More like a fitful Garda

TheDailySail's Toby Heppell reports on a day of extremes at the 49er Europeans in Weymouth PLUS photos

Wednesday July 26th 2006, Author: Toby Heppell, Location: United Kingdom
It was another strange day on Tuesday in Weymouth for the 49er European and 29er World Championship.

When the fleets arrived at the beginning of the day the breeze was blowing a consistent 12 knots inside the harbor with fantastic sunshine again. However, the race committee soon informed all fleets there was less than five knots outside the harbor wall.

In the 49er fleet groups were not changed from the previous day with both the fleets that were one race behind being sent out early to race in the harbor.

Out on the water the conditions however were fantastic with the thermal effect of Portland building on the gradient breeze to create a solid 15 to 18 knots. The only real problem with the sailing in this early part of the day was the lack of tactics. As it was a Portland thermal and there was still no breeze in the harbour the important thing to do was stay as close to Portland as possible where there was about 7 knots more breeze. This evolved ringing the right hand bell hard and stacking up on the starboard layline upwind, gybe setting round the windward, banging the same corner again downwind before gybe dropping through the leeward gate then doing the whole thing again. A thinking man's game it was not.



Racing was going well and everyone seemed to be enjoying the conditions that were gradually building to around the 20 knot mark. After being ashore for some time, my fleet (blue) were sent out at around 3:00pm to complete a single race, leaving us even with green fleet. Off the beach and the breeze was pretty solid with a few struggling with the big bear away to get down to the start line. We had a pretty bow heavy bear off but survived it and stuck the kite up only to get to the race area where there was literally no wind. Half an hour after flat out extreme sailing we were being towed ashore to wait once again for our race. The Olympic venue is not showing its best side.

Light winds dominated the second half of the day when most of the 29ers were sailing. There was much shuffling on the beach as fleets were sent out and brought back in attempts to keep everyone even. Somehow the 49ers are still not even with two different fleets one race behind. This means we go into the final day of qualifying still in the same groups as day one, although I am assured they will change after a catch up race from two groups today.

Results wise it is still hard to say who is doing well due to the skewed results. In the 49er fleet the Sibello brothers have made a strong charge counting on third or first places but Draper and Hiscocks are still hanging in there. In the 29er fleet the places have changes again with both Hentinen and Pennanen and Lehtinen and Babbage from Finland overhauling Paul Brotherton and Mari Sheppard.

More pictures on the following pages...

