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World Championships Entries Open The on-line entries for the 2011 World Championships, to be held in Argentina, are now open. The internationally popular "National d’automne" is the French 420 Class' big event at the end of the year, but also, traditionally, the start of their new year of racing. Many teams from other European countries enter this event. It has been held in recent years Lac de Carcans at Maubuisson, but in this the 420s 50th anniversary year, the event is being held at the Société des Régates Rochelaises at La Rochelle, the venue for the 2010 Junior European Championship, from 27 to 31 October. See Notice of Race
CN Senigallia (where ebullient Ricardo de Felice, leader of the victorious ITA team at the Worlds in Haifa, is 420 Coach) hosted the Campionato Nazionale last week. Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara got their own back on Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini, another duel between the two! Edoardo, veteran 420 helm from the 2007 Worlds in Takapuna who bronzed at Athens in 2008, won CIMA this year with Leonardo, but had to make do with Bronze at Haifa, when Francesco & Gabriele took Silver.
Winning women, Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini have had a great year too and finished the Nationals in 3rd overall. The ladies of Ravenna, had also medalled at the Worlds in Haifa, taking Bronze home to add to the Italy's 2010 haul of trophies. Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna were 2nd, while double Gold medallists (Worlds & Junior Euros), Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero were 3rd. Roberta admitted that the Nationals would be a bit of fun after a long, but successful, summer’s campaigning.
Top ten:
1 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (CV Aniene) 15 points
2 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (CN Senigallia) 19 pts
3 Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini (CV Ravennate Ass Sport) 36 pts
4 Luca Paolillo & Pietro Iavicoli (RCC Tevere Remo Assis) 44 pts
5 Guido D'errico & Lorenzo De Felice (Canott Savoia Soc Sport) 44 pts
6 Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna (SV Barcola grignano AS) 46 pts
7 Federico Cattaneo & Fabrizio Nardi (Canott Savoia Soc Sport) 51 pts
8 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (Canott Savoia Soc Sport) 54 pts
9 Andrea Ferrero & Luigi Kalb (Ass Sport Dil YC) 56 pts
10 Tito Rodda & Costanza Rodda (YC Adriaco Ass Sport D) 62 pts
See Final Results and on ITA 420 Class & CN Senigallia sites
2008 UK National Champions, Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton, who won Gold at the ISAF World Youths in 2009, returned to win the CurraDinghy British 420 Open & National Championships 2010 at Brightlingsea SC. Mike Wood & Hermione Stanley were 2nd and Tim Gratton & Ed Riley, 3rd, also winning the under-17 prize. Amy Seabright & Rosie Sibthorp are the Women’s National Champions. Neil Marsden, the GBR/RYA Head Coach and former 470 helm, won the (just!) over-21 prize and, the Endeavour Trophy was awarded to Tim Riley & Ross Mackley of Ireland. The first Overseas Boat was Reinier & Maarten Eenkema van Dijk of the LISOT Sailing Foundation & Larchmont YC, USA, who achieved 9th overall.
Top ten:
1 Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (Hayling Island SC) 20 points
2 Mike Wood & Hermione Stanley (Draycote Water SC / Oxford SC) 26 pts
3 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (Hayling Island SC / Warsash SC) 28 pts
4 James Hayward & Tim Carter (Waldringfield SC) 36 pts
5 Matt Foskett & Adam Walker (Staunton Harold SC) 78 pts
6 Tarra Gill-Taylor & Christian Townrow (Spinnaker SC & R Lymington YC / Restronguet SC) 78 pts
7 Craig Dibb & Charlie Cox (Warsash SC / Royal Lymington YC) 81 pts
6 Neil Marsden & Flora Stewart (Blackpool SC / Solway YC) 85 pts
9 Reinier & Maarten Eenkema van Dijk (USA - LISOT Sailing Foundation & Larchmont YC) 92 pts
10 Amy Seabright & Rosie Sibthorp (Oxford SC / Itchenor SC) 101 pts
See Final Results and Y&Y Report. Images from the event are posted on the Photo Gallery.
Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR), Silver medallists at the 2009 Junior Europeans at Balaton, came to La Rochelle and won the 2010 Championship. Young Alexandros & brother Georgios Kavvas, impressing in the Qualifiers, took Silver, while ISAF Youth World Champions, Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) took Bronze.
Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA), crowned World Champions and Junior World Champions at Haifa, came through in the Final Series at La Rochelle, to take a third title, as Ladies’ Junior European Champions. Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) were 2nd women and Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) were 3rd.
With rivalry between three Dutch teams in the Final Series, the Silver Fleet was won by Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED), with Alexandre Massard & Antonio Maria Tinoco (SUI) 2nd and Stan Hart & Wietse Pijlman (NED) 3rd. The Bronze Fleet was won by Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA), with Matthieu Van Schoote & Sébastien Devos (BEL) 2nd and Ipeknaz Ozden & Deniz Gokmeral (TUR) 3rd. The Caronis Trophy for the youngest team at the Championship was awarded to Gal Cohen & Hadar Moran (ISR),
See Qualifier Series Report, Finals day 1 Photo Report, Final report, together with the ScuttlebuttEurope – 19/08/10, Scuttlebutt Photo Gallery, the ISAF Report and SR Rochelaises.
Gold Top Fifteen:
1 Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 50 pts
2 Alexandros & Georgios Kavvas (GRE) 66 points
3 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 94 pts
4 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 97 pts
5 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 100 pts
6 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 109 pts
7 Sebastiano Baranzini & Matteo Colombo (SUI) 110 pts
8 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 123 pts
9 Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) 125 pts
10 Xavier Antich & Ramon Lleonart (ESP) 129 pts
11 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 133 pts
12 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 144 pts
13 Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 144 pts
14 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (IRL) 152 pts
15 Etienne L'Her & Hugo Lauras (FRA) 161 pts
Women's: Top 5
1 Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 144 pts (13th overall)
2 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 163 pts (17th)
3 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 170 pts (20th)
4 Olivia Crane & Ali Blumenthal (USA)178 pts (22nd)
5 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 178 pts (23rd)
Silver:
1 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 82 pts
2 Alexandre Massard & Antonio Maria Tinoco (SUI) 101 pts
3 Stan Hart & Wietse Pijlman (NED) 109 pts
Bronze:
1 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA) 126 pts
2 Matthieu Van Schoote & Sébastien Devos (BEL) 130 pts
3 Ipeknaz Ozden & Deniz Gokmeral (TUR) 163 pts
See Final Results.
2010 Junior Europeans: Equipment Statistics Leaders after Jury hearings:
Top Fifteen:
1 Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 44 pts
2 Alexandros & Georgios Kavvas (GRE) 65 points
3 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 74 pts
4 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP)79 pts
5 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 84 pts
6 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 88 pts
7 Sebastiano Baranzini & Matteo Colombo (SUI) 107 pts
8 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 112 pts
9 Xavier Antich & Ramon Lleonart (ESP) 112 pts
10 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 116 pts
11 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (IRL) 119 pts
12 Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) 120 pts
13 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 122 pts
14 Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 124 pts
15 Andrew Mollerus & Charles Peck (USA) 137 pts
Women's: Top 5
1 Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 124 pts (14th overall)
2 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 139 pts (16th)
3 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 158 pts (23rd)
4 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 165 pts (27th)
5 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) 174 pts (32nd)
Silver:
1 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 82 pts
2 Alexandre Massard & Antonio Maria Tinoco (SUI) 101 pts
3 Stan Hart & Wietse Pijlman (NED) 109 pts
Bronze:
1 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA) 153 pts
2 Matthieu Van Schoote & Sébastien Devos (BEL) 155 pts
3 Ipeknaz Ozden & Deniz Gokmeral (TUR) 163 pts
Long Days at La Rochelle After a long day on the water on Wednesday, it seems like a long day on t shore today (Thursday). With the wind from the South East this morning, the Race committee warned the coaches briefing that the forecast meant that it was unlikely that the Fleets would get onto the race course until after lunch. Now, at 15.40 it at last looks like the 420s will launch. It is planned that the 470s (which have only one race today) will follow afterwards.
After a pretty chilly, overcast morning - the Israeli Coach was dreaming of 40* (but 70* humidity!) in Tel Aviv!) - it is now hot and sunny. The 420s were fully launched by 16.00, and the word is that there is good wind on the course (the 470s are getting ready to follow). So, it could be a late finish tonight. Bon soir, from La Rochelle. Wishyou were here....! World Championships Measurement Statistics The measurement statistics from the World Championships 2010 have now been posted on the results page of the web site. After 12 races in the Gold Fleet, the leader board stands at:
Top Fifteen:
1 Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 39 pts
2 Alexandros & Georgios Kavvas (GRE) 46 points
3 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 52 pts
4 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 61 pts
5 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP)71 pts
6 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 74 pts
7 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (IRL) 86 pts
8 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 89 pts
9 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 92 pts
10 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 97 pts
11 Xavier Antich & Ramon Lleonart (ESP) 99 pts
12 Sebastiano Baranzini & Matteo Colombo (SUI) 105 pts
13 Luis Benitez-Inglot & Carlos Garcia (ESP) 127 pts
14 Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) 113 pts
15 Andrew Mollerus & Charles Peck (USA) 117 pts
Women's: Top 5
1 Roberto Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 121 pts (16th overall)
2 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 130 pts (19th)
3 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 138 pts (24th)
4 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 106 pts (26th )
5 Olivia Crane & Ali Blumenthal (USA) 157 pts (33rd)
Silver:
1 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 110 pts
2 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 112 pts
3 Alexandre Massard & Antonio Maria Tinoco (SUI) 121 pts
Bronze:
1 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA) 153 pts
2 Matthieu Van Schoote & Sébastien Devos (BEL) 155 pts
3 Ipeknaz Ozden & Deniz Gokmeral (TUR) 163 pts
From having no photos at the start of the Championship (well, five), we now have thousands....literally! Thanks to Bill Crane - a semi-professional photographer it would seem! - Philippe Merceron, his very professional SRR driver, Alain Pacaud - Beachmaster Extraordinaire, Assistant Measurer and Finish Boat scorer (a man of many talents!), Teresa Rios Sanchez, Chief Measurer and F. Miquelina, engineer and Assistant Measurer from Tavira, we will eventually have bursting Galleries. But be patient - it is a very time-consuming and boring task to post the files - and we must give priority to using the few for editorial purposes.
Just in...not sure if they are up on SRR yet....it's not a race!....just late...Bon Soir. A Demain.... The 'cut' is, at long last, decided. Apparently Jury hearings had to be postponed to the evening of the lay day, we now have the final results for the Qualifiers and the "cut" for the Fleets - each with 40 boats - for the Final Series that starts today.
Amended leader board after Jury:
Top Fifteen:
1 Alexandros & Geogios Kavvas (GRE) 12 points
2 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 13 pts
3 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 18 pts
4 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 18 pts
5 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 19 pts
6 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (IRL) 20 pts
7 Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 21 pts
8 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 28 pts
9 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 29 pts
10 Jens Marten & Mats Kampen (GER) 30 pts
11 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 34 pts
12 Andrew Mollerus & Charles Peck (USA) 34 pts
13 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 37 pts
14 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 39 pts
15 Matteo Capurro & Lorenzo Berardi (ITA) 41 pts
Women's: Top 5
1 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 34 pts (11th overall)
2 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 43 pts (18th)
3 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 57 pts (30th)
4 Maëlenn Lemaitre & Aloïse Retornaz (FRA) 64 pts (35th)
5 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) 64 pts (36th)
The best source of latest information remains the Société des Régates Rochelaises website
The best that we have been able to get from these boys is “nice!”, volunteered by Georgios. But Efrosini – the Greek team spokeperson at moments like this - piped up to explain that Greeks are “laconic”, a single word can carry much emotion. We must assume that this young team is not quite as cool on the inside as their professional demeanour suggests on the outside.
We are still, on the evening of the lay day, awaiting the outcome of postponed Jury Hearings that may affect the allocation of the teams to the three Fleets, Gold, Silver and Bronze, for the Finals that start tomorrow. But, at this time, the provisional results from the Qualifiers as posted suggest the following leader board:
Top Ten (Provisional)
1 Alexandros & Geogios Kavvas (GRE) 12 points
2 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 13 pts
3 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 18 pts
4 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 18 pts
5 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 19 pts
6 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (IRL) 20 pts
7 Yoav Levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 21 pts
8 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 28 pts
9 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 29 pts
10 Jens Marten & Mats Kampen (GER) 30 pys
11 Joao Villas-Boas & Tomas Camelo (POR) 31 pts
12 Andrew Mollerus & Charles Peck (USA) 34 pts
13 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 35 pts
14 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 37 pts
15 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 39 pts
Women: Top 5
1 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 35 pts (13th overall)
2 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 44 pts (18th)
3 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 57 pts (30th)
4 Maëlenn Lemaitre & Aloïse Retornaz (FRA) 64 pts (35th)
5 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) 64 pts (36th)
The best source of information remains the Société des Régates Rochelaises website Thanks to Janos Ladanyi from the Hungarian Sailing Federation (and the friendly SRR RIB driver) we have access to YouTube videos eachday.
We are struggling for photos. The first event in many, many years where there is no pro or semi-pro photographer on the 420 course' providing free-to-use images at low resolution, so we are making a plea for help. We have the transport, do you have the camera?
Three races have completed on the first day of the Junior Europeans, the fleet sailing in three groups. The integrated results (“generale”) will be available on the Championship website (click above) – as Provisional, pre-Protest results - shortly. We have the ‘first-take’ on the top runners below.
Top Ten (Provisional)
1 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 7 points
2 Alexandros & Geogios Kavvas (GRE) 10 pts
3 Loukas Oulkeroglou & Grigodis Zografos (GRE) 11 pts
4 Yoav levi & Dan Froylich (ISR) 12 pts
5 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 13 pts
6 Matteo Capurro & Lorenzo Berardi (ITA) 13 pts
7 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 14 pts
8 Jacopo Cunial & Michelle Inchiostri (ITA) 14 pts
9 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 14 pts
10 Matti Cipra & Nils-Thore Heilmann (GER) 16 pts
Women: Top 3:
1 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 20 pts (15th overall)
2 Maëlenn Lemaitre & Aloïse Retornaz (FRA) 26 pts (19th)
3 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 33 pts (27th)
Final preparations for the start of the 2010 Junior European Championships are being made at SR Rochelaises in La Rochelle. The second day of measurement today, with the Practice Race this afternoon, when the boats will sail in two arbitrary flights for this race only.
Christian Berhault, President of 420 UNIQUA France (the French Class association) sent us his good wishes for the event last night : “As the President of the French 420 Class, I would send my best support to all the teams participating to the 420 Junior European Championship. Unfortunately I will be with you only at the end of the championship. However, thanks to the web, I will follow in hot-line the races, for sure. Have a very good event in La Rochelle. PS Good news: the container containing the presentation of the 50-years celebration is arrived in Marseille and could be exposed in La Rochelle on Monday afternoon. Ouf !”
The Société des Régates Rochelaises website is where results will appear first. Thanks to Cécile Jover, the SRR website (follow link on front page) is carrying daily news bulletins – in English and French – which will keep us up-to-date. With some teams already here for training and others rocking up (by road and sea) or flying in, the enormous boat park area in front of the Société des Régates Rochelaises is already full of activity. And the wide slipway into the marina has been busy all day with 420s and coach boats launching and returning from the sea. The French boats are yet to arrive, but they are en route (we hope!) from Haifa and Marseille!
We met the President of SRR, Claire Fountaine with her team of Vice Presidents and staff, doing her final inspections in preparation for the 420/470 Junior European Championships that opens with registration and measurement on Thursday.
Meanwhile, we are keeping our eyes and ears open, and a few photos of early activity on the boat park have come our way – see Photo News.
As with all Championships, the arrangements can vary and we will learn, but everything is looking good. The Société des Régates Rochelaises website has a 420 Championship page. So if you have contributions or comments to make, either click on “Submit News / Photos” on the menu bar, or Send Email World championships – the Formal Stuff
Photos from Haifa We have masses of photographs – from the lenses of Zvi Roger, Gadi Arial, Stanislav Kassarov and Saar Brokmann. But uploading them takes a lot of time (which we do not have right now). We will be posting them over the next few days. and we will tell you when we have.
A few have been posted on the news and some are already on the Photo Gallery. But we have just posted some of Saar Brokmann's images from the beach on the return of the teams from the final race on ”Return to the Beach”.
But there are also many to be found on the Championship Website Photo Gallery ....and the Ferraris had a late challenge from a GBR team (powered with an Esso Tiger in the tank?) to divide the dominators! Protest Time now complete - no Gold Fleet hearings Caputo-Barbiero lead an ITA-USA-GBR line-up in Ladies Finals Day2 Meanwhile, The Italians seem to want to sew-up the podium in the Ladies' Silver Fleet....will they hold the line?
Top 15 Ladies after Finals Race 6:
1 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 23 pts
2 Morgan Kiss & Katia Da Silva (USA) 33 pts
3 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 34 pts
4 Nikole Barnes & Agustina Barbuto (ISV) 46 pts
5 Christina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 49 pts
6 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 56.3 pts
7 Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (FRA) 60 pts
8 Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (ESP) 63 pts
9 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 68 pts
10 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 69 pts
11 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 78 pts
12 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR) 88 pts
13 Pauline Mazzochi & Gwenaelle Berhault (FRA) 90 pts
14 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 92 pts
15 Svenja & Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 93 pts
Top 5 Ladies’ Silver after Finals Race 6:
1 Ilaria Paternoster & Benedetta Di Salle (ITA) 25 pts
2 Elena Berta & Giulia Tisseli (ITA) 29 pts
3 Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna (ITA) 31 pts
4 Chiara Maglocchetti & Jessica conti (ITA) 45 pts
5 Laliv Tauber & Inbar Gidron (ISR) 48 pts Leadership line-up holds, but SINs extend lead at Haifa Leaders hold their places in the Open Gold Fleet at Haifa on the second day of the Finals, while a British dual develops in the Silver Fleet, with challenges from Portugal and Germany..
Top 15 Open after Finals Race 6:
1 Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 15 pts
2 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (ITA) 31 pts
3 Navee Thamsoontorn & Atiwat Chomtongdee (THA) 40 pts
4 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini 44 pts
5 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 50 pts
6 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) 55 pts
7 Jordi Xammer & Joan Herp (ESP) 69 pts
8 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 74 pts
9 Wataru Saito & Yuya Yamaguchi (JPN) 75 pts
10 Ian Barrows & Ian Coyle (ISV) 77 pts
11 Georgios Vasilas & Stamatia Fragiadaki (GRE) 86 pts
12 Gal Cohen & Hadar Moran (ISR) 89 pts
13 Asenathi Jim & Ashwynn Daniels (RSA) 91 pts
14 Yoav Levi & Dan Frouliche (ISR) 96 pts
15 Alexander Coyle & Alecsander Tayler (ISV) 104 pts
Top 5 Silver after Finals Race 6:
1 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 38 pts
2 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 40 pts
3 Joao Villas Boas &Tomas Camelo (POR) 40 pts
4 Gordon Nickel & Daniel Hoffmann (GER) 47 pts
5 Andrew Molleros & Charles Peck (USA) 67 pts Similarly to the Open Fleet, but in Race 3 in this case, there were 11 BFD the Ladies’ Fleet. Again there will be some careful watching for the impact of the discard in due course. The advantage here in Haifa is certainly that seven hours of racing seems assured.
Top 15 Ladies after Finals Race 3:
1 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 20 pts
2 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 25 pts
3 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 32 pts
4 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 35 pts
5 Nikole Barnes & Agustina Barbuto (ISV) 47 pts
6 Christina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 49 pts
7 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR) 50 pts
8 Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (ESP) 52 pts
9 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (AUS) 54 pts
10 Morgan Kiss & Katia Da Silva (USA) 56 pts
11 Dierdre Lambert & Tracy Doherty (USA) 60 pts
12 Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (FRA) 62 pts
13 Andrea Cornudella & Cl;ara Dolz (ESP) 63 pts
14 Svenja & Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 64 pts
15 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 66 pts
Top 5 Ladies’ Silver after Finals Race 3:
1 Elena Berta & Giulia Tisseli (ITA) 10 pts
2 Cornelia Oczycz & Christina Fuchs (GER) 22 pts
3 Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna (ITA) 25 pts
4 Ilaria Paternoster & Benedetta Di Salle (ITA) 27 pts
5 Efrosini Tsiritaki & Elisavet Mazaraki (GRE) 39 pts
See Championship website Results Pages With three races on Thursday and a very “nervous”` Fleet - with 19 BFD in Race 2 – a somewhat different pattern from the end of the Qualifiers emerged, for now at least..
Top 15 Open after Finals Race 3:
1 Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 11 pts
2 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (ITA) 14 pts
3 Navee Thamsoontorn & Atiwat Chomtongdee (THA) 23 pts
4 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini 32 pts
5 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 34 pts
6 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) 37 pts
7 Alexander Coyle & Alecsander Tayler (ISV) 55 pts
8 Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault (FRA) 36 pts
9 Jordi Xammer & Joan Herp (ESP) 70 pts
10 Georgios Vasilas & Stamatia Fragiadaki (GRE) 14 pts
11 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 78 pts
12 Yoav Levi & Dan Frouliche (ISR) 76 pts
12 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 50 pts
13 Judge Ryan & Willie McBride (USA) 77 pts
14 Matteo Capurro & lorenzo Berardi (ITA) 79 pts
15 Asenathi Jim & Ashwynn Daniels (RSA) 83 pts
Top 5 Silver after Finals Race 3:
1 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 22 pts
2 Andrea ferraro & L:uigi Kalb (ITA) 25 pts
3 Loukas Oulkerogl;ou & Grigone Zografos (GRE) 36 pts
4 Andrew Molleros & Charles Peck (USA) 38 pts
5 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 39 pts
See Championship website Results Pages The Qualifying round was completed on Tuesday. The Ladies' Fleet continued with the stronger winds of the first day, enjoying the exhilaration of the downwind legs! The Open Fleet had reducing wind, giving a good range of conditions over the series. All now enjoy a lay day.
The sailors had a beach party, while, the coaches and officials celebrated the 420s 50th anniversary with a supper prepared by the ISR 420 President, Dekel and his family – taking good food and hospitality to a whole new level! (more news when we recover!)
Open Leaders:
1 Georgios Vasilas & Stamatia Fragiadaki (GRE) 14 pts
2 Clément Ikhlef & Clément Pequin (FRA) 16 pts
3 Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 18 pts
4 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (ITA) 19 pts
5 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) 23 pts
6 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 27 pts
7 Navee Thamsoontorn & Atiwat Chomtongdee (THA) 29 pts
8 Malte Winkel & Lucas Thielemann (GER) 36 pts
9 Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault (FRA) 36 pts
10 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (ITA) 43 pts
11Yoav Levi & Dan Frouliche (ISR) 45 pts
12 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 50 pts
13 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 50 pts
14 Jordan Factor & Matt Wefer (USA) 56 pts
15 Santiago & David Mas (ESP) 59 pts
Ladies’ Leaders:
1 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 15 pts
2 Daniela Adler & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 15 pts
3 Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) 16 pts
4 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 17 pts
5 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 21 pts
6 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 29 pts
7 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR) 31 pts
8 Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (ESP) 31 pts
9 Cecile Gutierrez & Zoe Poncelet )FRA) 35 pts
10 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 35 pts
11 Nikole Bames & Agustina Barbuto (ISV) 39 pts
12 Pauline Mazzochi & Gwenaelle Berhault (FRA) 42 pts
13 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA) 42 pts
14 Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 44 pts
15 Morgan Kiss & Katia Da Silva (USA) 45 pts The Championship website had some outage overnight, but is back up. The Ladies Results [click above and see Championship website Results Pages] have been revised overnight following protest hearings late in the evening yesterday.
This morning a presentation was made to the top three Ladies’ teams, before they went on the water. The Ladies’ Fleet sails first today, for the second and last day of the Qualifying Series. A presentation to the leaders in the Open Fleet will take place later, before they go on the water.
Talking of water, there is now a good supply after the small problem with the plumbing in the city. Indeed, we were in danger of filling the Mediterranean when the water came back on and we found all the taps on!
Some people have asked about the weather. In addition to the weather forecast links on the Championship site, there is a very good current picture (and recent history) to be found on Bat Galim Beach website, as used by our Race Officer!
Ladies’ Leaderboard (revised)
1 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 10 pts
2 Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) 13 pts
3 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 14 pts
4 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 14 pts
5 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 17 pts
6 Maria Nefeli Papagiannakou & Aikaterini Anastaskou (GRE) 17 pts
7 Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 20 pts
8 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 23 pts
9 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA) 24 pts
10 Pauline Mazzochi & Gwenaelle Berhault (FRA) 27 pts
11 Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 29 pts
12 Erica Dawson & Vicky Francis (NZL) 31 pts
13 Sophia Diesch & Carolin Tiegel (GER) 31 pts
14 Daniela Adler & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 32 pts
15 Denise Lim & Benita Chua (SIN) 32 pts Top 15 (provisional):
1 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR) 11 points
2 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 11 pts
3 Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) 14 pts
4 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 15 pts
5 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 16 pts
6 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 18 pts
7 Maria Nefeli Papagiannakou & Aikaterini Anastaskou (GRE) 19 pts
8 Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER)
9 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 25 pts
10 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA) 25 pts
11 Pauline Mazzochi & Gwenaelle Berhault (FRA) 28 pts
12 Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 29 pts
13 Erica Dawson & Vicky Francis (NZL) 31 pts
14 Daniela Adler & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 32 pts
15 Sophia Diesch & Carolin Tiegel (GER) 33 pts
See Championship website Results Pages Top 15 (provisional)
1 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 5 pts
2 Georgios Vasilas & Stamatia Fragiadaki (GRE) 11 pts
3 GER 53399 Malte Winkel & Lucas Thielemann (GER) 15 pts
4 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 15 pts
5 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (ITA) 18 pts
6 Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 19 pts
7 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) 23 pts
8 Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault (FRA) 24 pts
9 Ian Barrows & Ian Coyle (ISV) 26 pts
10 Jordan Factor & Matt Wefer (USA) 27 pts
11 Navee Thamsoontorn & Atiwat Chomtongdee (THA) 29 pts
12 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (ITA) 29 pts
13 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 30 pts
14 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (AUS) 31 pts
15 Felipe Caldeira & Alan Dale (BRA) 31 pts
See Championship website Results Pages Racing underway in Haifa Racing is underway at Haifa for the 2010 World Championships. We are receiving information from the Course and will be posting what we can on the Championship website. The Open Fleet are racing this morning, in paired flights, as part of the Qualifying Series. The Ladies are just going on the water at around midday, with the intention to start at 13.00.
See Events page of the Championship Website
Race 1 - Provisional, but follow the latest available on Online Results on the Championship Website.
The results may make more sense to see the flight allocation for the Qualifiers: Flights – Ladies’ Fleet and
Flights – Open Fleet 160 boats, 320 sailors and a whole host of coaches, team managers, officials – Jury, Race Committee, Measurers, Organisers and staff of the Haifa Sailing Club and the Haifa Municipality…. and a good many supporters too….are gathered on the Hashaket Beach, the ‘quiet beach’ [well hardly with 420s around! (ed)] just between the very large, tertiary referral Rambam Hospital and the Naval Dockyard and Port of Haifa.
The sandy beach is covered today (Thursday) in 420s, and sailors have continued to arrive throughout the day (two teams in from Eilat were searching for their coach!), the first day of measurement. With temperatures of 31*C+ and beautiful sunshine, it has been hot work for all concerned in registration, in the measurement tents and around the site. Some teams, not yet scheduled for measurement, got out on the water for some more training in a good breeze. Others, with lashings of sun protection, kept under the many umbrellas and awnings. Tonight is the Opening Ceremony, a day earlier than is usual to accommodate the Jewish Shabbat that starts on Friday evening, when fireworks are promised to quickly drown the minimal speeches (see Class Rules!).
More of the same tomorrow, and the Practice Race on Saturday, before the racing for the Qualifiers starts in earnest on Sunday. We`expect that Results will be posted first on the Championship Website, where there may be some photos and other bits of news that may not be duplicated here. But we hope to bring you some news of the sailors and coaches here during the event, as well as press reports . So watch both websites. If you have particular requests, we may be able to respond - Send Email - but, as you may imagine, we are pretty busy getting the Championships underway so be patient!.
In the meantime, שלום from Israel. Top Ten Men:
1st Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 17 pts
2nd Jao Vilas Boas & Tomas Camelo (POR)43 pts
3rd Jeremy Bachelin & Alexandre Massard (SUI) 47 pts
4th Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul (SIN) 47 pts
5th Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (AUS) 49 pts
6th Michael Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 62 pts
7th Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 66 pts
8th Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 67 pts
9th Jim Asenathi & Daniel Ashwynn (RSA) 69 pts
10th Felipe Caldeiro & Alan Dale (BRA) 69 pts
Top Ten Women
1st Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenhalter (SUI) 27 points
2nd Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 31pts
3rd Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) 35 pts
4th Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 36 pts
5th Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 37 pts
6th Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 42 pts
7th Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 46 pts
8th Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy & Ameira Izla Zuklefli (MAS) 53 pts
9th Patricia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 55 pts
10th Marlena Fauer & Christina Lewis (USA) 56 pts
See full Results and all the event information on the Volvo ISAF Youth Worlds website.
And, meanwhile, 2009 Ladies 420 World Champion helm Alex Maloney was taking silver in the 29er for Mew Zealand with Sam Bullock, top-15 420 crew in the Gold Fleet at Garda last year. Very versatile, these 420 sailors!! Feydit & Rhimbault win the 2010 French Nationals at Brest It looks as though big winds and seas tested the 208 sailors, including pretty large teams from Australia, Britain and Spain, as well as several from Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy and Poland at the French Coupe Nationale. Unfortunately, those supporters looking for a summer break may have needed their wet weather gear too!
Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault are the new National 420 Champions of France, with Corentin Bornet & Charlie Ageneau (in 2nd and Etienne L’Her & Hugo Lauras 3rd. Ewa Bartosiewicz & Katarzyna Pstrowska of Poland were first women, and the Scheiwillers, Clara & Lucie, French Women’s Champions.
Gold Fleet – Top 15:
1 Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault (CN La Tremblade / CV Niortais) 27 points
2 Corentin Bornet & Charlie Ageneau (CNCP / Regates de Royan) 32 pts
3 Etienne L’Her & Hugo Lauras (SR Brest) 34 pts
4 Sebastien Simon & Aymeric Paruit (S N O Nantes) 35 pts
5 Yvann Thelier & Guillaume Holin (CN Antibes) 38 pts
6 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (SNPH) 40 pts
7 Yvan Beckius & Pierre petetin (SN de Sanary) 49 pts
8 Martin Aumont & Jean-baptiste Le Goubey (EV Cherbourg) 63 pts
9 Charles Lassarat & Paul Dadvisard (SR Havre) 83 pts
10 Matteo Capurro & Lorenzo Berardi (ITA – YC Italia) 87 pts
Silver Fleet - Podium:
1 Catherine Brooke & I Lili Sebes (CN Antibes)
2 Chloe Normand & Claire Tetard (ASPTT La Rochelle)
3 Elise Migraine (SR Havre) & Sebastien Riot (CV Anneville S/S)
See the Final Results and further information may be found on the USAM Brest and on the Uniqua-France 420 websites. An informal report on the event, prepared for the UK home supporters, has appeared on the GBR 420 website. Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) took the women’s lead with a 2nd (home team Ipeknaz Özden & Deniz Gökmeral scored a bullet) and Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenhalter (SUI) hold in 2nd overall, while Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) move up to 3rd.
In the men’s, Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) lead, with Jao Vilas Boas & Tomas Camelo (POR) in 2nd and Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) in 3rd. Following a session in the Jury room it seems, Hirohiki Yamaguchi & Tetsuya Isozaki (JPN) have lost the lead for the moment, but will be looking forward to a discard kicking in!
See ISAF Day Report, Results and Volvo video of 420s Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy & Ameira Izla Zulkefli of Malaysia came ashore quite surprised by their opening day, say ISAF. In contrast to the wet and unstable conditions of the practice race, the opening days racing provided a light breeze of 5 - 7 knots from the north-west and warm dry conditions once the early clouds had dispersed. And, newcomers on the International 520 competition scene, Japan’s Hiroki Yamaguchi &Tetsuya Isozaki evidently had a great first day, putting five points between them and the next team, with two bullets. Two races on the first day of racing in Istanbul, and the Japanese team, Hirohiki Yamaguchi & Tetsuya Isozaki, took the early lead with two bullets! Back for a second bite of the ISAF cherry, Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) are in 2nd and Jao Vilas Boas & Tomas Camelo (POR), also back for a second year, are running 3rd.
Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy of Malaysia, also returning for a second year and leading women’s helm at the NZL Nationals earlier this year, is joined by Ameira Izla Zuklefli to take the Day 1 lead of the Women;’s fleet, but on equal points with Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenhalter (SUI). Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) are in 3rd.
Top ten after two races:
Men:
1 Hirohiki Yamaguchi & Tetsuya Isozaki (JPN) 2 points
2 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 7 pts
3 Jao Vilas Boas & Tomas Camelo (POR) 9 pts
4 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 10 pts
5 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul (SIN) 14 pts
6 Gonzalo Bisi & Tomas Volker (ARG) 15 pts
7 Felipe Caldeira & Alan Dale (ARG) 21 pts
8 Jim Asenathi & Daniel Ashwynn (RSA) 23 pts
9 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 24 pts
10 Raul Rios & Rogelio Fernandez (PUR) 24 pts
Women:
1 Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy & Ameira Izla Zuklefli (MAS) 5 points
2 Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenhalter (SUI) 5 pts
3 Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) 11 pts
4 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez (ESP) 13 pts
5 Patricia Costa & Filipa Barros (POR) 13 pts
6 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 13 pts
7 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 15 pts
8 Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 18 pts
9 Yu Yamaguchi & Hitomi Shirasawa (JPN) 18 pts
10 Ipeknaz Özden & Deniz Gökmeral (TUR) 20 pts
Follow all the news, results and photos on Youth Worlds website and on the ISAF Youths Facebook pages. France’s Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan won the Topsport Vlaanderen Regatta 2010 at Nieuwpoort on Wednesday, after eleven races and leading most of the event, except for Tuesday night. So exciting stuff to the finish. Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR), who had been neck and neck with their colleagues, Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR) took 2nd.
Final top fifteen:
1 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 37,0
2 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 41,0
3 Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR) 42,0
4 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 51,0
5 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR 52,0
6 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA) 63,0
7 Joshua Pistol & Piers Strong (GBR) 76,0
8 Nia Jones & Molly Frost (GBR) 92,0
9 Quentin Le Guellec & Mathieu Corruble (FRA) 98,0
10 Charles Lassarat & Paul Dadvisard (FRA) 100,0
11 Craig Dibb & Charlie Cox (GBR) 101,0
12 Issy Hamilton & Hannah Jones (GBR) 106,0
13 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 109,0
14 Martin Aumont & Jean-baptiste Le Goubey (FRA) 111,0
15 Maarten & Laurens Edauw (NED) 113,0
See Results, and, for further information, visit the Event Website.
No final results yet available on Event Website, but our correspondent in the North Sea (well soon in La Manchel!), Richard Hayward, wrote at 21.30: “Just leaving Nieuwpoort on yacht heading for La Rochelle. Wind 12 knots on the nose!! …..Final results:
1 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA)
2 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR)
3 Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR)
4 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR)
5Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR)“
If you know more, or better, Send Email!
Vose & Brickwood and Kalderon & Brewer challenge Pirouelle & Sipan domination at Flanders
Through the event until Tuesday night at Nieuwpoort, Framce’s Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan have led the Topsport Vlaanderen Regatta 2010 (formerly Flanders Youth Regatta). But, constantly under pressure from the GBR women, Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood and Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer have taken a 5 point lead (on equal points) into the final day.
