Student Yachting World Cup

Mixed bag of conditions for international teams sees three teams come out on top

1st race: The wind was very weak and so there was a long wait before starting and there would be only one lap. There was finally enough wind to launch a race but with the wind direction changing all the time the regatta was postponed twice. The third try was good and the English crew was very fast and far ahead. Unfortunately they didn’t notice that there was only one lap and most of the fleet followed them. The Dutch team took advantage of this to win this first regatta to the amazement of most of the other teams.

2nd race: There was not much wind but it was a nice and hard won regatta according to the Jury. There was a rather daring but successful tack at the windward mark by the Swedish team.

Day two was cancelled because of too much wind. The boats stayed in the harbour and the crews stayed in the bars near the seaside...

3rd race:
This proved quite difficult to start and after two false starts the English were blackflagged. There was a collision between the Swedish, Portuguese and English boats. The Japanese boat had also a problem with its mast. Because of a bad weather forecast and increasing wind, the committee urged the fleet to go back to the harbor and cancelled the overnight race and allowing the damage to be fixed.



4th race:
The team from Utrecht won this race and showed everybody that even though they could have been lucky in the first regatta they were also good sailors.

5th race:
The English team took its revenge of the first regatta by winning this last regatta in a close finish with the Norwegian team.

Fifth day
No regatta again: too much wind. The boats stayed in the harbour. Beginning of inventories.

Results

Pos	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
1	NED	IRL	SCO	HOL	ENG	SCO	ENG	POR
2	HOL	RSA	IRL	SCO	NOR	ENG	SCO	NED
3	JPN	NED	NOR	ENG	RSA	NOR	HOL	IRL
4	RSA	SWE	NED	RSA	ITA	NED	RSA	ENG
5	FRA	POL	HOL	NED	X	RSA	IRL	SWE
6	ITA	HOL	POL	POR	SCO	HOL	NOR	FRA
7	SCO	SCO	ITA	FRA	SWE	IRL	POL	RSA
8	NOR	ENG	RSA	NOR	POR	FRA	ITA	SCO
9	POR	NOR	X	IRL	IRL	ITA	NED	JPN
10	IRL	ITA	FRA	X	NED	JPN	FRA	NOR
11	POL	POR	SWE	ITA	FRA	SWE	POR	X
12	X	JPN	POR (DSQ)	SWE	POL	X	JPN	POL
13	SWE	FRA	ENG (BFD)	POL	JPN	POR	SWE	HOL
14	ENG (DNF)	X	JPN (DNF)	JPN	HOL	POL	X	ITA (DNF)

Final results

1. Scotland - 19 pts
1. England - 19 pts
1. Ned - 19 pts
4. RSA - 22 pts
5. Holland - 23 pts
6. Ireland - 27 pts
7. Norway - 30 pts
8. Italy - 44 pts
9. Portugal - 46 pts
10. France - 46 pts
11. Sweden - 50 pts
12. Poland - 53 pts
13. Japan - 59 pts