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More News Links Offshore - Artemis and Madrid-Caser Seguros win in Barcelona . . . Dinghy - Stuart Godwin wins U-21 Laser Europeans . . . Keelboat - Classic weather for British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta final . . . Dinghy - Ellis is Solo Nations Cup winner . . . Dinghy - Britain's Elliot Hanson in third at Radial Youth Worlds . . . Keelboat - Flying 15 Nationals final day . . . Keelboat - Classic Panerai Cowes Regatta gets underway . . . Catamaran - Mitch Booth takes first Extreme 40 World Championship . . . Olympic - Ainslie back in the Finn for Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta . . . News - Cowes Radio celebrates 25 years at Cowes Week . . . Dinghy - Pink and McGrane are I-14 POW Week winners . . . Offshore - Final Results Round-up from Cork Week . . Keelboat - Luca Lalli is Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Champion . . . Olympic - Gold for Australia and the Netherlands at 470 Worlds . . . Dinghy - Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane win POW . . . Dinghy - Boyde-Linnell of Great Britain win Laser 4000 Europeans . . . Olympic - Rudder failure ends Worlds medal hopes for Patience and Bithell Dinghy - Only Izzy Hamilton collects medal at Youth Worlds . . . Dinghy - Guy Bancroft and David Grace retain B14 World title . . . News - Wind turbine blown down at Weymouth Sailing academy . . . Artemis and Madrid-Caser Seguros win in Barcelona . . . Paul Cayard (USA) and the crew of Torbjorn Tornqvist’s (SWE) Artemis (SWE) won the Camper Regatta – Conde de Godó Trophy – Barcelona TP52 Series in considerable style, after a fantastic finale, coming from eighth at the first windward mark to finish second behind Bribón (ESP) on the finish line of the last race, to clinch the Swedish flagged team’s first MedCup Circuit regatta win since 2007.  The last race in the GP42 Series saw the team that has dominated all week – Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) – win their sixth race in the nine race series, nearly from start to finish. Next Audi MedCup Circuit event is the Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy, Cartagena, August 24-29. Camper Regatta – Conde de Godó Trophy - Barcelona - Final Results TP52 Series 1. Artemis (SWE), 7+2+4+5+2+4+1+5+1+2= 33 points 2. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 1+4+8+1+3+2+5+3+5+3= 35 3. Quantum Racing (USA), 5+5+2+11+1+1+9+2+5+6= 44 4. Bribón (ESP), 3+3+7+7+5+11+10+7+4+1= 58 5. Cristabella (GBR), 2+1+11+9+6+9+4+6+6+8= 62 6. TeamOrigin (GBR), 10+6+3+3+9+7+8+1+7+9= 63 7. Matador (ARG), 4+9+9+10+10+3+6+9+3+4= 67 8. Bigamist 7 (POR), 8+7+10+8+4+5+7+4+10+7= 70 9. Luna Rossa (ITA), 9+11+1+6+11+10+2+10+8+5= 73 10. Synergy (RUS), 6+10+6+2+7+8+3+8+11+12= 73 11. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE (FRA/GER), 12(DNC)+8+5+4+8+6+11+11+9+10= 84 GP42 Series 1. Madrid – Caser Seguros (ESP), 1+1+1+1+2+1+4+2+1= 14 points 2. Islas Canarias Puerto Calero (ESP), 2+4+2+2+1+2+3+1+2= 19 3. Iberdrola (ESP), 3+2+3+3+3+4+1+4+3= 26 4. Península Petroleum (GBR), 5+5+4+5+4+3+2+5+4= 37 5. AIRISESSENTIAL (ITA), 4+3+5+4+5+5+5+3+5= 39 Stuart Godwin wins U-21 Laser Europeans . . . Stuart Godwin from Hayling Island SC won the U-21 Laser Europeans on Saturday, moving from eighth in the final two races to take the Gold. Overnight leader Eifion Mon (GBR) was black flagged in the final race and finished fourth overall. Laser - Final Leaders European Championships in Laser Standard class, U-21 (120 entries) 1 GBR Godwin Stuart, 55,0pts 16 4 9 (dnf) 2 2 (32) 2 12 8 2 GRE Katsios Alexios, 60,0pts (21) (6) 3 2 3 14 14 13 7 4 3 SLO Pletikos Nik, 65,0pts 4 9 (15) 4 6 11 11 5 (15) 15 4 GBR Mon Eifion, 67,0pts (6) 1 1 6 1 1 18 29 10 (bfd) 5 ITA Marrai Francesco, 69,0pts 2 8 10 (ocs) 8 16 13 1 11 (bfd) 6 GER Roessner Maximilian, 73,0pts 7 9 1 (16) 10 9 9 14 (45) 14 Other Leading GBR: 17 GBR Mills-barton Alex, 111,0 18 2 16 (ocs) 5 1 (43) 25 32 12 19 GBR Holmes Robert, 117,0 10 4 (41) 26 22 (32) 20 3 19 13 30 GBR Evans Martin, 148,0 (20) 14 9 11 18 4 35 31 (47) 26 45 GBR Brown Andrew, 203,0 (45) 35 34 30 9 18 8 49 20 (dnf) 46 GBR Elsey Robin, 203,0 26 25 38 12 (40) 31 15 (50) 9 47 56 GBR Mccoy Peter, 239,0 37 11 (48) 34 19 20 33 33 52 (54) 60 GBR Beckett Stephen, 250,0 30 (bfd) 36 12 36 22 (ocs) 27 43 44 Classic weather for British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta final . . . Although light airs prevailed on the final day of the British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta, there was just enough wind for the single scheduled race to be started on time at midday.  