Well up on recent years, with 47 teams racing at Flanders this year, the event is back on track for the start lines of 50+ back in 2005. Attracting large teams from France and Britain, as well as the Netherlands and Belgium, many use it as a first international event. And next year the Junior European 420 and 470 Championships will be at Nieuwpoort.
Top 15 into the final day:
1 Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR) 31 points
2 Rebecca Kalderon & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 31 pts
3 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 36 pts
4 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 46 pts
5 James Hayward & Tim Carter (GBR) 48 pts
6 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA) 59 pts
7 Joshua Pistol & Piers Strong (GBR) 74 pts
8 Nia Jones & Molly Frost (GBR) 77 pts
9 Quentin Le Guellec & Mathieu Corruble (FRA) 85 pts
10 Issy Hamilton & Hannah Jones (GBR) 85 pts
11 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 85 pts
12 Charles Lassarat & Paul Dadvisard (FRA) 91 pts
13 Craig Dibb & Charlie Cox (GBR) 93 pts
14 Maarten & Laurens Edauw (NED) 96 pts
15 Jess Lavery & Georgie Mothersele (GBR) 105 pts
Follow the most up-to-date results postings at Event Website.
A big and busy 420 Kieler Woche Earlier today Ed. wrote: “It looks as though, with 30-odd more entries this year (194 boats) and probably more from more countries, including many from outside Europe, Kieler Woche 2010 has been huge for 420s......” Well, our man on the Jury, Class Secretary, Pedro Rodrigues reports (from some airport WiFi on his way home to Tavira): “Coming back from Kiel week, I have to report that the 420 class was the biggest class, with about 200 entries, and the most international in the international part, with 22 countries and 4 continents: FRA, ESP, SIN, GER, HUN, NED, ISV, GBR, IRL, AUT, USA, CZE, POR, KOR, SWE, DEN, AUS, NZL, ITA, POL, SUI and BEL (well, what the Jury says has to be right!).
This must be a positive indication of what is to come at the World Championships in Haifa and the Junior Europeans in La Rochelle. Certainly the SINs and a full-on challenge from Team France, in this our 50th anniversary year, together with some strong performances from both experienced and newer teams, at Kiel gives confidence that there will be close competition.
Justin & Sherman are back – they won the event (if not the title) at the Junior Europeans in Medemblik back in 2007. Their bronze appearance at Kiel last year was in preparation for the ISAF Youth Champs, but we have not seen them at the Worlds in the last two years. They seem to have thrown down the challenge, guys! See you in Haifa!
A further, fifth race was sailed at Kiel on Sunday (we had originally assumed at 19.00 that there had been no racing). The final results are available on the Kieler Woche website. And the 5th race provided the all-important discard!
Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore discarded their 9th in the first race and, with their remaining 1,1,2,1 line-up, took the overall lead to win Kieler Woche 2010 by 3 points. Damien Brenac & Julien Lacase of France had to concede the lead to take 2nd, but their highest score of 3 to discard left them with an impressive score-line too. Just behind by a point, and clearly fighting to the finish with a BFD in the final race to discard, were Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Joan Herp of Spain. Liu & Chen’s compatriots, Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Chan, were 4th, on equal points with Xammar & Herp.
Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low led the women in 5th overall on equal points with Ko & Chan. Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier of France were in 6th, just a point behind, while Gwenaelle Berhault & Pauline Mazzochi, followed their country-women in 13th overall, to give France her third podium place!.
Top fifteen:
1. Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 5 points
2. Damien Brenac & Julien Lacase (FRA) 8 pts
3. Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Joan Herp (ESP) 12 pts
4. Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Chan (SIN) 13 pts
5. Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) 13 pts
6. Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (FRA) 16 pts
7. Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 19 pts
8. James Turner & Logan Dunning Beck (NZL) 19 pts
9. Henrik & Frederik Schaal (GER) 21 pts
10. Malte Winkel & Lucas Thelermann (GER) 22 pts
11. Peter Foldesi & Daniel Borsos (HUN) 24 pts
12. Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Gabrielle Franciolini (ITA) 27 pts
13. Gwenaelle Berhault & Pauline Mazzochi (FRA) 29 pts
14. Judge Ryan & Willie McBride (USA) 30 pts
15. Paulina Rothlauf & Madlen Geisler (GER)
After four races, Damien Brenac & Julien Lacase of France have a 4-point lead over Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore (with 3 bullets to their name) and Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Joan Herp of Spain after four races on the penultimate day of the 2010 Kieler Woche.
Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier lead the women, also for France, in 4th overall, while Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) are in 6th overall and Paulina Rothlauf & Madlen Geisler (GER) in 9th.
But there are a lot of teams hoping for enough races for a discard to kick in, with BFDs across all the races so far, many with otherwise high scoring results – leading amongst them are Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) and Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Gabrielle Franciolini (ITA). 193 teams are competing.
Top 15 after 4 races:
1. Damien Brenac & Julien Lacase (FRA)
2. Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 12 pts
3. Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Joan Herp (ESP) 12 pts
4. Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (FRA) 21 pts
5. Malte Winkel & Lucas Thelermann (GER) 22 pts
6. Rachel Lee & Cecilia Low (SIN) 23 pts
7. Peter Foldesi & Daniel Borsos (HUN) 23 pts
8. Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Chan (SIN) 25 pts
9. Paulina Rothlauf & Madlen Geisler (GER) 29 pts
10. Alexander Coyle & Alecsander Tayler (ISV) 33 pts
11. Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 33 pts
12. Josh Pistol & Piers Strong (GBR) 33 pts
13. Guillaume Holin & Yvann Thelier (FRA) 39 pts
14. Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) 43 pts
15. Cécile Gutierrez & Zoé Poncelet (FRA) 47 pts
For results and latest racing information see Kieler Woche website. Nick Drougas visited Haifa last week for a training camp and wrote about his thoughts on the situation in Israel.
2010 is a special year of celebration for the International 420 Class. Our boat was launched 50 years ago this year! And it remains the youth performance symmetric boat of choice in 42 countries of the World. See Press Release.
The Notice of Race for the 420 Junior European Championships 2010, to be held at La Rochelle, France has been published on the event page of the web site. On-line entries are now open. Images from the Dutch Youths We have had some photos in from the Dutch Youth Regatta - thanks to Rosita Stumpel and Evert Jan van Garderen - and posted on our Photo Gallery. See many, many more on Rosita Stumpel’s Picasa Gallery, and also check the Dutch 420 Class website.
The Open Dutch 420 Championships, as part of the Dutch Youth Championships, concluded on the IJsselmeer. off Workum. in the Netherlands. The Open Champions are Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler of Thunersee YC, Switzerland. Having led the women at the recent CIMA Championship in Marseille, Linda & Maja’s win in a fleet of 32 on the IJsselmeer will further build their campaign for this year’s ISAF Youth Worlds at Istanbul.
By Saturday, the Dutch had their teams to represent the Netherlands at Istanbul chosen. Max Deckers & Duko Bos, who were 2nd overall at the Dutch Youths which concluded on Sunday, will be the men’s team, while Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck will represent their country in the Women’s double-hander competition,
See Final Results and Event Report, together with Junior European Team selections.
Dutch Youths Top 10:
1 Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler (SUI) 37 points
2 Max Deckers & Duko Bos 49 pts
3 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg70 pts
4 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck 70 pts
5 Floris & Laurens van de Werken 101 pts
6 Cecile Janmaat & Lana Keijzer 114 pts
7 Maarten Edauw & Laurens Edauw 114 pts
8 Fieke van Dijk & Josca Hummel 129 pts
9 Benjamin Bildstein & Lukas Hussmann (AUT) 133 pts
10 Estelle van Aanholt & Perry Gebuijs 140 pts
For further information see Dutch Youth Regatta and Dutch 420 Class
After six races the top four places remain unchanged at the Dutch Youth Regatta.
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Top ten after R6:
1 Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler (SUI) 7,0 points
2 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 8.0 pts
3 Marc Simmer & Rudi Weiss (AUT) 18,0 pts
4 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 25,0 pts
5 Floris & Laurens van de Werken (NED) 41.0 pts
6 Maarten & Laurens Edauw (NED) 41,0 pts
7 Charlotte Stumpel & Shannen Marck (NED) 43,0 pts
8 Cecile Janmaat & Lana Keijzer (NED) 46,0 pts
9 Quinten Lootens & Stijn van Hoye (BEL) 46,0 pts
10 Stan Hart & Wietse Pijlman (NED) 48,0 pts
See latest available results on the Dutch Youth Regatta website. 1 Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler (SUI) 5,0 points
2 Pieter Goedhart & Lars van Stekelenborg (NED) 5,0 pts
3 Marc Simmer & Rudi Weiss (AUT) 12,0 pts
4 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 16,0 pts
5 Maarten & Laurens Edauw (NED) 19,0 pts
See full results at the Dutch Youth Regatta website.
Open Dutch National Championships underway at Workum Evert Jan van Garderen, 420 Chairman in the Netherlands, writes: “This Thursday, 13 May, the Open Dutch National Championship for the 420 Class will start near Workum on the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands. 32 teams will compete for the title Open Dutch National Champion, which this year for the first time since a number of years is again available due to a fast growing 420 fleet in The Netherlands. For many years there was only a Class Championship. Also competitors from Austria, Belgium and Switzerland are participating. This Championship is held during the Dutch Youth Regatta, which this year is hosting almost 500 boats in various youth classes, like Optimist and Laser.
“The selection for the teams who will represent The Netherlands at the ISAF Worlds in Turkey will also take place during this event. It is expected to be a very exciting regatta as there are a number of candidates for the title and for becoming member of the Dutch team at the ISAF Worlds. Participants will sail 14 races during 4 days until Sunday 16 May”. All information can be found on the Dutch Youth Regatta and on the Dutch 420 Class websites.:
Portugal held its Youth Championships, the Campeonato de Portugal de Juniores at the Clube Naval de Portimão last week. After a series of 11 races the Champions, by 18 points, are João Villas Boas & Tomás Camelo of the Associação Naval de Lisboa. In 2nd place were Manuel Cunha & António Tinoco (YCP). Villas Boas & Camelo won the Portuguese international event Vilamoura in February, and they just got back to Portimão from achieving a top 15 place at the highly competitive CIMA in Marseille.
Meanwhile, the Women’s Champions are Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros of the Clube de Vela do Barreiro (a new partnership for the event!), 27 points ahead of Francisca Martins & Maria João Westwood of CNC.
Top ten:
1 João Villas Boas & Tomás Carnelo (ANL) 14 points
2 Manuel Cunha & António Tinoco (YCP) 32
3 Patrícia Costa & Filipa Barros (CVB) 42
4 Miguel Costa & Manuel Garnito (CVB) 61
5 Nuno Monteiro & Pedro Neto (CVCN) 66
6 Martim Franco & Caetano Lacerda (CNC) 69
7 Francisca Martins & Maria João Westwood (CNC) 69
8 Gonçalo Fonseca & Gustavo Pereira (YCP) 73
9 João Pestana & Manuel Bruschy (CVA) 81
10 Duarte Monteiro & João Uva (ANL) 86
So, the Federação Portuguesa de Vela has chosen its entries for the ISAF Youth World Championship in Istanbul – evidently teams to watch! But the next step for the Portuguese 420 Class will be the final team selection event, the 3rd Prova de Apuramento Nacional at SharpieCP / Ílhavo – Aveiro
On the way home from CIMA, a double-stacker trailer (reg: AA-852-BE) with two 420s (Nos: 52589 & 53256) , plus extensive equipment etc. were stolen in the early hours of Monday , 19 April from a car park south of Versailles (SW of Paris). Click for full details. Anyone who may have any information is asked to get in touch, please.
YC Argentino have launched their Championship Website for the 2011 World Championships to be held in Buenos Aires from 27 December 2010 to 5 January 2011.
The Preliminary Notice of Race has been published on the Class' Racing Event Calendar – see Preliminary NoR.
With one further race on the last day at CIMA, Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara held the lead they had had all the week by 9 points to win CIMA 2010. But those guys from Chile, Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara continued their upward trajectory with a win in the final race to take 2nd overall. The first women’s team were Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler of Switzerland were 2nd overall, with the French teams, Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier and Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller took 4th and 5th respectively.
Top 15:
1 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Leonardo Cucchiara (ITA) 47 points
2 Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) 56 pts
3 Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler (SUI) 59 pts
4 Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (FRA) 65 pts
5 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 69 pts
6 Etienne L’Her & Hugo Lauras (FRA) 70 pts
7 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (FRA) 86 pts
8 Pauline Mazzocchi & Gwenaelle Berhault (FRA) 88 pts
9 Matteo Capurro & Lorenzo Berardi (ITA) 90 pts
10 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) 95 pts
11 Ryan Judge & William McBride (USA) 99 pts
12 Muratcan Toycelebi & Efe Uyal (TUR) 101 pts
13 João Villaboas & Tomás Camelo (POR) 103 pts
14 Martin Bertrand & Xavier Lacaze (FRA) 113 pts
15 Damien Brenac & Julien Lacaze (FRA) 116 pts
See Final Results and also our daily reports to race 10 and, for further information and photographs, ASPTT Marseille website.
Like most European 420 Fleets, the Portuguese 420 Class are busy with this year’s team selections to compete in the Worlds at Haifa and the Junior Europeans at la Rochelle. They have a series of three events – Tavira in March, Barreiro last week and Aveiro – Ilhavo in mid-May. We are seeking the Tavira results, but full details have come through for the regatta – the 2ª Prova de Apuramento Nacional (PAN) of the selection series – at C V Barreiro
Matteo Bernard & Vasco Silva won the 9-race event, with 3 points in hand. Gonçalo Boto & João Duarte were 2nd on 40 points and Francisca & Filipa Barros were the leading wome, in 3rd overall on 45 points. Manuel Cunha & António Tinoco and Joana Azevedo & Catarina Evangelista were 4th and 5th tying on 55 points.
See 2PAN Final Results and the POR 420 Class’ Press Report..
We look forward to the conclusion of the series. Meanwhile, the Portuguese ‘youth’ sailors will be gathering at Portimão from 21 to 26 April for the Campeonato de Portugal de Juniores at which the Federação Portuguesa de Vela will select the teams to represent Portugal at this year’s ISAF Youth Worlds in Istanbul.
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The Preliminary Notice of Race for the 420 Worlds 2011, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been published on the event page of the web site.
Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan have won the Irish (ISA) Curradinghy Youth Championships at the Fasnet Marine Outdoor Education Centre, Schull, Co Cork. Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson, the leading women’s team, were 2nd.
Thanks to Finbarr O Regan, we have an Event Report….and an Irish Class photo!
Leaders:
1 Cian O'Regan & Scott Flanigan (Kinsale YC) 23 points
2 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (R St George YC) 25 pts
3 Emma Geary & Niamh Connolly (R Cork YC) 40 pts
4 Laura & Louise McCarthy (R Cork YC) 43 pts
5 Richy Harrington & Robbie English (R Cork YC) 49 pts
6 Diana Kissane & Hazel O'Neill (Howth YC) 50 pts
See Final Results and, for further information, the ISA Final Report and the ISA Youth Sailingwebsite.
Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw became Champions having led the way all week and Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell won the Women’s Championship in ther RYA Volvo Youth Championships at the Weymouth & Portland national Sailing Academy.
Top ten:
1 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw 19 points
2 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell 29.7 pts
3 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley 43 pts
4 James Hayward & Tim Carter 55 pts
5 Joshua Pistol & Piers Strong 60 pts
6 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley 61 pts
7 Craig Dibb & Charlie Cox 62 pts
8 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart 76 pts
9 Thomas Gillard & Rosie Sibthorp 78 pts
10 Tarra Gill-Taylor & Matt Wallis 82 pts
The Final Results are attached and further information is available on the.Event Website.
This event was both the selection event for the GBR Team to compete at the 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds in Istanbul – see RYA Press Release – and the second of the GBR Class events to select the teams for the Haifa Worlds and the La Rochelle Junior Europeans – the current Series Results – which are due to complete over the weekend 1 and 2 May.
The selection event for Team GBR for the ISAF Youth Championships and, for the 420s, the second of three Worlds and Junior Euros team selection events, is taking place at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The first day’s racing took place, in very windy conditions and deep waves, in Weymouth Bay, some three miles out of WPNSA, and Mike Wood & High Brayshaw took an early lead with two bullets in the two races. A daily blog and the results are published on the RYA Youths Website, while the GBR 420 Class provides more informal news about the sailors and the event generally. The RYA’s overall summary of Day 1 is in their Press Release The Class again presented the 420 to the masses of Optimist sailors and their families that have been at Riva del Garda for this year’s Optimist spring meeting. And there were 989 entered this year! Tom Mapplebeck of CurraDinghy Sailing met up with sailors and parents, Nautivela supplied a boat for demonstration, the Class’ marketing literature was available and Fraglia Vela Riva played host..Tom's daily reports, originally posted here, are attached. Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed are the new Asian 420 Sailing Women’s Champions. Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui Chua of Singapore were 2nd and fellow team members, Daniella Hui Min Ng & Cheryl Gui Ying Yee took the Bronze. Afendy & Sayed, who were the leading women at the last Asian Sailing Championships in Bali in 2008, have just returned from successful campaigns at the Australian and the New Zealand National Championships. Women’s results
Justin Xiaman Liu & Sheman Feng Yuan Cheng of Singapore, who have dominated the 420s in Asia since winning the 2006 Doha Asian Games and the 2007 SEA Games in Pattaya, Thailand, as well as winning the Junior Europeans in 2007, won the 2010 Championship by 18 points. Ku Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizudin Mazelan (MAS) were 2nd and Sangmin Lee & Hoyeob Yang (KOR) were 3rd. Men’s results
See Championship website for further information. The 14th Asian Sailing Championships were held at the Guangdong Ocean Sports Training Centre (GOSTC), Shanwei, China, the sailing venue for the 2010 Asian Games in November. Louis Porez and, the legendary crew, Cedric Mary won the Interligue at CV Martigues (they were 5th at the last major French national event at Maubuisson in November). But they did not have it all their own way here at Martigues! Pauline Mazzocchi & Gwenaelle Berhault (11th overall and 3rd women at the last National event at Maubuisson in November; Pauline helmed the French ISAF Youth Worlds entry in 2009 taking 8th) and Cecile Gutierrez & Zoe Poncelet sorted the last two races between them to complete the events in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Top 7:
1 Louis Porez & Cedric Mary 6 points
2 Pauline Mazzocchi & Gwenaelle Berhault 8 pts
3 Cecile Gutierrez & Zoe Poncelet 9 pts
4 Yvann Thelier & Guillaume Holin 10 pts
5 Thomas Guillen & Timothe Petetin 10 pts
6 Yvan Beckius & Pierre Petetin 11 pts
7 Ines Duclairoir & Charles Porez 17 pts
We await the results from the third event held at SN Saint Quay-Portrieux This weekend was the first of the round of team selection regattas in France, the ‘Interligues’, These were being held for the Nord at EV Cherbourg, the Atlantique at SN Saint Quay-Portrieux, and the Sud at CV Martigues.
So far, we have only been able to track the racing at Cherbourg, where 31 420s were racing on Sunday, including, as ever, the Webmaster of the French Class, Hervé Lohier, though regrettably without Gérard Aumont, the Secretary of Uniqua 420 France who was too busy organising things on shore to provide his usual veteran competition! (the French have taken the 420 very, very seriously at every age for fifty years this year!!).
Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller, won the event for the second year running (though with only 3 bullets this year!) again from Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan who improved on last year’s score-line. Baptiste Berthier moved up the leaderboard this year to 3rd, with his new crew, & Alexandra Bigot, Alexandra Bigot.
Top 7:
1 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller 4.00 points
2 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan 10.00 pts
3 Baptiste Berthier & Alexandra Bigot 11.00 pts
4 Martin Aumont & Jean-Baptiste Le Goubey 12.00 pts
5 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet 12 pts
6 Charles Hekimian & Ronan Dreau 13 pts
7 Laure Ferchaud &Juliette Le Friec The 14th Asian Sailing Championships are taking place this week at the Guangdong Ocean Sports Training Centre (GOSTC), Shanwei, Guangdong, China. Eighteen 420 teams, from Bahrain, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore and Thailand, are entered. We hope to bring news during the event, but , for further information, see the Championship website. The bi-annual Asian Sailing Championships were last held in 2008 in Indonesia, when teams from Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia took the podium. With a increased entry this year, it should be an exciting event!
This is also a test event for the 2010 Asian Games, for which the sailing will also take place at Guangdong, in November. The GBR 420 Fleet, joined by half a dozen Irish 420s using the event as part of their ISAF Youth selection process, raced at the 2012 Olympic venue, Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy on Portland Harbour last weekend. For most of the 55 teams, apart from the Irish and some of the newest to the boat (and a stray 470 team who were hoping to show the young firebrands the way!), this was the first of a gruelling series of events and races that will culminate at the beginning of May with selection of the GBR teams to go to Haifa for the Worlds and La Rochelle for the Junior Europeans.
The Winter Champions are Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (they were 12th at last year’s Worlds on Garda), with a 6 point lead over Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw, who in turn put 14 points between themselves and James Hayward & Tim Carter in 3rd. 2007 Junior European champion helm, Tom Gillard & 2009 Ladies’ champion crew, Rosie Sibthorp were 4th, while Matt Mee & Ian Dobson forsook their 470 for the weekend to get some big start experience before heading off to the Princess Sofia in Palma, and finished 5th.
The event was held at WPNSA on Portland Harbour, and further information and news may be found on the GBR 420 website; click here for the results of the Championship and the Selection Series so far. The next event, new this year, will be the week long RYA Youth Championships next month (when the GBR teams for the ISAF Youth Worlds will also be selected). Lucille Bradfield, who retired as Chair of the Irish 420 Class in 2009 after leading the expansion of the Class and successive full teams to Class international events, has been acknowledged for her “Significant Voluntary Contribution” by the Irish Sailing Association at its Annual Conference. The first Italian team selection 'Regata Nazionale', three-days on the Gulf of Andora, was a challenging experience for 125+ teams, sailing in two flights. With some big winds, changing conditions, many capsizes and many retiring from races, CN Andora was popular for supplying hot food for the return to shore!
While the regatta was described as 'one for the experienced', Jacopo Cunial & Michele Inchiostri of SV Barcola Grignano won, with a very impressive five bullets to count - and the leading juniors too! Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini of CN Senigallia were 2nd, just 3 points behind, with three bullets, but a 4th in race 3 [a race won by Jordi Xammen & Joan Herp, Spain’s 2009 ISAF Youth Worlds team from CN Masnou)]. Davide Pollio & Gaetano Volpe of LNI Bari were the leading under 16 team.
The women were led by Sara Amendola of LNI Bari & Giulia Paolillo of RCC Tevere Remo) (in 12th overall) by ten points from Lidia Mazzanti & Giulia Palestrini of CN Senigallia and Elena Berta & Giulia Tisselli of RC Tevere Remo. Cerri Olmo & Meini Edoardo of CV Pietrabianca were the leading women’s junior team.
1 Jacopo Cunial & Michele Inchiostri (SV Barcola Grignano) 5,0 points
2 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (CN Senigallia) 8,0
3 Matteo Capurro & Lorenzo Berardi (YC Italiano di Genova) 22,0
4 Paolo Virgenti & Luca Silvioli (CV Gargnano Societá Co) 23,0
5 Federico Cattaneo & Fabrizio Nardi (Canott Savoia Soc Sport) 28,0
6 Agostino Amoretti & Demetrio Manes (YC Imperia Ass) 28,0
7 Stefano Zilioli & Amedeo Perani (Gruppodilett Velalni) 29,0
8 Marco Naldoni & Eugenio Basciu (CV S Club Portisco Ass) 32,0
9 Andrea Barchiesi & Federico Zarelli (CDV Roma – Ass Sport DI) 40,0
10 Alberto & Federico Brolli (CV Ravennate Ass Sport) 40,0
11 Luca Paolillo & Pietro Lavicoli (RCC Tevere Remo) 40,0
12 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (GDV LNI Bari/RCC Tevere Remo) 43.0 James Turner & Logan Dunning Beck are the NZL National Champions. Thomas Saunders & Chris Steele were 2nd, with a clean sweep of bullets on day 2. Ky Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan (MAS) took third, while Khairunnnisa Mohd Afendy & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed (MAS) led the women. Erica Dawson & Vicky Francis won the NZL Women’s Championship. In the innovative, no spinny/trapeze fleet Julia Hamilton & Thomas Borrmann won.
Meanwhile, in the 470s, 2007 World Ladies’ 420 Champions Jo Aleh & Olivia Powrie were 2nd and Francisco Lardies & Finn Drummond, silver medallists at the 420 Garda were 3rd. And it looks as though Finn has been busy, fitting in an America’s Cup chase at Valencia according to Sail-World
Top ten in the I420 Nationals (provisional):
1 James Turner & Logan Dunning Beck 17 points
2 Thomas Saunders & Chris Steele 28 pts
3 Khairunnnisa Mohd Afendy & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed (MAS) 28 pts
4 Ky Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan (MAS) 43 pts
5 Alex Munro & Luke Stevenson 43 pts
6 Erica Dawson & Vicky Francis 62 pts
7 Sam MacKay & Wade Tresadern 65 pts
8 Gye Simkin & Paul Moriarty 67 pts
9 Stacey Swanson & Alice Pearson 70 pts
10 Naomi & Briar Mannering 76 pts
Top 3 in the ‘no spinny/trapeze’ fleet (provisional):
Julia Hamilton & Thomas Borrmann 5 points
Gen Saunders & Holly McHardie 12 pts
Robyn Caundle & Laura Tushingham 15 pts
See also Anthea Dunning’s Final Report, Murrays Bay SC and NZL 420 Class. STOP PRESS: NZL 420 Class website reports: "Day Four has been cancelled due to a Tsunami warning. Following a devastating earthquake in Chile, the Auckland Coastguard advised Murrays Bay SC that racing should be cancelled due to the possibility of a tsunami hitting the east coast of New Zealand this morning. In the meantime, the danger level has been downgraded, but racing will not go ahead. Fortunately, there has been a clear winner in the Open class, Logan Dunning Beck and James Turner's lead was unassailable as the overall champions and male youth selection, while Vicki Francis and Erica Dawson have a clear points advantage over the next New Zealand youth female crew.
See the Event website for results, news and photos. Anthea Dunning brings us up-to-date from Murrays Bay (one more day’s racing to go): “Day Two on Friday was raced in a steady 20 to 25knot breeze. Racing saw many capsizes and some gear breakage in the 420 fleet. Thomas Saunders and Chris Steele absolutely dominated the days sailing with four first places, taking themselves into 2nd place overall, 3 points behind Turner and Dunning Beck.
“Day Three today was sailed in 6 to 10 knot Easterlies. The race committee once again did a superb job getting 4 races underway. Race 1 was very shifty, while Races 2 and 3 saw a steadier breeze across the course. James Turner and Logan Dunning Beck won the first 3 races with the Malaysian men 2nd in each race. In Race 4 the North Easterly sea breeze filled in during the second beat and eventually the Malaysian men won from Thomas Saunders and Chris Steele. The Malaysian women’s crew also put in a consistent performance today and are place 4th overall ahead of Alex Munro and Luke Stevenson in 5th.The top New Zealand women’s youth crew are Erica Dawson and Vicky Francis who are currently placed 6th overall. James Turner & Logan Dunning Beck are holding off a serious threat from Chris Steele and Thomas Saunders, with their run of 4 bullets. It looks like Khairunnisa Afendy & Norashikin Sayed (MAS) are leading the women, in 6th overall.
Julia Hamilton & Thomas Borrmann, on home waters, are leading the “restricteds” (what a title for these guys!!), while Gen Saunders & Holly McHardie and Robyn Caundle & Laura Tushingham, challengers from Tauranga, are in 2nd and 3rd. We hope the winds are fair for the other guys today!
Pending any further detail from Anthea Dunning, Christine Hansen (holding the fort at the NZL 420 Class
website, though sadly not with her camera at Murrays Bay!) has added the following (probably wired to her by the 470 guys who were out racing too on Friday): “Strong winds from the south to south west were characteristically shifty as it whipped in over the fringes of the North Shore of Auckland. After a summer of light winds, conditions tested the fleet, but James Turner and Logan Dunning Beck hold onto first position after a strong challenge from Chris Steele and Thomas Saunders”.
But we have series results for both the Open Fleet and the ‘Restricted’ Fleet. Steele & Saunders score 4 bullets and Illingworth rides to the rescue on Day 2 News just in from the NZL Nationals at Murrays Bay, nut they are having problems publishing the results, so we will just have to be patient!
In the meantime though the reporting is great - Craig Moss writes about Day 2: “An awesome day of quite strong breeze. Start boat averaging 22kts for the first race which thinned the fleet a little.
470s and restricted fleet joined in for their starts at race 2, 6 470s and only 3 of the restricted fleet made it out today with the 4th(me) heading back to the beach with a 10yr old daughter saying she was scared. …“sailing for life” I think it goes , so we decided it would be better to make the whole thing a positive experience and try again tomorrow. Chris Steele and Thomas Saunders had an excellent day with 4 wins, really showing how its done . We expect 6 470s and 7 restricted fleet tomorrow .
“Unfortunately for our guys personally, my son, Brad injured himself in the first race yesterday which has meant he couldn’t crew , so they had to change roles yesterday, and today only just got through the first race. We were able to substitute in Scott Illingworth for his crew position, which was awesome. This now takes them out of any youth contention though. It turns out he had popped a rib and spine was out in a couple of places, If tomorrow’s forecast of a lighter day comes in, he will try again”. Craig Moss, Vice-Commodore at Murrays Bay SC and the event organiser writes: “Murrays Bay is a club that operates from a beach…..and it looks like the weather will play its part, keeping the launching and retrieval safe. 7.00am all go for turning up and launching the boats. Briefings from 8.45 for the boat crews and sailors. The first race was a scheduled 11.00 am start but did involve a bit of shifting around before a race could get under way, which basically ended up with a course change on most legs. 3-5 kts. Tough for all. Then came around 3 hours of waiting for the wind to settle down before we could finally get the last 2 races for the day under way, 12 -13 kts S.E. About 8-9 hrs on the water so all a little tired”.
But Anthea Dunning, our newly-found special correspondent prepared her First Day’s Report before turning in, remarking when she spiked it that “photos are yet to come they came in off the water so late today and the photographer has gone to bed!!”. We guess they all need their sleep before tomorrow’s racing!
Anyway, we have not quite got a full list of results through yet – though we have been advised to watch the Murrays Bay SC website. But Anthea’s report reveals that James Turner & Logan Dunning Beck class(y) winners at the recent Sail Auckland scored two bullets, and that both those Malaysian teams are again in their element. More soon! NZL National Championships and Selection Trials New Zealand’s National Championships this weekend – and with a difference….or two. The Nationals are a 4-day regatta at Murrays Bay SC, Auckland from Thursday 25. Like most 420 regattas around the world it will be organised by a team of parents and supporter s, working with RO, Steve Pyatt.
Organiser, Craig Moss, Vice Commodore at Murrays Bay and 420 Class Committee member writes: “…we will (also) be running a ‘restricted’ 420 class (with) jib and main only, no trapeze or spinnakers. The idea is to attract new sailors to the Class in a non threatening way. This was first tried at the North Islands in November, with encouraging results . So far there has been interest not just from new sailors…, but also parent/son/daughter teams……..The 470s will also be joining us for Friday - Sunday”. This certainly sounds a great way to encourage new entrants to the Class, but also to celebrate the boat as a family, club racer, as well as the performance pre-Olympic youth boat.
Bringing an international challenge again (Ireland’s, Jane Butler and Jenny Andreasson prepared for the ISAF Youths and the World Champs at last year’s Champs) are two teams from Malaysia, Khairunnnisa Mohd Afendy & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed and Ky Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan - they took 3rd and 4th places at Sail Auckland and were 13th and 9th respectively at the Australian 420 Nationals at the beginning of 2010. Some serious campaigning here too!
So, it is all happening in New Zealand. With 2009 World Ladies’ Champions, Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher, and Bronze Medallists, Francisco Lardies & Finn Drummond, moving on (Alexandra won the 29er fleet at Sail Auckland and Francisco & Finn took 3rd in the 470s (2007 World Ladies’ Champs, Jo Aleh & Olivia Powrie, at Takapuna won the 470 event) – wow, today’s Kiwi 420 sailors have high standards set for them! With no racing on the final day, the 36th International Carnival Sailing Regatta at Vilamoura, Portugal concluded with the sixth race on Sunday. A discard having kicked in on day 2, it was all change in the top three from the first day.
João Vilas Boas & Tomás Camelo of Associação Naval de Lisboa won the event with a 5 point lead. Ruben Semedo & Francisco Teixeira of C.V.Barreiro were 2nd, 7 points ahead of Luis Niza & Paulo Baptista of Naval Tavira. The first day’s leaders, Francisca & Filipa Barros of Y.C.Porto were 4th overall and the first women’s team.
Top ten:
1 João Vilas Boas & Tomás Camelo (ANL) 12 points
2 Ruben Semedo & Francisco Teixeira (C.V.Barreiro) 17 pts
3 Luis Niza & Paulo Baptista (Naval Tavira) 24 pts
4 Francisca & Filipa Barros (Y.C.Porto) 30 points
5 Gonçalo Boto & João Duarte (C.V.Barreiro) 31 pts
6 Francisca Martins & Maria João Westwood (C.N.Cascais) 36 pts
7 Gonçalo Pinho & Miguel Hipólito (S.C.Porto) 38 pts
8 Joana Azevedo & Catarina Evangelista (C.V.Atlântico) 38 pts
9 Patricia Costa & Inês Lucas (C.V.Barreiro) 48 pts
10 Matteo Bernard & Vasco Silva (ANL) 50 pts
See the Final Results and the CIMAV Event Website The Mar del Plata Sailing Week at YC Argentino completed eight races with all conditions, Says Pablo Völker, our man in Buenos Aires and the winning helm, says: “All types of wind in these days, from light up to strong”. Pablo Völker & Agustin Cunill Martinez won the regatta, and Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann again took 2nd, with a good lead over third placed Tomas Roldan & Mateo Majdalani.
Gonzalo Bisi & Tomás Völker finally qualified as Argentina’s representatives at the 2010 ISAF Youth World Championship, after a great fight against Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Facundo Olezza over the last races, together with Michelle Rhode & Carolina Vadell for the women.
Top seven results:
1 Pablo Völker & Agustin Cunill Martinez 8 points
2 Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann 13 pts
3 Tomas Roldan & Mateo Majdalani 30 pts
4 Alejandro Giralt & Florencia Lazzari 35 pts
5 Maria Piacenza & Magali Damitio 37 pts
6 Gonzalo Bisi & Tomás Volker 48 pts
7 Manuel Nogueira & Martin Chammah 49 pts The three-day 36th International Carnival Sailing Regatta at Vilamoura, Portugal got underway on Saturday. Francisca & Filipa Barros of Y.C.Porto. Patricia Costa & Inês Lucas of C.V.Barreiro ar in 2nd and Francisca Martins & Maria João Westwood of C.N.Cascais in 3rd. But the use of the black flag suggests that many teams will be looking forward to a discard!
See the running Results or the Event Website The first selection events for the NZL team for the ISAF Youth Worlds, Sail Auckland had 14 teams competing. In relatively light winds, giving some close racing, the event was won, decisively by 12 points over 8 races, by James Turner & Logan Dunning-Beck of Murrays Bay SC. Alex Munro & Luke Stevenson of Wakatere BC were 2nd. There was a Malaysian duel for 3rd place; Khairunnissa Mohd Afendy & Nora Shikin made it by 4 points from, Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan & Ku Anas Ku Zamil – reversing things from the windier Aust Nats at the start of the year! NZLs youth women, Erica Dawson & Vicki Francis of Murrays Bay SC and Stacey Swanson & Alice Pearson of Evans Bay YPBC were 7th and 8th, tying on points – close competition all round!
