Bundock and Howden nose ahead

After a second light shifty day at the 159 boat F18 World Championship

Tuesday July 6th 2010, Author: James Boyd, Location: France

An accounting error in the first day’s results followed by a consistent second day has pushed Australian Tornado double Olympic silver medallist Darren Bundock and Will Howden into first place in the 159 boat fleet at the Formula 18 World Championship in Erquy, northern France at the end of the qualification stage.

“We had a good day. Pretty light winds – 5-8 knots and we ended up scoring a 3-3-2 and pretty shifty and tricky conditions so we were pleased to be that consistent. So very happy,” commented Will Howden. “Because it was light and shifty it was hard racing and we were lucky we made a lot of place gains after getting caught on the wrong side of a couple of shifts up the first beat but sailed well from there on.”

After day one the results showed Bundock and Howden with a 1, an OCS and a DNF in their three races, but in fact it was a more satisfying 1-1-OCS. “The OCS put quite a lot of pressure on us for the qualifying series, because we’d lost our discard. But now the qualifying series is over and we go into gold and silver fleets we get another discard, so we are all back on level playing fields,” continued Howden.

Bundock and Howden are sailing their new C2 F18 with other examples being sailed by Steve Brewin and Jack Benson, Brewin fresh from his second place at the A-Class World Championship. Brewin and Benson scored two bullets today but lie 13th overall. Other C2s are being campaigned in Erquy by the boat’s Australian designer/builder Greg Goodall and son Brett, who are seventh overall, Carolijn Brouwer and Wouter Samama who are 17th and Greek Olympic Tornado sailor Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis.

According to Howden there is a relatively equal mix among the top boats between C2s, Nacras (as sailed by Hugh Styles and Ferninand van West – now in fifth) and Hobie Wildcats. Five points behind Bundock and Howden, in second place is Mitch Booth and Pim Nieuwenhuis sailing a stock Wildcat while France’s Olivier Backes and Arnaud Jarlegan are in a slightly tweaked version of the new Hobie.

“You race around the race track and despite all the boats looking substantially different, the formula works and some designs have their day, but as a rule of thumb they are very even,” says Howden.

Another day with a postponement ashore followed by a light thermal breeze filling in is expected for day three of the F18 World Championship tomorrow as the giant fleet divides into gold and silver fleets.

