UK Nationals for Pinnell and Hunt

And 505 pre-worlds title goes to American's Hamlin and Nelson

After the frustrations of Wednesday it looked as though the competitors in the CSC 505 UK National Championships and pre Worlds Regatta would suffer a repeat on Thursday when the breeze failed to settle during the morning. However, after a three hour postponement Principal Race Officer, Paul Carpenter, was able to get the final heat of the Regatta started in a steady 8 knot breeze, once again under a brilliant sun.

Although the local wisdom was that the tide should favour the right side of the beat, the early leaders had all worked the opposite side. First to round the windward mark were the German pair of Helen Fischer and Angela Stenger, closely pursued by Tyler Moore and Jesse Falsone (USA) and Jens Findel and Johannes Tellen (GER). There were many tactical options to be exploited on the run to leeward, with the breeze again on the margin at which opting for sailing high with speed pays over taking a lower, slower but more direct route. The lightweight pairing of Fischer and Stenger had no doubt that the high road was the way to go and stretched their lead impressively. However, the Danish team of Jan Saugman and Morten Ramsbaek had also prospered by sailing low and moved up to third place, hard on the heels of Moore and Falsone.

This time the right side of the race track did pay and, with the breeze firming, Moore and Falsone were beginning to generate more power than the two German girls, and by two thirds of the way up the leg had reeled them in and were able to use a slight shift to the right to power through to windward. Saugaman and Ramsbaek were also to just get their nose into second at the top mark. On the two reaching legs that followed the Danish pair consolidated their hold on second place and, by the start of the next upwind leg, they had closed to within three boat lengths of the leading Americans. However, Moore and Falsone were getting into their stride and showing good upwind pace. Once again they led the fleet out to the right side and by the end of the leg had stretched their advantage to more than 100 metres.

Although the leading group had been undisturbed in their private battle for the podium places, a sudden challenged emerged from the British duo of Mark Upton-Brown and Ian Mitchell, who after a disappointing first leg were charging through the fleet. After gaining a least seven places on the third beat, they started the final leeward leg in seventh place. By astute working of the reaching angles they stormed through to fourth at the bottom mark. However, the task of catching the top three on the final windward leg was to prove too much.

Series leaders, Howard Hamlin and Jeff Nelson, finished a relatively disappointing thirteenth, but with competitors having the ability to discard their worse finishing heat from the overall results, their consistency in the previous races secured first place in the pre Worlds regatta ahead of compatriots Moore and Falsone the up and coming Germans team, Boris Hermann and Julien Kleiner. In the contest for the United Kingdom Championship, multiple winner Ian Pinnell, crewed by Steve Hunt secured the trophy yet again, finishing just one point ahead of Upton-Brown and Mitchell.

		Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1st	USA	Howie Hamlin	Jeff Nelson	2	1	3	-13	6
2nd	USA	Tyler Moore	Jesse Falsone	-16	2	5	1	8
3rd	GER	Boris Herrmann	Julien Kleiner	1	8	1	(DNC)	10
4th	GBR	Ian Pinnell	Steve Hunt	3	4	-6	6	13
5th	GBR	Mark Upton Brown	Ian Mitchell	8	(77.0 DNF)	2	4	14
6th	GBR	Ian Barker	Mark Darling	5	5	-9	8	18
7th	GER	Dietrich Scheder	Rainer Goerge	6	9	4	-11	19
8th	USA	Ali Meller	Mike Coe	-20	3	10	7	20
9th	GER	Jens Findel	Johannes Tellen	-13	7	8	5	20
10th	GER	Hasso Plattner	Peter Alarie	10	6	11	-26	27
11th	FIN	Pentti Matti	Otto Toivanen	9	10	-13	9	28
12th	GER	Helen Fisher	Angela Stenger	4	-31	23	3	30
13th	AUS	Michael Quirk	Geoff Lange	-15	13	7	14	34
14th	USA	Ben Moon	Nick Nelson	12	17	16	-27	45
15th	GBR	Charlie Walters	Dougal Cram	17	-20	14	18	49
16th	GBR	Andrew Smith	Norman Byrd	7	22	22	-23.5	51
17th	USA	Macy Nelson	Dustin Romey	23	18	-24	10	51
18th	GBR	Terry Scutcher	Christian Diebitsch	14	(77.0 DNF)	18	19	51
19th	GER	Christian Niefert	Thomas Weber	-25	11	17	25	53
20th	USA	Pierre Jeangirard	Paul Von Grey	22	12	21	-38	55
21st	AUS	Nigel Lott	Bob Franks	21	24	15	-30	60
22nd	GBR	Alex Cherry	Magnus Leask	18	-37	27	17	62
23rd	GBR	Russell Short	Andrew Short	11	-35	34	21	66
24th	GER	Meike Schomaeker	Robert Rothe	19	29	19	(DNC)	67
25th	AUS	Michael Babbage	James McAllister	39	15	20	(77.0 DNF)	74
26th	GBR	Christopher Dando	Donald Sloan	31	23	-33	20	74
27th	GBR	Rob Napier	Matt Bristow	24	-32	30	22	76
28th	AUS	Earle Alexander	Ian Gregg	26	21	31	-32	78
29th	GER	Jens Hufnagel	Lars Dehne	(77.0 DSQ)	25	25	28	78
30th	GBR	Stuart Turnbull	Jason Lunn	29	16	35	-45	80
31st	GBR	Ben Illiffe	Simon Lake	32	26	32	-44	90
32nd	AUS	Kevin Cameron	Jeremy Manders	35	27	29	-37	91
33rd	GER	Jan Sell	Stefan Schmidt	28	33	36	-39	97
34th	GBR	Toby Dale	James Cole	-40	30	28	40	98
35th	IRL	Michael Ennis		33	38	-40	31	102
36th	GBR	Martin Stainsby	Martin Grady	27	36	41	-47	104
37th	USA	Ian McKeige	Douglas McKeige	-38	34	38	33	105
38th	USA	Parker Shinn	Garreth Williams	(77.0 DNS)	14	77.0 DNF	15	106
39th	GBR	Robin Brown	Neil Fulcher	(DNC)	19	12	DNC	108
40th	USA	John Wyles	Sol Marini	34	39	37	-49	110
41st	GBR	Paul Davies	John Davies	36	40	39	-41	115
42nd	FRA	Michel Boiry	Chartier Thomas	30	44	45	-56	119
43rd	ITA	Marco Giraldi	Gabriele Cortegiani	43	41	44	-53	128
44th	DEN	Tom Bojland	Helge Rasmussen	(DNC)	28	26	DNC	131
45th	GBR	Alastair Milton	Laurence Milton	41	46	46	-59	133
46th	GBR	Jim Berry	Richard Berry	44	43	47	(77.0 DNF)	134
47th	FRA	Pierre Guibbal	Simon Chartier	(DNC)	42	43	55	140
48th	GBR	Shaun Seear	Stuart Curtis	46	48	49	-61	143
49th	GBR	Terry Selfe	Alan Montague	37	(DNC)	DNC	35	149
50th	FRA	Jean Philippe Chartier	Alain Chartier	(DNC)	45	48	58	151
51st	DEN	Jan Saugman	Morten Ramsbaek	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	2	156
52nd	SUI	Cedric Bart	Ueli Marti	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	12	166
53rd	FRA	Gilles Carvallo	Samuel Carvallo	(DNC)	47	42	DNC	166
54th	GBR	Martin Wedge	Scott Allen	42	(DNC)	DNC	48	167
55th	GBR	John Webster		(DNC)	DNC	DNC	16	170
56th	GBR	Kevin Holden	Tony Merry	47	(DNC)	77.0 DNF	51	175
57th	SUI	Rene Betschen	Patrick Ducommun	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	23.5	177.5
58th	SWE	Magnus Nilsson	Andreas Carlsson	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	29	183
59th	GBR	Hodgson		(DNC)	DNC	DNC	34	188
60th	DEN	Henrik Buhl	Johnny Redholm	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	36	190
61st	FIN	Raimo Raita	Juha Nurmela	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	42	196
62nd	SWE	Lars Bjerke	Tore Reinhold	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	43	197
63rd	GBR	Peter Halliwell	ÿ-----	45	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	199
64th	IRL	Ewen Barry	Charles Dwyer	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	46	200
65th	FRA	Breele		(DNC)	DNC	DNC	50	204
66th	FIN	Jari Makela	Teemu Vastamaki	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	52	206
67th	GBR	Ross Kenney	Adam Kenney	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	54	208
68th	GBR	Tim Bird	Damon Smith	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	57	211
69th	GBR	Bill Oliver	Dennis Cartwright	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	60	214
70th	GBR	Patrick McGale	Alex Cull	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	231
70th	GBR	Ben Farren-Price	Pete Brooke Houghton	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	77.0 DNF	231
70th	GBR	Ben Jones	David Thorpe	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	231
70th	FRA	Jean-Louis Guibbal	Matthieu Guibbal	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	77.0 DNF	231
70th	GBR	Brian Newlyn	David Williams	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	231
70th	SUI	Florian Stauffer	Phillipe Jacot	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	77.0 DNF	231
70th	USA	Mike Holt	Carl Smit	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	77.0 DNF	231