Meanwhile, reigning 420 World Ladies’ Champion helm (4th at last year’s ISAF Worlds), Alexandra Maloney (sailing here with Sam Bullock) won the 29er event...so 29ers watch out at Istanbul!
Leading results:
1 James Turner & Logan Dunning-Beck (Murrays Bay SC) 10 points
2 Alex Munro & Luke Stevenson (Wakatere BC) 22pts
3 Khairunnissa Mohd Afendy & Nora Shikin (MAS) 31pts
4 Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan & Kuanas (MAS) 36pts
5 Tomer Simphony & Brad Moss (Murrays Bay SC) 40pts
6 Brittany Wornall & Emma Goodwin (Mt Pleasant SC) 44pts
7 Erica Dawson & Vicki Francis (Murrays Bay SC) 46pts
8 Stacey Swanson & Alice Pearson (Evans Bay YPBC) 46pts
See Final Results and, for further information, Sail Auckland.
Christine Hansen was on the water (as usual!) - we have a 420 PhotoGallery, but also see her Picasa Gallery for all her images. With a further two races on the final day of the 45th Semana Internacional del Yachting (45* SIY) at the Club Náutico Mar del Plata, the top placings remained unchanged. Pablo Völker & Agustin Martinez Cunill had a decisive 10-point lead to win the regatta, with Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann 2nd and Gonzalo Bisi & Tomás Völker 3rd.
Leading teams:
1 Pablo Völker & Agustin Martinez Cunill 7 points
2 Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann 17 pts
3 Gonzalo Bisi & Tomás Völker 20 pts
4 Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Facundo Olezza 29 pts
6 5 Manuel Nogueira & Martin Chammah 46 pts
7 Tomas Roldan & Mateo Majdalani 48 pts
8 Fernando Stancato & Santiago Vodanovich 48 pts
9 Alejandro Giralt & Florencia Lazzari 52 pts
See full Results. We hope to get some images here, but all may be found, as usual, on Matias Cappizano’s gallery at www.cappizano.com . Two weeks of 420 sailing are underway on the Mar del Plata, 400 km from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Two regattas are run collaboratively between Club Náutico Mar del Plata, Yacht Club Argentino & Yacht Club Centro Naval.
This week the 45º Semana Internacional del Yachting ('45 SIY'), organised by Club Náutico Mar del Plata, finishes tomorrow. Pablo Völker, our special correspondent on the Plata (oh, and the leading ARG helm!) reports: "two days with light winds and today with heavy winds, 25-30 knots...this regatta is also the trial for the Youth Worlds".
Pablo Völker & Agustin Martinez Cunill lead on 5 points after 6 races, with Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann 2nd on 11 and Gonzalo Bisi & Tomás Völker on 15. Then come Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Facundo Olezza (20 pts), Manuel Nogueira & Martin Chammah (31 pts), Fernando Stancato & Santiago Vodanovich (35 pts) and Tomas Rolda & Mateo Majdalani (36 pts) in a field of 15.
See Results and further information about the Semana Internacional del Yachting, together with next week’s Semana de Mar del Plata at YC Argentino. Our old friend, Matias Capizzano’s photographs are to be found, as usual, on www.capizzano.com Brazil selects its team for the ISAF Youth Worlds…. More from our man in Rio, Nic Castro: The Confederação Brasileira de Vela e Motor have selected Felipe Oliveira & Alan Dale and Luisa Sodré de C. Prado &Ursula T. Puetter to sail in 420s, while runners-up at the Copa da Juventude, João Henrique Figueiredo & Pedro B. Petersen, will represent Brazil in the 29er, at the ISAF Youth Worlds in Istanbul in July. All sorted! ….meanwhile the Brazilian 420 Class are united….in water!! And we have heard - from our woman in Rio, Daniela Adler P. Duarte! - about what happened after the racing at the Brazilian Nationals at Búzios, Apparently Felipe Haddad, the 2009 Champion helm, called all the sailors back to the beach, and invited all the competitors to join hands in a line, facing the sea, where they had all raced together, won and lost, during a great National Championships and he called to them, ‘Let's show how we, sailors of the 420 Class, are united’, And “we all ran to the water”, writes Daniela, “it was very special. Take a look at the photos!”. Well, when you have Manguinhos Beach, best use it!
Thanks to the handiwork of Paula Raso and Marcelo Dutra, we have a full PhotoGallery recording all, and the prize giving too! For further information also go to: Búzios Vela Clube, the Event pageand their flickr gallery. Felipe Oliveira & Alan Dale, who recently triumphed at the 2010 Brazilian 420 National Championships at Búzios, have won the Copa da Juventude, Brazil’s Youth Championships and ISAF Youth World selection event....by a point. Luisa Sodré de C. Prado &Ursula T. Puetter came 2nd overall and won for the Women at the Iate Clube de Brasília. Meanwhile, João Henrique Figueiredo & Pedro B. Petersen put up a great fight, taking third place in spite of scoring bullets in races 5 & 6. Apparently conditions on Lake Paranoá were very different from Búzios the week before. No waves, and light and shifty breezes, are the normal conditions for the place, says our man in Rio, Nic Castro. With a closely contested Championships, three teams led the fleet at different stages of the regatta. The Brazilian National Champions 2010 are Felipe Caldeira & Alan Dale, by 5 points from Daniela A.P. Duarte & Kahena Kunze, who are the Women’s Champions. Felipe Haddad & Nicolas Leite De Castro, the 2009 Champions, were 3rd.
Felipe & Alan, who competed at Garda Worlds with Felipe & Nic, are evidently to be taken very seriously! For Daniela, this is her 5th home title, but the 1st as helm. Daniela and Kahena are very experienced and versatile crews – Kahena was 6th at the 2007 ISAF Youth Championships in Ontario (in the 29er) and Gold (with Martine Grael) at the 2009 ISAFs here in Búzios. Daniela was 7th at the ISAF Youths at Aarhus in 2008 (in the 29er with Martine Grael), 6th at the Tapakpuna 420 Worlds (2007), and, with Martine Grael, 4th at Athens (2008) and Bronze at Garda (2009). Meanwhile, Martine Grael is busy doing good at the Miami OCR in the 470.
The second pack at this year’s Nationals were also competing hard, the final outcome down to the last race. Julia Pessini e Patrick Essle made it to 4th (53 points), while João Henrique Figueiredo & Pedro Pettersen took 5th (56 pts) and Danielle Cardial & Nicole Dale were in 6th (57 pts), with Ricardo Pelliuiotto & Antonio Kaspar 7th (63 pts). We hope to be seeing these guys internationally soon, and watch to see if Cardial & Dale are waiting in the wings to establish themselves as next in line to lead Brazil’s women!
We await any further news and photos from Búzios to fill in the gaps….but, on past experience, the Brasileiros are probably still busy partying! So, for now, see Búzios Vela Clube and their flickr gallery for a mass of photos. Thanks to Martin Flaherty and Gavin Thredgold, we have a small Photo Gallery of images from the recent Australian National Championships at Largs Bay SC, South Australia The dedicated web site for the International 420 Worlds is now available online. Make sure that your teams are at this great venue. Visit Event Website for more information on planning your trip. The 2010 Australian Youth Champions are Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough and Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow, the Women’s Champs. Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan and Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui were 1st and 2nd respectively at the regatta, leading three other SIN teams in the top ten! It was also good to see the Hong Kong team, Wing Ho Kwan & Wing Chun Lam, make 8th on the leaderboard.
Craig Heydon of Yachting Australia writes: “Light winds on the final day of competition kept the competitors on shore and out of the 43 degree heat. Unfortunately the wind remained almost non-existent for the entire day and racing was eventually cancelled…….It was all Singapore at the top of the 420 standings with Chuan Ko and Andrew Chan taking out the boys class and Rachel Lee and Benita Chua first in the girls class. Angus Golloway and Alex Gough were the second boys crew ahead of Matthew Jerwood and Patrick Vos in third. Queensland's Elloise Brake and Ashley Warlow finished second in the girls class ahead of Singapore’s Daniella Ng and Cheryl Yee”.
The Youth Championships are Australia’s selection event for their Youth Sailing Team. Angus Galloway & Alex Gough and Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow were named to represent Australia at the 2010 ISAF Youth World Championships in Istanbul in July.
Top ten:
1 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan (SIN) 18 points
2 Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui (SIN) Chua 25 pts
3 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 31 pts
4 Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (Western Australia) 38 pts
5 Luke Yi Hao Tan & Clement Hao Yang (SIN) 39 pts
6 Sam Mackay & Emma Goodwin 40 pts
7 Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow 50 pts
8 Wing Ho Kwan & Wing Chun Lam (HKG) 52 pts
9 Russell Tsung Liang Kan & Jeremiah Yeo (SIN) 56 pts
10 Daniella Hui Min Ng & Cheryl Gui Ying Yee (SIN) 60 pts
See Event Website. Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian and Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui of Singapore are in 1st and 2nd into the final day at the Australian Youth Championships. There is a close battle between Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough, winners of Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne in December and the new National 420 Champions, Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos, with 7 points between them in 3rf and 4th respectively.
Top ten into the final day:
1 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan (SIN) 18 points
2 Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui (SIN) Chua 25 pts
3 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 31 pts
4 Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (Western Australia) 38 pts
5 Luke Yi Hao Tan & Clement Hao Yang (SIN) 39 pts
6 Sam Mackay & Emma Goodwin 40 pts
7 Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow 50 pts
8 Wing Ho Kwan & Wing Chun +Lam (HKG) 52 pts
9 Russell Tsung Liang Kan & Jeremiah Yeo 56 pts
10 Daniella Hui Min Ng & Cheryl Gui Ying Yee 60 pts
See Event Website and check Latest Results We have had the following report from Larry Law, President of the USA International 420 Class: "I-420 has its first regatta in Miami in a decade. For the first time in over a decade the International 420 Racing Dinghy has returned to the waters off Miami to compete in the annual Orange Bowl Regatta held at the prestigious Coral Reef Yacht Club in Coral Gables, Florida. 22 boats representing four countries competed for, what the US I-420 Class Association established as its first North American Championship of the new Millennia. The North American Championship is one of the major qualifier events of the selection criteria for the upcoming US I-420 World Championship Team that is going to be competing in Haifa, Israel this coming summer. Congratulations to Morgan Kiss and Katia DaSilva for their performance in winning this event”. See Final Results website. Australian Nationals report and preparations for the Youth Champs Thanks to Australian 420 President, Mark Soulsby, we have a very full Event Report on the recent and successful Australian National Championships (click above).
Meanwhile, final preparations are in hand for this year’s Australian Youth Championships, also being held at Largs Bay SC, South Australia. Follow the event at the Event Website. See also Yachting Australia’s pre-event press release, "Final Preparations…". Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) have won the Grand Prix Vila de Blanes 2010
with triple bullets in the final day’s racing at Blanes, to overtake last year’s winners, Jordi Xanmar & Joan Herp (ESP - CN El Masnou, Cataluña). Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR - Oxford SC) were 3rd (Hermione returning after her 2nd at last year’s edition) and led the women.
The women were strong, with Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) 4th, last year’s bronze team, Irina & Carla Zendrera (ESP) 5th and, new to the Class, Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR) 6th.
Further information may be found on the Event Website and photographs from Alfred Farré can be found on the event website and at Alfred Farré’s flickr. See also the main CV Blanes website.
Top ten:
1 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA - SNP Havre) 5 pts
2 Jordi Xanmar & Joan Herp (ESP - CN El Masnou, Cataluña) 7 points
3 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR - Oxford SC) 14 pts
4 Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT - KYCK. / UYCNS) 16 pts
5 Irina & Carla Zendrera (ESP - CN El Masnou, Cataluña) 24 pts
6 Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR – Royal Southern YC) 30 pts
7 Simon Meister & David Hussi (AUT – SCTWV / YKA) 31 pts
8 Benjamin Bildstein & Lukas Hussmann (AUT) 31 pts
9 Julien Rossi & Bruno Mourniac (FRA – YC Antibes) 33 pts
10 David & Alex Charles (ESP - CN El Balis, Cataluña) 41 pts With no racing possible on Sunday and only one race today (Monday’s 2nd race had to be abandoned for lack of wind), Jordi Xanmar & Joan Herp retain the lead with another win and Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA) are 2nd on 4 points. David & Alex Charles (FRA), with a 3rd today jump from 8th to 3rd overall and are on equal points with Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR) in 4th. Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) dropped to 5th following a 10th today. The fleet must really be wishing for good winds for the last day tomorrow – no starts after 14.00.
Top ten:
1 Jordi Xanmar & Joan Herp (ESP - CN El Masnou, Cataluña) 2 points
2 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (FRA - SNP Havre) 4 pts
3 David Charles & Alex Charles (ESP - CN El Balis, Cataluña) 11 pts
4 Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (GBR – Royal Southern YC) 11 pts
5 Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT - KYCK. / UYCNS) 13 pts
6 Germain Gaulthier & Hollin Guillaume (FRA – UY Cannes) 15 pts
7 Irina Zendrera & Carla Zendrera (ESP - CN El Masnou, Cataluña) 19 pts
8 Benjamin Bildstein & Lukas Hussmann (AUT) 20 pts
9 Simon Meister & David Hussi (AUT – SCTWV / YKA) 25 pts
10 Jennifer Poret & Louise Chevet (FRA - SNP Havre) 25 pts
Up-to-date information may be found on the Event Website and photographs from Alfred Farré can be found on the event website and at Alfred Farré’s flickr. Christian Berhault, President, and the French 420 Class – 420-UNIQUA-France - are wishing the International 420 Class a very happy New Year for 2010. This is a special one for France and for the Class world-wide. We celebrate 50 years of the International 420, designed in 1960 by Christian Maury.
“Déjà 50 ans....et toujours à fond. Bonne année”….already 50 years….and still on top! Good year! With a race in hand, Justin Xiaman Liu & Sherman Feng Yuan Cheng last year’s winners again dominated the Australian Open Championships at Largs Bay SC in Southern Australia. But Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low (SIN) had to concede their 2009 lead overall to the new National Women’s Champions, Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt of Tasmania by 6 points. Liu & Cheng and Khng & Low have represented Singapore at the last two ISAF Youth Worlds (Liu & Cheng won the Junior Europeans in 2007).
Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos of Western Australia are the new National Champions, with an 8 point lead over the 2009 Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne winners, Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough of Queensland. George Davies & Timothy Hannah (4th overall) and Samuel Gilmour & Adam Negri (5th). They will all be contending at the Australian Youth Championships next week, aiming for the coveted passport to the 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds in Istanbul.
Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt of Tasmania are the new National Women’s Champions. Having led the Australian women at Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne last month. Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow of Queensland had a more difficult Championships than in Sydney and Melbourne, where the dogged the heels of Shephard & Catt. We will watch them at the forthcoming Australian Youths!
The international flavour of the big Australian events at this time a year – a real opportunity to get big fleet experience in South East Asia - has grown further this year. In addition to Sail Singapore’s team, there have been strong competition from the relatively new Malaysian 420 Class, as well as Hong Kong (who competed in the 2009 Junior Europeans in Hungary) and New Zealand. Malaysia’s Ku Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan and Khairunnisa & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed both made the top fifteen, and Singapore’s Russell Tsung Liang Kan & Jeremiah Yeo, together with Singapore’s Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan and Rachel Qing Lee & Benita Jia Hui Chua. Jordi Xanmar & Joan Herp of CN El Masnou (Cataluña), who took 5th at the 2009 ISAF Youths for Spain and 8th at the Junior Euros in Balaton, led the 29-boat fleet on the first day of the 2010 Grand Prix Vila de Blanes. Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (SNP Havre, FRA) were 2nd and Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (KCYK, AUT) 3rd (Lara Vadlau was first female helm and 8th overall at the 2009 Junior Euros). Simon Meister & David Hussi (SCTWV/YKA, AUT) were 4th and Annabel Vose & Megan Brickwood (R Southern YC, GBR), the first all-women's team, were 5th.
See Results. Up-to-date information may be found on the Event Website and photographs from Alfred Farré can be found on the event website and at Alfred Farré’s flickr. See also the main CV Blanes website. Following a further three races at Largs Bay, the top four placings remain unchanged. However, the Singaporean teams did not complete race 10 and, in spite of the second discard kicking in, Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low had to concede the fifth slot to Samuel Gilmour and Adam Negri of Western Australia, who are on good form, with 1, 2, 1 in the last three races. AUT, GBR and SWE boats have already been spotted on the water at Club de Vela Blanes, preparing for the annual International Grand Prix Vila de Blanes. 32 boats are pre-entered from Austria, France, Great Britain and Sweden, as well as Catalunya, Spain. This event is increasingly popular as the regatta to start the new year’s sailing, and several countries have been out training for the last couple of days in sunny conditions, 20c, F3 winds and waves! Rumours are that the French and Catalan boats will be there today. The event starts on Saturday, with a first warning signal at 15.30 and racing each day from 09.30 through to Tuesday, with the prize giving at 16.00.
We would welcome any informal news you may have, so Send Email. Meanwhile, the Brits have been reporting back on the GBR 420 website (more about their cooking than the sailing, one has to say!). There is a special Event Website, where the official news should first appear.
Meanwhile, all the very best wishes for a very happy (and windy) New Year to the International 420 Class - sailors, coaches and supporters - and to all the clubs and regatta organisers who have welcomed us in 2009 or are planning 420 regatta and championships. Good 420 sailing in 2010! The top three held their positions after Race 7 at Largs Bay, but Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low (with a bullet in R6 are up to 4th overall) and George Davies & Timothy Hannah have put a 23 point gap in front of the following pack after the first discard kicked in. Justin Liu and Sherman Cheng retain a 10+ point lead at the front.
The Results and other information may be found on the Australian 420 Class, South Australia 420 Class and Largs Bay SC websites. Grez & Vergara and Baeza & Gonzalez are Chile's Champions Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante are Helly Hansen Chile National Champions 2009 and Teresita Baeza & Antonia Gonzalez are Women’s Champions. Jose Antonio & Agustin Jiménez Cox were 2nd overall, and Andrés & Ignacio Ducasse Sorucco were 3rd. Sofía Grez A. & Coté Poncell are the lead “apprentices”.
Head Coach, Cristián Noé, writes: “Good camaraderie ruled at Algarrobo. Some new faces and new boats...the more experienced sailors became mechanics to help the young, and not so young, to repair their boats after the windy first days. Club de Yates Algarrobo, welcomed the sailors back on shore each day with delicatessens and cold beverages to make this Championship a sensational success. Everybody’s stories at the bar were listened to with attention; fun and smiles were evident...Sailors leading races were doing their penalties, demonstrating respect to the entire fleet and, best of all, the not so common fair play! In the last 4 races, 2nd, 3td and 4th were fought over to decide who would be on the podium”.
Results:
1- Benjamín Grez A. & Carlos Vergara I.
2- Jose Antonio & Agustin Jiménez Cox.
3- Andrés & Ignacio Ducasse Sorucco.
4- Teresita Baeza R. & Antonia González A. (1st women)
5- Arantza & Begonia Gumucio J. (2nd women)
6- Tomás & Sofia Middleton.
7- Mathias & Nicolás Robertson J.
8- Sofía Grez A. & Coté Poncell M. (1st apprentices & 3rd women)
9- Ma. Ignacia Cisternas P. & Francisca Fuentes V. (2nd apprentices)
10- Fernanda González V. & Macarena Robert M.
See the Chile 420 Class website for full results and Photos. And now they are going to have a fortnight’s Training Clinic and first ranking event of 2010 - see our Events Calendar. All welcome! Justin Xiaman Liu & Sherman Feng Yuan Cheng (SIN) enjoy a 13 point lead going into the third day at Largs Bay. Meanwhile, Sail Sydney/Sail Melbourne winners, Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough, are putting Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos under pressure, just a point behind. George Davies & Timothy Hannah are 4th. Griselda Khng & Cecilia Rui Qi Low (SIN) continue to lead the women, moving up to 5th, followed by Wing Ho Kwan & Wing Chun Lam (HKG). Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt (Tasmania), with a better second day, broke into the top ten at 7th overall.
The Results and other information may be found on the Australian 420 Class, South Australia 420 Class and Largs Bay SC websites. Morgan Kiss, who helmed the US entry at the 2009 ISAF Youth Worlds and headed the podium for the Silver Fleet at this years Junior Euros in Hungary, and her new crew, Katia DaSilva, have won the Orange Bowl Regatta decisively. Working their way up to 2nd overall were Raul Rios & Rogelio Fernandez (Raul was the 2008 Optimist World Champion and represented Puerto Rico at the 2009 ISAF Youths) and Deirdre Lambert & Tracy Doherty were 3rd.
See full results and other information on the Coral Reef YC website. The results for Race 2 having been updated and Race 3 having completed the racing on Day 1 at the Australian National Championships, the picture is becoming clearer....and exciting!
The two front runners, at this early stage in the five-day Championships. are Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos, with a 2nd and two bullets giving 4 points so far, and Justin Xiaman Liu & Sherman Feng Yuan Cheng (SIN) on 7 points in 2nd, 14 points ahead of the followers! This renews the 2009 competition between these two teams, where Liu & Cheng (winners of the 2007 Junior Euros and 4th at the 2009 ISAF Youth Worlds) won the Australian Nationals and came second in the AUS Youths, with Jerwood & Vos just behind them in both championships. Watch this space!
George Davies & Timothy Hannah (Victoria) (2nd at both Sail Sydney & Sail Melbourne earlier this month), Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) (winners at both Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne) and Wing Ho Kwan & Wing Chun Lam (HKG) (Bronze Fleet podium competitors at the 2009 Junior Europeans in Hungary and leading 420 team at the Hong Kong International Regatta) are all on 21 points. Samuel Gilmour & Adam Negri (Western Australia) are 6th (23 pts). Griselda Khng & Cecilia Rui Qi Low (SIN) (3rd at the ISAF Youth Worlds in 2009) are the leading women’s team in 7th, tied on 28 pts with Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy & Norashikin Mohamad Sayed (MAS). Ku Anas Ku Zamil & Mohamad Hafizzudin Mazelan (MAS) are 9th on 29 pts.
The Results and other information may be found on the Australian 420 Class, South Australia 420 Class and Largs Bay SC websites. After a further two races, totalling 6 in the series so far, Morgan Kiss & Katia DaSilva (casting off their OCS from the first race with a discard kicking in) and Deirdre Lambert & Tracy Doherty are in 1st and 2nd on equal points. Jordan Factor & Matthew Wefer are up to 3rd, with overnight leaders, Nicole Barnes & Ian Coyle having a tougher day to end on 4th, while Ian Liberty & Alex Whipple (2nd at the US Atlantics 2009) and Raul Rios & Rogelio Fernandez of Puerto Rico both cast off first race OCS to take 5th and 6th. Marlena Fauer & Christina Lewis (who won the recent US Atlantics) also had a tougher third day to drop from 2nd to 7th overall into the final day at the Orange Bowl Regatta at Coral Reef YC, Florida.
Follow the event at the Coral Reef YC website. George Davies & Timothy Hannah of Victoria lead the Australian National Championships after the first day and two races at Largs Bay SC, South Australia. They are a couple of points ahead of Samuel Gilmour & Adam Negri of Western Australia, who are 8 points ahead of David & Michael Arnold of South Australia. The leading women’s team is Carrie Smith & Ella Clark of Western Australia.
But, not only is this just the start of a five-day Championship, it looks as though there may have been an “interesting” 2nd race, with more than 20 DNCs. Among these are some of the leading Australian and Singaporean teams, including Justin Xiaman Liu & Sherman Cheng Feng Yuan (SIN) Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) and Douglas Shephard & Patrick Hutton (Tasmania), who were 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the first race.
The Results and other information may be found on the Australian 420 Class, South Australia 420 Class and Largs Bay SC websites. Nicole Barnes & Ian Coyle of the US Virgin Islands are leading after the second day and four races at the Orange Bowl Regatta at Coral Reef YC, Florida. With Georgie Ryan and Hayley Kirk, having a less good day after their double bullets on day 1, dropped to 3rd overall, a point behind Marlena Fauer & Christina Lewis and on equal points with Jordan Factor & Matthew Wefer. Follow the event at the Coral Reef YC website. Class National Head Coach, Cristián Noé, writes, “with winds from S-SW and with 12 to 25 knots of intensity, the 2009 420 Class Chile Nationals are underway, with 11th boats on the start”.
Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara, with four bullets, led on the first day after four races, with Andres & Ignacio Ducasse in 2nd. Teresita Baeza & Antonia Gonzalez are third and leading all-women’s team. Sofia Grez & Cote Poncell are the leading novice team and completed all four challenging races.
The championship extends over three days, and 15 races are scheduled. News and results can be found on the Chile 420 Class website. Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough won Sail Melbourne 2009, with 9 points to spare. Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt were first women.
It looks as though Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne have been important training events for some of the top Australian 420 teams before the Australian 420 Class’ National Championships at the end of the month and then the Australian Youth Champs from 6 January, where they have over 40 teams already entered., both at Largs Bay SC,
Top five:
1 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 14 points
2 George Davies & Timothy Hannah (Victoria) 23 pts
3 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (Queensland) 30 pts
4 Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt (Queensland) 34 pts
5 Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow (Queensland) 43 pts ....but Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow have pulled up to 5th overall The AUS 420 Fleet have moved from Sydney to Melbourne, and Angus Galloway & Andrew Gough are leading again after the first six races. George Davies seems to have found a named crew since Sydney, Timothy Hannah, and they are close behind.
1 Angus Galloway & Andrew Gough (Queensland) 9 points
2 George Davies & Timothy Hannah (Victoria) 11 pts
3 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (Queensland) 18 pts
4 Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt (Tasmania) 18 pts
5 William LLewelyn & Lewis Duncan (Victoria) 21 pts Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough have won Sail Sydney. George Davies, with his mystery crew(s), was second and Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan of SIN Sailing in third. The podium leaders were 24 points ahead of the followers! Rachel Oing Lee & Benita Jua Hui (SIN) were the leading women’s team
Top ten:
1 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 15 points
2 George Davies (Victoria) 24 pts
3 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan (SIN) 26 pts
4 Thomas Klemens & Stuart Baird (Victoria) 55 pts
5 Rachel Oing Lee & Benita Jua Hui (SIN) 56 pts
6 Russell Kan Tsung Lang & Jeremiah Yeo (SIN) 57 pts
7 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (Queensland) 59 pts
8 Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt (Queensland) 60 pts
9 Elloise Brake & Ashley Warlow (Queensland) 69 pts
10 Ryan Lindsay & Adam Jones (New South Wales) 74 pts With the top five placings unchanged and a further two races under the belt at Sail Sydney, Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough, with only two 2s to count blemishing their row of bullets, have extended their lead to 11 points.
Top ten after seven races:
1 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 8 points
2 George Davies (Victoria) 19 pts
3 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan (SIN) 20 pts
4 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (Queensland) 33 pts
5 Thomas Klemens & Stuart Baird (Victoria) 34 pts
6 Russell Kan Tsung Lang & Jeremiah Yeo (SIN) 38 pts
7 Rachel Oing Lee & Benita Jua Hui (SIN) 30 pts
8 Elloise Brake (Queensland) 20 pts
9 Ryan Lindsay & Adam Jones (New South Wales) 44 pts
10 Lucy Shephard & Amelia Catt (Queensland) 45 pts Falcetelli & Franciolini and Caputo & Barbiero win Imperia 2009 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini of CN Senigallia were the decisive winners of the Imperia Winter Regatta today, accumulating a massive 29 point lead over the opposition. The silver step on the podium was taken by Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) and Jacopo Cunial & Michele Inchiostri of SC di Barcola-Grignano
Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero of Canottieri Savoia Soc Sport won the Women’s Fleet, just holding off the pressure on the last day from National Champions, Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini of CV Ravennate Ass Sport in 2nd and Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo took 3rd.
Top ten teams:
Open Fleet
1 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (ITA) 9,0 points
2 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR) 38,0 pts
3 Jacopo Cunial & Michele Inchiostri (ITA) 54,0 pts
4 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 64,0 pts
5 Malte Winlel & Lucas Tielemann (GER) 68,0 pts
6 Jeanne Courtois & Baptiste Szekely (FRA) 78,0 pts
7 Paolo Virgenti & Luca Silvioli (ITA) 83.0 pts
8 Peter Foldesi & Daniel Borsos (HUN) 102.0 pts
9 Marco Naldoni & Eugenio Basciu (ITA) 105.0 pts
10 Joao Villa-Boas & Tomas Carmelo (POR) 108.0 pts
Women’s Fleet
1 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA) 24 points
2 Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 26,0 pts
3 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA) 27,0 pts
4 Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 280 pts
5 Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 36,0 pts
6 Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR) 41,0 pts
7 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) 45,0 pts
8 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Mitchell (GBR) 49,0 pts
9 Chiara Magliocchetti & Jessica Conti (ITA) 38,0 pts
10 Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna (ITA) 55 pts
Final Results: Open Fleet and Women’s Fleet. Provisional Final Results from Imperia Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough are leading the 15-boat 420 fleet at Sydney International Regatta after the first two days of racing (due to complete on Tuesday).
Top five:
1 Angus Galloway & Alexander Gough (Queensland) 5 points
2 George Davies (Victoria) 11 pts
3 Chuan Yang Ko & Andrew Paul Li Jian Chan (SIN) 14 pts
4 Sasha & Jaime Ryan (Queensland) 20 pts
5 Elloise Brake (Queensland) 20 pts 420 second races of Sunday (first abandoned) We have picked up the IWRs Facebook entries at approx. 15.00 Sunday:
“IWR 2009 - SECOND RACE OF THE DAY (FIRST WERE ABANDONED):
“420 OPEN: ITA 53250 - GBR 52483 - ITA 5 - GER 53542 - GER 52991 - AUT 53390 - GBR 52480 - ITA 53584 - ITA 53588 - HUN 52633 - GER 53030 - FRA 52335 - GBR 53380 - ITA 53891 - ITA 52890 - SUI 52149 - SUI 53886 - ITA 51 - ITA 52865 - HUN 52635
“420 LADIES: GER 52896 - ITA 53024 - SUI 53468 - ITA 52081 - FRA 53878 - HUN 53902 - IRL 53160 - SUI 53898 - ITA 53694 - ITA 52885 - ITA 53722 - ITA 53482 - GBR 53591 - ITA 53882 - ITA 53705 - ITA 53711 - ITA 53056 - SUI 53876 - GBR 53959 - GBR 53229”
THIRD RACE OF THE DAY 420 OPEN: ITA 5 - GER 53542 - ITA 52865 - DEN 53917 - AUT 53107 - ITA 53584 - ITA 52870 - CRO 53491 - SUI 52149.............. Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA - LNI Bari) had a good day - and a discard! – to take them into the lead in the Women’s Fleet tonight (Saturday). Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA - CANOTT Savoia Soc Sport) had to relinquish the top slot tonight, in spite of two bullets today. Meanwhile, Anna Burnet & Flora Stewart (GBR – Scotland’s RNCYC & Solway YC) are just a point ahead of Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA - EV Locqirec).
Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (ITA - CN Senigallia) have a 9-point lead in the Open Fleet. Tim Gratton & Ed Riley (GBR - Hayling Island / Warsash SCs) are 4 points ahead of Friday’s leaders, Malte Winlel & Lucas Tielemann (GER - Schweriner YC)
Click on title for top ten in each fleet.
Thanks to Fabio Taccola, we continue to have pictorial evidence of the racing at Imperia.
Presumably, the results will shortly appear on the Event Results page, but, in themeantime, we have received the following:
Open Fleet Results after R5
Women’s Fleet results after R5
Hopefully, on Sunday – the final day of the 420 competition – we will be able to progress more consistently on the Live Race blog. We have received the attached data, but not in a readily usable format. Apologies for the way they look, but maybe better than nothing! We have received the attached (above) results from IWR. Unfortunately, the Open Results are unformatted. We are working on it!
Of course, keep watching the Event Website Results page, but we have not found them posted yet (21.00 GMT). Burnet & Stewart (GBR) and Winlel & Tielemann (GER) both take early lead at Imperia Malte Winlel & Lucas Tielemann (GER - Schweriner YC) have a 7 point lead after the first two races at Imperia. Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw Hugh (GBR - Draycote Water / Hollowell SCs) are 2nd on 10 points, Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (ITA – CN Senigallia) 3rd on 12 pts and Joao Villas-Boas & Tomas Carmelo (POR - AN Lisboa) 4th on 14 pts, while Jeanne Courtois & Baptiste Szekely (FRA - USAM Voile) are 5th on 19 pts.
Anna Burnet & Fiona Stewart (GBR – RNCYC / Solway YC) lead the women on 2 points – two bullets! Amy Seabright & Hermione Stanley (GBR – Oxford SC) are 2nd on 9 pts, Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA - EV Locqirec) 3rd on 10 pts, Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero (ITA - CN Savoia) 4th on 11 pts and Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL - Royal St George YC) 5th on 14 pts.
Provisional Women’s Results after R2 and Provisional Open Results after R2 Imperia Results? Message from Laura Jelmini at 17.26: "Ciao. I've just checked with the people in charge, they are still working on arriving list: I hope the will finish soon!!!!"
NB for future reference, also see: Imperia Live Race data and Facebook Click above for our scan of recent results Boats from Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France. UK, Ireland, Poland and Switzerland (big team!) are joining the Italian sailors for the 20th edition of the Imperia Winter Regatta from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December.
Follow the news and results on the Event Website. See Laura Jelmini’s – ‘architetto, comunicazione & imagine’ – pre-event Press Release attached. The Official Photographer is Fabio Taccola, who will also produce the 2009 IWR Calendar. In the meantime, we have illustrated Laura's press release with some photos from the 2008 edition, and, for now, provided some as Rolling Photos on this page. Nicolás Bühler, Argentina’s President (of the 420 Class!), and Pablo Volker, 2009 South American 420 Champion helm (and yachting journalist extraordinaire), have won Argentina’s National Championships 2009 at the Club de Valeros Barlovento in Buenos Aires, with 9 bullets in the series and 12 points after discards in the 12 race series. Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrman forged 2nd place on the podium, with 16 points in hand. Tomas & Felicitas Roldan, discarding two OCS from the first week, taking a 2nd in Race 8 and ending with a bullet, pulled up two places from the previous week to take the 3rd step on the podium. Manuel Nogueria & Martin Chammah were the first Juniors, in 5th overall, and Maria Piacenza & Pilar Sanchez were the leading women in 7th.
STOP PRESS: News in from our man on the water (in front of the boat and the fleet….until the last race anyway!), Pablo Volker: “The Campeonato Argentino ended this weekend with 4 races on Saturday and one left for today.Yesterday the whole fleet ended exhausted after 4 races with heavy winds from the South East (around 25 knots). Lots of capsizes and even a broken mast (ARG 52202). At night we all had a really good barbeque at the club, where Martin Chammah, ARG 52856 crew and rockstar, played some music with his band. Today we had the final race with almost no wind and big shifts. The Roldan brothers knew how to win the race from the beginning until the end!” For further information, see Club de Veleros Barlovento The XXI Gran Premi Principat d'Andorra GrandValira was held at Club Nàutic El Masnou in Cataluna last weekend in very challenging conditions. But the top three were quite clear with Alex Brugaroles & Joan Pibernat of CV Blanes the winners by 3 points from Jordi Xammer Hernandez & Joan Herp Morell (CN El Masnou in 2nd and Fernando & Alvairo Urzaiz of CN Salou 3rd, both on 9 points. Montse Milinas & Christina Ibern of CN El Balis were the leading women’s team (in 7th overall).
