho’okipa is always very challenging as everyday is totally different, that´s why I like this place so much. I don´t know if we will have jumping or not but I´m ready to go, if it´s windy and big waves the jumps can be high. I’m looking forward to the double elimination.”

Klaas Voget: “I’m feeling good, Maui is not the worst place in the world to hang out for a couple of lay days ;-) I’ve been testing some boards and fins in Kanaha the last couple of days, but will come to Ho’okipa tomorrow to sail Lanes a bit to get in tune with the wind swell. It’s for sure a bit different sailing to what we’ve had, I was on a 4.2 today in quite small waves. Looking ahead, it’s going to be windy for the rest of the comp with normal trade winds direction and there is quite a solid swell predicted for Saturday. With a possible jump counting, my guess would be that Brawzinho, Ricardo, Victor or Levi would go through to face Camille. All of them have all the moves, plus the first three guys have good doubles on this tack, so one of them could potentially make it all the way through. But there is just too many good sailors in there to pick one, someone like Kevin Pritchard can also make a great return. I’m hoping that we’ll get some waves right from the start, I always prefer it, when it’s a bit bigger.”

Tomorrow will see another lay day for the PWA fleets with the AWT contest continuing, until the swell picks up again. We’ll be back at 7pm (GMT-10) tomorrow evening with the next call for the PWA men and women. Stay tuned @ www.pwawordltour.com to stay up to date with all the latest news and developments from the NoveNove Maui Aloha Classic. 

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