Missed the gate

There were some avoidable errors on the first day of the 2006 Soling Worlds

37 teams sailed out of the SSA this wednesday for the first two races of the 2006 Soling World Championship being held in Annapolis, the sailing capital of the US.

Light winds and summer temperatures just allowed one race with a second one that had to be abandoned.

The Canadian GUL team, Hans Fogh, Roger Cheers and Goron Devries, with all the experience, a good start and a knack for being in the right places for the shifts, finished in first at the end of the six leg windward/leward race.

The course consisted of a small reach after the downwind mark and a gate a few teams leading the race like Team T-Systems, Wossala, Vezer and Nemeth, or CAN 1, Abbott, Davis and Abbott, didn´t rounded properly and had to come back for.

The German team ES Plastic, Alex Holl, Norbert Helligegel and Thomas Olbrich, finished second after sailing a nice race and showing all the experience aquired in the former DDR Soling training camps. UFO team from Netherlands, Johan Offermans, Peter Mosch and Bas Dusee finished third.

The best US team finshing the race today was from Connecticut, Peter Gallowey, Paul Steinborn and Greg Anthony, who managed to finshed in front of local legend Stuart Walker, Doug Loup and Bruce Empey.

Tomorrow three races are scheduled but the weather looks as though it will be the same, with light winds increasing in the afternoon.

Results:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Crew	Sail Number	R1	Tot
1	Hans Fogh	Roger Cheer	Gordon Devries	CAN 230	1	1
2	Alexander Holl	Norbert Hellriegel	Thomas Olbrich	GER 267	2	2
3	Johan Offermans	Bas Dusee	Peter Mosch	NED 25	3	3
4	Peter Galloway	Paul Steinborn	Greg Anthony	USA 831	4	4
5	Stuart Walker	Doug Loup	Bruce Empey	USA 842	5	5
6	Preben Asbjørnrød	Richard Fikse	Christensen Bernt Ole	NOR 128	6	6
7	Jim Medley	Jamie Stewart	Chris Roberts	USA 840	7	7
8	Thomas Davies Jr.	Andrew Dize	Kai Skvarla	USA 798	8	8
9	Roman Koch	Maxl Koch	Gregor Bornemann	GER 300	9	9
10	Steve Dolan	Jon Bailey	Jack Freysinger	USA 846	10	10
11	Pablo Despontin	Pablo Noceti	Ezequiel F Sasso	ARG 36	11	11
12	Larry Votary	Howard Moscrop	Peter Aker	CAN 198	12	12
13	Henry Thomas	Kiara Caldwell	Sean Harr	USA 799	13	13
14	John Standiford	Adam Goldstein	Chris Foscue	USA 834	14	14
15	Jerome (Joe) Hoeksema	Matias Collins	Rose Hoeksema	USA 807	15	15
16	George Wossala	Nemeth Peter	Karoly Vezer	HUN 77	16	16
17	Bostjan Antoncic	Gennadi Strakh	Perovic Zeljko	SLO 1	17	17
18	Jeff Connolly	Joe Hidalgo	Andrew Berg	USA 788	18	18
19	David Crysdale	Jake Gerlach	Roland Van Hazel	USA 824	19	19
20	Martin Busch	Santiago Nottebohm	Maximo Feldtmann	ARG 30	20	20
21	Jorgen Johnsson	Augi Hernandez	Martin Johnssony	USA 845	21	21
22	Derek Priestley	Tom Price	Gary Adams	GBR 169	22	22
23	Bill Abbott	Paul Davis	Joanne Abbott	CAN 1	23	23
24	Nelson Ilha	Felipe Ilha	Gustavo Ilha	BRA 26	24	24
25	Stephen Bobo	Jerome Mathieu	Emily Gentheimer	USA 843	25	25
26	Gustavo Warburg	Hernan Celedoni	Miguel Lacour	ARG 37	26	26
27	David Wolff	Josh Hynes	Mark Sereda	CAN 211	27	27
28	John Kennedy	Salvador Aguinaga Jr	Brendan Kennedy	USA 818	28	28
29	Howard Vickery	Gary Greenwood	Jim Knowles	USA 835	29	29
30	Hamish Loudon	Joseph Copak	Mark Sudicky	GBR 161	30	30
31	Tom Mitchell	Dave Richards	Robin Earle	CAN 227	31	31
32	Charles Q. Kamps	Toby Kamps	Kasniunas Vytas	USA 832	32	32
33	Joseph Van Gieson	Victor Gorokhov	Chris Roberts	USA 828	33	33
34	Joseph Shipley	John Gierke	James Shipley	USA 697	34	34
35	John Morgan	Nadia Dubyk	Kathy Morgan	ISV1	35	35
36	Tina Mikland	Eric Brown	Angus Phillips	NOR 130	36	36
37	Peter Hall	Phillip Karrigan	Jay Deakin	CAN 225	OCS	38