There was especial celebration in Andorra as their Olympic 470 sailors from the Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996) Games, Oscar and David Ramon-Borra, jumped back in the 420 – after eleven years not sailing together – to take 6th overall! Is this a trend? With double-Olympic silver medallist, Nick Rogers, getting back into 420 sailing too, are we having a veterans’ challenge in the Class? Remember, the 2002 World Champion helm was over 40! Watch your stern, guys!
Click here for the Event Report, for Final Results and for Toni Gimeno’s Photos on Flickr. Nicolás Bühler has teamed up with South American 420 Champion helm, Pablo Volker, up front . With five bullets in the seven races of the first weekend of the Argentinean National Championship 2009 at Club de Valeros Barlovento, on the North side of Buenos Aires city, they have just three points in hand over Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrman, running 2nd. The next group are led by Lorencia Lazzari & Alejandro Giralt on 27 points, just one ahead of the leading Junior team, Federico Donzino & Joaquin Varisco. The leading all-women’s team is Paula Meloni & Ana Ortiz, but only 3 points ahead of Camila Delia & Carolina Vadell. Our man on the wire, Pablo Violker, writes: “We had 3 complicated races on Saturday, with a South-West wind with an intensity between 10 and 15 knots, and on Sunday we had another 4 races with A North wind between 8 and 13 knots, more or less”
Click above for results after 7 races. Further and most up-to-date information available from Club de Veleros Barlovento The 420 winners of the 40th Grand Prix de l’Armistice at the CV Bordeaux Carcans-Maubuisson are Sebastien Simon & Aymeric Paruit. Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin were 2nd and Cassandre Blandin & Marion Lepunier, the leading women, were 3rd. Visotors from Spain, Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp, were 8th overall in a field of 86. The first of the Uniqua France (French 420 Class Association) selection events for their Worlds and Junior European Teams for 2010, we will be watching these sailors with particular interest!
Alain Jacob of CV Bordeaux writes: “During the event, the weather was very sunny and the wind very light. We were able to race on both Saturday and Sunday, a total of 5 races. The wind was up on Sunday from force 2 to 4; all the racers were happy with 4 races. ‘SPORT AQU’ of French TVs France 3 Aquitaine came to see the event and interviewed a 420 team”
1 Sebastien Simon & Aymeric Paruit (SNO Nantes) 9 points
2 Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (SR Rochelaises)11 pts
3 Cassandre Blandin & Marion Lepunier (SNO Nantes / NDCV Angers) 12 pts
4 Martin Bertrand & Xavier Lara (YC Maugio-Carnon / CV Pyla S/M))14 pts
5 Louis Porez & Cedric Mary (YC Antibes / CV St Quentin) 15 pts
6 Hugo Feydit & Pierre Rhimbault (CN La Tremblade / CV Niortais) 18 pts
7 Guillaume Pirouelle & Valentin Sipan (SN P H) 18 pts
8 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP – CN Masnou) 20 pts
9 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (SN Enghien) 21 pts
10 Martin Aumont & Jean-baptiste Le Goubet (EV Cherbourg) 21 pts Marlena Fauer & Christina Lewis have won the U.S. I 420 Atlantic Coast Championship at Annapolis Yacht Club by just two points from Ian Liberty & Alex Whipple.
But the close sailing for the top two places on the podium, were mirrored by some close sailing lower down the leaderboard. With a bullet in the last race, Olivia Crane & Ali Blumenthal, while finishing on equal points to Sarah Williams & Tierney Driscoll, made the bronze step on countback. We hear that four races were sailed each day, with conditions of 8-14 knots both days, Our Waterside Correspondent at Annapolis says: "Marlena and Christina sailed a fantastic regatta and braved the rain" [evidently a man who 'cuts out the cackle' and gets straight to the critical points! (ed)]. The Italian Women’s National Championship (Campionato Femminile 420) concluded on Sunday with a final, seventh race. This second year of the Championship sees Camilla Marino and Claudia Soricelli win a second time - last year at Crotone in the Ionian Sea, and now on their home waters of Napoli. Silver Medallists at the Ladies’ World Championships this year and Ladies’ Champions at the 2008 Junior Europeans, this is a team we will remember and wish them well in their sailing careers.
Meanwhile, Roberta Caputo, sailing here with Chiara Amato of RYC Canottieri Savoia took second place and Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna third.
1 Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli (CRV Italia) 9 points
2 Roberta Caputo & Chiara Amato (RYC Canottieri Savoia) 31 pts
3 Barbara Rinauro & Anna Gracia Malventi (CN Posillipo) 32 pts
4 Giulia Lantier & Martha Faraguna (SV Barcola Grignano) 35 pts
5 Elena Berta & Giulia Tisselli (RCC Tevere Remo) 36 pts
6 Lidia Mazzanati & Giulia Palestrini (SN Senigallia) 37 pts
7 Beatrice Frezza & Serena Manfredi (SN Senigallia) 39 pts
8 Cristina Celli & Silvia Morini (CV Ravennate) 40 pts
9 Sara Amendola & Giulia Paolillo (LNI Bari) 49 pts
10 Verena Weber & Marina Montresor (FV Malcesine) 54 pts Reigning Italian Women’s Champions and former Junior Euro Women’s Champions, Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli look as though they are seeing off the opposition at their home club, CVRV Italia in Napoli in the Italian Women’s National Championships. With a 14 point lead after six races, things a looking good!!
Meanwhile, Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barberio of Savoia, second women and 7th overall at the Italian Nationals at Gravedona in August, are running 2nd on 21 points. Lidia Mazzanti & Giulia Palestrini of Senigallia and Barbara Rinauro & Anna Gracia Malventi of Posillipo are 3rd and 4th on equal 23 points. The current (overall) National Champions, Celli Cristina, 13-Mar-1992, Morini Silvia of Ravenna have some work to do, currently lying in 8th. We hear that they were out on the water around 09.00 am on Sunday waiting for wind. More when we can; thanks to Alessandro! We have had some news – mainly the running results so far from the Atlantic Coast Championship of the US I-420 Class at Annapolis YC. Our correspondent on the waterside writes: “today was a rainy day, Very similar to Plymouth!” [O.K. yje US Sailors that flew into the UK for the GBR National Championships in August did get a tad wet! – but they sailed great, didn’t they coach!).
The results after four races are attached (click above) and Marlena Fauer and Ian Liberty’s boats have a pretty massive lead in 1st and 2nd, but their crews remain a temporary mystery. Hopefully we will learn more later – hopefully with the final outcome after Sunday’s racing. Hong Kong International Open Dinghy Regatta 2009 was held at Little Palm Beach, Hang Hau from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 October. Fresh from the Bronze Podium at the Junior European Championships in Hungary, Wing-ho Kwan & Wing-chun Lam of the Hong Kong Sea School were the leading 420 and 2nd overall in the 55-boat Open Fleet.. Ming-hin Leung & Bernard Ian Kay, who were just a place behind at Balaton were 2nd 420 (overall 8th) and Cudennec Yann & Sakai Akira 2nd 420 (overall 8th). A good 420 turnout in Hong Kong, which is very encouraging. Last year’s leading 420 team, Emerson Villena & Lester Troy Tyong of the Philippine Sailing Association were back this year, but won the event in their 470! See Full Results Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) won the Campeonato Sudamericano 420 / Semana de Buenos Aires 2009 decisively on Sunday, following five days of racing Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante of Chile, last year’s Semana winners and 5th in the South Americans, had a great regatta after a slow start on day 1, to take the Silver place on the podium. Fellow countrymen, Jose & Agustin Jimenez Cox took the Bronze. Florencia Prego & Andrea Martinez of Uruguay are the Women’s Champions.
As and when we hear more detail, we will pass it on. Meanwhile, especial good wishes to those sailors with some very long journeys home. From the rest of us, see you in Buenos Aures at the 2011 Worlds!
1 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez (ARG) 11 points
2 Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI) 30 pts
3 Jose & Agustin Jimenez Cox (CHI) 47 pts
4 Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann (ARG) 48 pts
5 Tomas & Felicitas Roldan (ARG) 61 pts
6 Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Tomas Ocampo (ARG) 71 pts
7 Raul Rios de Choudans & Gabriel Ramos Gonzalez (PUR) 80 pts
8 Federico Donzino & Joaquin Varisco (ARG) 91 pts
9 Florencia Lazzari & Alejandro Giralt (ARG) 100 pts
10 Manuel Nogueira & Martin Chammah (ARG) 112 pts
11 Gonzalo Bisi & Tomas Volker (ARG) 117 pts
12 Felipe Caldeira & Alan Dale (BRA)122 pts
13 Finck Manfredo & Carlotto Gonzalo (URU)125 pts
14 Florencia Prego & Andrea Martinez (URU) 125 pts
15 Andres & Ignacio Ducasse Sorucco (CHI) 126 pts Our very special correspondent in Buenos Aires says he is sorry to be a little slow in sending us news of the sailing on the penultimate day of the South American Championships. We will forgive him – it was party night on Saturday and he, that’s Pablo Volker, and Agustin were celebrating! They are the new South American Champions, with a race in hand!
So Pablo Volker writes (on Sunday morning):”We had a really good day yesterday with a 1, 1, 2. Today only one race left Yesterday we started with a light wind coming from the north at the beginning, with a really choppy river. By the second race it wasn't so choppy, but the wind decreased a lot with some current that meant that only 7 boats could finish the race. Then, after waiting some time for starting the 3rd race, the wind went to the south-east and increased to some nice 7-10 knots. We had a really nice race by the end of the day”.
The 2008 Semana de Buenos Aires winners, Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI) scored a bullet in the 3rd race of the day and have an 11-point lead over their fello countrymen, Jose & Agustin Jimenez Cox. Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann are in 4th (54 pints) and Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Tomas Ocampo 5th (63). Florencia Prego & Andrea Martinez of Uruguay are the leading women’s team.
We await the final race and final results. See YC Argentino for further information, photographs and Latest Results, plus the website of Matias Capizzano for his latest images. Julian & Philipp Autenrieth are the new German National Champions with a 23-point margin. Frederike Loewe & Anna Rattemeyer took 2nd and are the new Women’s Champions. Till Krüger & Oliver Wichert were 3rd. The Championships were held at the Deutscher Touring YC over the weekend of 10 – 13 October, see Final Results.
1 Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (44 points)
2 Frederike Loewe & Anna Rattemeyer (67)
3 Till Krüger & Oliver Wichert (72)
4 Jan Schliemann & Aaron Scherr (81)
5 Malte Winkel & Lucas Thielemann (90)
6 Gordon Nickel & Daniel-Philip Hoffmann (91)
7 Simon Meister & David Hussl (AUT) (91)
8 Max Weiss & Anna Seidl (92)
9 Benjamin Bildstein & Lukas Hussmann (AUT) (95)
10 Jens Marten & Mats Kampen (97) As usual at South American events, Matias Capizzano is recording the South American Championships – see www.capizzano.com and YC Argentino, where there is also daily video footage of the Semana de Buenos Aires. We thank Matias for access to his 420 images, some of which are being posted in our Photo Gallery. We stand corrected! It was Columbus Day.in the Americas on Monday apparently, so they went on racing in Buenos Aires!
Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez continued their run of bullets! Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante continued theirrise up the leader-board and stand in 2nd overall. And Chile seems to be growing from strength to strength as Jimenez Cox Jose & Jimenez Cox Agustin had a great third day and moved into 3rd. Our (very special) correspondent on the water, Pablo, says “yesterday we had three races more with the first one really shifty and gusty, with wind coming from the west. After that race the wind went up to the north with an intensity of 8-10 knots. We raced the other 2 races with these conditions”. With the South American Championship half through (continues next weekend), Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez have been consolidating their (6 point) lead after a discard kicked in, Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann are up to 2nd, but Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante of Chile, after a slower start on day 1, are now up to 3rd. just a point behind. Chile’s growing 420 Class has three boats in the top ten, and the new fleets from Puerto Rico and Uruguay are also represented in the top fifteen.
We are receiving photographic evidence, thanks to the ever present South American sailing photographer, Matias Capizzano. See Latest Results and YC Argentino, where there is Matias' full gallery.
Top fifteen:
1 Pablo Volker & Agustin Cunill Martinez ARG (4 points)
2 Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann ARG (10)
3 Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante CHI (11)
4 Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Tomas Ocampo ARG (17)
5 Jose Jimenez Cox & Agustin Jimenez Cox CHI (23)
6 Gonzalo Bisi & Tomas Volker ARG (31)
7 Florencia Lazzari & Alejandro Giralt ARG (32)
8 Andres & Ignacio Ducasse Sorucco CHI (34)
9 Felipe Caldeira & Alan Dale BRA (37)
10 Tomas Roldan & Felicitas Roldan ARG (38)
11 Florencia Prego & Andrea Martinez URU (38)
12 Raul Rios de Choudans & Gabriel Ramos Gonzalez PUR (41)
13 Federico Donzino & Joaquin Varisco ARG (44)
14 Manuel Nogueira & Martin Chammah ARG (46)
15 Manfredo Finck & Gonzalo Carlotto URU (50) The GBRs Class Coach, Neil Marsden and ISAF Youth World Champion crew, Ben Gratton have just won the GBR Inland Championships. Neil Marsden, who is the Head Coach of the GBR 420 Class. is a former Enterprise and GP14 World Champion and GBR 470 National Champion, owns up to over 40 years dinghy sailing at a performance level – and he has been ranked in the top three 470 sailors in the UK for the last five years. Winner of the Worlds Ladies’ Silver Fleet at Riva, Amy Seabright was 2nd with Hermione Stanley, 6th in the Gold Ladies’ at the Worlds this year. An interesting guest appearance as crew for his wife, Fanny, finishing in 10th in a field of 44, was former 420 sailor and double Gold Olympic Medallist, Nick Rogers. 420 Sailing for Life!
See Results and GBR Class Website The Campeonato Sudamericano 420 forms part of the multi-class Semana de Buenos Aires at YC Argentino over two weekends. Pablo Volker & Agustion Cunill Martinez (ARG) have taken an early lead with bullets in the first two races. Close behind on 5 points apiece are fellow-countrymen,
Juan Garcia Rodriguez & Tomas Ocampo and Mariana Lombardo & Joaquin Fehrmann.
Of the 28 entries, Chile has six boats entered, with teams from the new 420 Classes in Uruguay, Ecuador and Puerto Rico, as well as Brazil. Raul Rios (PUR), 2008 Optimist World Champion is leading the challenge from outside Argentina, but with Florencia Prego & Andrea Martinez, the leading women’s team, just one point behind. Sebastiano Baranzini & Matteo Colombo, having held the lead over the first two days of racing, are the new National Champions. With a further two days of waiting for wind, the regatta concluded on Tuesday afternoon. Lorenzo Benardi & Matteo Capurro finished a very close 2nd and Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenthaler took thrd on countback from Veronica Maria Maccari & Valentina Balbi.
See Final Results, Swiss 420 Classand. CV Lago di Lugano Winter event at the Worlds venue Details of the Haifa Winter Regatta have now been posted on the event page. This is your chance to have an early practice at the Worlds 2010 venue. The US I-420 Class Association has just launched its new website. We welcome it to the 420 'internet-family' and look forward to keeping up with TeamUS' sailors and events. In the meantime, we have news of their forthcoming Atlantic Coast Championship at Annapolis YC at the end of October on our Event Calendar. We now have massive new Photo Galleries, with 2,770 images from everyday at the World Championships in Riva del Garda and 930 images from Junior European Championships on Lake Balaton in Hungary. For a second year, we had Seán Ó Laoire on the water everyday that there was sailing at both Championships. We are grateful for his commitment and his productivity! Giorgio Davanzo also took some great photos at Riva, when his juridical and IT duties allowed (we hope we shall have him on the Jury again soon!!).
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Please also note that over 2,700 images posted from the 2008 Worlds (Athens) and Junior Euros (Zadar) are also available, but, because of the high volumes, we will not be able to retain these on the website beyond this year. The image files from the 2007 Euros (Istanbul) and Junior Euros (Medemblik) have been archived.
[There has been quite a delay in posting these photos. Unfortunately, unbeknown to our Webmaster and our Service Provider, new software updates were automatically loaded on the server in early August that revented posting of image files. The cause took a considerable time to diagnose and then put right] Another day of waiting(- and it is getting really hot today, so tents of boat covers and useful keelboat hulls have been brought into use (the USA had an elaborate wigwam!). The top ten 470s have been called to the water in the hope of getting a Medal Race, and the 420s finally got the signal at 15.00 that the Championship is finished.
Much frenetic activity now in the Boat Park, of course, but at 18.00 the Prize Giving and Closing Cerremony, at the next door Hotel Uni.
We might have more later, but, meanwhile, thank you for your patience, and we hope you will keep watching www.420sailing.org in the future.
In a few days time, when it is possible to make time on an internet connection with good bandwidth, we will put up Photo Galleries for the Worlds and for the Junior Europeans. Saturday After a series of notices from the Race Committee through the day regarding posponements, racing was eventually abandoned for the day. Jim Saltonstall had a very well attended third meeting with the sailors. We hope that wind may come tomorrow. The Chief Measurer, August Atz, has published the definitive statistics (attached) for the Junior European Championships The attached Provisional Results are pre-protest. They reflect the reported outcome of Race F2 for the Silver and Bronze Fleets, but bthe Gold Flkeet Race F2 was abandoned.
Jim Saltonstall again gave a de-brief to a packed house - some 150 sailors, as well as many coaches and some officials and supporters.....again big applause to conclude!
Just now the pasta party is in full swing, a brief moment of hush before the babble starts again! Friday at Balaton Waiting for wind since 10.00. But now, at 14.30, the boats launched. We wait for further news! Thursday at Balaton: Finals underway (well, some anyway!) The fleets went afloat as planned this morning, but much lighter winds than experienced in the last couple of days were predicted. News in so far indicates that the Gold Fleet got underway, but the race was then abandoned. However, the Silver and Bronze Fleets have completed their first race of the day and of the Finals - this is Race 7.
15.00 A Gold Race has now been completed, we understand. The earlier published results have temporsarily been withdrawn, due to an error in the Gold Fleet listings they contained, but we hope to bring an up-dated version soon.
A storm is coming in. The forecast is for more and more stable wind tomorrow.
Jim Saltonstall has been with us all day and his de-brief will be at around 17.00. He tells us that he has 45 mins of very useful footage foir the guys to get their teeth into. NB – as always the “government health warning”! – treat the attached (click above) Provisional Results after the 6 races of the Qualifying Series with care! We will publish more later, maybe when some of the Protests are over (there is a backlog from yesterday and quite a queue building outside the Editor's window!).
Meanwhile the Qualifying Series has completed with a full set of races. Our Class Course Representative, Soulis, has declared himself satisfied that the Race Committee have managed some good and testing races (the sailors seem to concur with the ‘testing’ bit).
Provisional Leaders:
1 Andreas Baktsias & Alexandros Baktsias (GRE) 8.0
2 Gabriel Skoczek & Thibault Soler (FRA) 9.0
3 Antonius Tsimpokelis & George Karonis (GRE) 22.0
4 Yoav Levi & Dan Froyliche (ISR) 23.0
5 Dominik Grams & Gergely Petraha (HUN) 24.0
6 Sacha Pelisson & Nicolas Rossi (FRA) 25.0
7 Julian Stueckl & Adrian Hoesch (GER) 34.0
Leading Women:
1 Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR) 44.0
2 Amy Seabright & Katrina Brewer (GBR) 54.0
3 Christina Celli & Silvia Morini (ITA) 59.0
4 Ewa Bartosiewicz & Katarzyna Ostrowska (POL) 59.0 Thanks to the ladies on the Finish boat and Péter Süle, here on shore, we have some results (click above). These are very, very provisional, because the Finish boat does not have any information on OCS or BFDs We must wait for more later.
Meanwhile, France will have a small celebration after the discard kicked in and Gabriel Skoczek & Thibault Soler have continued their run of bullets to take the overall lead, with overnight leaders, Alexandros-Triantafylos & Andreas Antonius Mpakatsias (GRE) close behind.
The story here seems to be that the wind is dropping, but, while the 470s have only managed to complete one flight's race, the 420s, which are better placed on the Lake for the wind that there is, are going for their second race. A windy start today, for what should have been the Lay Day. Sailors were up and ready for launch with strong early winds promised and, for 420s, two Qualifier races to complete the series today (the 470s have, as scheduled, one remaining race of theirs today). The allocation to flights is attached above for information (though we are not sure how this will help you without information from the course during the racing). We understand that the strong winds will drop to zero in the afternoon, so the 420s will want to 'make way while the wind blows'.
Update on results:
420 Provisional Results after 4 Qualifier Races - post majority of Jury Hearings (one postponed to today): Preliminary Results (after most hearings) – 420 Day 2
470 Provisional Results (post Jury Hearings, but two postponed to today): Provisional Results (two hearings postponed) – 470 Day 2 We have again had to wait some two \hours after racing was finished to obtain the attached Provisional Results that are, of course, pre-protest, but we have also been advised that there remain some checks to be made with the Race Committee.
Today has certainly been interesting sailing, with strong but shifty wind conditions that have challenged all the sailors. A storm came up toward the end of the last 470 race, when the last flight of the 420s was already coming off the water, and additional support from 420 coach boats and special lifeguard boats that patrol the Lake stood by to ensure the safe return of the 470 fleet.
Preliminary Results – 420 Day 2
Provisional (pre-Protest) Results – 470 Day 2 We have started to post some images from our own photographer, Seán Ó Laoire in the Photo Gallery. Day 1 are there. More will follow. See Day 1 Photos
We think that your main source of quickest news is here. However, you may like to take a look at the Hungarian Sailing Association website. They are taking news from us and the 470 Class website, but may have additional informatikon, especially photographs from their own sources. Tuesday Racing at Balaton Yes, some rain came and then wind! We think that a first race (R2 abandoned from yesterday) has finished and second started. We also hear mention of Oscar, capsizes and even Victor (this allows coaches inside the exclusion area to assist boats if requested). Balaton is not deep - so the safety of the mast is a consideration, as well as the crew! We think it will be sometime before we have any hard data or facts for you - this is just to whet the appetite - when we have, of course we will pass it on. The forecast storm in the night did come in tghe form of some thunder and lightning, but not a generator of wind apparently. The AP flag was flying at 08.30 and the kindly PRO has notified the sailors that the Race Committee do not propose a further signal before 11.00 (so over an hour yet to run).
We have some revised results after Protest hearings last night - click above. We have had to wait too! The story is (roughly) that there was one completed 420 race - 9 - 10 knots, "short hiking". A second race was recalled. The second attempt proceeded with black flag and several BFDs, but the race was later abandoned, the wind having dropped. Meanwhile, the 470s managed two races - in the first, they even had Oscar flying for part.
Preliminary Results – 420 Day 1 are attached. These are subject to protest hearings, but also are being verified by bthe Race Committee, so, please treat with especial caution at this early stage of this event.
We will also be publishing the 470 results here - we are uncertain where else these are being posted, but also we are interested in ex-420 sailors' progress, including those who sailed at Riva! 470 Results – Prelim after R1. NB These are subject to change! Junior Europeans: News from Balaton We are in Balaton (in the Editor's case after a bit of a rush with boats to move from Riva to the UK before a late flight to Budapest). Measurement completed yesterday, preparations were frenetic, practice races were held (in flights - ithe "blue" fleet had red pennants, which added to the interest) and the Opening Ceremony was held as part of a cultural event - Balaton is very busy with holiday-makers, as well as sailors from 31 nations.
Now (midday), a calm has fallen on the boatpark (bathed in sunshine) as all the 420s and 470s have launched and gone to their race areas. The wind forecast for today is 5 - 6 knots ("maybe up to 8"). Yesterday, for the Practice Race, they had 6 - 7 knots, and Soulis Papantoniou, the 420 Class Course Representative, was pleasantly surprised that variations in direction were only within 10* either way. Stormy weather is forecast this evening and in the night. This could produce stronger winds over the next two days, then dropping back to light, before a further increase to stronger winds over the weekend. We await further forecasts with keen interest. Anyway, racing has started.
We are not able to bring you up-to-the moment reporing on starts & and finishes here - as we did for the Worlds (this is something of a relieif as reports and photos took second place in Riva and may mean you can get some work done back home!), but we do expect fairly prompt result-posting on this website - these will be not only "provisional", but "draft"! - because they will be radio-reported and unchecked with the Race Committee until their return to shore - you have been warned! (of course, the usual Provisional Results before Protest hearings will be posted for the sailors here, and we will endeavour to up-date the version on the Class website as soon as we can).
If you have queries or comments - Send Email. We will try and monitor, but outgoing e-mail is a challenge! (Skype is good, Hervé) The Chief Measurer has issued the attached schedule of equipment used at the World Championships. Definitive Equipment Statitics.
We know you want photos. There are hundreds by three great photographers. But they will take hours to load, and we are travelling for four days across Europe and back, eventually to Balatonfured in Hungary, for the Junior Europeans. Please be patient we will have full galleries, but they take a long time to process and load, and we need serious bandwidth when we do!
Probably not much more now - we run to the Prize Giving. Ciao! Wednesday: second races for Gold Fleets Ladies' Gold - Race 6 - clear start (09.18), 16 knots.
Ladies R7 FRoundings (Outer Mk4): 53277, BRA51822, ITA53884, IRL52576, 53591.
Ladies R7 Finishers: ITA53884, USA53627, BRA51822, NZL52576, AUS52969.
Gpld Worlds R8 Start: BFD: GER53735, GBR53872, GBR53116m, POR52910, IRL53110, CRO53127, FRA52535, ESP53231
Gold Worlds R8 Finishers: GBR52759, USA51518, FRA535?2, FRA53174, GRE53161
10.21 Ladies R7 start with black flag, but no BFD
Roundings: BRA51822, USA53627, AUS52969, SWE52128, ITA53298.
Finishers: AUS52969, BRA51822, USA53627, ITA53298, SWE52128
Worlds R9 start: BFD: ITA53585, ESP53847, ITA53636
Mark Roundings: 53655, 53838, 52550
Finishers: ITA53838, USA53655, GBR52759, GBR53116, NZL52550 Wednesday: the last day of the Worlds A beautiful Riva morning! THe Gold Fleets are on the water. The Ladies Gold had a clean start to their first race at approx. 08.10 with Oscar and 16 knots. The Gold Worlds will follow, the Ladies having priority as they have less Final races "in the bag".
The plan is to get in as many of the three possible races as they can, with the help of the northerly Perler on the north east "Alpha" course. The Silver Fleets are sheduled for warning signals at midday
08.30 The Gold Worlds ('Open') Fleet start after one general recall and the Black Flag flying. BFD: ESP53231, FRA53631, USA53177, ESP53126.
Ldies R5 Mark Roundings: Outer Lopp Mark 3: NZL52 76, GER51731, GER53121, ITA53248, USA53627
Ladies R5 Finishers; NZL52 76, GER51731, GER53121, ITA53248, GBR53591
Worlds R7 Mark Roundings: FRA53632, NZL5250, GBR53116, GRE53161, CRO53227
Gold R7 Finishers: GRE53161, GBR53116, GER53735, NZL52550, CRO53227. Tuesday: Ladies' Finals Race 4 Gold Star (R4): Two BFD: GBR53591,ITA53647. 19 knots.
Silver Start: Three OCS< NED51662, POL53694, FRA53691 No Oscar (corrected to OCS by Race Officer)
Gold Mrk Roundings: 53647, USA53714, POR53472, ITA534705, FRA53697.
Silver: GBR51883, GBR52279, ITA53260, POR51990, USA53337
Gold Finishers: 53647, POR53472, 53745, USA53714, FRA53697
Silver Finishers: GBR53379, USA53337, POR51990, GBR51883, FRA53697
Ap over 0 - no more a cing today...bfn (bye for now! ciao) Tuesday: Ladies Worlds: Finals Race 3 It started - Gold Fleet -(about 15,45), 10 kn (black flag flying; regular start); Silver fleet start about 16.55 - Clear, no OCSm 9 knots
Gold 1st rounnding (outer loop mark 3): ITA58882, ITA53024, POR53472, ITA53711, ESP53599.
Silver inner loop Mark4: GBR51883, POL53604,JPN52258, USA53438, THA534048
Gold Race 3: ITA53662m POR53472m ITA53024, ITA53711, ? 53151.
Silber R3 Finishers: GBR51883, POL53604,JPN52258, ITA53260 (only 4 available, RO busy with 4th start), Tuesday: Worlds Finals Race 6 Gold flet, clean start. 1st Inner gate: 53869, 5?210, 5?583, 52610, 53543
Silver has started (no details)
Gold 2nd roundings: 53869, 53583, 53543, 53737, 54535 (8 knots reported).
Silver coming to 1st on inner loop (12.58)
Gold finishers: 53583, 53869, 53543, 53737, 52535
Silver Fkeet: shortened course for last race....
Silver finishers: 53484, 53645, 50554, 5?484, 53087
The Ladies are out on the course area and ready! ....but will they get action? Tuesday: Worlds Race 5 Start of R5: no details reported; Mark roundings: 53161, 52550, 53460, 53632 (only 4 available this time)
Gold 2nd rounding (!): 53460, 53161, 53632, 52550, 53585.
Gold finishers: GRE53460, GRE53161, 52550, 53632, 53585.
Silver 1st roundings: 53645, 53879, 52226, 50554, 53868:
Silver finiahers: 53645, 52226, 50554, 53879, 52363
AP up for the Ladies' - waiting on shore
Going for a 3rd start with the Worlds fleet, but no Oscar!. Regular start Tuesday: Worlds ("Open") Racing On Alpha Course, to catch the best of the morning wind from the North, racing is underway, Gold: Start 010* No Oscar, 12 kn, Oscar at 1st mark. Silver: Regular start, Oscar flying, 14 kn
Gold first gate roundings: 53583, 52550, 52630, 53460, 52535
Silver: inner gate: 53491, 52632, 53184, 53848, 53539
At 09.10: 14/15 knots at inner gate; 17 knots on outer
NB It has been noticed that the Ladies Gold Fleet running Finals Results that have been posted on the FVR website were pre-Protests - Ladies’ after 2 Final Races. The amended results now posted take into accoiunt two DSQs that have a sugnifucant impact on the current leaderboard,
Gold finishers: 52550, 53583, 52630, 52759 (finish boat busy, so to be confirmed!!)....."a lot came together" - 5th finisher: 53161, All Gold nopw finished 09.24.
Silver finishers: 52363, 53172, 54636, 53491, 53733 , but some "protests" over 3rd and 4th.
Gold Fleet preparing for second race of day. Tuesday: the sun is shining 07.45: The Worlds ("Open") Fleet are out on the race area and preparing for the first warning at 8.30. THe sun is beginning its work, but there are many wispy clouds up high, so the start of the Ora may be slower in the middle of the day. WE shall see! Meanwhile, the boys (and some gorls!) will be glad to be out on the water after a frustrating day on shore, while the restaurant may need to bank yesterday's takings as there may be less trade today! Plan for Tuesday SI amendment: Worlds ("Open"): 08.30 first warning signal; Ladies' at 12.00. Monday: More News Apparently some of you heard that the Ladies came back....many did....This was because the water Carabinieri (police) told them to, because a storm was predicted. We got some 'rain wind' and the clouds looked stormy. But the Ladies are again out on the course area, and the Race Officer has told us that he will try to start a race shortly, although the wind is slight at 6/7 knots at present.
16.00 Much activity on shore,,,,rain and storm - wind came - mainsails down, boats coveredOppie Sailors screaming.
16.22 AP/A. Ladies returning to shore. No racing today. Maybe we will hear that there will be early racing planned for tomorrow. Fast pasta preparation for hungry Ladies (boys have had quite enough!) Monday: First news from Garda Bonjour, Hervé. Maybe you are the only one waiting for news, but thank you for reminding me!
The situation here at Riva is, once again like the last Qualifier, cloudy this morning. So the sun has not been doing its work. The current plan is that the Ladies will sail two races. They launched at about 11.50 and now, at 12.30, the Race Officer has hoisted AP. So there is some waiting on the water.Meanwhile, the Worlds teams are chilling (and using much bandwidth on the WiFi!). We will tell you more when we have it. Meanwhile, have a good day in Perros.
At around 13.10, we dared to ask the Race Officer by radio how it is. A short answer "0.0 kn"! Sunday FINALS Racing News Somewhat delayed due to internet access overload (big time!!), but we hope we are back.
Ladies: Gold Start 13.25 Oscar 14 kn: OCS ITA53711, SWE52128, POR53472, GER51731
Silver 13.35 No OCS 14 kn.
Mark 3 Rounding - Gold: AUS52969, GER53127, USA53627, GER53121, ITA53884.
Silver: GBR5188, GRE53167m GBR53644, POL53604, USA53337
Ladies Gold Finish: 53127, 51822, 52969, 53160, 53884
Ladies': Silver: Romeo at Mark 2.
Ladies' Silver Finish: 51883, 53604, 53644m 53260, 53167
Ladies Gold Race 2 started no Oscar + No OCS
Ladies Silver Race 2: Start, no Oscar, no OCS
PS we hear that there were five protests from Gold Ladies Race 1 - "batton down the hatches!"
Ladies Gold Mark 3 Roundings: 53559, GER53127, ITA53647, GER53476, NZL52576
Silver Mark 4: POL53605, GBR53379, ESP53138, USA51213, ITA52888 Oscar Flag at Mark 4
You nwill see that we are having radion communication problems with Bravo (Worlds) Course, so you may need to watch the overall reults when published by FVR. sorry!
Ladies Gold Finals R2 Fnishers: GER53127, ESP53599, ESP53111, GER53476, ITA53647
Ladies Silver R2 Finishers: POL53605, GBR53379, GBR51883, ITA52888, ESP53138
Ladies on shore (15.30). Worlds do three races. More if7when we can, but overall results are buildling - see FVR as uual. NB note above re. Q results is R1 etc, Ladies’ Results; AP/1 for the Finals Everyone sitting about under the trees….waiting for the wind, so AP/1 for now.
And the Ladies’ overall results for the Qualifiers are posted, see
FVR Results Race 5 Ladies Blue/Red started, with OCS: 52888; possibly a 2nd boat - awaiting confirmation.
Yellow/Blue started with OCS: GBR51883 & BRA 51822.
Blue/Red mark rounding: IRL53160, ESP53722, GBR53592
Blue/Green: ITA53884, GBR51883, ESP53422, GBR52229, USA53337.
Finishers: Blue/Red: IRL53160, ESP53111, GBR53592, FRA53878, GER52722
Yellow/Green: ita53884, gbr51883, gbr52229, 52576, 53422
Racing finished for today.....and tomorrow is a lay day! (for some!) Friday News 2 ....Race 4 underway for Worlds Fleet Most boats launched by 12.20. We may miss the start....but will be with you asap.
Cofrrection! The Worlds fleet launched. The Ladies are having an extended siesta, but, regrettably, without much sub. It is humid!
Two races started for Worlds Fleet. 13.14 Green/Red started 010* and 14knots, with Oscar, but Romeo at 1st Mark. 2nd group: Yellow/Blue started at 13.25, bearing 020* 12 knots (no Oscar).
Somed communication problems with radio signal from Course, so we are unable to bring you Mark Roundings or top Finishers for R4 here - full results should be posted oon FVR Calendar very shortly.
Ladies launched at 14.50. Friday news from a cloudy Garda Today, we have some cloud. If you read our report "Measured, Registered, Practiced...." (see earlier news item), you will have understood the implications for the wind today. PRO Ion Echave briefed the Coaches at 10.00 am (the Italian Team Leader had also called an Italian helm's meeting at the same tiime, so there was a BIG turnout for today's briefing!) and explained the implications of the cloud.
