France lead SNIM

A report from day two of the Melges 24 racing in Marseille

Sunday April 11th 2004, Author: Christel Durand, Location: France
Walk down the famous Canebière Avenue, walk along the port on the left side, your eyes blinking in the shining eastern sun of Provence… Just after the very typical Marseilles Ferry Boat and before the floating HQ of the Societe Nautique, a strange crowd of sailors in red, yellow, blue with white salty faces is active in cleaning, repairing, transferring equipments and sails...

Today the Melges 24 class had four races: the wind blew in a quite constant northwest direction (320°) starting with an average 15 knots in the 1st race, and then constantly rising to 18 in the second, 21 in the third and about 25 in the fourth. in short, the organisers, SNIM, seems to have got control also of the wind and the sun! The only factor beyond their control was the sea state in the southern bay.

Joe Fly opened proceedings winning race 3. The team of Luca Santella was quite happy with their day: they have not trained since the Worlds in San Francisco and they are sailing their first regatta with new Kevlar sails and two new sailors in the crew (a bowman plus tactician and Star boat veteran, Vince Brun) but are already in the top ten. Their target for the season is once again the Worlds in Marstrand and they plan to sail every regatta in between including the US Nationals in Santa Cruz and several races in Italy as a preparation for this goal.

Sebastien Col and Partners & Partners repeated their excellent performance of yesterday, winning race 4 and 5. Race 5 - in spite of a strong wind - was very tactical due to the gusts. The crews held a cool head remained ahead.

Jamie Lea and Gill won race 6, (which was reduced in length) leading at the first buoy upwind and never losing their grip on the race after this. They showed again how comfortably they sail with strong wind. Jamie indicates they changed their settings just before the race and were quite happy about their choice.

Like often in these conditions, there were some shocks between the boats and some broken equipment. Badger (ex Muts Nuts) and Music 55 came back early to the harbour as did Idris, Tanit, Transtec and Lapin Lapin. But every competitor respected the 360deg rule, limiting the number of protests and confirms, as if it were needed, the sporting spirit within the class.

At this event there are some newcomers to the class including Bertrand Keller (french-swiss), André Borona (Marseilles), Bernard Reynier and Daniel Guidice (both former 505 sailors ).

But the best word of the day remains for Alina who - coming back to the dock - joked: "Can you please inform the jury that we are getting too old for that kind of 4-race- day with so much wind…." Alina being tonight 3rd at the general ranking. Maybe they are like French wine: the older they get, the better…