Two boats did however manage to make better progress than the rest. In Class 1, the Spirit 54 Sloop, Soufriere, finished over an hour ahead of the next boat, unsurprisingly giving her a comprehensive race win on corrected time. In Class 2, the one the water winning margin was even greater for the 1937 12 Metre, Wings, who also took the race win on corrected time. In Class 3, the crew of the 1929 International 30 Square Metre, Gluckauf, were left ruing a premature start which had earned them a three percent time penalty. Despite finishing well clear of the fleet their error effectively handed first place to the 1963 built St. David’s Light on corrected time. In Class 4, the light conditions seemed to suit the 1897 Cork Harbour One-Design Gaff Cutter, Jap, which ghosted to a comfortable final race victory. Despite having had such a slow day on the water, the entire fleet did make it back ashore in good time to prepare for the evening’s regatta dinner and prizegiving at the nearby Royal Yacht Squadron. In the overall series standings, the Spirit Trophy for first place in Class 1 went to Soufriere. First in Class 2 and receiving the Lutine Cup was the 1957 Sloop, Cetewayo, who was also received the Moonbeam Trophy for overall victory in the long distance race. Overall winner of Class 3 was the 1904 Clyde 30 Linear, Mikado, who received the Corinthian Cup. Winner of the Class 4 series was Jap, who received the Commodores’ Cup. In addition to the individual trophies, each of the class winners were delighted to receive a beautiful vintage Panerai Instrument. The 1985 12 Metre, Italia, received the Sea Dragon Island Trophy for taking overall line honours in Wednesday’s long distance race. The Lallow Cup for best-presented new entrant, went to the 1898 Gaff Cutter, Kismet. The International Metre Trophy for the highest placed Metre Boat, was awarded to Wings. The Brian Keelan Memorial Trophy for the highest placed Gaffer, went to Jap. The Universal 8 Cup for the highest placed 8 Metre was won by, If. The British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta 2010 overall first prize went to Cetewayo. As overall winner of the long distance race and the overall regatta Cetewayo’s owner, British Classic Yacht Club Commodore David Murrin, was presented with two spectacular Panerai watches. In a well-received gesture of generosity, David immediately announced that he would be donating one of the watches to his favourite charity, the Special Boat Service. Full story at http://www.britishclassicyachtclub.org/regatta Ellis is Solo Nations Cup winner . . . Paul Ellis won the Solo Nations Cup after countback - Ellis and Geoff Henstridge both had a first and second in the final two races to tie on points after 12 races at Saint Pierre Quiberon, France. Tied overnight, Henstridge took the lead after winning the first race of the final day, but Ellis was right there in second, seeting up a final race show-down. The final race went to Ellis with Henstridge taking second and Ellis taking the title on countback, with Henstridge second and Alister Morley in third. Solo - Final leading positions Nations Cup 2010 (34 Entries) 1 5024 Paul Ellis 2 6 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 1 15 pts 2 4731 Geoff Henstridge 3 7 2 11 1 1 3 2 1 2 15 pts 3 4747 Alister Morley 7 3 1 6 5 3 5 3 3 4 27 pts 4 4953 Roger Tushingham 9 4 6 2 2 5 4 5 13 3 31 pts 5 5102 Vanda Jowett 1 8 7 1 14 14 11 4 10 19 56 pts 6 5041 Rob Wilder 8 5 26 8 7 12 8 8 8 12 64 pts 7 537 Armand de la Rie 4 14 12 7 15 11 6 11 11 5 67 pts 8 5130 Mark Lee 5 2 9 4 4 33 10 15 DNF 23 72 pts 9 5078 Stephen Chiverton 6 12 14 9 22 20 2 DNS 4 10 77 pts 10 570 Marleen Gaillard 16 1 17 12 16 22 16 9 6 9 85 pts Full story at