Without strong sun, the thermal wind, the "Ora" will be less certain. "We will need to wait and watch. We will not want to "chase the wind" and move marks on each course area because of the time it would take to move marks in the very deep waters. An option may be possible that the North wind will be strong enough at the northern end of the lake to set a course, when it would be necessary to bring both fleets there for a race. 'It will be a "tricky" day', said Nino Shmueli. Meanwhile, AP/1 means the earliest racing can start will be 13.00.
For now, there are many sailor meetings, use of the WiFi, general chilling and much conversation around Fraglia Vela Riva.....Wish you were here! Live(ish) news from Garda - Thursday 12.00: The Fleets are afloat. The postponement flag is flying....waiting for the Ora to fill - see Wednesday Report for detailed briefing on winds of Grada and race management by PRO.
While we wait, the arrangements for the racing are detailed in the Sailing Instructions, but to explain that the two Championships are on two different racing areas - Bravo to the South for the Open, and Alpha towards the North for the Ladies'. For the Qualifying Series, they will be sailing in four flights for each: Yellow, Blue, Green & Red and each will be paired for each race on a rotation.
12.35: the Ora is coming (Cooling breeze foor us landlubbers). 12.50 AP down. Sequence. Alpha R1 Yellow/Blue start at 13.00 - no OCS; Red/Green start at 11.11 - no OCS; Bravo (open) course: Yellow/Blue start 12.54 (180* 10kn) no OCS, 1st Mark 13.06; Green/Red - start 13.04 - many OCS incl. FRA52808, AUT53733, ISV53373, USA51520 SIs and Registration Lists published World Championships 2009: Riva del Garda We will be providing news here during the Championships. Results will be posted on the Fraglia Vela Riva website, but we plan to provide news during each day when we can.In the meantime, we welcome contact, comment or questions, so be in touch Send Email. b>Kevin Peponnet (SR Rochelaises) & Julien Lebrun (ASPTT La Rochelle) took the Championship by a point from Hugo Feydit (CN La Tremblade) & Pierre Rhimbault (C Voiles Niortais), with Clement Ikhlef & Clement Pequin (SR Rochelaises) taking 3rd. Perrine Geniteau & Marion Aumont (CV St Quentin) were the Women’s Champions ISAF Youth Worlds write: Philip Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) won today’s Boy’s 420 race to clinch gold. The French team of Gabriel Skoczek & Thibaut Soler win silver and Benjamín Grez & Carlos Vergara Infante win Chile’s first ever medal at the Youth Worlds by claiming bronze.
With Martine Grael & Kahene Kunze (BRA) already assured of Gold and Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli (ITA), Silver (though the two teams logged 1st and 2nd in the 8th race today), it was Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low of Singapore that won the Bronze medal in the women’s.
Final Results – Girls’ 420 and Final Results – Boy’ 420 Excerpt from ISAF Youths Final Day Report: ' On the 420 course, today's breezy conditions were again just about perfect for the British Boy's pairing of Phil Sparks and Ben Gratton, who clinched the title with another dominant race win in today's decider. After being disqualified from race four of the series they've been virtually faultless for the second half of the championship.
' "We knew we were quick in this wind so we were quite conservative on the start and just went for the space," Sparks explains, "We speeded off the line and just went full speed upwind and got to the windward mark in first with a bit of a gap." From there only the Kiwis ever came close to threatening, but by the final run the Brits had victory secure and cruised across the line to take gold. In the battle for silver Chile's Benjamín Grez and Carlos Vergara were looking good until a problem with their spinnaker hoist on the final reach cost them several places and this was enough for Gabriel Skoczek and Thibaut Soler (FRA) to clinch second overall. Still Grez and Vergara were delighted to claim bronze, the first-time Chile has won a medal at the Youth Worlds.
'Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (BRA) already had gold wrapped up in the Girl's 420 fleet but that didn't stop them powering to victory in their favoured windy conditions today. Italians Camilla Marino and Claudia Soricelli have also excelled in the breeze this week and followed the Brazilians in to take second place today and the silver medal. Singapore won their second medal of the championship as Griselda Khng and Cecilia Low showed they are not just light wind specialists with a fourth place today giving them the bronze.' By ISAF Youth Worlds: “It’s the final day of the 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship! One race is scheduled for each of the seven events starting at 11:30 local (14:30 UTC). Great conditions, looking similar to yesterday, with clear skies, and northerly seabreeze around 10-15 knots. Three gold medals have already been sewn up, but in the Boy’s RS:X, Girl’s Laser Radial, Boy’s 420 and Open Multihull it looks set to be an incredibly close battle”. "....whilst any of the next six crews from the USA, Singapore, New Zealand, Spain, Australia and Great Britain are in with a genuine chance of winning bronze" After three races today and the discard kicking in, Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) lost their DSQ from race 4 and scored two bullets and a 2nd to re-take the lead by 13 points. Bernard Scoczek & Thibaut Soler (FRA) are back in 2nd on 22 points, while Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara retain 3rd on 22 pts.
Veterans Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng, who won the 420 Junior Europeans in 2007 and have dominated in Asia, have pulled themselves up to 4th on 31 pts, while Jordi Xammer & Joan Herp are 5th on 40 pts. After three races today, ISAF Youth veterans Martine Grael & Kahene Kunze (BRA) achieved a 7 point lead over Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli, the 2008 Junior European Women’s Champions, who are on 22 pts.
Morgan Kiss & Laura McKenna (USA), in spite of having to discard a black flag in the last race have steadily built their position to 3rd overall, by a point! But Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low, Singapore’s representatives at last year’s ISAFs, in 4th. But they share 40 points with Alexandra Maloney (with a 2nd and two bullets today!) & Bianca Bacher (NZL) and Eklia Borrego & Nora Brugman (ESP). Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby (AUS) are on 43 and Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR) on 45.
The battle for Bronze should be exciting! Kevin Peponnet (SR Rochelaises) & Julien Lebrun (ASPTT La Rochelle) are on 16 points after Race 4 on Thursday, with Damien Brenac (YC Antibes) & Julien Lacaze (SN Bandol) 2nd on 17 pts and Martin Aumont & Jean-Baptiste le Goubey (EV Cherbourg), 3rd on 20 pts.
But three teams are tied on 23 points after race 3, Perrine Geniteau & Marion Aumont (CV St Quentin) – the leading women’s team, Sam Robinson (West Kirby SC) & Peter Alton (Oxford SC) (GBR) and Louis Padnos & Ben Spector (USA – Mactowa Bay YC Michigan) ISAF: All the boats are heading out, and it looks like being a great day of racing in Buzios. Hardly a cloud in the sky and NE breeze of 12-15 knots, maybe a little stronger. Three races scheduled for all events with first starts at 11:30 local (14:30 UTC)”.
Ida Marie Baad Nielsen from Denmark tells us about her day yesterday on the 420 course. She is currently 19th in the ranking. ISAF said: “Bright skies, wind from the north – the weather in Buzios looks like it’s back to normal. We’ll have to wait for this morning’s weather briefing for the official forecast but the initial signs are good”. The plan for today was: “ three races (races 5-8 of the series) are schedule for each class with the first start moved forward to 11:30 local (15:30 UTC). One race is scheduled for the final day of the championship on Friday”.
We await news, but, in the meantime, we can listen to Benjamin Grez of Chile, currently lying 3rd in the men’s, who spoke at the beginning of yesterday (the ‘no wind’ day) and watch Volvo ISAF artistry as boats launched, but to no avail; some familiar 420 faces!
As always, the news should first appear on the Event Website, or via the there to the Facebook/Blog/Twitter links. Damien de Brenac (YC Antibes) & Julien Lacaze (SN Bandol) lead after the first day’s three races at Port Blan in the French National Championships. Martin Aumont & Jean-Baptiste le Goubey (EV Cherbourg) are 2nd and Sam Robinson (West Kirby SC) & Peter Alton (Oxford SC) (GBR) are 3rd on equal points. Results are being posted on the Event Website. Eric's Daily Report and Photos are in (click above) - every editor's dream, this guy! For the results, we may have to wait until tomorrow....we think the Race Committee may gone for dinner....or maybe even to sleep!
Meanwhile, we hear that the Uniqus France 420 Webmaster had a good day's racing and even practised his best diplomatic skills by saying 'Hi' to the Irish Coach on the water.....so international relations are good in Brittany tonight, even if the competitiion is serious, especially for those teams seeking last places at the 420 World Championships to be held on the Lago di Garda at the end of the month. Volvo Youth Worlds: "All racing has been cancelled for the day due to lack of wind on the race courses" Our special correspondent in Brittany is back! After a poorer first race today, Bernard Skoczek & Thibaut Soler scored a bullet in the second, Following an amendment to the results this evening, with a DSQ for Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR), who have dropped to 7th, Skoczek & Soler lead the field into the lay day. Benjamin Grez & Carlos Vergara (CHI) had to concede position to David Vignone & Matteo Ramian (ITA) who took 2nd in the final race oand end the day in 2nd overall..
Brazil’s Martine Grael & Kahena Kunze took a 1st in the fourth race to top the leaderboard, but on the same points as Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR), who had already moved into 2nd overall after their performance in the first race of the day. Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli (ITA), reigning 420 Junior European Women’s Champions, are 5 points behind in 2nd, and Morgan Kiss & Laura McKenna’s 2nd in the last race gives them 4th overall overnight. With an OCS in the first race of the day, Khng & Low (SIN) will be looking forward to a discard. Meanwhile, Marino & Soricelli (ITA) take over the lead and Kalderon & Sibthopr leap over Grael & Kunze to take the third slot. Presumably, the RO is looking for a second race.
Meanwhile, the Sparks & Gratton (GBR) lead extended to 11 points, as Skoczek & Soler (FRA) and Grez & Vergara (CHI) evidently had a tougher time. Vignone & Ramian (ITA) threaten them, while Kim & Bae (KOR) took a bullet. “Race day three and it’s a beautiful morning in Buzios. Two races scheduled across each event, with forecast for light and shifty conditions, although at the moment the wind seems pretty steady. First starts at 12:00 local time. During his first post-race debrief, Santi Lange spoke of minimizing risk-taking in these type of conditions, so it will be interesting to see who’s been listening!…” News on Event Blog: “Today’s scheduled races have all been cancelled due to extremely strong winds around 30 knots. Two races are scheduled across each of the seven events for tomorrow, with much lighter and shiftier winds expected. The Race Committee will try and make up today’s cancelled races after the lay day (14 July) when better seabreeze conditions are forecast”.
and Facebook: “The racing has been cancelled for the day, with two races still scheduled for tomorrow. The wind is still gusting 30 knots out on the race courses. Weather for tomorrow looks light, but the race committee will do their best to get the racing in”.
And have you seen the YouTube videos?…..Griselda Khng gives an interview on YouTube – our media star!
We are sourcing images through Volvo Ocean Race - you will see some on the Rol;ling photos on this page, but we will be posting all we get on the PhotoGallery.
ISAFs Day 2 Press Release. If we are slow with the news, go direct to ISAF Youths website for all the options. After first two races:
Men:
1 Philip Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) 3 points
2 Benjamín Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI) 5 pts
3 Bernard Gabriel Skoczek & Thibaut Soler (FRA) 5 pts
4 Davide Vignone & Matteo Ramian (ITA) 11 pts
5 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 16 pts
Women:
1 Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low (SIN) 6 points
2 Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli (ITA) 9 pts
3 Martine Soffiatti Grael & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 9 pts
4 Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR) 12 pts
5 Morgan Kiss & Laura McKenna (USA) 15 pts
For full information, see Results and ISAF News With the 39th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship races starting on Saturday, Brazil’s greatest sailor, Torben Grael, specially welcomed and encouraged the gathering sailors. As he just won the Volvo Ocean Race, this all-conquering Ericsson 4 veteran turned to the next generation of champion sailors, a record 280+ competitors from 59 nations, congregating in the port of Búzios. See. ISAF News.
ISAF have just published the Entry Lists, although a few have yet to be confirmed (hopefully, they are on their way!!). 32 boys' and 24 girls' teams are entered in the 420. The ISAF Youths' Event Website is where news and results will be found first.
Our faithful and regular correspondent from the Brazilian 420 Class, ‘super-crew’ Nic Castro (other sailors may have caught him on Facebook), wrote in May to tell us that National Champions, Felipe Haddad & Nicolas Castro and Martine Grael & Kahena Kunze would be representing Brazil. Senior 420 sailors will remember that Martine took 7th at the 2008 Arhus Youths in the 29er and 4th in the 2008 Athens 420 Worlds, both with Daniela Adler (who will be back with her in Garda!); Kahena Kunze is an ISAF Youths veteran too, having been 6th in Kingston, Ontario in 2007.
Nic had a message from “the four young (Brazilian) sailors (who) are very proud and happy to represent their country in an event so important for the local sailing population, already having the possibility of the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro in sight. They will try to make life on the water as hard as possible for the other sailors, but will also welcome everyone with arms wide opened as the country intends to do!”.
Best wishes to all the sailors, especially those sailing the 420! The French National Championships (“Coupe Nationale”) are taking place next week in Port Blanc on the Côtes-d'Armor in Brittany. News from the regional newspaper, Ouest France suggests that preparations are well in hand.
This event has, for many years been popular with sailors from neighbouring countries, and,for teams from further afield when World or European Championships are being held nearby. This year teams from the USA and US Virgin Islands will join those from Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. Apart from being the French Class national championship, it is also the final selection event for remaining places in their Worlds and Junior European teams.
Generally the event is held in Brittany, a popular summer holiday destination, and this year it returns to the tiny, but very successful venue of the 2005 Coupe, Port Blanc, on the Côtes-d'Armor. To ensure the envy of those who have not entered, or cannot be there to support their tems, we have made an attempt at a translation of the presentation from the town of Penvénan website.
We expect to have daily news from the event, but see also the CN Port Blanc website. 1 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 17 points
2 Guillaume Pirouelle & Sipan (FRA) 21 pts
3 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 27 pts After 8 races and a discard kicking in, Max Deckers & Duko Bos are now in the overnight lead
1 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 17 points
2 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 21 pts
3 Guillaume Pirouelle & Sipan (FRA) 23 pts
4 Baptiste Berthier & Camille Andreys (FRA) 33 pts
5 Andrew Wishart & Liam Garrison (GBR) 35 pts 1 Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 4 points
2 Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) 15 pts
3 Baptiste Berthier & Camille Andreys (FRA) 17 pts
4 Lys Moulaert & Sophie Audenaerdt (BEL) 19 pts
5 Andrew Wishart & Liam Garrison (GBR) 26 pts Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) scored two bullets in the two races on day 1 (Sunday) at Nieuwpoort, Belgium. Guillaume Pirouelle and Valentin Sipan are running 2nd and Max Deckers & Duko Bos (NED) are 3rd, Moulaert Lys & Sophie Audenaerdt 4th, Baptiste Berthier & Camille Andreys (FRA) 5th and Andrew Wishart & Liam Garrison (GBR) 6th, in a field of 22. Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Francioloni (ITA) won the 59th Intervela at Fraglia Vela Riva today, some 18 points ahead of Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) 63 pts, who beat Nicolo’ Briante & Giacomo Fossati (ITA) by one point. The women were led by Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Urzaiz (ITA), 7th overall, followed by Federica Salva’ & Monica Pagani (ITA) 10th and Sara Amendola & Gulia Paolillo (ITA) 11th. Dominik Grams & Gergely Petrahai (HUN).won the Silver Fleet, with Lara vadlau & Rudi Weiss (AUT) 2nd and Antonio Tamburin & Matteo Raveglia (ITA) 3rd.
Top 20:
1 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Francioloni (ITA) 45 points
2 Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) 63 pts
3 Nicolo’ Briante & Giacomo Fossati (ITA) 64 pts
4 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp (ESP) 64 pts
5 Adonis Tsiboukelis & George Karonis (GRE) 67 pts
6 Jorge Martinez & Tomas Ugalde (ESP) 71 pts
7 Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Urzaiz (ITA) 78 pts
8 Santiago & David Mas Depares (ESP) 83 pts
9 Ben Palmer & Konrad Weaver (GBR) 87 pts
10 Federica Salva’ & Monica Pagani (ITA) 88 pts
11 Sara Amendola & Gulia Paolillo (ITA) 97 pts
12 Yoav Levi & Dan Froyliche (ISR) 109 pts
13 Josh Pistol & Piers Strong (GBR) 111 pts
14 Kevin Peponnet & Julien Lebrun (FRA) 112 pts
15 Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (ITA) 113 pts
16 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw (GBR) 118 pys
17 Davide Ortelli & Leonardo Zaggia (ITA) 124 pts
18 Imogen & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 128 pts
19 Leonardo Dubbini & Alessandro Gemini (ITA) 139 pts
20 Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (ESP) 140 pts
See Gold Fleet and Silver Fleet for full results 13.00: "Three races in the morning. for class 420. Regatta finished.(other clases still racing). Results asap" Following a morning’s race in the Qualifiers, the Gold and Silver Fleets took to the waters of Garda at Riva on Thursday afternoon for two Finals races.
With a 1st and 2nd, Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Francioloni take the lead, while Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Urzaiz are just one point behind and are leading women, though Giovanna Massidda & Marcella Mamusa (4th overall) took a 1st in race 2 this afternoon. Fernando & Alvaro Urzaiz (ESP) are 4th, and Davide Ortelli & Leonardo Zaggia (ITA) are 5th on the same points as Massidda & Mamusa. Should make for an interesting final day on Friday.
Federica Beltrame & Cristina Piazzi (ITA) lead the Silver Fleet, but on equal points with Dominik Grams & Gergely Petrahai (HUN).
First warning signal at 08.25 on Friday!
See Gold Fleet and Silver Fleet results on Thursday night 15.00: "Results fixed ! at 15:00. 1st start of the 5th race (1st final) - 2 races scheduled for today. Ciao, Marzia"
13.00: "2 races sailed this morning, but a mess in the results because many sailors raced with the wrong colour !!!!! We are now trying to fix the results, before splitting the fleet in gold and silver….:-(((". We have the Results link above, in case we are slow at up-dating the news and today's flights get unscrambled in the meantime! Commiserations to the Race Office! 16.30: "No races in the afternoon due to lack of wind. Tomorrow: first warning signal in the morning." The Ora fases evidently.
12.00: "Southern wind “Ora” has already started blowing – about 20 knots. All the sailors ready to start!".....those of us at home must just imagine sitting on the Club verandah, with the breeze blowing up the Lago and the sailors heading out to the race course. All right for some! All is now clear! (thanks to our special correspondent in Riva). They could not sail one of the two fleets’ second race on Wednesday, so the guys had to be up and on the water early for a 09.00 warning signal today! They had a “very good race with northern light wind”, reports Marzia Busana, and full results for the first two races of the qualifyers are now attached.
Davide Ortelli & Leonardo Zaggia (ITA) lead on 9 points. Alexander Coyle & Jozsi Nemeth (ISV) and Stamatia Fragiadaki & Nefeli Papagiannakou (GRE), the leading women, are on 11 points.
“Now the fleets swap colour – in the afternoon 3 races scheduled – first warning signal at 13:00” Alexander Coyle (ISV) and Judge Ryan (USA) seem to be helming the lead 420s after first races of two Qualifying Fleets at the 2009 Intervela at Riva del Garda. Jorge Martinez (ESP) and Jacopo Plazzi (ITA) are on 2 points and Santiago Mas Depares (ESP) and Kevin Peponnet (FRA) are on 3 points apiece. And Amy Seabright (GBR) and Stamatia Fragiadaki (GRE) lead the women on 5 points, with Sara Amendola (ITA) on 6 points.
Very early days, but with 127 entrants, the Intervela looks set for a great competition and good experience for those entered for the World Championships at the end of the month. (We’ll try and catch the crews tomorrow!) Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) won the Kieler Woche today by 2 points from close contenders, Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (GER). Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) were 3rd.
Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER), 4th overall, led the women, with Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR) 2nd and Lisa Schweigert & Lisa Frisch (GER) 3rd.
Many of the sailors at Kiel are preparing to represent their countries at the ISAF World Youth Championships in Brazil and/or the 420 Class World Championships at Riva del Garda. There will be a further opportunity to guage the international form for the latter at the forthcoming 59th Intervela on Garda and at the French Coupe Nationale at Port=Blanc. Watch this space!
Top 25 from a field of over 160:
1 Philip Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) 12 pts
2 Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (GER) 14 pts
3 Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 25 pts
4 Svenja Weger & Wiebke Lechler (GER) 41 pts
5 Fabian Kaske & Alexander Schätz (GER) 45 pts
6 Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp (GBR) 54 pts
7 Ben Palmer & Konrad Weaver (GBR) 59 pts
8 Lisa Schweigert & Lisa Frisch (GER) 67 pts
9 Imogen & Hermione Stanley (GBR) 72 pts
10 Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett (GBR) 73 pts
11 Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Muenks (GER) 74 pts
12 Till Kruger & Oliver Wichert (GER) 75 pts
13 Lara Vadlau & Rudi Weiss (GER) 76 pts
14 Sydney Bolger & Caitlin Beavers (USA) 78 pts
15 Karoline & Henrike Pepin () 79.33 pts
16 Judge Ryan & Chris Segerblom (USA) 83 pts
17 Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low (SIN) 84 pts
18 Steffen & Sven Heßberger (GER) 84 pts
19 Johanna Claus & Anna Bach (GER) 84 pts
20 Sangmin Lee & Hoyeop Tang (KOR) 85 pts
21 Viktor Holmgren & Calle Johansson Jr (SWE) 85 pts
22 Gabriel Bernard Skoczek & Thibaut Soler (FRA) 90 pts
23 Alexander Coyle & Jozsi Nemeth )ISV) 92 pys
24 Jordi Xammar & joan Herp (ESP) 94 pts
25 Dominik Buksak & Przemek Filipowicz (POL) 99 pts Veronica Fredriksson & Josefine Thorwaldson triumphed at the Swedish JSM Champs in Vänersborg. Thanks to Tobias Andrén & Sofia Fredriksson they had some competition!! We understand that the Swedish 420 guys have headed off to Kieler Woche, but we hope to see the Fredrikssons & Co on the circuit soon. Bra segling! (....and do not say we do not report on 420 events, big or just a tad smaller!). Final Results and further news on the Event Website. With nine races in the bag, Piotr Winiszewski & Alan Stachurski won the International Chojnicki Sailing Week by 3 points. Patryk Richter & Jakub Odymala were 2nd, while Jakub Surowiec & Aleksandra Sepiol (AZS AWFIS Gdansk) took the third podium place. Just a point behind, but with a bullet in the final race, Ewa Ilska & Marta Sadowska (SEKJ Pogon Szczecin) overtook Judyta Malinowski & Marta Bartoszczyk on the final day to take the women’s lead. Final Results and also see Chojnicki Sailing Club. With a discard kicking in and six race completed, Piotr Winiszewski & Alan Stachurski (AZS – AWFIS Gdansk) have a 7 point lead into the final day at the International Chojnicki Sailing Week in Poland. Maciej Malag & Jan Walczak (Nauticus Olsztyn) are 2nd and Patryk Richter & Jakub Odymala (AZS – AWFIS Gdansk) 3rd on 20 points. Judyta Malinowski & Marta Bartoszczyk (Uks Barnim Goleniow) are 4th overall on 22 points and are the leading women. One more day’s racing ahead. We are grateful, once again, to Ho Shu Fen, Marketing & Communications Executive at SingaporeSailing, for her photographs from the 429 National Championships. See the growing PhotoGallery This year’s Irish Connaught Championships were held in Galway Bay. During the event the Volvo Ocean Race Open 70s, arrived (on Saturday night) for a stop over (and locked the 420 rescue and mark laying RIBs into the harbour, requiring the Harbour Master and his staff to use the crane to enable Sunday racing to proceed – more big seas for Timmy Ó Laoire!). For full report and results, click above.
We have also recently posted large sets of images from the recent Munster Championship and ISA Youth Championships in the Photo Gallery Max Deckers & Duko Bos (22 points) are the 2009 Dutch 420 Youth Champions. Dirk Bennen & Christiaan van Garderen were 2nd (25 pts) at Workum and Sanne Crum & Perry Gebuijs 3rd (33 pts). Rosita Bakker & Lana Keijer, the top women, were 4th overall (38 pts). urther information on Youth Regatta and Dutch 420 Class websites.
We found that the event’s newsletter carried a great photo of Sanne Crum & Perry Gebuis racing in some good 420 wind on the IJsselmeer off Workum on Sunday. It reads: ‘Perry Gebuis is euphoric today, because he and his crew [sic - but we were sure that Sanne was steering (Ed)] won the last race. “We didn’t have a good start, but managed to get free wind. We just paid a lot of attention to the wind shifts and our boat speed was superb”. Once they had taken the lead, they only had to defend it. Crew [? (ed)] Sanne Crum: “That’s much easier.”’ Meanwhile, ‘Liselotte Bulstra and Noor Kahmann thought they messed up the second race. “We capsized twice. Once, because we unexpectedly had to tack in a port, starboard situation. And later again because there was a sudden gust of wind when we rounded the jibe buoy. But we weren’t the only team swimming at that buoy”. During that race their main sail was torn in the top. “That’s a bummer, because it’s our best sail.” However, they still became 13th, and don’t seem too worried about the course of events. “We don’t think we’ll qualify for the ISAF Worlds, and we’re busy with our exams” [we know how you feel (ed)], ....and we like these newsletters!
See Final Results and Dutch Youths micro site Eduardo Vitari writes, “Very happy to report the arrival of the first five 420s in Ecuador. This is the seed of what we hope will be a large fleet. The boats were taken out of customs on April 24, and have arrived at the Salinas Yacht Club, where their permanent home will be. Salinas YC has justhosted the South American Optimist Championships - Campeonato Sudamericano IODA 2009. We are delighted that Gilles Clément was busy with his camera on the water at this year’s Coupe Internationale Méditerranéenne de l’Amitié – ‘CIMA’, hosted by ASPTT Marseille. Several of Gilles’ images are on our Rolling Photos (for the time being!).
His full album can be viewed on his website, and high resolution images can be obtained from him - Send Email. Meanwhile, we have copies of his “Faces of CIMA 2009” on our PhotoGallery - «Les visages de CIMA 2009». Jim Saltonstall continues to lead coaching seminars for 420 coaches worldwide and video clinics at the Junior Eoropeans each year - see you in Ballaton, Jim! The new GBR 420 RYA Volvo Mational Youth Champions are Phil Sparks & David Gratton and Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp. Click here for Full Results.
The RYA Selectors have announced the GBR Team for the ISAF Youth Worlds in Búzios, Brasil, in July, see Press release. For other information, see GBR 420 and Event websites. If you liked the daily blogs, please Send Email to tell them to give them feedback! Timmy Ó Laoire & Brian Kelleher (Howth & R St George YCs) today won the ISA Youth Nationals, with another three bullets to finish on 13 points, in Roaringwater Bay, Skull, West Cork. Rob Lehane & Iarlath Kennedy (R Cork YC) were 2nd on 21 points, Cian Ó Regan & Mark Boylan (KYC/Skerries) 3rd (29 pts) and Scott Flannigan & Luke Malcolm (Howth YC) 4th (34 pts). See Final Results and Event Website
The Women’s Champions are Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (R St George YC) were 5th overall (42 pts), overtaking Diana Kissane & Hazel O Neil (Howth YC) (46 pts) on the final day of the Championships. GBR Youths blown out on Friday, but Irish carry on in Roaringwater Bat AP/A at Largs at 12.30 means GBR Youth Nationals are over at 12.30. But the Irish Youth race on in Roaringwater Bay, with the 420s having a race in the can on Friday morning. See ISA Youth Website and RYA Youths Website. Final confirmation of the outcomes of these two Championships may take a while! Not good news from UK Youth Championships Friday’s Blog in Scotland (we await news from the Irish opposite the Fastnet). We hope the weather is fairer for the CIMA due to start today in Marseille! Racing at the UK Youth Nationals and Trials at Largs in Scotland on Thursday had to be abandoned after hours of attempts. An amendment to Sailing Instructions provides for an additional race and an early start for last day.
Meanwhile, it is reported that Sarah Ayton, former National Youth Champion, former 420 sailor and twice Gold Olympic Medallist in the Yngling has been out on the water in her role as a Selector - Report. See also Event Website, running Results and Day 4 Report, Tough conditions in Roaringwater Bay for penultimate day of the ISA Youth Championships 2009. Diana Kissane & Hazel O Neil continue to lead the wemen.
1 Timmy Ó Laoire & Brian Kelleher (Howth & R St George YCs) 14 pts
2 Rob Lehane & Iarlath Kennedy (R Cork YC) 18 pts
3 Cian O Regan & Mark Boylan (KYC/Skerries) 25 pts
4 Scott Flannigan & Luke Malcolm (Howth YC) 29 pts
5 Diana Kissane & Hazel O Neil (Howth YC) 30 pts Sailors will be gathering in Marseilles for the 2009 Coupe Internationale Méditerranéenne de l’Amitié – at ASPTT Marseille from 17 – 20 April. We await to see this year’s entry, but there is always a large international interest to boost the start-line to well over 100 boats!
Further information may be found on Event Website and Uniqua France, the French 420 Class Association. We hope to be able to bring you news.
In the meantime, the French are half way through their Worlds/Junior Euros team selection. The first three ‘Interligue’ Regatta across France were held at the end of March; the second phase will be held in May. The RYA Volvo Youth Championships reached half way on Wednesday, Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton 9 points ahead of the field. Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp in a dual all week with Amy Seabright & Katrina Brewer took a 4-point lead tonight. This is the selection event for the GBR entries in the ISAF Youth Worlds, as well as an indicator for RYA Squad selection. See full Results and follow developments at the Event Website
Top 10 to Race 7:
1 Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton 6 points
2 Ben Palmer & Konrad Weaver 15pts
3 Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett 21pts
4 Rebecca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp 26pts
5 Tim Gratton & Ed Riley 30pts
6 Amy Seabright & Katrina Brewer 30pts
7 Mike Wood & Hugh Brayshaw 32pts
8 Imogen & Hermione Stanley 39pts
9 Sam Robinson & Peter Alton 40pts
10 Joanna Freeman & Hannah Marsden 45pts Rob Lehane & Iarlath Kennedy and Timmy Ó Laoire & Brian Kelleher finished Day 3 (Wednesday) of the 5-day Irish (ISA) Youth Championships at the Fastnet International Outdoor Education & Marine Centre at Schull, West Cork on equal points. This event forms part of the Irish selection and qualification process for choosing teams for the ISAF Youth Worlds to be held in Brazil in July. In 3rd place at this mid stage, Diana Kissane & Hazel O Neil are leading the women, from Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson.
Leaders:
Rob Lehane & Iarlath Kennedy (R Cork YC) 12 points
Timmy Ó Laoire & Brian Kelleher (Howth & R St George YCs) 12 pts
Diana Kissane & Hazel O Neil (Howth YC) 17 pts
Cian O Regan & Mark Boylan (KYC/Skerries) 19 pts
Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (R St George YC) 22 pts
Scott Flannigan & Luke Malcolm (Howth YC) 23 pts
Stephen Tiernan & Dermot McMorrough (R Cork YC/R St George YC) 24 pts Nicolás Rodriguez & Sergio Crespo won the Campeonato de España and Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo are the Women’s Champions, for a second year! Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp are the Youth Champions and Bàrbara Cornudella & Sara López, the Women’s Youth Champs.
Open:
1 Nicolás Rodriguez & Sergio Crespo of Galicia (RCN Vigo/LC Villagarcia) (15 pts)
2 Jorge Martinez Doreste & Tomas Ugalde of Canarias (RCN Gran Canaria) (16 pts)
3 Jordi Xammar & Joan Herp of Cataluña (CN El Masnou) (17 pts)
4 David Omedes Requena & Carles Gallart Bargallo of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) (20 pts)
Women
1 Carlota Masana & Ana Lobo Ramírez of Cataluña (Vilassar de Mar/CN Sevilla) (29 pts)
2 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez of Cataluña (CB El Balis) (49 pts)
3 Elia Borrego & Nora Brugman of Comunidad Valenciana (RCN Valencia’CV Blanes) (51 pts)
4 Ana Coll Revuelta & Marina Bonet of the Baleares (S’ Arenal) (51 pts) David Omedes & Carles Gallart have taken the early lead at the Campeonato de España at the Club Náutico El Balís, near Barcelona.
Carlota Masana & Ana Lobo last year's Women’s Champions, are leading the women. These two teams led the Spanish at last year’s World Championships in Athens, so they are definitely ones to watch! There are two more days of racing.
Leaders:
1 David Omedes Requena & Carles Gallart Bargallo of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) (4 pts)
2 Jorge Martinez Doreste & Tomas Ugalde of the Canarias (RCN Gran Canaria) (7 pts)
3 Jori Xammar & Joan Herp of Cataluña (CN El Masnou) (8 pts)
4 David Gestos & Isaac Arce of Galicia (LC Vilagarcia) (9 pts)
1 Carlota Masana & Ana Lobo Ramírez of Cataluña (Vilassar de Mar/CN Sevilla) (23 pts)
2 Maria Amat & Marta Martinez of Cataluña (CB El Balis) (26 pts)
3 Barbara Cornudella & Sara Lopez of Cataluña (CB El Balis) (33 pts)
4 Andrea Cornudella & Clara Dolz of Cataluña (CB El Balis) (33 pts) 25 years of ‘Sailing for Ostend’ We have been reminded that on line entry is now available, with a discount on entry fee for entries before 25th April, for this 25th anniversary celebration of Sailing for Oostende. For further information and the Notice of Race, click here. Coyle & Nemeth win first Caribbean Regatta We reported a few weeks ago the arrival of five beautiful new 420s in the Caribbean Islands of US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Well, we had heard that the Virgin Islanders have been out training hard with their coach, Agustin ‘Argy’ Resano - recently back from the 420 Coaches’ Clinic at Long Beach, California with our Jim Saltonstall – but now there is news of the first 420 Caribbean Regatta. This was held at the Culebra International Regatta (Culebra is an island in Puerto Rico). But the USVIs are going to have to watch out when Raúl Rios & Antonio Sifre and their mates in Puerto Rico get fully motoring! – Raúl is the reigning IODA World Champion!
1 Alex Coyle & Jozni Nemeth (ISV)
2 Olin Davis & Ian Coyle (ISV)
3 Raúl Rios & Antonio Sifre (PUR)
4 Ramon Gonzalez & Jose Nigaglioni (PUR)
We are gathering all the info. we can on these Caribbean guys and will pass on more in due course. Rumour has it that the USVIs will be doing the European circuit this summer, while Raúl & Antonio have booked their passage to Búzios, Brazil for the ISAFs. Sounds like we have two new, enthusiastic fleets! By the way, a third boat was delivered to USVI, but the female helm is currently searching for a crew….any volunteers?! Denise Lim Ke Xin & Sara Tan Li Ching teamed up for the Singapore Youth Championships to represent their school, Victoria Junior College, as part of their preparation for the forthcoming Inter-Schools Regatta. With an impressive line-up of bullets on their scoresheet, they could relax for the last day, when Rachel Lee Qing & Leong Wei Ming took the Silver. The Malaysian team of Zamri Bin Azlan & Moh Hafizzudin, who had scored a first in race 2, were third overall to take the Bronze step on the podium. Preparations are evidently in hand for the Asian Youth Games 2009 that is to be held in Singapore from 26 June to 6 July. For the Singapore Youths’ results take a look at the SingaporeSailingwebsite and for a report on the Youth Championships generally, see ISAF. Junior European NOR The Notice of Race for the Junior European Championships, to be held at Balatonfured, Hungary, has been published on the event calendar. South American Championships 2009 We have just had confirmation that this year's South American 420 Championships will be held immediately after the ISAF World Youth Championships in Brazil. The event will be between 19 and 24 July, allowing time for participants to travel to Garda for the World Championships. More information is anticipated and will be posted on Racing > Event Calendar. The Notice of Race for the World Championships, to be held at Lake Garda has now been published. Two new titles will be awarded at this event - International 420 Class Junior World Champion and International 420 Class Junior Ladies World Champion Italy is busy selecting its 2009 Teams. The second of their Regate Nazionale was held at CV Pietrabianca last weekend. Giovanni Meloni & Alessandro Gemini took the regatta from Davide Ortelli & Leonardo Zaggia and Federico Maria Maccari & Rocco Vitali. Christina Celli & Silvia Morini led the women (in 6th overall), a point ahead of Junior European Women’s Champions, Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli.