Nat Helm Crew
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
Total
Net
1 ITA Pietro Sibello Gianfranco Sibello
3
1
3
1
-1
9
8
2 GBR Chris Draper Simon Hiscocks
1
1
3
6
(DNC)
36
11
3 DEN Jonas Warrer Martin Kirketerp
7
2
2
2
(DNC)
38
13
4 UKR Rodion Luka George Leonchuk
4
3
2
4
(DNC)
38
13
5 ESP Federico Alonso Arturo Alonso
11
3
3
1
-7
25
18
6 USA Morgan Larson Peter Spaulding
2
8
2
RDG 6.0
-12
30
18
7 GER Gabriel Wicke Wolf Jeschonnek
2
3
4
9
(DNC)
43
18
8 GER Marcus Baur Hannes Baumann
4
4
5
6
-11
30
19
9 DEN Peter Hansen Soren Hansen
12
1
6
1
(DNC)
45
20
10 ESP Iker Martinez Xabier Fernandez
9
1
7
3
-2
22
20
11 GBR John Pink Alex Hopson
3
2
14
2
-1
22
21
12 GBR Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes
2
8
4
8
(DNC)
47
22
13 FRA Dyen Manu Rocherieux Yann
10
10
1
2
(DNC)
48
23
14 USA Tim Wadlow Chris Rast
7
6
7
3
(DNC)
48
23
15 GBR Paul Campbell-James Mark Asquith
12
11
1
1
(DNC)
50
25
16 FRA Alex Monteau Damien Guillou
10
5
1
9
-5
30
25
17 CAN Gordon Cook Ben Remocker
10
3
7
5
-5
30
25
18 POL Pawel Kacprowski Arkadiusz Fedusio
8
15
2
2
-16
43
27
19 POR Jorge Lima Francisco Andrade
5
10
9
3
(DNC)
52
27
20 DEN Emil Toft Nielsen Simon Toft Nielsen
3
5
10
10
(DNC)
53
28
21 GER Thomas Rein Patrick Boehmer
11
4
7
7
(DNC)
54
29
22 NED Daan Schutte Pim Nieuwenhuis
3
2
17
9
(DNC)
56
31
23 GBR John Wilson James Barker
4
13
8
6
-15
46
31
24 FRA Morgan Lagraviere Delpech Noé
1
12
9
10
-13
45
32
25 FRA George Richards Florian Trancart
6
9
12
5
-6
38
32
26 FIN Tom Lönnqvist Jacob Granqvist
5
12
3
13
(DNC)
58
33
27 GBR Ian Martin Ben Mcgrane
2
OCS
4
4
-2
37
35
28 ITA Giuseppe Angilella Pietro Zucchetti
6
7
6
16
-6
41
35
29 GER Jan Peter Peckolt Hannes Peckolt
7
OCS
1
3
-4
40
36
30 POL Marcin Czajkowski Krzysztof Kierkowski
4
6
14
12
(DNC)
61
36
31 GBR Fred Shone Hugh Shone
15
4
10
7
-18
54
36
32 GBR Tristan Jaques Alain Sign
1
7
15
14
-13
50
37
33 DEN Peter Krüger Andersen Dennis Dengso Andersen
5
11
11
11
-3
41
38
34 NED Nicholas Heiner Ferdinand VAN West
6
7
8
17
(DNC)
63
38
35 AUT Christoph Sieber Clemens Kruse
8
12
10
8
-10
48
38
36 NOR Christopher Gundersen Frode Bovim
16
5
14
5
(DNC)
65
40
37 CAN Matthieu Dubreucq Geoffrey Gales
5
6
17
12
-15
55
40
38 FRA Paul Meilhat Mathieu Bourdais
16
6
5
13
-7
47
40
39 FRA Julien Dortoli Ulysse Hoffmann
18
7
9
6
(DNC)
65
40
40 GER Lennart Briesenick-Pudenz Morten Massmann
10
8
6
16
(DNC)
65
40
41 NED Jeroen Van Catz Wilco Stavenuiter
6
4
12
19
(DNC)
66
41
42 IRL Russell Mcgovern Matt Mcgovern
13
18
5
5
(DNC)
66
41
43 FRA Cedric Fleury Emmanuel Constant
20
9
5
7
(DNC)
66
41
44 ESP Alberto Padron F. Javier De La Plaza
12
11
11
7
-4
45
41
45 GBR Dave Evans Rick Peacock
14
16
8
4
-8.5
50.5
42
46 POL Tomasz Stanczyk Pawel Kuzmicki
13
13
6
10
-3
45
42
47 CAN Robert Dale Hunter Lowden
9
8
12
14
-9
52
43