Results


Pos Sail no Name/skipper R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Tot Pnts
1 FRA 571 P&P/GAMELIN-SAILING TEAM 1 1 17 1 1 7 28 11
LIGOT PHILIPPE
2 SUI 521 BLUE MOON 2 --- 18 3 5 3 95 31
FAVINI FLAVIO
3 ITA 409 ALINA 17 11 6 11 2 6 53 36
ABBA MAURIZIO
4 ITA 550 JOE FLY 8 BFD 1 12 12 4 101 37
GIOVANNI MASPERO
5 MON 429 SOGETI 21 2 3 14 3 16 59 38
DESPRAT DAMIEN
6 FRA 375 MINNIE THE MOOCKER 9 4 2 10 15 14 54 39
VAUDELET JEROME
7 ITA 438 ALTEA 5 9 14 13 10 2 53 39
RACCHELLI ANDREA
8 FIN 236 SUUNTO 18 6 53 8 8 5 98 45
THELEN KENNETH
9 FRA 472 DAUCY 13 3 25 4 14 12 71 46
JOURDREN BRUNO
10 FRA 321 SCUTUM M.G.M 7 13 13 7 6 15 61 46
DE KERVENOAEL CEDRIC
11 NOR 560 BAGHDAD 19 8 12 18 7 9 73 54
NERGAARD KRISTIAN
12 NOR 506 LEK 3 16 16 9 --- 11 119 55
EIDE PETRUS
13 FRA 423 ZIG ZAG 10 BFD 9 6 9 22 120 56
POULIGNY CEDRIC
14 FRA 422 LIROS NANTES ST NAZAIRE 12 5 32 16 11 20 96 64
ARNAUD REMY
15 ITA 574 FIRE BOLT 28 18 23 5 13 13 100 72
MARMNEZ ROBERTO
16 GER 582 NO WOMAN,NO CRY 6 --- 8 26 18 17 139 75
LANG PETER
17 GBR 431 GILL --- --- 10 2 4 1 145 81
STRAUSS QUENTIN
18 FRA 461 EURO VOILES 26 19 21 15 20 8 109 83
INFANTE DENIS
19 ITA 490 HAGAR --- 17 5 17 24 24 151 87
GIORDO GIANNI
20 ITA 567 CONTE OF FLORENCE 24 7 4 28 27 --- 154 90
MAZZANTI ARTURO
21 GBR 484 TEAM BARBARIANS 14 10 36 24 25 19 128 92
SIMPSON STUART
22 FRA 369 CELERANT CONSULTING 16 --- 20 20 16 23 159 95
AUBERT JEROME
23 FRA 387 DOUARN MAISON DE L AVENIR 20 20 22 19 19 29 129 100
SAULEAU VINCENT
24 FRA 261 OPTIC 2000 22 --- 19 36 17 10 168 104
SUILARICH ETIENNE
25 ITA 572 CITTA DI CESENA 11 42 15 27 26 25 146 104
EGIDIO BABBI
26 SUI 336 TRANSTEC 1 23 12 35 23 21 26 140 105
WITTICH JURG
27 FRA 389 BIG SHIP 4 BFD 11 47 31 21 178 114
PAUL MAXIME
28 FRA 470 COTE D ARMOR 1 30 23 26 22 51 34 186 135
RENAULT SEBASTIEN
29 FRA 193 COTES D ARMOR 2 36 15 7 45 35 OCS 202 138
TREUSSART ROMAN
30 FRA 170 GIVE ME FIVE 31 BFD 40 30 23 18 206 142
FOLLIN ADRIEN
31 FRA 358 MAGIC SALSA 25 40 24 37 29 27 182 142
MONNARD JEAN MARC
32 GBR 580 THE BADGER 37 27 27 29 30 --- 214 150
LOVEJOY PAUL
33 FRA 471 DSQ 25 41 25 32 31 218 154
NEBOUT EMMANUEL
34 NOR 366 SISTE STEIN 39 32 28 21 40 35 195 155
KONGSHAUG ERIK
35 FRA 252 J'GAULO 32 28 33 35 42 28 198 156
DOUCHY JEAN PAUL
36 FIN 316 HYDROLL 46 24 30 55 22 36 213 158
NEOVIUS JOHAN
37 SWE 532 TEAM SBAB 27 31 37 38 39 50 222 172
LINDELL JOHAN
38 GBR 368 THE DOG'S 34 34 --- 39 28 39 238 174
BROWN ALLEN
39 SWE 508 SITTING DUCK 40 22 44 42 36 37 221 177
WALDNER ANDERS
40 GBR 527 CONFORTABLY NUMB 51 30 34 43 37 33 228 177
DELLOW ANDREW
41 FRA 473 GYBE SET 45 26 42 32 34 44 223 178
GELLEZ OLIVIER
42 FRA 430 BIJOU 33 35 39 33 47 41 228 181
MINOS NICOLAS
43 FRA 392 BOCH'ANIC 43 37 31 40 38 38 227 184
LE CALVEZ JEAN MARIE
44 SUI 382 TRANSTEC/AILE 38 14 38 34 --- --- 252 188
GOOD MICHAEL
45 ITA 413 MELG'HIC TAZ 15 --- 29 44 --- 40 256 192
GIANLUCA GRISOLI
46 FRA 122 LAPIN-LAPIN 35 39 45 31 43 --- 257 193
SANS JEAN
47 FIN 253 SAMPO 41 38 51 41 41 32 244 193
PERIMAA JAAKKO
48 GBR 403 ENVY 47 33 50 51 33 42 256 205
ARGENT DEAN
49 FRA 317 DJINN 48 46 43 50 52 30 269 217
LEGLATIN TANGUY
50 SUI 267 MAD COW 53 29 49 49 --- 46 290 226
VERHULST THIERRY
51 FRA 211 OVERONE 50 45 59 57 45 43 299 240
LABOISSE ROMAIN
52 FRA 329 FLOR DIRECT 29 21 --- --- --- --- 306 242
ROIG ALAIN
53 FRA 254 MAD COW 54 BFD 47 48 46 47 306 242
SAUVAGE PIERRE
54 FRA 503 VALE CRIN 42 36 56 --- --- 45 307 243
REYNIER BERNARD
55 FRA 212 USHIP 44 41 48 46 --- --- 307 243
BORONAT ANDRE
56 FRA 225 ENZO 55 44 52 52 48 --- 315 251
MARCHETTE ALEXANDRE
57 ESP 213 CIELO RACING 58 51 54 58 44 48 313 255
SVEN LINDAHL
58 FRA 463 TA TOO MUCH 57 48 46 56 50 --- 321 257
CHAMAILLARD JACQUES
59 SUI 578 MUSIC 55 49 47 57 53 --- --- 334 270
HUBER RUE
60 GBR 190 IDRIS 56 43 55 54 --- --- 336 272
MACKIE JOHN
61 FRA 469 TANIT M 249 --- 49 60 59 49 --- 345 281
GIUDICE DANIEL
62 SUI 530 ACQUA 59 52 58 --- --- 49 346 282
TRIBO MARCO
63 FRA 424 NOVA 52 50 --- --- --- --- 358 294
KELLER BERTRAND

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