We caught up with Ricardo de Felice, the CV Senigallia coach who reports that the regatta was held in light winds, with the currents having an impact on the racing.
1 Giovanni Meloni & Alessandro Gemini (YC Cagliari) (6 pts)
2 Davide Ortelli & Leonardo Zaggia (CV Bellano) (8 pts)
3 Federico Maria Maccari & Rocco Vitali (CV Bellano) (8 pts)
4 Davide Vignone & Matteo Ramian (CN Albenga) (14 pts)
5 Francesco Falcetelli & Gabriele Franciolini (CN Senigallia) (27 pts)
6 Christina Celli & Silvia Morini (CV Ravennate) (28 pts)
7 Camilla Marino & Claudia Soricelli (Circolo Italia) (29 pts)
8 Paolo Virgenti & Luca Silviola (CV Gargnano) (29 pts)
Final Results. We await details of the impact on the rankings, which will be shown on the Italian Class website, but there are three more regatta to go! Paul Snow-Hansen & Jason Saunders have, decisively, held their title of National Champions in New Zealand for a second year. In 2nd were Francisco Lardies & Finn Drummond at the Championships held at Napier Sailing Club. Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher won the Women’s title, being first Women’s Youth boat and 3rd overall on countback. Logan Dunning-Beck & Ben Goodwin were the first Men's Youth boat in 4th and veterans Simon Cooke & Scott Illingworth were 5th.
1 Paul Snow-Hansen & Jason Saunders (18 pts)
2 Francisco Lardies & Finn Drummond (30 pts)
3 Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (31 pts)
4 Logan Dunning-Beck & Ben Goodwin (31 pts)
5 Simon Cooke & Scott Illingworth (35 pts)
6 James Turner & Marcus Hansen (44 pts)
7 Luke Stevenson & Sam Bullock (56 pts)
8 Brittany Wornall & Emma Goodwin (73 pts)
9 Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson (IRL) (79 pts)
10 Sarah & Emma Berry (81 pts)
Click here for Final Results and NZL Class Association Reports. Excellent coverage also on the Napier SC website. As always, the NZL Class Association website has very full coverage. Arenal Training Camps Regatta The Notice of Race for the Arenal Training Camps Regatta, to be held in Palma, Mallorca from 16th to 21st March 2009, has been posted on the event calendar. We attach a news report from the Chile National Championships - in English! Our report on the 1st Asian and Oceania 420 Coaches’ Seminar ...we also feature a future 420 champion (hopefully), Pablo Mas. Felicitaciones ! Vientos buenos! All good for the final day Our special correspondent at CN Olivos reports that they have two races in the bag and one to go. We have the results so far from the Club Náutico Olivos (click above). We have details of the following forthcoming events on our Calendar:
4 – 7 December Imperia Winter Regatta, Liguria, Italy:
27 December - 3 January: Australian Nationals at Royal Perth YC, Western Australia
2 - 5 January, Intl Grand Prix Vila de Blanes at CV Blanes, Catalunya, Spain:
Will you be there?
If your event is not here, please telll us by clicking on Send News / Photos. Two new coaches' clinics have been organised in the United States and Singapore. The lead coach will be Jim Saltonstall. For further information follow the link. Full details have been posted on the event calendar in the racing section of the web site. The new Rules come into effect on 1 January, 2009. Available on-line now from ISAF (click above). Be one step ahead! The Preliminary Notice of Race for the World Championships 2009, to be held on Lake Garda, has been published on the event page of the web site Agathe de Cherry & Julien Bouillerce hold the women’s lead tonight after only one race today at Brest. A weak wind of 7 to 8 knots provided difficult racing, requiring much concentration and testing the technical skills of the sailors. Claire Berthez of SR Rochelaises & Jade Festino of YC Villeneuve L. moved into 2nd overall. Maude Caton & Elora Paris of CV Panthier led today’s trace to pull themselves into the top ten.
Maxime Garbay & Achille Javal are building up a lead with some consistent racing opn 8 points. Vincent Geniteau of CV St Quentin & Zoe Poncelet of VGA St Maur Voile scored a 1st in today’s race to bring them up to 2nd overall on 20 pts. Paul Rossi & Marc Mallaret of YC Mauglio-Carnon are in 3rd on 21 pts. Agathe de Cherry & Marion Bouillerce of SR Rochelaises lead the women after a 2, 1 in the first two races, with Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller of SN Enghien in 2nd on 8 points. Four teams ended the first day on 10 points a piece: Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier, Marina Laulanet & Gwenaelle Caron , Claire Nerthez & Jade Festino and Perrine Geniteau & Marion Aumont.
Nemo Moinet of CN La Tremblade & Julien Lebrun of ASPTT La Rochelle, with 1, 2, lead into day 2, with Maxime Garbay & Achille Javal 2nd on 6 points and Gabriel Scoczek & Thibaut Soler 3rd on 9 pts, both teams from YC Maugio Carnon. Vianney Guilbaud & Jeremie Mion and Kevin Peponnet & Loic Duchesne Ferch are 4th and 5th respectively, both on 10 pts. Italy’s Campionato Nazionale is this week in Crotone, in the south of Italy. Racing at the youth championships of theFrench Fédération Française de Voile gets underway at l’USAM Voile in Brest from Monday 25 to Friday 29 August. Click header to access the event website. Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton have won the British National Championships at Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli Sailing Club in Wales. Ben Saxton (just back from Silver at Zadar) and Claire Lasko (ISAF Youth Gold crew at Aarhus) were second and James Rusden (Bronze at Zadar) reunited with brother Will (2007 National Champions) were third. Jordan Factor & Charles Peck (USA) were 12th in the fleet of 60. Rebecca Kalderon and Rosie Sibthorp are the new Women’s Champions. The equipment schedule issued by the Chief Measurer following the Junior European Championships has been posted on the Class' Technical page. Last day's sailing at Zadar: wind building The Southerly wind is forecast to build during the day - it is already 13 knots - and the Delta flag went up at 11.05. A medal race in front of the old City for the 470s, and the 420s back on the course off Puntamika, so a little run down for the guys. Tonight - to follow the excitement of the Opening Ceremony - we are promised another storm, concentrated up North in the mountains....but you never know! An updtaed list of 420 International, National and Sail Measurers has been posted on the Technical Committee page of the web site. Following completion of the qualifiers, determination of the Gold and Silver fleets and the lay day, the boats and Race Committee are out preparing for the first race of the Final Series. With the Bura gone and a new wind, from the South, today (drawn by the low pressure north of us), there will be different conditions from the qualifying series. The wind speed was around 10 knots at the time of launch, but all will depend upon whether the heat this afternoon overcomes the southerly wind, or if a westerly from over the islands comes in to conflict with it. We hope that the south wind will prevail!
Meanwhile, on-line progress information continues on the Event website - click above. There were some difficulties with publication of the results, including the third race, on the first evening - related to boat identification and other things - but these have now been resolved. The provisional results have been posted on site and are available here (click above). They will normally appear quickest on the Event Website in future. For up-to-date news of the races you will be watching the Event website, run by the USKOK Press Centre Team. The race results whould appear there first. We are awaiting the Provisional Results for the first three races (as at 19.00 local time).
Meanwhile, three super photographers are out on the water: Vladimir Ivanov, the Official Event Photographer, Josip Knežević and Seán Ó Laoireand. We will be posting their images on the Photo Gallery as soon as we can - it takes a little time - so more may come. Keep chacking! Magnificent show for Opening Ceremony – including natural light(en)ing Club JK USKOK laid on an awesome (on water) opening ceremony, at the Old City of Zadar last night. Even without the weather, this would have been a most impressively planned and organised occasion, but we had a spectacular and lengthy electric storm as well! The sailors, coaches and supporters, as well as all the race officials, embarked on two ships, to a beautiful sunset, and were conveyed across the sound to the Riva, the sea promenade of the old City. Here, looking out over the Zadar Channel, to the north side of the Ugljan Island, at the place of the famous Sea Organ and the “Greeting of the Sun”, created by the same architect, Nikola Bašić, an on-the-water spectacular took place. On arrival at the landing stage, many of the sailors were very keen to have their pictures taken with the drum majorettes who were waiting to welcome them.
With the 19th Century sailing boat, “Branimir” that traded between Dalmatia and Italy, as the centre piece, the Croatian singer, Ivank Radovniković and the Zadar Dancing Troupe (conveyed gracefully by a oarsman, like mermaids, to and fro) entertained the audience, and local Optimist and 420 sailors provided suitable authentication for a sailing championships! Meanwhile, there was weather brewing! The cracks of thunder grew steadily louder and, in the dark, across the outline of the Ugljan Island, a terrific electric storm unfolded. Usually strong, but brief affairs, this storm was over a wide front and continued to develop around us – over the hills, well after the sailors were home (and dry!).
With this dramatic backcloth, the flags of the twenty-eight countries were driven in RIBs at high speed into the arena, and the standard bearers disembarked, proudly to place their flags on the stand, followed by short welcoming speeches. In fact, as rain and wind briefly came in, the proceedings had to be shortened somewhat, but the absence of man-made fireworks did not dampen the excitement. This was an evening that will be long remembered. "Croatia is a great sailing arena" ....announced Carl Johannisen, as he and his brother (SWE) came off after the Practice Race. "Good sailing conditions this afternoon, not too many shifts", confirmed Wilhelm from up front (a bit of a change from the Worlds last week, we think he mnay have meant!). The practice races for 420 and 470 proceeded this afternoon after a short electrical storm (which the PRO had predicted at the morning briefing) had come through well before the boats set off into a better breeze than this morning. Day 2 dawns in Zadar ....day 2 of Measurement, with the prospect of the Practice Race for the sailors and a boat trip to the Old City to meet the Mayor for the chosen few (those lucky ones delegated by the Coaches and Team Managers to dress up for the occasion in this humidity!) and, tonight, the Opening Ceremony (also in the Old City). We await a forecast, but maybe a tad more breeze in evidence this morning.
The most up-to-date news should appear on the Event Website .
Meanwhile, the odd photo will get posted on the Photo News. The [Photo Gallery will get underway more when the racing starts, but we are already getting some batches of images in there from Official Photographer, Vladimir Ivanov. You should find the latest news on the event website (click above), both results and running news - they were adding news yesterday (when the Measurement Team had their "practice race"), but the on-the-spot Press Team (mostly high powered ecionomists from the Uni of Zagreb, it seems) had a small glitch with the login today; hopefully, all back to normal soon. We will add odd bits here on the I420 site, together with the ISAF reports (which appear on the morning after each day's racing). Measurement is in full swing today, with lines of 420s and 470s passing tghrough the two large hangars. There is a buzz around the place, and, for those in a good vantage point in the shade (much supporter coffee drinking outside the Club Restaurant!), a great spectacle on the water, with the occasional ferry passing across the sail area on route to the port, behind the Old City, but mainly many of the 420 and 470 teams out training. If sending "food parcels" to deprived sailors in Zadar, please include sun tan cream!. An interesting notice appreaded on the board this morning telling sailors that they should attend the press office at midday for the "shootout"; we are assured that this was for a photo shoot! Otherwise, everything very friendly and relaxed. ...ckick above for Event Website 420 World Champions: Mileos & Mitakis and Katerina & Sofia Kaitatzidou of Greece International 420 World Champions 2008: Michalis Mileos & Evangelos-Vasileio Mitakis (GRE)
International 420 Ladies’ World Champions 2008: Katerina & Sofia Kaitatzidou (GRE)
William Sanchez Trophy (for highest placed boat aged 16 or under) – Worlds: Vasilis Papoutsoglou & Akilas Drougas (GRE)
William Sanchez Trophy (for highest placed boat aged 16 or under) – Ladies’ Worlds: Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (NZL)
Huck Scott Memorial Trophy – the youngest team in both Championships: Denise Vassi & Tzenni Smirli (ISR)
John Merricks Trophy (highest placed team 18 years less) - Worlds: Vasilis Papoutsoglou & Akilas Drougas (GRE)
John Merricks Trophy (highest placed team 18 years less): Gil Cohen & Adva Kremer (ISR) World Championships concluded! With the Meltemi very strong this morning, the racing was postponed. For example, at 12.42 the average (steady) windspeed was 28 knots, but with gusts of 42 km. Shortly before 15.00, the racing for the day was finally cancelled.
The results are showing on the Event Website. We will bring you many, many more images on the Photo Gallery here and other information in due course. For now, everyone is busy! The Prizegiving is tonight at 20.30. Un rendez-vous avec Gérard: le français ensemble. ....and now we have a special Photo Gallery from the French team. Who next? [S'il vous plaît, me pardonner pour mon français pauvre ! (Ed)] Qualifiers Day 2 Report to ISAF The sailing instructions for the Junior European Championships in Zadar have now been posted on the racing section of the web site Qualifiers Day 1 Report to ISAF The 420 World Championships started today (Friday) with the first of two days of qualifying races.
In the Women’s, with 2, 2, 7 placings in the three races of the day, Imke Brockerhoff & Annika Stork of Germany have a 2-point lead over Brazilians, Martine Soffiati Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte with their 6, 1, 6 line-up. Sara Anendola & Giulia Paolillo of Italy took 7, 4, 4 to lie in 3rd into Day 2.
1 Imke Brockerhoff & Annika Stork (GER) 11 points
2 Martine Soffiati Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte (BRA) 13pts
3 Sara Anendola & Giulia Paolillo (ITA) 15pts
4 Gil Cohen & Avdel Kremer (ISR) 18pts
5 Cristina Cellis & Silvia Morini (ITA) 19pts
6 Afroditi Kiranakou & Eleni Nikiforidou (GRE) 21pts
7 Tav Shani & Tslil Ben-Horin (ISR) 21pts
8 Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Münks (GER) 22pts
9 Federica Wetzl & Marta Parladori (ITA) 22pts
10 Stanley & Kate Macgregor (GBR) 27pts
In the Open Fleet, reigning European Champions, Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Lorenzo de Felice, with 2, 3, 7, are leading the pack. Paul Snow-Hansen & Ben Goodwin, having just given a strong performance at the ISAF Youth Worlds in the 29er, are back in the 420 and, following a 12th in race 1, took bullets in the two remaining races today, to go into the second day of Qualifying races in 2nd place. Vasilis Papoutsoglou & Akilas Drougas of Greece are in 3rd overall, with a 6, 7, 3 scorecard.
1 Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Lorenzo de Felice (ITA) 12 points
2 Paul Snow-Hansen & Ben Goodwin (NZL) 14pts
3 Vasilis Papoutsoglou & Akilas Drougas (GRE) 16pts
4 Ben Saxton & David de Boltz (GBR) 17pts
5 Francisco Sucari & Francisco Renna (ARG) 20pts
6 Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) 23pts
7 David Omedes Requena & Carles Gallart Bargallo (ESP) 24pts
8 James Rusden & Joe Williams (GBR) 30pts
9 Micalis Stavrou & Giannis Orfanos (GRE) 32pts
10 Michalis Mileos & Evangelos-Vasileios Mitakis (GRE) 32pts After several attempts to get the first races off in the two qualifyers in paired flights on each course (Ladies' and Open), the first set of races are all completed. You can follow the action, with constant commentary on progress on the Event website (click above).
Meanwhile, Chile and GBR lead the two Open qualifiers and Spain & Israel take the early lead for the Women. A record number of 420 teams have arrived in Athens for the 2008 World and Ladies World Championships. The event is being held in the waters of Faliro Bay in the Saronic Gulf. It is based at the Faliro Olympic 2004 Coastal Zone Complex, the home of the host club, the Nautical Club of Tzitzifies-Kallithea (NOTK),
Speaking after the Opening Ceremony, 420 Class President, Nino Shmueli, said, “We are very proud to have teams from five continents at this World Championships – 178 boats (of which 77 are entered for the Ladies Championship). This is a record participation, including several countries that have not recently, or ever, been previously represented. This gives us a positive impression that we are moving in the right direction. I am looking forward to an excellent championship”.
ISAF Report following the Opening Ceremony attached. Photos from Athens You will see that we use "Photo News" for any random pics we get around the event. Not too serious!
For larger numbers of photos - from the sailing and ceremonies etc. - we are using the Photo Gallery.
The Official Event Photographer is Dimitris Koumaras of www.sailingphoto.gr. Some of his photos will be featured on the Class Website (Gallery), but will also be posted on the Event Website. The Class also will have access to our own photographer and, perhaps, other supporters', although access to the race area is, of course, closely limited. Today, Dimitris has supplied some images from last night's opening ceremony. Austrian Treasurer seeks confirmation of her investment Lisbeth Diem was in touch from Austria. She needed to know that all was well with her guys. We feature (Rolling Photos today; then Photo News) photographic evidence that all are smiling (and seem to get on well with the Swiss....in the boatpark anyway!).
We would like to hear from you (just click on “Submit News & Photos” or Send Email). The attached advice has been received from Uskok Sailing club regarding teams travelling to Zada Is anyone there? Please be in touch We know that there will be Worlds supporters watching. We would like to hear from you (just click on “Submit News & Photos” or Send Email). It is good to know if anyone is watching! But also, if we can pass on the news and information from Athens that you want, we will try – just tell us!
Meanwhile, we are getting some photos through. See Photo News 420 sailors for generations have known Jim. In recent years, as well as running clinics at the ISAF Youths, Jim has been a frequent contributor to 420 International Championships, most recently at the 2007 Junior Europeans at Medemblik (if you were there, you will remember an intense discussion, using video, with Sherman Cheng (SIN), the eventual winning crew - see photo). Many sailors will know that Jim has been the leader of the 420 Class Coaching Seminars which we have been holding for 420 coaches worldwide – most recently in Rio de Janeiro last November (watch this space!). If you have not been one of Jim’s “ferrets” on the water, you will probably have read his books – which have strongly featured the 420.
So we are delighted that ISAF yesterday honoured Jim at his 30th ISAF Youth Worlds (click above for ISAF News). 420 sailors win four medals at ISAFs, even without 420s! Frances Peters & Claire Lasko and James Peters won Golds in the 29ers and Judge Ryan (USA) and James Ellis (GBR) (former 420 Junior Euros Bronze medallist) won Bronzes in the 29er and the Multihull respectively at the ISAF World Youth Championships at Aarhus, Denmark.
Other well-known 420 sailors we found on the water were: in the women’s: Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher 4th (2008 NZL Women’s 420 Champions), Martine Sofiate Grael & Daniela Adler Pimental Duarte (BRA) 7th (Daniela is the 2008 South American 420 Women’s Champion), Griselda Khng & Cecilia Low Rui Qi (SIN) 9th, Alyson Rumball & Niamh O’Connell (IRL) 12th, Fanny Lumeau & Erell Ranou (FRA) 14th; and among the men: Paul Snow-Hansen & Ben Goodwin (NZL) 4th, (2008 NZL 420 National Champions), Taariq Jacobs & Neil Malan (RSA) 7th, Ed Butler & Daniel McCarthy (IRL) 13th, Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (SIN) 15th (last year’s open winners at the 420 Junior Euros at Medemblik, as well as reigning Asian & SEA Games 420 Champions), Final results: Double Hander - Women, Double Hander - Men and Multihull.
But maybe you recognise more 420 sailors at Aarhus - let us know! Meanwhile, at least nine of the above are signed up for the 420 Worlds in Athens at the next week. Good luck to all our (multi-skilled) sailors!
Meanwhile, which 420 sailors will be in Armação de Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2009, in 420s (or in any other boat, for that matter)?! Bernard Skoczek & Thibaut Soler won YC Maugio Carnon the ten race series at the French Coupe Nationale at CN Ile-Tudy, near Quimper, Finistère (south east of Brest). With a 78 competitor field (the proximity of the Athens Worlds reduced the usual international interest this year, though the Scots team of Peter Irwin & David Kohler made the journey and achieved an 11th overall), Skoczek & Soler won with a convincing 11 point lead. Les Rochelaises, Kevin Peponnet & Loic Duchesne Ferchal were 2nd and Nemo Moinet & Julien Lebrun of CN La Tremblade / ASPTT La Rochelle 3rd. Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier were the leading women, with Cecile Gutierrez & Jade Festino 2nd and Dorothea Aumont & Sophie Fremont 3rd. See you guys again in Brittany at the 2009 Coupe Nationale! Meanwhile, into action at the Worlds! Bonne Chance
1 Bernard Skoczek & Thibaut Soler (YC Maugio Carnon) 35 points
2 Kevin Peponnet & Loic Duchesne Ferchal (SR Rochelaises) 46pts
3 Nemo Moinet & Julien Lebrun (CN La Tremblade / ASPTT La Rochelle) 59 pts
4 Sebastien Simon & Avmeric Paruit (SNO Nantes) 64 pts
5 Vincent Geniteau & Zoe Poncelet (CV St Quentin / VGA St Maur Voile) 70 pts
6 Guillaume Lecointre & Cedric Mary (CV St Quentin) 70 pts
7 Cassandre Blandin & Marion Leprunier (SNO Nantes / NDCV Angers) 77 pts
14 Cecile Gutierrez & Jade Festino (CN Antibes / YC Villeneuve L)
15 Dorothea Aumont & Sophie Fremont (CV St Quentin) With fourteen races completed in the 29ers at Århus, the ISAFs moved into the final day with 420 sailors on top in both the girls & boys! Having dropped to 2nd last night, James Peters (GBR) is back there, after USA 420 helm Judge Ryan had problems in the last two races, and with ten points in hand. Paul Snow-Hansen & Ben Goodwin (NZL) (2008 NZL 420 National Champions) are 4th and Taariq Jacobs & Neil Malan (RSA), pioneer 420 sailors in South Africa, are 7th.
Although on top all week, James sister, Frances Peters and Claire Lasko (GBR), both experienced 420 helms, have been challenged along the way by the NED girls and have just a 4-point lead into the last day. Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (2008 NZL Women’s 420 Champions) are in 5th and Martine Sofiate Grael & Daniela Adler Pimental Duarte (BRA) (Daniela is the 2008 South American 420 Women’s Champion) are 8th,
Meanwhile, James Ellis, bronze helm at the 420 Junior Euros 2006, pulled up to 3rd yesterday and is hanging in there, in spite of discarding the last race, and has 4 points either side. The sailing instructions for the Pre-Worlds training have now been posted. Experienced 420 helms, Frances Peters and Claire Lasko (GBR) lead in the women’s double-hander at Aarhus, Denmark in the ISAF World Youth Championships; Frances’ brother, James, also a former 420 sailor, is helming the leading men’s boat.
There is a galaxy of 420 talent in the line-up, Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (2008 NZL Women’s 420 Champions), Martine Sofiate Grael & Daniela Adler Pimental Duarte (BRA) (Daniela is the 2008 South American 420 Women’s Champion), Alyson Rumball & Niamh O’Connell (IRL), Fanny Lumeau & Erell Ranou (FRA), Judge Ryan (USA), Paul Snow-Hansen & Ben Goodwin (NZL) (2008 NZL 420 National Champions), Taariq Jacobs & Neil Malan (RSA), Ed Butler & Daniel McCarthy (IRL), Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng (2007 open winners at 420 Junior Euros, as well as reigning Asian & SEA Games 420 Champions), And 420 Junior Euro Bronze medallist at Tavira 2006, James Ellis (GBR), is running 3rd in the multi-hull class.
Maybe you see more 420 sailors at Aarhus - let us know! Meanwhile, at least 9 of the above are entered for the 420 Worlds in Athens next week. Good luck to all our (multi-skilled) sailors!
The ISAF report says: 'The Brazilian Girl’s 29er duo of Martine Grael and Daniela Adler climbed four places up the overall leaderboard to seventh after scores of 3, 4, 5 today. “We’ve been sailing 29ers for three months and today was only the fourth day of strong winds in our lives. But we’re doing well so we’re really happy about it,” said Adler. It is no surprise the team are such quick learners when you consider their sailing backgrounds; Martine is the daughter of Volvo Ocean Race skipper and five-time Olympic medallist Torben Grael whilst Daniela’s uncle is Daniel Adler, also an Olympic medallist. The next generation are also clearly aware of the family traditions, “The first time they were together they were silver medallists in the Olympics [in the Soling at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles]. The second time maybe, gold!” said Daniela with a twinkle in her eye'. Each summer French 420 sailors (and often a good many others) make for Brittany/Bretagne and/or the Atlantic coast for their National Cup. Right now some 160 sailors are busy getting measured and out practising at CN Ile-Tudy, near Quimper, Finistère (south east of Brest). Proximity to the Worlds in Athens may have diminished the numbers a bit, but in France they sail in big fleets! (and they have some selecting left to do!). Unusually, just one international entry this year, a Scots boat! This year racing will be in a single fleet format. Races will start tomorrow (Monday) at 11AM. Light winds are forecast for the event. Bonne chance! After 9 races and with a 13 point lead, Julian & Philipp Autenrieth of Germany have won the 58° Intervela at Fraglia Vela Riva on Lake Garda. Federico Cattaneo & Fabrizio Nardi (ITA) took 2nd (29pts) and Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT), were third on 33pts, 23 ahead of their next challengers, Davide Vignone & Matteo Ramian (ITA).
For the women, Roberta Caputo took first place (6th overall) – we still await confirmation of her crew! Gil Cohen & Adva Kremer (ISR) were 2nd (overall 9th) and Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger (SUI) were the third placed women’s team (12th overall).
[Our apologies to Max & Julian for earlier, compounded errors! Succesful application for redress in the last two races apparently led to correction of their final results. Well, its meant we have at least one photo from the event though! Has anyone else got any?] Federico Cattaneo & Fabrizio Nardi, after 8 Races, lead the 69-boat field at Fraglia Vela Riva on Lake Garda by four points into the final day of the 58° Intervela Regatta. Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (GER) also pulled their way up to finish on 33 points. Having to discard a DNF in race 8, Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) are 15 points behind, while Davide Vignone & Matteo Ramian (ITA) are on 60 pts and Sergio Racco & Antonio Spagnalo (ITA) are in 5th on 61 pts.
Roberta Caputo (ITA), another helm without a declared crew (!), is first woman in 8th overall, on 96 pts. Gil Cohen & Adva Kremer (ISR) are 1 point behind and Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger (SUI) are on 106 pts. Nick Drougas will be holding a pre-worlds training camp in Athens from 19th to 21st July. Full details can be found by following the link. With a first discard kicking in, there have been some changes in the line-up at the Intervela on Garda today. Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger (SUI - YC Bielersee) take a 5-point lead into Day 3. Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) move up to 2nd and are on equal points (20) with Domonkos Rozswyay & Jonata Czeizel of Hungary in 3rd. According to the published results, Federico Cattaneo is sailing single-handed - which is impressive as he is in 4th tonight on 21 pts - but we are wondering if Fabrizio Nardi is on board too! Julian & Philipp Autenrieth appear to have had a tricky second day 5th on 23 pts), but their 3 bullets on Day 1 should keep them well in the running. The 58° Intervela opened for racing today with three races and an international field of 66 boats, including USA and NZL teams on their European tour toward Athens.
A clean sweep of three bullets for Julian & Philipp Autenrieth of Bayerischer YC, Germany (Julian was Optimist World Champion in 2006). Leonardo Dubbini & Federico Lovison of CV Toscolano Maderno (ITA) are in 2nd on 9 points, while Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) are 3rd on 19pts; Sarah & Emma Berry, well-known New Zealand 420 campaigners are 4th on 29pts and Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger (SUI), recently returned from the Flanders Regatta, are 5th on 32 pts. Scoring another bullet in the last race, Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen were leaving nothing to chance! But, with a six point lead over their nearest rivals, they won Flanders 2008. Former winners of the Imperia Winter Regatta (2006) and Women’s Silver at the Junior Euros 2007 at Medemblik, this Dutch team are ones to watch at the forthcoming Worlds in Athens, as are the second-placed team, Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (ESP), from CN Salou, Cataluña, champions at the 2008 Campeonato de España and 3rd at the Copa de España. In third place were the Australian team of Morgan Skinner & James Omay.
The last race saw two of the women’s teams strengthen their positions with a 2nd and 3rd, Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger of Switzerland and Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller of France respectively.
The full line-up of the top fifteen is:
Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED) 23,0
Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (ESP) 29,0
Morgan Skinner & James Omay (AUS) 48,0
Nicola Lefebvre & Hubert Cothier (FRA) 53,0
Maxime Chaigneau & Chevet Henry (FRA) 58,0
Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) 61,0
Guillem Vidiella Conchan & Óscar López Ravetllat (ESP) 62,0
Stern Marc & Meylan Stéphane (SUI) 70,0
Andrea Cornudella & Clara Dolz (ESP) 72,0
Charles Lassarat & Paul Dadvisard (FRA) 73,0
Sarah Hickman & Megan Fileman (GBR) 84,0
Meret Vogt & Nicole Bolliger (SUI) 87,0
Lys Moulaert & Sophie Audenaerdt (BEL) 89,0
Astrid Hansen & Evelyn Pettersson (AUS) 94,0
Barbara Cornudella & Sara López Ravetllat (ESP) 101,0 1 Viktor & Veronika Johannisson 13 points
3 Fredrik Gustafson & Magnus Castenfors 29pts
4 John Gustafson & Sofia Gustafson 32pts
5 Elin Ogeman & Kalle Mattsson 38pts
6 Martin Koch & Axel Benson 38pts
7 Maja Bärring & Linnéa Petersson 43pts
8 Veronica Fredriksson & Josefine Thorwaldson 46pts
9 Oliver Molse & Sir Jacob Palmquist 53pts
10 Linnéa Castenfors & Anna Rosén 75pts The CLI-CA organisation have organised the first of their 2008-9 activities. This time it will take place in Mallorca, in the Club Nautico S'Arenal at the end of August. There will be a clinic followed by a regatta and all 420 sailors are invited to participate. On the penultimatre night of the Regatta and after 10 races, Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED) are in the lead by 3 points. Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (ESP) are in 2nd on 25 points, while the Australians, Morgan Skinner & James Omay are up to 3rd on 39 pts. Nicola Lefebvre & Hubert Cothier (FRA) are 4th (44 pts) and Guillem Vidiella Conchan & Óscar López Ravetllat (ESP) are on 50 pts. Clara & Lucie Scheiwiller (FRA) are 2nd women (58 pts) and Andrea Cornudella & Clara Dolz (ESP) 3rd (62 pts). Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal, Spanish champions, have taken the lead at the Flanders Youth Regatta after 8 races, with 19 points (discarding a 6). On their heels, and also discarding a 6 to be one point behind are the experienced Dutch team, Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen. Nicola Lefebvre & Hubert Cothier (FRA) are 3rd (32 pts), Morgan Skinner & James Omay (AUS) 4th on 39 and Guillem Vidiella Conchan & Óscar López Ravetllat 5th on 44 points Flanders Youth Regatta is well underway at Nieuwpoort in Belgium. After a little delay we now have results from five races. It looks as though it is just as well that aa discard has kicked in for those who did not make the first race! Quite a change in the entry this year, with a diminished GBR participation, but competitors from France, Switzerland, and Australia, a large team from Spain, and, of course, Belgium & the Netherlands.
Maxime Chaigneau & Henry Chevet (SR Havre/SNPH) are leading on 6 points, with Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (ESP - CN Salou, Cataluña - champions at the 2008 Campeonato de España and 3rd at the Copa de España) and Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED -Braassemermeer - winners of Imperia Winter Regatta 2006 and Women’s Silver at the 2007 Junior Euros) in 2nd & 3rd, both on 9 points. Nicola Lefebvre & Hubert Cothier (FRA) are 4th on 11 pts and Guillem Vidiella Conchan &Óscar López Ravetllat (ESP) 5th on 18 pts. Following the lead of Keijzer & van Veen among the women, are Astrid Hansen & Evelyn Pettersson (AUS) on32 pts and Sarah Hickman & Megan Fileman (GBR) on 36pts 1 Federico Maccari & Rocco Vitali (ITA) 8 pts
2 Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) 11 pts
3 Edoardo Scotti & Lorenzo de Felice (ITA) 11 pts
4 Andreas & Alexandros Bakatsias (GRE) 17 pts
5 Julian & Philipp Autenrieth (GER) 20 pts
6 Ben Saxton & David de Boltz (GBR) 23 pts
7 Sotiris Tsamis & Iason Christoforidis (GRE) 7 pts
8 Antonius Tsiboukelis & Georgius Karonis (GRE)
9 Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett (GBR) 30 pts
10 Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) 33 pts
11 Michalis Petrogonas & Faidon Kounas (GRE) 34 pts
12 Ben Palmer & Piers Strong (GBR) 35 pts
13 Federica Wetzl & Marta Parladori (ITA) 36 pts
14 Julian Stückl & Adrian Hoesch (GER) 39 pts
15 James Rusden & Joe Williams (GBR) 43 pts
Women:
1 Federica Wetzl & Marta Parladori (ITA) 36 pts
2 Karoline Pepin & Sabine Becker (GER)
3 Maria Voulgaraki & Danae-Dionisia Pascwou (GRE) 63 pts
4 Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Münks (GER) 66 pts
5 Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED) 80 pts
6 Imke Brockerhoff & Annika Storke (GER) 81 pts Photos from Kiel With no sailing at Kiel on Monday, we managed to get some photos from the first day, currently featuring on the Rolling Photos on this page (we will get a Gallery up later). These have a certain Irish orientation, but we are pleased that Germany's leading ladies feature!
If you have access to photos, news, have a story to tell......just click on "Submit News / Photos"......please! Taking a 3rd in Race 4, Federico Maccari & Rocco Vitali (ITA) hold the lead on 9 points, with Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) taking a 2nd and retaining 2nd overall on 13 pts. Andreas & Alexandros Bakatsias now lead the Greek challenge in 3rd overall (16 pts), having scored a bullet in Race. Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett (GBR) are on 19 and Antonius Tsiboukelis & Georgius Karonis (GRE) on 19 points.
Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Münks (GER) retain the women’s lead on 49 pts (15th overall), but Eleni Stamkov & Stamatia Fragkiadaki (GRE) are just 2 points and one place behind. Karoline Pepin & Sabine Becker (GER), continue their upward push, with a second 9th of the day, to put themselves 3rd women on 57 pts (18th overall). Federico Maccari & Rocco Vitali (ITA) take over the lead on 6 points with a further bullet in R3 (Sunday). Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) are in 2nd on 11 pts. Antonius Tsiboukelis & Georgius Karonis (GRE) drop to 3rd on equal 14 points with GBR teams Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton and Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett, while two further Greek boats, Andreas & Alexandros Bakatsias and Sotiris Tsamis & Iason Christoforidis are in 6th and 7th, both on 15 points.
Among the women, Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Münks (GER) take over the lead (with an 5th overall in R3) on 26 points. Eleni Stamkov & Stamatia Fragkiadaki (GRE) are on 31 pts and Imogen Stanley & Kate Macgregor (GBR) on 41 pts, 4 points ahead of Ewa Bartosiewicz & Katarzyna Ostrowska (POL), who, in turn, are 3 points ahead of Karoline Pepin & Sabine Becker (GER). With some 190 420s registered, Kieler Woche got underway today. Nearly half the competitors come from outside Germany, including Australia (3), Austria (7), Czech Republic (4), Denmark (1), Spain (6), France (1), Britain (13), Greece (14), Hungary (6), Ireland (7), Italy (9), Netherlands (5), Poland (11) and Sweden (5). The first international event since the Izola Cup in March and CIMA in April, Kiel follows completion of team selections in most countries for the 420 Worlds in Athens and the Junior Europeans in Zadar. Many of these are competing at Kiel, so this should provide some indication of comparative form, among the competing countries.