Full results here

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Pos Sail no Skipper Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Tot Net
1  AUS 888 BUNDOCK Darren  HOWDEN William  1 1 OCS 3 3 2 91 10
2  ESP 242 BOOTH Mitch  NIEUWENHUIS Pim  2 7 1 4 24 1 39 15
3  FRA 36 BACKES Olivier  JARLEGAN Arnaud  5 2 1 3 5 5 21 16
4  NED  3 DE KONING Coen  VISSER Thijs  4 10 2 1 6 8 31 21
5  GBR  7 STYLES Hugh  VAN WEST Ferdinand  2 3 3 5 8 11 32 21
6  NED 007 HEEMSKERK Mischa  TENTIJ Bastiaan  3 8 3 7 2 15 38 23
7  AUS 244 GOODALL Greg  GOODALL Brett  8 4 7 4 1 11 35 24
8  FRA 111 MORVAN François  VANDAME Matthieu  1 5 4 29 2 13 54 25
9  FRA 11 BESSON Billy  LAGARRIGUE Jérémie  12 2 5 11 4 6 40 28
10  NED 1451 LARSEN Gunnar  LEEUWEN VAN Jeroen  5 21 2 1 21 3 53 32
11  GBR 1171 WILSON Rob  LYNCH Marcus  10 1 15 12 3 7 48 33
12  GER 210 SACH Helge  SACH Christian  7 7 17 8 9 2 50 33
13  AUS  4 BREWIN Steven  BENSON Jack  11 15 14 32 1 1 74 42
14  FRA  9 VAIREAUX Moana  PETIT Romain  13 10 11 20 7 4 65 45
15  FRA 200 MOURNIAC Jean-Christophe  HERMANN Boris  20 9 6 19 5 12 71 51
16  FRA 69 BOC-HO Frédéric  FANOUILLERE David  8 12 33 7 8 19 87 54
17  BEL 888 BROUWER Carolijn  SAMAMA Wouter  3 13 14 10 OCS 16 137 56
18  AUS  3 ASHBY Glenn  SPITHILL James  22 5 7 5 17 24 80 56
19  USA 247 THOMAS Greg  BERNIER Jacques  4 20 12 14 27 7 84 57
20  FRA 17 PROUST Éric  MOTTEAU Romain  18 6 4 18 12 26 84 58
21  GRE 888 PASCHALIDIS Iordanis  TRIGONIS Konstantinos  7 11 5 23 18 18 82 59
22  BEL 27 PROOT Francis  PROOT Michel  12 13 19 9 35 6 94 59
23  ITA 13 BISSARO Vittorio  CESARI Lamberto  9 36 9 19 18 5 96 60
24  FRA 004 BONTEMPS Gurvan  SAVATIER Hubert  19 22 8 17 6 10 82 60
25  NED  2 ZEEKANT Oscar  BEGEMANN Karel  6 16 10 6 25 32 95 63
26  NED 666 WALSH Andrew  DE BOER Sander  17 16 11 2 20 26 92 66
27  FRA 63 LE PEUTREC Frédéric  VAUCHEL Thibaut  23 DNF 12 2 20 10 148 67
28  ARG 1110 CRUZ Gonzalez Smith  ALFREDO MARIO Segers  16 12 8 27 7 25 95 68
29  FRA  5 SELLIER Thomas  MOREAU Frédéric  27 3 6 36 14 21 107 71
30  AUS  9 BEATTIE Adam  LEITNER Jamie  18 41 20 12 14 8 113 72
31  SWE 114 SHUWALOW Tim  NORDBLOM Niklas  25 6 9 30 10 23 103 73
32  USA  1 EASTON Michael  BURD Tripp  26 29 13 9 17 12 106 77
33  NED 146 VEENMAN Jorden  DE MUNCK Mischa  30 4 13 25 11 37 120 83
34  BEL 181 SPILLEBOUDT Jérôme  SPILLEBOUDT Nicolas  29 43 17 15 10 14 128 85
35  ARG 1238 FAUSTIN Juan  GONZALES SMITH Lucas  22 25 24 6 11 29 117 88
36  NED 1404 GEIJSSEN Willem  VAN HELDEN Marja  32 28 16 8 26 13 123 91
37  USA 151 DANIEL Robbie  WILLIAMS John  14 31 10 35 9 28 127 92
38  FRA  3 LEFEVRE Joël  GRIZIAUX Erwan  9 38 16 21 21 30 135 97
39  FRA 33 HAINNEVILLE Charles  HAINNEVILLE Maxime  17 36 20 15 32 15 135 99
40  FRA 04 LE CLAINCHE Pierre  JOUBERT Antoine  6 DNF 37 11 16 30 181 100
41  NED 11 LOOS Gerard  VAN RUITENBURG Pieter  21 15 35 37 15 14 137 100
42  FRA 226 FEQUET Loic  FILIPPI François  24 14 15 25 38 22 138 100
43  POL  4 SKOMSKI Adam  KOPYLOWICZ Jakub  29 8 21 13 30 32 133 101
44  GBR 22 GUMMER Stuart  CRAWFORD Ryan  11 26 19 24 39 21 140 101
45  NED 69 HUNTELMAN Vincent  VAN CAPELLE Rico  36 27 RDG 16 15 24 141.6 105.6
46  FRA 954 CHEMIN Florent  PUIMATTO Hugues  31 31 41 14 13 17 147 106
47  GER 219 GOSCHE Joerg  PEGEL Hannes  20 32 26 34 13 18 143 109
48  FRA  2 LE CHAPELIER Emmanuel  FERRARI Francis  16 9 21 BFD 29 36 192 111
49  GER 212 WOLF Justus  NIES Rea  30 20 29 13 36 20 148 112
50  AUS 300 MAC PHERSON Andrew  WITTEVEEN Olivier  21 35 22 BFD 26 9 194 113
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