48 FIN Lauri Lehtinen Heikki Soininen
11
15
8
11
(DNC)
70
45
49 CRO Goran Ivankovic Ivan Ivankovic
7
14
9
16
-18
64
46
50 BRA Andre Fonseca Samuel Albrecht
8
13
10
16
(DNC)
72
47
51 GER Florian Kemper Michael Krause
16
15
4
13
-8.5
56.5
48
52 GBR Tom Smedley Jony Clegg
11
16
13
8
-19
67
48
53 CAN Dan Cunningham Rob Paterson
18
5
16
12
-8
59
51
54 GBR Richard Bone C Rodway
18
12
19
4
(DNC)
78
53
55 AUT Florian Kohout Jurgen Brandstotter
15
9
15
14
(DNC)
78
53
56 GBR Ed Chapman Tom Dawson
12
9
18
15
-14
68
54
57 GBR Josh Wilce Olly Wilce
8
15
17
15
(DNC)
80
55
58 GBR Roger Gilbert Olivier Vidal
14
14
19
9
-10
66
56
59 IRL Robert Espey Richard Mccullough
14
13
18
11
(DNC)
81
56
60 NED Serge De Prie Sander Bon
16
20
13
8
(DNC)
82
57
61 GRE George Panagiotidis Alfonso Panagiotidis
19
11
13
14
(DNC)
82
57
62 FRA Eric Peron Romain Motteau
17
2
14
DNF
-12
70
58
63 IRL Conner Mcgaughey Johnny Mcgaughey
14
14
21
10
(DNC)
84
59
64 GER Leopold Fricke Lorenz Huber
15
17
13
15
-14
74
60
65 NZL Jake Bartrom Craig Prentice
19
10
15
19
-11
74
63
66 AUT Jakob Enigl Paul Schmalzl
9
16
18
22
(DNC)
90
65
67 DEN Jesper Høeg Mathias Aggerbo
18
10
19
19
-17
83
66
68 CRO Tomislav Basic Rajko Kujundzic
19
14
11
22
(DNC)
91
66
69 FRA Axel Silvy Simon Frezouls
21
19
11
18
(DNC)
94
69
70 NED Mats Hellman Henrik Hellman
15
17
20
17
(DNC)
94
69
71 DEN Uffe Andersen Christian Søgaard
9
21
21
19
(DNC)
95
70
72 GBR Jonny Coates Charlie Muir
23
23
12
13
(DNC)
96
71
73 GBR Mark Dell Paul Dell
17
18
16
20
(DNC)
96
71
74 GBR Toby Heppell Rich Herbert
13
DNE
17
17
-20
92
72
75 GBR Lester Noble Lee Noble
22
20
19
12
(DNC)
98
73
76 JPN Kenjiro Todoroki Christian Steiger
13
OCS
15
21
(DNC)
99
74
77 GBR Chris Gill Jon Gill
21
16
16
21
(DNC)
99
74
78 HKG Richard Knight Mike Halkes
22
20
16
17
-16
91
75
79 ITA Marco Ferrari Alessandro Ferrari
1
DNS
DNS
DNC
(DNC)
101
76
80 GER Simon Kosog Kai Lassen
21
17
20
18
(DNC)
101
76
81 GBR Alex Stothert Dan Kilsby
20
17
22
18
(DNC)
102
77
82 GBR Tom Morris Guy Filmore
20
24
18
18
-20
100
80
83 NED Sander de Kok Pieter Nijsse
19
21
20
20
-19
99
80
84 GBR Philip Hyde David Hyde
23
21
22
15
(DNC)
106
81
85 DEN Christian Christensen Kasper Paulsen
22
19
20
20
(DNC)
106
81
86 GBR Matty Lyons James Lyons
17
23
21
21
-22
104
82
87 GBR John Beatty Robert Hepburn
17
22
23
23
(DNC)
110
85
88 IRL Marcus Spillane Ross Nolan
20
DNF
21
20
-17
103
86
89 USA Matt Bidwell Felix Thornton-Jones
22
18
22
DNF
(DNC)
112
87
90 GBR Matthew Kimber Hugo Bull
24
19
DNF
22
-21
111
90
91 BEL Yannick Lefebvre Wannes Van Laer
21
22
22
DNF
-23
113
90
92 CRO Bojan Vrscaj Sven Forense
23
18
DNF
DNC
(DNC)
116
91
93 SWE Jonas Lindberg Kalle Torlén
DNC
DNC
DNC
DNC
(DNC)
125
100
93 GER Martin Lewin Oliver Lewin
DNC
DNC
DNC
DNC
(DNC)
125
100

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