Two races were sailed on the first day (Saturday) of the five day event. “Sunshine, westerly breeze reaching 8 to 10 knots, air and water temperature refreshing 17 degrees Celsius - just perfect conditions for the opening day of Kieler Woche 2008!”
Antonius Tsiboukelis & Georgius Karonis of Greece took an early lead. Federico Maccari & Rocco Vitali of Italy (5th at the 2007 Junior Europeans) are 2nd, Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton (GBR) 3rd, Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) (4th at the 2007 Europeans and leading German team in their recent selection series) 4th and Sotiris Tsamis & Iason Christoforidis (GRE) are 5th.
The Greek team have made an early impact among the wemen competitors also. Eleni Stamkov & Stamatia Fragkiadaki, from the Club where the Worlds will be held next month, are in 2nd, followed by Lisa Panuschka & Jacqueline Münks (GER), but the leaders are Martyna Walczyk & Monika Kondlewska of Poland.. The General Assembly of the International 420 Class will take place on the 27th July at 17.30 during the World Championships. The agenda has been published on the Documents page of this web site. This week a fleet of 6 new 420s arrived in Bulgaria (see Photo News ), bought by the Bulgarian Sailing Federation. BSAF President Stanislav Kassarov explained that this was the start of their programme to have a double-handed boat for the transition between Optimists and 470s. We hope to see some of the boats at our events this summer.
Нов клас яхти в България
На 14.05.2008 в България бяха доставени първите 6 лодки от клас 420.
Клас 420 е една от най-разпространените яхти по света за екипаж от двама души. По света се карат над 56 000 лодки в над 70 страни. 420 е клсът, който се използва за развитие на младежкото ветроходство в 43 стр Women’s Champions at the Coupe Internationale Méditerranéenne de l’Amitié (CIMA) 2008, Agueda Suria (RCN Valencia) and Sofía Basterra (CN El Balís) won the Copa de España 2008 overall at RCN de Dénia (between Alicante and València) at the weekend.
Clasificaciones
1 Agueda Suria & Sofía Basterra 22 points
2 Felipe Parejo & Pablo Fernández 23 pts
3 Toni Tur & Aleix Selles 30 pts
4 Bruno Gago & Ceasar Conde 53 pts
5 Diego Botin & Pablo Turrado 55 pts
6 Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo 55 pts
7 Hugo Fernandez & Sergio Crespo 56 pts
8 Santi & David Mas Depares 59 pts
9 Elia Borrego Arnau & Lourdes Sala Climent 59 pts
10 Carlos Cantero & Juan Curbelo 59 pts In a closely fought selection series of 11 races over two weekends and at different venues, GBR completed its Worlds and Junior Euros selection series on Monday. The points say it all! James Rusden & Joe Williams won by one point from Ben Saxton and David de Boltz, scoring bullets in the two races on the last day; the gap after the two leading boats was some 28 points. Ben Palmer & Piers Strong were 3rd, with Matt Rainback & Simon Foskett 4th and Owain Matthews & Tim Saxton 5th.
Imogen Stanley & Kate Macgregor, Bronze winners at last year’s Junior Europeans, led the women, in 7th overall. But Lucy de Boltz & Milly Parkin made a strong challenge in the second event, to pull up to 9th overall. Becca Kalderon & Rosie Sibthorp were in 13th in a Series’ fleet of 32 boats.
A flotilla of Irish boats also sailed in for the two GBR events (at Bala SC in Wales and at Highcliffe SC on the south coast). Stephen Tiernan & Rob Lehane of Kinsale YC took 9th in the second open event, to build on 11th in the first. Jane Butler & Jennifer Andreasson of the Royal St George YC lead the Irish women at both. Bart van der Hondel & Jasper Kleijweg have won the Dutch Youth Regatta, with a 2 point lead over the Silver and Women’s winners, Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (14 points), after some very close sailing. Dirk Bennen & Christiaan van Garderen were 3rd (23 pts), Robert-Jan Kentgens & Perry Gebuijs 4th (34 pts) and Fleur van Erp & Charlotte Stumpel 4th (38 pts). The final results were published tonight (click above) for the XIX Campeonato de Portugal de Juniores – 2008. The 420 champions are: Campeão de Portugal Junior da Classe 420 (that’s the Open Champions): Gonçalo Santos & Lourenço Gonçalves of CN de Cascais and Campeã de Portugal Junior de Classe 420 Feminino (that’s the Women): Francisca & Filipa Barros of YC Porto. For further information go to Federação Portuguesa de Vela. Gonçalo Santos & Lourenço Gonçalves has a clear lead in the Portuguese 420 “Junior” Championship at CV Lagos with three bullets counting. Manuel Cunha & António Tinoco are 2nd on 10 pts and Frederico Gomes & Miguel Pinto 3rd on 12pts. Francisca & Filipa Barros are the first women’s team (5th overall), while Joana Azevedo & Adelaide Gouveia are 2nd (8th overall) and Francisca Martins & Inês Coelho 3rd (10th overall).
Pedro Rodriguez, General Secretary of the International 420 Class reports that, on day 2 (Friday) of the XIX Junior Championship in Lagos, Portugal, “the wind was blowing with the intensity that ranged between 15 and 20 knots, which gave the sailors a chance to make up for the lost time of the day before [no races on Day 1 apparently], with 4 races sailed”. In spite of an extra early start on Day 3 to catch the early wind forecast, the sailors were returned to the shore without racing. Fingers are crossed in Lagos for more on the final day (Sunday), though the forecast is not promising. On-Line Entries Now Open On-line entries for both the World Championships and the Junior European Championships are now open on the racing pages of the web site. Damien Brenac of YC Antibes & Julien Lacaze of SN Bandol won CIMA at YC Cavalaire on Monday. It seems the weather that caused much equipment breakage at the Semaine Olympique Française at Hyères on Sunday, affected CIMA too; the four-day event completed seven races. Gabriel Scoczek & Thibaut Soler (YC Mauguio-Carnon), who took 4th at last year’s 420 Junior Europeans at Medemblik, were 2nd on 18 pts and Yvan Beckius & Pierre Petetin (SN de Sanary) 3rd on 21 pts. Maxime Garbay & Achille Nebout Javal (YC Mauguio-Carnon) were 4th on 28 pts and David Omedes & Oscar Lopez from Spain (CV Palamos) were 5th on 31 pts
The Spanish women stormed the podium, with Agueda Suria & Sofia Basterra (RCN Valencia) leading (15th overall) [Agueda was 4th in the Women's World Championships at Istanbul last year]. Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (CN Salou) were 2nd (16th) and Atlantic & Nora Brugman (CV Blanes), 3rd (18th).
Rest of top ten:
6 Vianney Guilbaud & Bastien Aumont (CV St Quentin) 37 pts
7 Paul Rossi & Marc Mallaret (YC Mauguio-Carnon) 39 pts
8 Nemo Moinet & Julien Lebrun (YC Mauguio-Carnon) 40 pts
9 Sacha Pelisson (YC Cavalaire) & Nicolas Rossi (YC Antibes) 40 pts
10 Baptiste Choquenet & Nicolas Kniebihli (EV Cherbourg) 46 pts
34 of the 116 boats came from outside France. Those who led for their teams were:
Max Trippolt & Julian Meister for Austria (YC Bregenz), 14th overall
Gonçalo Spintos & Laurenço Goncalues for Portugal (CN Cascais), 17th
Rita Leal Faria & Teresa Cunha for Portugal (CN Cascais), 20th
Marc Stern & Stéphane Meylan for Switzerland (CN Versoix), 26th
Roberta Caputo & Benedetta Barbiero for Italy (RYCC Savoia), 31st
Rozsnyay Domonkos & Czeizel Jonatan for Hungary (Spartacus Vitorlás Egylet), 34th
Meret Vogt & Nicole Bollinger for Switzerland (CV Béroche), 56th
YC Cavalaire Well, we are watching YC Cavalaire for news of CIMA, but by Sunday night we are only seeing the first five races, up to Saturday. Hopefully, more will be revealed tomorrow! Meanwhile, who are the early movers and shakers?
Locals, Damien Brenac (YC Antibes) & Julien Lacaze (SN Bandol) were leading on 5 points, with Yvan Beckius & Pierre Petetin (SN de Sanary) on 10 pts and Gabriel Scoczek & Thibaut Soler (YC Mauguio-Carnon) on 12 pts. Spanish sailors, David Omedes & Oscar Lopez (CV Palamos) were 4th (16 pts) and Maxime Garbay & Achille Nebout Javal (YC Mauguio-Carnon) 5th (19 pts).
For the women, Cassandra Blandin (SNO Nantes) & Marion Leprunier (NDCV Angers) were in 16th overall, with the Spanish team Carlota Massana & Ana Lobo (CN Sevilla) in 17th and Roberta Caputo & Benedeta Barbiero (ITA - RYCC Savoia) 21st.
If anyone has more up-to date news or images of this or any other 420 regatta, please click on Submit News / Photos The big French International 420 Championship, Coupe Internationale Méditerranéenne de l’Amitié (CIMA) is underway this weekend at Yacht Club de Cavalaire. We hope that there will be news soon; the link above takes you to the Event website. La bonne chance à tous les marins Asenathi Jim from Red Hill & Marlon Jones from Ocean View, both of Izivunguvungu-MSC Foundation for Youth are National 420 Champions in South Africa for a second year running. The second National Championship for the brand new RSA 420 Class was held at the SAS Western Cape Championships 2008 at Hoedjiesbaai Beach, Saldanha Bay and was organised by Zeekoevlei YC.
Asenathi & Marlon completed the challenging 12 race series on 15 points, 13 ahead of their next rivals and 6 bullets to their names! But they did not have it totally their way. Ashwynn Daniels and Denzio Davids, fellow members of the Izivunguvungu Sailing School, took the silver step on the podium on 28 points and took a 1st in R10. Two points behind overall were father and son team, Paul and Jean Jacques Gorremans of Zeekoevlei YC, who had three bullets, but made the bronze slot on countback from Kenwyn Daniels & Joweal Klaase, again members of Team Izivunguvungu.
Fellow former Optimist sailors, who have recently teamed up and put in some competition practice at Hermanus in January, Brevan Thompson & Callum Kilpin of ZVYC took fifth in the Championships. We are pleased to see Michael Kellett & Gabriel Bhala take 6th, a great improvement on their 12th last year. Meanwhile, the first Women, Carla Dyer & Bridget Clayton of the University of Cape Town YC, improved on last year too! When are we going to see you guys at an international event? Alison Thompson’s Event Report is attached. The GBR (RYA) Youth Championships & (ISAF) Trials concluded on Friday at Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli SC in Wales. Ben Saxton & David de Boltz are GBR 420 Youth Champions and Imogen Stanley & Kate Macgregor are the Women’s Champions.
It was a close thing, with Owain Matthews and Ben’s brother, Tim a point behind after the final race. And strong challenges had been mounted throughout the week by Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton, at their first Youth Championships, and by James Rusden & Joe Williams. Imogen Stanley & Kate Macgregor, bronze winners at last year’s Junior Europeans, had an enormous lead of 68 points over their next rivals in the women’s competition, helmed by Imogen’s younger sister. Karenza Morton’s Report on the whole event, which is the annual selection trial for the GBR team for the ISAF Youth Worlds is attached.
The GBR 420 Class was also celebrating the selections for the double-handed dinghy at the ISAF Youths. Of the 29er fleet of nearly 40 boats, the top four performing helms were all current or former 420 Class members. Both experienced 420 sailors, Frances Peters & Claire Lasko, who were 2nd overall, will be GBRs womens representatives at the ISAFs, and Frances’ younger brother, James. who helmed the winning boat at the Championships, will also be going to the ISAFs. Watch out in 420s in 2009! Imogen Stanley & Kate Macgregor have built a pretty massive lead in the women’s competition at the GBR (RYA) Youth Championships at Pwllheli Sailing Club in Wales – what we might expect from the bronze winners at last year’s Junior Europeans. Meanwhile, there is a tussle among the men, with Ben Saxton & David de Boltz leading over the first two days of racing and Owain Matthews & Tim Saxton just 4 points behind. Phil Sparks & Ben Gratton, James Rusden & Joe Williams, Stanley & Macgregor and Peter Irwin & David Kohler (Scotland) are all within 2 points of each other and in contention. Two more days’ sailing if the wind behaves better than it did on Tuesday!
We have received photographs from Richard Langdon of Ocean Images to join those from the Izola Cup, the South Americans and Ireland on our Rolling Photos on the News page.
Do you have news & images from other 420 events? Let us know by clicking on “Submit News / Photos” on the Navigation menu. Stephen Tiernan of Poole YC & Rob Lehane of the Royal Cork and Kinsale Yacht Clubs won the 2008 ISA National Youth Championships in Schull, South West Ireland. Tim Ó Laoire & Brian Kelleher of Howth and the Royal St George Yacht Clubs were 2nd and Jane Butler & Jenny Andreasson were 3rd and are Women’s National Youth Champions. New Builder Licensed in Mexico The Mexican company of Veleros Nautica a Punto have been granted a licence to build the International 420. This is a significant step in the growth of the International 420 in Central America, and we wish them well. Monday saw the 420s complete their final 2 races. Conditions were NE 4-6 knots for the first race. The second race was shorted at mark 3 after 55 minutes sailing when the wind dropped to under 3 knots.
Winners were:
1 Paul Snow Hansen and Ben Goodwin, Wakatere BC, on 22 points
2 Simon Cooke and Scott Illingsworth, Kohimaramara BC on 31 points
3 Alexandria Maloney and Bianca Barbarich-Bacher, Murrays Bay/KeriKeri SCs 49 points Federico Maccari & Rocco Vitali (CV Bellano) lead after 6 races at the Regate Nationale at Marsala on 7 points. Edoardo Mancinelli Scotti & Sara Zribi of CV Roma are in 2nd on 8 pts and Lorenzo Gemini & Francesco Chessa Orro of YC Cagliari are 3rd on 14. The regatta, which finishes tomorrow, is a selector for the Italian Worlds and Junior Europeans teams. "After a rough night with rain and snow even on the Slovenian Coast, where we rarely see it, Izola awoke to a cloudless day, with a light Bora (NW). Just a few hours later, with the first cloud, all hopes died. Nearly! After a few hours both Race Committees invited the competitors onto the water, but rain and hale 'killed' the wind, so the RC's sent the boats ashore". We guess the final results are those we published below (from the third day). Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) lead at the Izola Spring Cup in Slovenia on 15 points after 9 races. But Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) are on their heels with 19 points, with both teams pulling well ahead of the rest of the fleet. Reka Vigh & Zora Kiss (HUN) and Magdalena & Sophia Hubert-Reh (GER) look as tghough they are having their own close tussle in the women’s.
The excellent Izola website gives us some information on day 3: Snow inland made a great difference, according to the forecasts. Instead of lighter Southern winds, the Bora (NE) reappeared the Gulf of Trieste. Racing was delayed until noon. After that there was a fine and stable NE wind (17 to 22 knots), but quite some degrees C lower than most have expected. “There were some more problems on the second racing field for non-olympic classes. It seems that most of the crews of the 420 class haven't rounded the right mark. There is a hearing held after the protest placed by the RC”.
1 Ferdinand Gerz & Tobias Bolduan (GER) (15)
2 Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) (19)
3 Walter Bajons & Rudi Weiss (AUT) (43 pts)
4 Florian Felzmann & Martin Lux (AUT) (52)
5 Maximilian Hubert-Reh & Sebastian Ziegler (GER) (54)
6 Domonkos Rozsnyay & Jonatan Czeizel (HUN) (55)
7 Reka Vigh & Zora Kiss (HUN) (62)
8 Magdalena & Sophia Hubert-Reh (GER) (63)
9 Vali Richter & Simon Bildstein (AUT) (87)
10 Jiri Dymak & Michal Steiner (CZE) (90) Paul Snow Hansen and Ben Goodwin of Wakatere BC completed the 3rd day and 9 races on 20 points. Simon Cooke and Scott Illingsworth of Kohimaramara BC remained in contention on 28. Alexandria Maloney and Bianca Barbarich-Bacher of Murrays Bay and KeriKeri SCs moved up the fleet to 3rd on 51, but only 8 ahead of the next team.
News of the racing from the New Plymouth website: “Conditions for day 1 were light. Racing was delayed until 11.30 until the wind settled. The first race started with a 6-7 knot NE wind. A significant shift to the NW favoured boats that had worked the left hand side of the course. Race 2 was sailed in a 6 -7 knot NW wind. The 420's sailed a third race in a 8-9 knot NW wind. Three races were sailed for each class on Saturday. The wind strength increased from 10 knots to 16- 18 knots. Discards are now in play for each fleet. Sunday races were sailed in 7-9 knot SE winds. The 420's have now completed 9 races. A number of 420 crews now have 2 OCS's. The second discard kicks in after 11 races have been sailed”. Francsico Sucari & Francisco Renna of Argentina won the Championship in Rio de Janeiro with a race to spare Andrés Ducasse Soruco & Fernando Andrés Gwozdz of Chile took the Silver on the podium, while Martine Soffiatti Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte of Brazil took the Bronze and became Women’s Champions – ahead of fellow country-women, Ana J. Jungen & Kahena Kunze and Manuela Busaro Barbachan & Ana Luiza Busato Barbachan. Fábio Galvanese Melchert & Fernando Cardial (BRA) were 4th overall and Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI).
If we hear more about the event….or even the gossip from the boatpark, we will bring this to you! Meanwhile, sounds like a great event, with strong participation from Chile and Argentina, as well as this year’s host, Brazil. Meanwhile, here are the top ten; for the full results published by Iate Clube de Janeiro click on the title above.
1 Francsico Sucari & Francisco Renna (ARG) 19,0
2 Andrés Ducasse Soruco & Fernando Andrés Gwozdz (CHI) 36,0
3 Martine Soffiatti Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte (BRA) 44,0
4 Fábio Galvanese Melchert & Fernando Cardial (BRA) 49,0
5 Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI) 50,0
6 Bruno Verdino & Tirso Sanchez Brizuela (ARG) 65,0
7 Ana J. Jungen & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 67,0
8 Manuela Busaro Barbachan & Ana Luiza Busato Barbachan (BRA) 68,0
9 Juliana Siqueira Senfft & Gabriela Nocolio de Sá (BRA) 74.0
10 Felipe Haddad & Nicolas Castro (BRA) 81,0 Toni Tur & Aleix Selles of Cataluña (CN Salou) took the closely contested Championships at Mar Menor, with a 1 pint lead over Silver winners, Hugo Fernandez & Sergio Cresp of Galicia (LC de Villagarcia) on 41, with Felipe Pare Jo & Pablo Fernandez of Andalucia (CN Sevilla) in 3rd on 48 pts.
Carlota Masana & Ana Lobo of Cataluña (CN Vilassar de Mar / CN Sevilla) won the Women’s, with Maria Grobas & Sonia Villar of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) 2nd and Agueda Suria & Sofia Basterra of Comunidad Valenciana (RCN Valencia / CN El Balis) in 3rd.
Carlos Serrano & Javier Hernan of the Canarias (RCN Bran Canaria) won the Silver Fleet.
Top ten below, with full Gold and Silver results attached.:
1 Toni Tur & Aleix Selles of Cataluña (CN Salou) (40 points)
2 Hugo Fernandez & Sergio Cresp of Galicia (LC de Villagarcia) (41)
3 Felipe Pare Jo & Pablo Fernandez of Andalucia (CN Sevilla) (46)
4 Nicolas Rodriguez & Ricardo Lor of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) (50)
5 David Omedes & Carles Gallart of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) (50)
6 Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde of Galicia (LC de Villagarcia) (56)
7 Carlota Masana & Ana Lobo of Cataluña (CN Vilassar de Mar / CN Sevilla) (57)
8 Jorge Martinez & Tomas Ugalde of Canarias (RCN Gran Canaria) (58
9 Marc Pallicer & Joris Menno of the Baleares (CN S´Arenal) (73)
10 Maria Grobas & Sonia Villar of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) (73) We are picking up results from New Plymouth (follow link above) and some information from the NZL Class Association , but, so far the first names of the sailors are (officially at least) elluding us. But some names do rather stand out in the mind, and the first two boats competing in their own special competition at this early stage are familiar! Racing continues to Monday.
1 Snow-Hansen & Goodwin (5 points)
2 Cooke & Illingworth (8)
3 Hansen & Drummond (19)
4 Lee & Bettle (21)
5 Snow-Hansen/Francis (21) After three days of very thorough races nine races, and with only one to go, Sucari & Renna are keeping their grip on the South American Championships 2008 in Rio de Janeiro. In second place, winning 3 of the last 4 races, the Chilean Andres Ducasse Soruco & the Argentinean (ex 470 campaigner) Fernando Gwozdz are fighting for that Gold Medal 14 points behind. A reservation on a podium place is being made by the Brazilians girls Martine Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte, in 3rd with 40 pts. [Thanks to our man at the Buenos Aires 420 News Desk, Agustin Zappacosta, for special reporting]. Top ten results to date:
1 Francsico Sucari & Francisco Renna (ARG) 12,0
2 Andrés Ducasse Soruco & Fernando Andrés Gwozdz (CHI) 26,0
3 Martine Soffiatti Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte (BRA) 40,0
4 Fábio Galvanese Melchert & Fernando Cardial (VRA) 42,0
5 Benjamin Grez Ahrens & Carlos Vergara Infante (CHI) 44,0
6 Bruno Verdino & Tirso Sanchez Brizuela (ARG) 50,0
7 Pedro Pablo Salzmann Mai & Miguel Ignacio Pérez Raby (CHI) 50,0
8 Nicolás Valdivieso Manubens & Benjamin Valdivieso Manubens (CHI) 61,0
9 Ana J. Jungen & Kahena Kunze (BRA) 66,0
10 Manuela Busaro Barbachan & Ana Luiza Busato Barbachan (BRA) 67,0 Toni Tur & Aleix Selles of Cataluña (CN Salou) lead on 29 points on Thursday night at the Campeonato de España 420 at Mar Menor. Evidently some close sailing and the championship will be decided on the fimal day.
2 Hugo Fernandez & Sergio Cresp of Galicia (LC de Villagarcia) (30)
3 Nicolas Rodriguez & Ricardo Lor of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) (33)
4 Felipe Pare Jo & Pablo Fernandez of Andalucia (CN Sevilla) (35)
5 Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde of Galicia (LC de Villagarcia) (38)
6 David Omedes & Carles Gallart of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) (38)
7 Maria Grobas & Sonia Villar of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) (46) 4 bullets in 6 races give the Franciscos, Sucari & Renna from YC Argentino an 18 point lead over their nearest rivals, tied on 22 points each, Andrés Ducasse Soruco & Fernando Andrés Gwozdz of Chile and leading women’s team, Martine Soffiatti Grael & Daniela Adler Pimentel Duarte of Brazil. Hot competition in Rio! Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde of Galicia (LC de Viilagarcia), with two bullets and a 3rd on day 2 (and after 6 races) have taken over the lead in the Spanish National Championships by I point over day 1 leaders, Toni Tur & Aleix Selles, of Cataluña (CN Salou) on 13 pts. Nicolas Rodriguez & Ricardo Lor of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) dropped to 3rd on 19 pts and David Omedes & Carles Gallart of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) are 4th on 22 pts. Maria Grobas & Sonia Villar of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) continue to lead the women and are in 10th overall in the fleet of 95 boats. Mr "No! That centreboard is still too thick" rules in Rio Francisco Sucari’s Tuesday report from Rio de Janeiro, as Measurement finally concluded: “After the second day of measurement control, all the boats met with the regulations in order to beginning racing on Wednesday. Throughout the day the voice of the rigorous measurer, Alexander Finsterbusch, was heard repeating over and over again, ‘No! That centreboard is still too thick’. More than half of the sailors were spotted ruthlessly sandpapering their centerboards for long hours under the sun. One of the many was Tirso Sanchez who, once their boat was fully approved said, "We are relieved that our centerboard finally met the maximum thickness. Now we only need to concentrate on sailing fast tomorrow and be careful with the currents."
Elsewhere, more relaxed. Francisco Sucari, coommented, "Luckily for us, we didn't have any troubles with our centerboard, so we could concentrate 100% on our boat. The key for tomorrow is to have a good night's rest and maintain the concentration throughout the day." The Chilean fleet were also present during the day as they waited long hours with their boats before they got the last "OK" from the Measurer.
The forecast for tomorrow is of light winds and lots of sun as the 2008 420 South American Championship gets under way. Toni Tur & Aleix Selles of Cataluña (CN Salou) lead on 7 points after 3 races at the end of Day 1 at the Campeonato de España 420. Nicolas Rodriguez & Ricardo Lor of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) are running 2nd on 9 pts, While David Omedes & Carles Gallart of Cataluña (CN Palamos & CN Prema) are 3rd on 14 pts. Maria Grobas & Sonia Villar of Galicia (RCN de Vigo) lead the women and are in 4th overall (17 pts) ....well, you can see the poster! We think the sailors in the poster are F Ayuso & M S«nchez of RCN Sant Ribera in the Murciana region of Spain. Our news team from Argentina are busy again! Our man-on-the-water, Francisco Sucari, has filed the following report on the intrepid team’s journey and arrival for the South American Championship: “After 3000 km of dangerous roads and heavy rains, the Argentine team arrived at Iate Clube Rio de Janeiro on Saturday afternoon. The only two boats from Argentina travelled in a trailer all the way from Buenos Aires!!! Again, Verdino-Sanchez Brizuela and Sucari-Renna will be the ones in charge of representing our country”. And on Sunday, Agustin Zappacosta, who they have left i/c of the news desk back home in Buenos Aires, says “they told me they were looking forward to sailing in the difficult currents of Rio. As Verdino said, ‘We are anxious to start the championship here, we hope the winds pick up and the rain stops!’. And Francisco Renna commented on the venue, ‘The Guanabara Bay is a very difficult racing area, with lots of different currents and changing tides. Luckily the winds will pick up and make a great four days of racing’. Also travelling with the team, Genaro Maggi, their ever-present coach [we hear he graduated since he led his team to Istanbul at last year’s Europeans (ed)] said, ‘There is a competitive field, with a couple of Chilean boats and the local Brazilians. With only one discard in 10 races the margins for error will be very small, so it will probably be a very close competition".
We would very much like to hear from Brazil and Chile too! Meanwhile, racing starts on Wednesday, 19 March and news will surely first be found on the Iate Clube de Janeiro website (go to Vela > Calendário 2008 > Campeonato Sul Americano) The Campeonato Sudeste Brasileiro held at the Iate Clube de Janeiro this last weekend is an indicator for the South American 420 Championship that starts on Wednesday. And who leads? Juliana Senfft & Gabriela Sá on countback from Manuela Busaro & Ana Luiza Busaro Barbachan (both 17 points) with Geórgia Rodrigues & Amanda Rodrigues da Silva in 3rd (23 pts). And the honour of the men was in the hands of the Chilean team, Pedro Pablo Salzmann Mai & Miguel Ignacio Pérez Raby, who took 4th on 25 points, followed by mixed team, Letícia Nicolino de Sá & Eduardo Castro Bigno in 5th on 27. But what will happen in the Campeonato Sul Americano later this week? (we carry news from the Argentinean team elsewhere). Christine Hansen writes: “Great to see twenty 420's racing in this year's Sail Auckland off Kohimarama Beach. Typically, the conditions were shifty, pretty fresh and featured lots of extra traffic - ferries, keelers, motor boats, even a 100 ft plus super yacht, going around and through the course.... not to mention the class photographer dropping the old boat's sails a bit close to the finish (sorry James and George, you really didn't need that). Newcomers to the class, Marcus Hansen and Finn Drummond have been rewarded for their consistently good results including four 1st placings over four days of racing coming first overall (28pts), followed by Napier pair Wade Tresadern and Ben Goodwin (27pts) who had a great last day with two bullets, with heavy weather experts Emma and Sarah Berry one point behind in third (38pts) and first girl crew”.
Thanks to Christine Hansen of the NZL 420 Class for bringing us the story and for her photos of the fray (even if she was helping to create it!). The Final Results are here.
Jodie Bakewell-White has filed her press report on Day 2 of the Sail Auckland Olympic Classes event. Continuing information on the Event Website. We now have the results of Day 3 of the 420 series (Day 1 of senior Sail Auckland). Marcus Hansen & Finn Drummond have pulled up from 5th to take a 6 point lead (26 pts). Thomas Saunders & Chris Steele are 2nd and Frankie Lardies and David Hazard are 3rd (on countback), tying on 32 points. Sarah & Emma Berry are 4th on 34 pts, as are Wade Tresadern & Ben Goodwin in 5th, while those ladies who did the grand tour of 420 Europe last year, Susannah Pyatt & Danielle Bowater are in 7th on 36 pts and Alex Maloney & Bianca Bacher are 7th on 41 pts
Sail Auckland have issued their Day 1 Press Release on the Olympic Classes event. There seems to be a problem reading some of the results that have been posted on the Event Website, as at 10.15 GMT on 16/02/07. Hopefully, this will soon be sorted, but, meanwhile, our magician (aka webmaster), Jamie has solved the problem for us - click on the header. It is all happening in the Southern Hemisphere right now! Argentina…now New Zealand. We have news of 420 racing at Sail Auckland. Last weekend the 420s had two days of a four day series of racing and a further two will be held this weekend as part of the Sail Auckland 2008 Olympic Classes event.
The results from the first weekend are attached. Wade Tresadern & Ben Goodwin have the lead on 19 points, with Frankie Lardies & David Hazard on 21 and, leading women, Sarah & Emma Berry on 31 points.
A scan of the results so far shows that the youth sailors of NZL are very much in business after their across the board podium wins at last year’s Takapuna Worlds and the subsequent migration of many of their most experienced sailors to (or back to) the Olympic Classes since. There is new talent joining some more seasoned 420 teams. We have a short review of developments in New Zealand.
.....and Christine Hansen has filed her first week's photos (see Photo Gallery) Really exciting sailing at the Semana de Mar del Plata 2008 by the look of the awesome photos from Matias Capizzano of www.capizzano.com. Many of us will remember Francisco Sucari & Francisco Renna and Bruno Verdino & Tirso Sanchez Brizuela at the Europeans in Istanbul. Their competition continued through the seventeen races last week on the seas of the Puerto de Mar del Plata in Argentina. Looks like they are shaping up for another competitive year in 2008, with the South American Championship coming up and then the Worlds in Athens. Although these two teams evidently revelled in the very demanding conditions last week, it is really pleasing to see all the sailors who competed (well, at least the spray they made anyway!) in Matias Capizzano’s photos, many of which appear in our latest Photo Gallery. Se dió por finalizada la Semana de Mar del Plata!
Después de 17 regatas, terminó el Campeonato Selectivo para el Mundial de la Clase que se llevará a cabo en Grecia en Julio próximo.
El viento y una ola profunda se hicieron presentes en el Campeonato.
Las principales posiciones quedaron de la siguiente manera:
1° Sucari-Renna 26 Ptos.
2° Verdino-Sanchez Brizuela 27 Ptos.
3° Volker-Cunill Martinez 40 Ptos.
Excelente organización del Yacht Club Argentino y el Club Náutico Mar del Plata. Agustin Zappacosta writes: “After eight intense days of sailing, the Semana de Yachting came to an end in Mar del Plata. With winds ranging from 20 to 30+ knots throughout the whole week, the 420's were treated to extreme conditions and very rough seas. After 17 races the top position was heavily contested, as the crew of Sucari-Renna took first place on a one point margin from fellow competitors Verdino-Sanchez Brizuela. As the Championship came to an end, all the competitors were glad to have taken part in the event. As Sucari said, 'It was a great week with pretty consistent heavy winds. Luckily these conditions helped us improve our level in sight of the Worlds in Athens later this year'. Meanwhile, Tirso Sanchez said when asked about the heavy conditions on the last day; 'It was great fun out there, the adrenaline levels were very high, and the 30+ knots were a massacre!', he joked. The Argentine 420 fleet will now look forward to taking part in this year's South American Championship to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”. The Worlds 2008 Championship website went live at the beginning of January.
As well as the Notice of Race and information about transportation, accommodation and charter boats, it has a couple of aerial photographs of the venue - at the Marina Delta Falirou in the Faliron Olympic 2004 Coastal Zone Complex. The one to be found in “Photos” shows the site of the event (Nautical Club of Tzitzifies - Kallithea) in relation to Athens, Piraeus and Paleo Faliro. The event website also has a helpful link to instructions on driving to the venue from the ferry port of Patra (see link at bottom of home page).
We asked Niki Anastasiou of the Worlds Organising Committee for some more information about where the venue is situated and some hints on how to get around - see attached Information Note. We also found lots of useful information and photos by googling the Olympic sites, and the Athens Tourism website is helpful (with a useful description of the tram stops).
Καλή ναυσιπλοϊ'α στην Αθήνα! Good sailing in Athens! In the meantime, all coaches will be testing their sailors on their knowledge of the Greek alphabet. Final Notice of Race for the Junior 420 and 470 European Championships to be held in Zadar, Croatia from 7 to 15 August has been published. Event information may be found in the Racing Event Calendar. It looks as though there was no race on the last day as the Final Fresults (after 9 races) are published - click above. Lara Watts has filed her report.
420 - Boys
1. David Gilmour & Andres Noe (WA) - Gold
2. Edlad Campbell & James Omay (WA) - Silver
3. Henry Say & James Owen-Smith (VIC) - Bronze
420 – Girls
1. Sanne Koelemij & Breanna Vos (WA) - Gold
2. Lauren Thregold & Megan Soulsby (SA) - Silver
3. Ashley Carney & Claire Bryan (NSW) - Bronze After 9 races, two discards and a 1st and a 2nd to their names in the overall racing, Sanne Koelemij & Breanna Vos (WA) have jumped into the lead in the Women’s competition at the Australian Youths by 4 points. Lauren Thregold & Megan Soulsby (SA) are in 2nd and Ashley Carney (NSW)\, with her crew still a mystery, in spite of our enquiries!
David Gilmour & Andres Noe (WA) now have a lead of 8 points in the men’s, bringing their score of bullets to 5 on the third day of the Championships. Edward Campbell & James Omay (WA have a 13 point lead over Henry Say & James Owen-Smith (VIC).
Lara Watts’ Day 3 Report on the Championship includes comments from David Gilmour, son of Peter Gilmour, \the Match Racing Champion. The event concludes on Thursday.
STOP PRESS: mystery solved. Claire Bryan.is Ashley's crew...Crews Rule, OK?!, Clare. Thanks Natalie at Yachting Australia! With two bullets on Day 2 at the Australian Youth Championships, but a 9th in Race 6, David Gilmour & Andres Noe will be looking forward to a discard. One point behind them into day 3, Edward Campbell & James Omay are on 18, 19 points ahead of Henry Say & James Owen-Smith and Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos, both on 37 pts.
Lauren Thregold & Megan Soulsby lead the women by 19 points from Ashley Carney & her crew, currently known at “TBA”! Sanne Koelemij & Breanna Vos are on their tails, 4 points behind.
See Yachting Australia’s Day 2 report. We have Monday’s Day 1 results from the Australian Youth Champs after 3 races (follow link) - curiously single-handed though! Leaders so far (we do it with crews!):
1 David Gilmour & Andres Noe (7 points)
2 Edward Campbell & James Omay (10 pts)
3 Henry Say & James Owen-Smith (12 pts)
4 Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (21 pts)
5 Lauren Thredgold & & Megan Soulsby (24 pts)
6 Luke Stephens & Rhys Collins (24 pts) A new web site for the 2008 World Championships in Athens, Greece has been launched, including useful information on accommodation and reduced price transportation. OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Championship 2008 is scheduled to kick off at Frankston Yacht Club today with a practice race, but the main action will be from Monday to Thursday.