http://www.soloklasse.nl Britain's Elliot Hanson in third at Radial Youth Worlds . . . Britain's Elliot Hanson is still lying in third place, three points off the lead, after two more qualifying races at the Laser Radial World Youth Championship in Largs. But it is Giovanni Coccoluto (ITA) with a win and a fifth who now leads the fleet by two points from Paul Leroy (FRA). Sixteen-year-old Mitchell Kiss (USA) provided spectators with a fine display of impressive racing with a first place in Race 1, as did Yuval Schwartz (ISR). Fresh from the Europa Cup at Warnemünde Week, he also notched up a win in the first race in his flight. In the Girls’ fleet, 17-year-old Erika Reineke from Florida, who took bronze at the recent ISAF Youth World Championship in Turkey, kicked off well with two second places in yesterday’s opening races, and today sailed impressively to better that position with two firsts. She is now in a strong position in the Girls’ fleet overall, just one point behind Manami Doi (JPN). Doi (Yellow flight) sailed an exceptional race again today, adding another first to her 2, 1 scoreline. Once the necessary four or more qualifying races are complete, boats will be assigned to final series fleets Gold, Silver and Bronze on the basis of their ranks in the qualifying series. The finals to determine the world champions will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Radial Boys - World Youth Champs, Leading scores after Thursday 1 ITA 197474 Coccoluto Giovanni 10 5 1 16 pts 2 FRA 194791 Leroy Paul 3 2 13 18 pts 3 GBR 195302 Hanson Elliot 1 14 4 19 pts 4 GBR 190967 Currie John 5 11 3 19 pts 5 ISR 194587 Schwartz Yuval 14 1 5 20 pts 6 GER 197176 Haufe Florian 11 6 4 21 pts Radial Girls - World Youth Champs, Leading scores after Thursday 1 JPN 123487 Doi Manami -7 1 1 1 10 3 pts 2 USA 184454 Reineke Erika -2 2 1 1 6 4 pts 3 NOR 197343 Bue Tiril 3 -4 4 3 14 10 pts GBR Positions: 20 GBR 194992 Mckeeman Sophie -22 11 8 11 52 30 pts 37 GBR 185655 Burford Alice 14 -25 17 14 70 45 pts 46 GBR 174380 Alderton Charlotte 26 27 4 -39 96 57 pts Flying 15 Nationals final day . . . With Steve Goacher and Phil Evans already crowned Flying 15 National Champions they put their feet up for the final race leaving the runners up slot to be decided.  Mike Hart, Greg Wells and Chris Gorringe were in the hunt and despite some place changes in the shifty conditions it was Mike Hart who took the gun and secured 2nd place overall. Chris Gorringe and Nadie Hosie gained a well deserved 2nd place on the day ahead of Greg Wells and Mark darling. In the Silver event, Micheal and Mark Green were also confirmed in the title, while for the Classics, Bobby Salmond and Roburt Till, in their 1963 Chippendale built boat number 627, which won the Nationals back in 1964, have the Classic title. Flying 15 - UK Nationals Final overall leading positions were:- 1st 3821 Open Steve Goacher Phil Evans RWYC (13) 1 3 3 1 3 2 (64 DNC) 90 13 2nd 3917 Open Mike Hart Richard Rigg Port Dinorwic SC 1 2 4 (11) (26) 1 9 1 55 18 3rd 3911 Open Russell Peters Tim Hall Hayling Island SC 2 (10) 6 1 7 6 6 (10) 48 28 4th 3905 Open David McKee Chris Hewkin Dovestone SC 4 3 2 (22) 8 13 7 (64 DNF) 123 37 5th 3920 Open Greg Wells Mark Darling Hayling Island SC 5 (12) (16) 8 11 4 10 3 69 41 6th 3795 Open Mark Longstaff Simon Thompson Draycote Water/Graham Water SC 6 8 (25) 18 (30) 8 3 5 103 48 7th 3875 Open Brett Dingwall Mike Stevens Datchet Water SC (24) 18 1 12 2 7 (30) 12 106 52 8th 3937 Open Simon Kneller Andrew Palmer Grafham Water SC 3 (20) (19) 10 18 15 8 8 101 62 9th 3957 Open Charles Apthorpe Alan Green Hayling Island SC 12 14 21 (23) 16 2 1 (27) 116 66 10th 3958 Open Andy Davis Andy Couch Blithfield SC 9 16 (26) 13 19 5 4 (25) 117 66 11th 3271 Silver Micheal Green Mark Green St. Lucia YC 7 (24) (42) 6 9 17 12 16 133 67 12th 3758 Open Pete Allam Jo Allam Parkstone YC 8 15 13 (34) 10 (22) 17 6 125 69 13th 3941 Open Alan Bax Bill Masterman Hayling Island SC (64 BFD) 4 27 2 27 14 5 (64 DSQ) 207 79 14th 3953 Open Robert Hogben Glyn Morgan Bewl Valley SC 18 13 8 16 12 (64 DSQ) (64 DSQ) 14 209 81 15th 3736 Open Peter Bannister Sue Bannister Hayling Island SC 15 21 (49) 17 4 10 15 (29) 160 82 Full story at http://www.flying15.org.uk/racereports/results2010/F15_nationals_2010.htm Classic Panerai Cowes Regatta gets underway . . . Competitors at the British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta 2010 were treated to sailing conditions more akin to the Mediterranean than the Solent as racing got under way on day one. Some early cloud cover this morning quickly burnt away to reveal clear blue skies and by the time the fifty-two boat fleet reached the start line an idyllic ten to twelve knots breeze had developed across the entire racecourse.  