On the basis of their performance at the recent Australian Nationals, we can expect some hot competition involving at least David Gilmour & Andres Noe, Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe, Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos, Edward Campbell & James Omay and Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby (those Psycho Chicks)! Liu & Cheng in Photo News Sherman Cheng and Justin Liu - winners at the Junior Europeans 2007 and South East Asia Games in Thailand and, now, winners of the Australian National 29er Championships - have just got their own Photo News - click on navigation menu Early confirmation of the results from the 2008 Grand Prix Vila de Blanes arrived photographically - posted on the CV Blanes' website with the podium line-up! This appears on this page on our Rolling Photos.
1. Maxime Garbay & Achille Nebout Javal of YC Mauguio Carnon, France
2. Gabriel Skoczek & Thibaut Soler (YC Mauguio Carnon) - 1st Youth
3. Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED) - 1st Women
For the full story see Noticias on EsportCatala.com and for photographs go to CV Blanes We attach a brief pictorial report on the first 420 Training Clinic held in Tarragona, near Barcelona from 27 - 30 December. More on Cli-Ca. More inmages on our Photo Gallery. News of the Intl Grand Prix Vila de Blanes regatta is just coming through after three days and three races – looks like light winds on the Catalan coast. The French YC Mauguio Carnon teams, Maxime Garbay & Achille Nebout Javal and Gabriel Skoczek & Thibaut Soler are in 1st and 2nd, both on 6 points. Nina Keijzer & Anneloes van Veen (NED) are 3rd (10 pts), Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (AUT) 4th (13 pts), Walter B & Rudi Weiss (AUT) 5th (15 pts), S.Pelisson & N.Rossi of YC CAVALAIRE (FRA) 6th (20 pts) and A Brugarolas & J Pibernat, YC Blanes (ESP) 7th (21 pts). One day left….we wish them wind!
Later: So lights were the winds that they had none for two days, apparently; but finally they got underway on Saturday. “At last the wind has appeared in the Bay of Blanes: the conditions have not been the best but thanks to the dexterity and hard work of the Race Committee, three races have been completed. Northerly winds increased their intensity through the day, building to 21 knots at the last” – CV Blanes With one further race on the last day, Sam Kivell & Max Taylor held their overnight lead to take the Australian National Championship at Sandringham Yacht Club, Melbourne by 5 points from David Gilmour & Andres Noe, With a gap of 28 points over the following pack, this had been a hard fought duel.
Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe took 3rd (49 points), followed closely by Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (51) and Edward Campbell & James Omay (59). Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby took 6th and won the Women’s competition with a 9 point lead over their nearest rivals, Jacqueline Gurr & Emma Flukes. Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore, have won the Australian National Championship by 12 points (3 days, 9 races). Winners of the 420 Junior Europeans 2007 in Medemblik, the 2008 Asian Games in Dohar and, just a few weeks ago, the South East Asian Games in the 420, these guys had four days turnaround after their return from Pattaya, Thailand to set off to Melbourne. They certainly seem to have made the switch again and set out their stall for the forthcoming 29er Worlds in Melbourne. After a further two races and into the final day of the Australian 420 Nationals, Sam Kivell & Max Taylor have a small 5 point lead over their rivals, David Gilmour & Andres Noe, in spite of the latter’s 2 + 1 scores today. These two boats have a thwacking 22 point lead over the rest of the pack, where Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe are in 2rd (39 points), followed closely by Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (40) – so another close fight for a podium place. Edward Campbell & James Omay are also in with a shout on 46 points. Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby have an 8 point lead lead in the women’s competition. After three days and eight races at the Australian Nationals in Melbourne, last year's top competitors Sam Kivell & Max Taylor and David Gilmour & Andres Noe are locked in a dual. Both on 15 points, some 19 ahead of the next group, Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos (34), Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe (35) and Edward Campbell & James Omay (38). Leading women, Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby (the “Psycho Chickens) are in 6th and Jacqueline Gurr & Emma Flukes (aboard “Morning Mist”) are but five points behind them.
Meanwhile, our men in the 29ers, Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore, have won the Australian National Championship by 12 points (3 days, 9 races). Winners of the 420 Junior Europeans 2007 in Medemblik and just a few weeks ago the South East Asian Games in the 420, these guys had four days turnaround after their return from Pattaya, Thailand to set off to Melbourne. They certainly seem to have made the switch and set out their stall for the forthcoming 29er Worlds in Melbourne. “Wszystkim zawodnikom, trenerom i sympatykom klasy 420 składamy najserdeczniejsze życzenia szczęśliwych Świąt i wielu sukcesów w Nowym Roku” - Zarząd Stowarzyszenia Klasy 420 & Administracja strony
The Polish 420 Class send: “all sailors, coaches and supporters of the 420 Class, most cordial wishes for happy holidays and every success in the new year” [roughly translated, that is!] Meilleurs Voeux 2008 Hey, we just received a New Year, Best Wishes for 2008, card from Christian Berhault, on behalf of the French 420 Class!
Une très bonne année à tout français 420 marins !
[Our initial (poor) translation of "Meilleurs Voeux" was 'Better Vows' - the winning sort, perhaps?!] Youth team, Matthew Jerwood & Patrick Vos took Sunday’s first race (R4), from women’s youth team, Lauren Thredgold & Megan Soulsby, with Whittington & Sharpe in 3rd. In Race 5, Samuel Kivell & Max Taylor were back on top with Edward Campbell & James Omay in 2nd and Henry Say & James Owen-Smith in 3rd, but with three women’s teams close on their heals.
No cumulative results to the end of Sunday’s racing yet posted, but it looks like lots of open competition! But, with a 5th in R4, Kivel & Taylor have probably held their own, and Whittington & Sharpe’s 7th in R5 will have also kept them in the running.
Oh, by the way, winners of the 420 Junior Europeans 2007 and the SEA Games 2007 in the 420, Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore are leading the Australian 29er Nationals after 6 races! After three races and a “hard slog”, David Gilmour & Andres Noe of Royal Freshwater Bay, Silver winners last year, took the lead at the Australian National Championships at Sandringham Bay YC in Melbourne. Sam Kivell & Max Taylor, current National Champions, are in 2nd on 9 points, with Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe, following their triumph at SIRs in Sydney before Christmas, in close contention on 10 points.
The “wind was a hot Northerly land breeze, 10-13 knots for Race 1. Dave Gilmour took the race. Race 2 was again a mixed bag with a very shifty race. Race 3 was started in 5-6 knts, hot, and the wind gradiating to the south until the second work when a Southerly front came through, 18-28knts catching a good portion of the fleet wrong footed. There were capsizes, broken forestays and a few shredded sails”, says our man on the spot, Allan Carney. Sounds like a good 420 event!
Results are posted on the regatta website on Sail Melbourne and daily reports from Allan Carney appear on the Australian 420 Class website. Australia has 43 boats for the 420 Nationals 2008 in Melbourne – and that’s without overseas entries. To quote Allan Carney: “the amazing thing here is that at an Australian Nationals, we have 45 Intenational 420's and this is on top of the 29er Worlds and the selected youth boat being the 29er on the same waters with almost equal number of boats! What a great start to the next 3 years of 420 domination down under”. All sounds good for the event that runs to Thursday, 3rd January Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe (Western Australia) took the 420 competition by one point from Amy Kivell & Kate Aulich (Victoria) who had led the event until the final day and are the leading women. Brothers, Matthew & Benjamin Taylor (New South Wales) were 3rd, Karl Bromfield & Marcus Conway (NSW) 4th and Lucinda Whitty & Kimberley Wilmot (NSW) 5th and 2nd women’s boat.
Di Pearson of SIRs reports: “A West Australian pair made the podium....when Mark Whittington/Scott Sharpe won gold in the 420 class. The West Australian Youth Development program is coming along well, with many great 420 and 470 sailors making a name for themselves. Kivell is another name we're used to seeing on trophies, and it was no different at SIRs today when Amy Kivell/Kate Aulich (Vic) overcame 16 other female and male crews to grab silver in the 420 double-handed class” [see Sail-world.com] After the light winds on Sunday at the Sydney International Regatta, Day 3 saw stronger winds at Woollahra SC, several injuries in other fleets and the abandonment of racing for the 4.7s. “The day started well enough with a steady southerly breeze, but winds coming from the south and south-west increased once racing was under way, with strong winds in the 25 knot range and big gusts hitting the various Olympic and Youth classes sailing at the Yachting NSW organised event”, says sail-world.com. See also Di Pearson’s report on Yachts & Yachting.
With one race for the 420s today, Amy Kivell & Kate Aulich, having discarded a 12th and having top 4 results across the board to count, retained the lead on 12 points. But, with a further bullet and a strengthened performance after Day 1, Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe took over the 2nd slot with 17 points. Matthew & Benjamin Taylor go into the final day on 19 points.
The SIR is being used by several countries as a key event in the Olympic Classes calendar in preparation for Beijing 2008. Among them are many ex-420 sailors, and the experience here must be great for the Australian youth sailors participating in the 420 fleet. Amy Kivell & Kate Aulich held their position on 9 points after race 5 at the Sydney International Regatta. But Matthew & Benjamin Taylor moved up from 4th to 2nd on 11 points, while Mark Whittington & Scott Sharpe moved up to 3rd on 16 points, two ahead of Alexander Bromfield & Patrick Conway. Junior Europeans winners Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng returned to Changi International from the SEA Games in Pattaya, Thailand triumphant again. Raffles Institution student Justin, was accompanied homeward by an equally triumphant big sister, Dawn Liu. The previous 420 Women’s Champion helm from the last SEA Games in Manila in 2005 , Dawn was celebrating again this week. With her crew, former hurdler, Elizabeth Tan, they took the Women’s 470 Gold in Thailand, an important step in their Olympic journey. And Elizabeth’s sister, Sara, featured on the wire in our Rolling Photos over the last week or so, took Silver in the Women’s 420, with her helm, Jovina Chew. 420 sailing seems to be flourishing in Singapore….and a largely family affair! For much coverage and welcome-home photos see SingaporeSailing's website (linked above). Justin Liou & Sherman Cheng won the 420 Men's Gold medal for Singapore at the bi-annual SEA Games today in Pattaya, Thailand. Villena & Lester Troy Tayong of the Philipines, following their win at the Hong Kong International Regattta in September, took the Silver, while Ku Anas Ku Kamil & Amir Muizz Djamaludin of Malaysia, the Bronze. Justin & Sherman won the open competition at the 420 Junior Europeans in August and have amply demonstrated their skills in the different challenges of large and small fleet competition.
Meanwhile, Booncherd Duanghathai & Poonsirikot Angkana of Thailand have won the Gold medals in the Women's 420 competition. Jovina Choo & Sara Tan of Singapore took Silver and Sandar Wai Su & Nyo Lin Knin of Myanmar, Bronze; both teams having also campaigned the 420 Junior Europeans this year.
420 Results are on our Results page (linked above) and the full Sailing Results are on the SEA Games website. News filtered through from the lay day at the SEA Games in Pattaya, Thailand via The Straits Times – we only have Singaporean news, how about you? Anyway news sleuth, Jeanette Wang, writes: “It was a busy day for Singapore's 25-strong sailing team in Pattaya yesterday. Mahjong, online gaming, shopping, getting temporary tattoos by the beach and a scrumptious Japanese lunch. Chatter and laughter filled up most of their hours. The mood among the tightly bonded team was relaxed and upbeat. No one could have guessed that this was a group of athletes in the midst of competition at the 24th South-east Asia Games” (we could, sound just like thos laid back guys when they came to Medemblik in August [ed]). Apparently, SingaporeSailing President and chef de mission, Low Teo Ping upped the gold-medal target , but even this failed to twitch any nerves! The usual daily 7.45am physical training went ahead, but sounds pretty much games on the lay day, when the team's burly, strength and conditioning coach, Quintin Roman, got rugby-tackled by his charges and thrown into the swimming pool.
Team manager (& SingaporeSailing CEO) Andrew Sanders remained cautious: “It’s still early to talk about medals. Conditions over the past few days have been very tricky, with predominantly light winds suddenly dying down. It’s like a lottery out there. There isn’t one race where the points’ margin is very wide. All the teams are still very close to each other, and with the tricky conditions, just a single bad day is enough to turn the tide against us.” The Greek armada sailed into Imperia (see Fabio Taccola’s photo) and Vasilis Tsokaras & Alexandros Mogadam looked strong last night, but with a black flag today in this one-race-a-day Imperia Winter Regatta, that was not to be. But the Greek team was there with back-up!
Michalis Stavrou & Ioannis Orfanos (YC Rufina) won the event. GBRs Ben Saxton & David de Boltz (Grafham Water SC) pulled it back today and took the silver slot to split the Greek team on the podium tonight. Marios Petrogonas & Faidon Kounas (YC of Greece) were 3rd, Agostino Amoretti & Edoardo Raimondo and Giovanni Meloni & Alessandro Gemini 4th and 5th.
Agueda Suria & Sofia Basterra from Valencia, Spain, scoring consistently well throughout the four Women’s races, took first place! Barbera & Bocca Giulia of SC Garda Salò also demonstrated the benefits of consistency and moved up the steps of the podium to the silver slot on the final day. Giuditta Di Laghi & Elena Gandolfo of CN Albenga took the 3rd place. Katerina & Sofia Kaitatsidou and Afroditi Kiranakou & Elena Nikiforidi, both of Greece, took 4th and 5th. Hugo Fernandez & Sergi Crespo took top podium slot at Palma today. Fellow Galicians, Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde were 2nd and, one point behind, local sailors, Xavier Torrens & Xisco Socias (CN Arenal) were 3rd. María Canovas Gonzalez & Ana Lobo Ramirez (F.A.C.) were the leading women’s team.
1. Hugo Fernandez & Sergi Crespo (LC Vilagarcia) 20 pts
2. Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde (LC Vilagarcia) 26 pts
3. Xavier Torrens & Xisco Socias (CN Arenal) 27 pts
4. David Omedes (CVP) & Carles Gallart (CNP) 30 pts
5. Adolfo Berrocal Ferrer & Allain Herman (CN Sant Antoni de Portmany) 40 pts
6. Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (CN Salou) 45 pts
7. Macià Alemany Porcel (RCN Palma) & Joan Fullana (CV Andraitx) 46 pts
8. María Canovas Gonzalez & Ana Lobo Ramirez (F.A.C.) 49 pts
9. Felipe Parejo Herrera & Pablo Fernandez Palacio (CN Sevilla) 57 pts
10. Santi & David Mas Depares (CN El Masnou) 71 pts After three races on Sunday at the SEA Games, the Thai team, Booncherd Duanghathai & Poonsirikot Angkana, have taken the lead, with three bullets! Jovina Choo & Sara Tan (SIN) are 2nd and Sandar Wai Su & Nyo Lin Knin (Myanmar) 3rd.
In the men’s, Justin Liou & Sherman Cheng (Singapore) retain their lead. Ku Anas Ku Kamil & Amir Muizz Djamaludin (Malaysia) are 2nd and Emerson Villena & Lester Troy Tayong (Philipines) 3rd. ….but there are five more days’ racing to go! We are getting great photos tonight - some already on the Rolling Photos and more to come, with some also posted on the Photo Gallery - from both Fabio Taccolo in Imperia and Nico Martinez in Palma..
Following a bit of a bottleneck in accessing the results from Imperia for Saturday (Popular website!), we have caught up. Some strong gusts over 20 knots of wind were reported by PR supremo, Laura Jelmini, who had first-hand experience having sailed the course with the Minister of Tourism!
Agueda Suria & Sofia Basterra of Spain held their first place after Saturday’s one race, but shared 4 points with Federica Wetzl & Marta Parladori, so the pressure is on for the last day’s racing! Barbera & Bocca Giulia were in 3rd overnight on 12 points.
In the Open competition, the Greek team, Vasilis Tsokaras & Alexandros Mogadam took the lead on 3 points. In 2nd their team-mates, Marios Petrogonas & Faidon Kounas and in third, leading Italian team, Lorenzo Gemini & Francesco Chessa Orru' were both on 9 pts. More close competition to be resolved on Sunday. Hugo Fernandez & Sergi Crespo pulled it back today in the Bay of Palma. Going into Sunday with a 10 point lead over Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde, who had to count an earlier 13 th after finishing the last race in 16th. Local boys, Xavier Torrens & Xisco Socias (CN Arenal) are on 24 pts in 3rd and David Omedes (CVP) & Carles Gallart (CNP) on 25 pts in 4th, while Macià Alemany Porcel (RCN Palma) & Joan Fullana (CV Andraitx) are in 5th (28 pts). Adolfo Berrocal Ferrer & Allain Herman (CN Sant Antoni de Portmany) and Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (CN Salou) are both on 38 points. María Canovas Gonzalez & Ana Lobo Ramirez (F.A.C.) are the leading women in 8th place.
Exciting competition into the last day of the event! In the first races of the event at the Ocean Marina Yacht Club, Pattaya in Thailand, Singapore took the lead in the men’s and women’s fleets, with Myanmar 2nd in the women’s and Malaysia 2nd in the men’s. Women: 1. Jovina Bei Fen Choo & Sara Li Ching Tan (SIN); 2. Sandar Wai Su & Nyo Lin Knin (MYA); 3. Booncherd Duanghathai & Poonsirikot Angkana (THA). Men: 1. Justin Yinman Liou & Sherman Feng Yuan Cheng (SIN); 2. Min Min & La Kyaw Nay (MYA); 3. Emerson Villena & Lester Troy Tayong (PHI). Singaporeans reject Thai iceberg theory & deep-fried grub Apparently the practice races at Pattaya for the SEA Games went ahead satisfactorily in 15 – 18 knots of breeze yesterday and a short, sharp opening ceremony (just what sailors like, we believe!), at which everyone had a good time. The SIN Coach was not so good in the morning when he found his fibreglass and, supposedly, unsinkable Boston Whaler mysteriously submerged (foul play was ruled out, but the sailors wondered if it was a cunning coach's ruse to get closer to the race course under the water!). SingaporeSailing is evidently keen on nutrition as they had to reject food provided by the organisers - “We couldn’t accept the food because it was deep fried,” said team manager Andrew Sanders, who is also SingaporeSailing’s chief executive officer. We were not surprised to learn that the SINs main competition in the 420s is anticipated from Myanmar (who also sent a team to Europe this year). “Unlike international regattas where the fleets are much larger, the fleets in the SEA Games are much smaller, around six per class. So the points will be far closer and tighter and the sailors must adapt to this……although it may not be as big as some other international regattas, the SEA Games is special, and with it comes a lot of expectation and pressure on the sailors to deliver”, Sanders told Tan Yo-Hinn of Singapore’s “Today”. Full stories available on the SingaporeSailing website. Agueda Suria Palop of RCN Valencia & Sofia Basterra Moyua of CN El Balis took the first race of the 2007 Imperia Winter Regatta fopr Spain in the Women’s Fleet of 41 entries. Federica Wetzl & Marta Parladori of SV Barcola Grignano took 2nd, while Federica Sciuto & ViolaMonaci of CDV Roma 3rd.
In an Open Fleet of 52 entries, Lorenzo Gemini & Francesco Chessa Orru' of Ass Sport Dil YC won the only race of the day. Vasilis Tsokaras & Alexandros Mogadam of YC Rafina, Greece were 2nd and Ben Saxton & David de Boltz of Grafham Water SC, UK were 3rd. Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde, with the first discard kicking in and another bullet in today’s three races, take the lead, but on countback on equal points with yesterday’s leaders Hugo Fernandez & Sergi Crespo. Both teams are Atlantic sailors from LC Vilagarcía. But will the Galicians be able to resist the challenge from the Balears in home waters? Macià Alemany Porcel (RCN Palma) & Joan Fullana (CV Andraitx), who led for Spain at the 2007 Europeans in Istanbul (6th in the Gold Fleet), also had a good day. They discarded 18 points from the first race yesterday to bring them from 8th overnight to 3rd tonight, but still have an 11 points gap from the leaders. María Canovas Gonzalez & Ana Lobo Ramirez (F.A.C.) still lead for the women and move up to 6th overall. Images of 420 sailors in action We have three major international events running at once and at least three crack photographers on the job!
Nico Martinez - prolific, professional dinghy racing and yachting photographer - is busy at the 57* Trofeo Ciutat de Palma in Mallorca - and images are coming in daily!
At Imperia Winter Regatta, author of the "Sea Book" and marine photographer, Fabio Taccola has already caught the 420 arrivals in the boatpark (while featuring the Lasers on the water at the beginning of the week). We anticipate bringing some of the images of 420s on the water that will be featured in high resolution in the IWR Sea Book 2007 edition.
The Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) sailing events are also about to start. We are not sure whether there will be a photographer on the water, but the Singaporean team have had a skilful (but, so far, anonymous) cameraman on their coach boat at Pattaya in Thailand, reporting back to the SingaporeSailing very informative website, so we hope to be able to "borrow" a few from them too! (thanks, Shu Fen!)
As there are so many Rolling through on the News page at the moment (just keep clicking and coming back!), we will create Photo Galleries as and when we can find the time.
Meanwhile, if you have 420 news, photos or gossip, click on "Submit News / Photos". Hugo Fernandez & Sergi Crespo (LC Vilagarcia) have 4 points after two races on the first day’s racing in the Bay of Palma. Toni Tur Boned & Aleix Selles Vidal (CN Salou) are 2nd on 6 pts, Santi & David Mas Depares (CN El Masnou) 3rd on 9 pts, Xavier Torrens & Xisco Socias (CN Arenal) 4th on 13 pts and Bruno Gago & Cesar Conde (LC Vilagarcia) are 5th on 14 pts.
María Canovas Gonzalez & Ana Lobo Ramirez (F.A.C.) lead the women in 9th overall, on 23 pts!
Kevin Peponnet of France, with a mystery crew (!), is the first “visitor” in 6th place on 15 points.
Ciutat de Palma Day 1 Results Ciao sailors! Dare il benvenuto alla terra di Olio d'oliva, alla Pasta e alla grande navigazione! (Welcome to the land of Olive Oil, Pasta and great sailing!)
Fabio Taccola has been around the old Port of Oneglia and we will feature some of his images on the Rolling Photos (they will find their way to the Photo Gallery in due course). Anyone with news and gossip is very welcome to "Submit News / Photos" (for any 420 stuff!). The Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) are a biannual, multi-sport event involving the 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The 24th SEA Games are in Thailand, starting in Saturday. The sailing will be from 6 – 14 December at Ocean Marina YC, Pattaya.
The SEA Games are along ISAF Youth/Olympic lines, with one boat from each country in each Class (although some may not participate in all events), so the points can be tight! We have not found an entry list yet (anyone able to help?). But there is full info. about Singapore's team on SingaporeSailing. So the rest is guesswork for now.
We feel sure that Nay La Kyaw & Min Min and Su Sandar Wai & Khin Nyo Lin of Myanmar will be there. Both were at the Junior Europeans at Medemblik and at the GBR Nationals at Hayling Island in August, with their coach. The men and Su Sandar Wai competed in the 2006 ISAF Youth World Championships; Su Sandar Wai took 7th and Nay La Kyaw & Min Min 15th in their respective fleets. Su Sandar and her crew took 11/77 at the GBR Nationals, and Nay La Kyaw & Min Min, 12th. We hope Emerson Villena & Lester Tayong of the Phillipines, the leading 420 (overall 2nd) at the Hong Kong International Regatta in September, will be there. We also hear that Malaysia have 420 teams entering the event.
But there's a powerful entry from Singapore. Justin Liu & Sherman Chang must be strong favourites in the Men’s. They are the reigning Asian Champions from Doha last year, represented SIN at the 2006 ISAF Youth World Championships (where they conceded a few places to their Myanmar rivals though!). Many 420 sailors worldwide will know these successful 420 sailors from their triumph at the Jnr Euros. Jovina Choo & Sara Tan also competed there, finishing one place ahead of the Myanmar women’s team. At the Imperia Winter Regatta, we are promised some challenging competition too.
In the women’s competition, top Spanish team, Agueda Suria & Sofia Basterra, in a new partnership, recently took the Women’s top podium place at the French ‘national d’automne’ at Maubuisson (12/121 overall); Agueda is a seasoned helm: Silver at the 2006 ISAF Youths and 4th at this year’s Europeans in Istanbul. But there will be close competition from Tina Lutz & Susann Beucke (GER) who won the Women’s at the Junior Europeans and were 2nd at Imperia in 2006. Home team, Camilla Marino & Claudia Sopricelli were 12th in Istanbul and 10th women in Medemblik. But the substantial Greek entry includes Katerina & Sofia Kaitatsidou who took Silver in Istanbul and Afroditi Kiranakou who helmed the 7th boat at the Women’s Europeans.
The Open competition at Imperia will be hard fought too! Max Trippolt & Julian Meister (Austria) have just taken 3rd place (of the 121 entry) at Maubuisson. The French entry includes the Porez, Louis & Charles, who won Maubuisson, a couple of places ahead of Trippolt/Meister both there and in Medemblik at the Junior Euros. Giovanni Meloni & Alessandro Gemini were 12th at the Junior Euros and 17th at the Europeans, so they should lead the large Italian entry. Again in the Open, the Greeks are coming to Imperia with a large team, and helm, Michalis Stavrou, with a 20th in the Gold Fleet at Medemblik, will surely put up a challenge. We are delighted to see that Lovro Ivanov, who had his 14th birthday at Medemblik, will, with Marko Caric, be representing Croatia at this event The Trofeo Ciutat de Palma - Regata Nova Nou next week has over 50 boats already entered, including three French boats. These include Kevin Pepponnet (YC Basque) & Loic Duchesne (CV Cazaux), who recently took 7th out of an entry of 121 at the French “National d'automne” at Maubuisson (Bordeaux), as well as two boats from the SR Rochelaises – Atlantic challenge to the Med?
The usual large turnout of Spanish boats include Aina Jordi & Marina Bonet from CN S’Arenal, across the Bay of Palma, who were second women in the Spanish Nationals at CV Blanes this year. The Brugman team, Atlantic and Nora (of CV Blanes), who campaigned the Junior Europeans and the GBR Nationals this year, have just finished 2nd women’s team at the French Maubuisson (21/121 overall).
But there will be serious competition amongst the men too – focussing on the Baleares. Macià Alemany & Joan Duran (CV Puerto d'Andratx/CN Porto Cristo), Xavier Torrens & Xisco Socias (CN S'Arenal) and Pedro Marí & Xim Benjumeda (RCN Palma) finished Gold, Silver, Bronze in this year’s Copa de España de la Clase 420 at CN S'Arenal, so these look like favourites. But Adolfo Berrocal Ferrer & Allain Herman (S’Antoni de Portmany) won the Silver Fleet at the Junior Europeans in Medemblik - will these be the rising stars in the Balearics?
Catch up with last year's images from the camera of Nico Martinez in the Photo Gallery: "Ciutat de Palma 2006" Chile builds its 420 fleet Starting out with five old 420s in 2006, the Chile Class Association is expanding big time! José Massapina writes: “they have just bought ten new boats, with the support of the Chile Sailing Federation. And their lead coach, Damian Saponara has just attended the first South American 420 Coaches’ Clinic, led by ISAF Youth Coach, Jim Saltonstall, in Rio de Janeiro”.
Soledad Manubens, Secretary of the Chile 420 Class Association, has been in touch with the website to say: “It`s real, we now have 8 boats in the water and soon there will be 10 sailing. Para el próximo Sudamericano de la Clase 420 el año 2008 pensamos que estaremos presente con al menos 6 barcos de Chile …[we think that we will have about six boats at the South American 420 Championships 2008]….”. They hope to compete in the 2008 ISAF Youths and in Europe next year. We expect to hear more of Chile’s 420 sailors and about sailing in Chile soon; we look forward to their joining in racing on the circuit. 420s en route to events in Asia (Thailand) and Europe (Palma & Imperia) OK, we have been featuring a lot of South American stuff since the Campeonata Estado in Rio last week and José journey – and there is more to come! - but, wow, there is more 420 racing coming up elsewhere too! Many 420s are setting off by road and sea to three major events at the beginning of December.
In the Mediterranean, there are the 57th Ciutat de Palma Trophy - Regata Nova Nou , from 6 – 10 December, at the Real Club Náutico de Palma in Mallorca in the Balearics (Spain) and the Imperia Winter Regatta at the Yacht Club Imperia in the Ligurian Sea (North West Italy) from 6 – 9 December.
And then in Asia, from 8 – 14 December, the South East Asian (SEA) Games will be held at the Ocean Marina Yacht Club, Pattaya, Thailand.
We are checking out the available information and will being you notes on the entries and news as we find them, but the event websites are as follows: Ciutat de Palma Trophy, Imperia Winter Regatta and The SEA Games. If you have information, news, photos about events or activities in your country’s 420 Class, please contact us – just click on “Submit News / Photos” José Massapina visits J Boats and meets 420 builder José Massapina, joined by José Tedin and Tomás Ocampo of the Argentinian Class Association, visited J Boats, the 420 builder in Argentina, where they had the opportunity to take a look at the factory. Later in day, they met Roberto Authier, the builder and owner of J Boats, at Club Náutico de Los Olivos. Roberto was competing in the J24 South American Championship, but took time out to discuss the development of the 420 Class in South America, bearing in mind that J Boats continues for the moment to be only 420 builder on the continent of South America. José Massapina talks 420 development with Argentine sailors Hey, has there been excitement in Buenos Aires?! We have had both our sailor correspondents filing reports before our own man! – and he is usually up through the night to keep us up-to-date!
Anyway, José Massapina reports, “a group of 420 sailors from Argentina, led by the [all-sailor] local Class Association, prepared a dinner to receive me. During the dinner the Argentinian sailors spoke about their fleet, the dynamics of the local clubs sailing 420s and the challenges facing the Class. For my part, I was able to describe the development and promotional plans of the International 420 Class, particularly regarding the South America countries. At the end of this meeting, we were both very happy and very confident about the future of International 420 in this continent”. Ms Tedin is back! ….and in charge of the Argentine finances…again! Our recent concern about gender balance in the all-sailor Argentine 420 Class Committee was totally misplaced, it seems. We should have known better! Sofi is back! – and sailing too! (with Agus Branz). The 420 Class in Argentina certainly adopt a strategic approach. Having sent her off to study economics (now, we hope, her degree is in the bag), Sofi has been elected Class Treasurer again. With President, Secretary & Treasurer all at the front of the boat, it looks like crews rule OK in Buenos Aires!
Previously Sofi was our Argentine correspondent for the website – a role taken over by Elliot Sucari, who was busy keeping us abreast of all 420 stuff earlier in the year. But we seem to have lost him temporarily…...last heard of deep in international relations (if not sailing ones) and whose brother Francisco & Francisco Renna took 7th at the Istanbul Europeans this year. Anyway, all sounds good in Argentina and looks as though we will be kept well informed about latest gossip. Meanwhile, we learn that the Argentinians are training hard in readiness for the round of big events in South America in the new year and with Athens firmly in their sights! José meets José in Buenos Aires José Massapina, on his programme to support development of the Class in South America, has been on the move again!
Yesterday, he was welcomed in Buenos Aires by the newly elected President of the Argentine 420 Class, José Tedin, together with the former President, Tomás Ocampo, now the Class Secretary. Our José was very impressed at finding a very dynamic and responsible Class organisation, composed of youth and university sailors. The Argentine 420 Class is well established and has a good track-record of producing some excellent sailors. They are looking forward to bid for the organisation of a major 420 event and contributing further to the development of the Class in South America.
The Yacht Club Argentino, venue for many international events, including the 2007 South American 420 Championships, is the place for discussions that José Massapina is having with colleagues regarding the development of the Class. Juan Tedin and Marcel Bacqué, members of the YCA Executive Committee, were on hand to join the 420 Association representatives in welcoming José on his arrival. See photographs – smart suits, guys, and a cool tie too, Tomás!
[sometimes it gets boring at 420 website HQ and your editor has a wicked thought. The Argentine and the Swiss 420 Class Committees are both totally made up of youth sailors in the Class. Sadly (since Sofi Tedin moved on at uni), the Argentine Committee seem to be mostly men, whereas the Swiss Committee are mostly women – could there be a solution here?! But its different on the water! Have you seen those Travascio sisters, Victoria & Mercedes - current 420 Champions of South America? Awesome! – see you at the Worlds in Athens guys!] 420 coaches and sailors challenge Jim and José! Yesterday, 19 November, after the closure of the 1st South America Coaches Seminar, a group of young coaches and sailors challenged Jim Saltonstall and José Massapina to climb the first mountain of the well-known Sugar Loaf at Rio de Janeiro. If they were thinking that the older guys would refuse, they were wrong! It has been hard, but, after forty minutes of effort, the whole team arrived safe at the top. The ‘trophy’ for the group was the fantastic view over Rio city that they lay before them. A great end to an excellent event working together at the Iate Clube de Rio de Janeiro Novo Presidente da Associação Brasileira de Classe 420 The Brasilian 420 Class Association have recently elected a new President to take over from Sylvia Adler Pimentel Duarte. The International Class take the opportunity to thank Sylvia Adler for all her hard work over several years in developing the 420 Class in Brazil, most recently in leading the local organisation, with Ricardo Baggio de Carvalho, of the first 420 Class South American Coaches’ Clinic at the Iate Clube de Rio de Janeiro.
We are pleased to announce that the new (420) President is Andréa Nicolino de Sá, who now takes over the lead of the 420 Class in Brazil. José Massapina, Vice President of the International Class, visiting Rio de Janeiro for the recent Coaches’ Clinic and for discussions on developing the Class in several South American countries, welcomed the new President (we spotted them in the boatpark admiring a fetching pink 420 spinnaker – see photo). He said, “I am looking forward to working with Andréa, and I am sure that the development of the Class in Brazil continues in good hands!” The final report from Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro is attached - we provide our English version below the Portuguese original [apologies to the author! - ed]. Fábio Melchert Galvanese & Fernando A. de O. Cardial (YC Santo Amaro) won the Campeonato Estadual at Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro on 18 points, with first Women’s teams, Ana J. Jungen & Kahena Kunze of YC Rio de Janeiro 2nd on 23 pts and Juliana Senfft & Gabriela Sá of YC Brazil 3rd on 27 pts. Update from our man in Rio at the 420 Coaches’ Seminar José Massapina is keeping us up-to-date on news from sunny (today) Rio: “The seminar is running, with good weather now and with all the coaches and sailors very happy with this development action by the International 420 Class Association.
“This 420 coaches seminar has among the participants an Olympic medallist who is now managing the Yacht Club of Niteroi, in the southern part of Baia de Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro. He is Ronaldo Senfft, a Soling medallist, former crew of the well known Torben Grael.
“We had also been chatting with Robert Scheid, the famous sailor from this Club (Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro), about the 420 Class and its development in South America.”
Photographs are coming through and will be posted on the news as soon as possible. Massapina & Saltonstall in Rio Class Vice President (and development officer), José Massapina writes from Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro:
“I'm in Rio with Jim Saltonstall, running the Coaches’ Clinic (a first for the Class in South America)…..the clinic has started yesterday and will take place until Monday the 19th of November. We have 18 coaches attending, from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and México, and it is going very well. Yesterday and this morning we had theoretical sessions (the weather was terrible yesterday, raining), and this afternoon we did an overview of the 420 State of Rio de Janeiro Championship (like we did at the Junior Eruropeans in Medemblik), so tomorrow (Sunday) morning, before the kids go to sea, we will have a debrief and discussion between the coaches and the sailors, using the video taken today.
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