The competitive spirit engendered by the BCYC was certainly in plentiful supply out on the water today. Starts and mark roundings were fiercely fought in every fleet and boat-handling mistakes were cruelly punished throughout the day. The 1937 12 Metre Wings was the first to show from the combined Class 1 and 2 start, powering off the line before tacking on to port to lead the fleet away up the first beat. Jim Thom, skipper of Mariquita, the biggest and perhaps most well known boat in the regatta, the 1911 built 19 Metre Gaff-Cutter, took a more circuitous route up the first beat than most in an effort to find a clear lane to navigate in. Thom commented afterwards ‘We have returned to this regatta because we enjoyed ourselves so much in 2008. We are here to enjoy the racing of course, but when racing in a fleet with so many boats smaller than ourselves, our priority is always the safety of our boat and the others on the water.’ After a close to perfect day of Solent racing the classic crews made their way back to Cowes Yacht Haven late this afternoon to enjoy a drink in the sumptuous Panerai Lounge whilst they relaxed and mulled over their day afloat. When the scorers had completed their calculations, in Class 1 a confident performance by Stephen O’Flaherty’s Soufriere earned them a comfortable win. Class 2 saw John Lister’s Wings convert their early lead on the water into an overall handicap victory. Class 3 was won by Sir Michael Briggs’s Mikado and victory in Class 4 went to Jonathan & Scilla Dyke's Cereste. Full results are posted on the BCYC website. NOte - Racing on Tuesday cancelled, lack of wind. Full story at http://www.britishclassicyachtclub.org/regatta Mitch Booth takes first Extreme 40 World Championship . . . The final day’s racing at the first ever Extreme 40 World Championship saw a change of conditions from the rest of the five-day regatta, with a storm sweeping through Portoroz overnight bringing strong winds and rain showers. Just two points separated the overnight leaders, Mitch Booth’s Slovenian home team The Ocean Racing Club, from their closest rivals Red Bull Extreme Sailing, led by Roman Hagara. Competition between the two teams was incredibly tight with each team boasting six wins and four seconds over the week. In order to win the overall title Booth needed to finish less than two points behind Hagara in the last and only race of the final day. It was Team Kempinski/Great Britain, helmed by Shirley Robertson, which put the pedal to the metal leading the fleet for the whole race in a spectacular show which saw the crew take their first win of the regatta. Rounding the final windward mark, Red Bull Extreme Sailing were close behind in second with Team IWC/Holland in third and The Ocean Racing Club in fourth. It was looking like Booth and The Ocean Racing Club could be edged out of the top spot but some stylish downwind sailing from catamaran legend Booth saw them overtake Team IWC/Holland in the dying seconds to clinch third – and become the first ever Extreme 40 World Champions. Booth, co-creator of the Extreme 40 class, was helped to victory by tactician and Portoroz resident Tomaz Copi, trimmer Sander Speet and bowman Ed van Lierde. The inaugaral Extreme 40 World Championship was staged by The Ocean Racing Club. The next stop on the Extreme 40 calendar will be at Cowes Week in the UK when The Ocean Racing Club will look to move up the leaderboard from their current sixth position in the Extreme Sailing Series. Cowes Week runs from July 31 to August 7. Ainslie back in the Finn for Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta . . .  Ben Ainslie has been out in his Finn at Lymington as he prepares for the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy 9-14 August. Ainslie has not raced a Finn since Beijing 2008 so it’s will be almost two years to the day, but doing this year’s Sail for Gold was on the cards as long as it fitted in with the rest of the TeamOrigin schedule. In his blog Ainslie comments: "I think Sail for Gold is a really important regatta for me to attend to not only check in with where the rest of the Finn fleet are, and what developments have taken place since I’ve been away, but also to familiarise myself with the venue and conditions as I’ve actually not raced an Olympic Class boat at Weymouth and Portland for about five or six years." "I have to accept I’m not going to be 100 percent race ready, 100 percent Finn fit and at my ideal racing weight, and I’m sure it will be frustrating for me at times not being able to do things I’d normally take for granted, but the benefits of competing far outweigh any frustrations I may experience as long as I’m realistic, and possibly more importantly, other people are realistic about what I can achieve on such limited preparation." "My experience is going to be really important and I know I’m going to find it difficult at times but as you get older you generally get a bit more philosophical about things; I don’t have to prove myself in the Finn class and there are too many positives to doing the event to worry about ‘What if I don’t win?’ Any result inside the top 10 would be a good result." Racing any Olympic class boat is a unique physical challenge, you use muscles which are so hard to replicate in a gym. You have to get your body used to racing again and all the aches and pains that go with it. Apart from the lymington training days, I had a week with the Skandia Team GBR Finn squad this winter, did a few days training in Valencia during the spring and I’ve got 3 days with the British Finn guys at WPNSA the week before Sail for Gold. All Finn sailing I do between now and the regatta will be about re-familiarising my body with that feeling and boat handling." "I’ve left all the boat development work to my coach David ‘Sid’ Howlett and that’s been going well although I haven’t had the chance to use the boat in anger yet. We’ll make the decision on whether we use the new boat at Sail for Gold in the next couple of weeks as there may be some things we want to keep under wraps." Full story at http://www.benainslie.com Cowes Radio celebrates 25 years at Cowes Week . . . Cowes Radio, the longest running Special Event Radio Station in the UK, is an award winning and integral part of Cowes Week and celebrates its 25th birthday during the forthcoming July 31st to August 7th 2010 regatta. Streamed on the internet around the world at http://www.cowesradio.co.uk and listened to by many thousands of competitors and spectators attending Cowes Week on 87.7fm through speakers on Cowes Parade, the Green and through personal earpieces on the boats, the reporting and programme content provides an eclectic mix of regatta highlights, interviews and entertainment. More crucial information is included for competitors, with dedicated and detailed local weather reports, tide times and the all-important race results being broadcast.  Throughout each day, a major highlight is the opportunity to listen-in to the live, on-water commentary from Dick Johnson on all the sailing action with minute-by-minute information ‘fed’ to competitors from a fully instrumented commentary boat and Simon Vigar in a privileged position on the Royal Yacht Squadron platform. 25 years ago, Dick knew only one person in radio - Steve Ancsell who hosted a weekly sailing and boating programme on the now defunct Radio Victory. Steve ‘s media company Airwaves had the expertise and equipment that enabled the first Cowes Radio in 1985. Steve controlled activities from a caravan under the Royal London Yacht Club’s flag mast. Dick stood by the RYS guns with a radio microphone transmitter and binoculars - chatting about whatever went on. Cowes Radio was born and has gone from strength to strength. A much loved part of the regatta scene – with Dick, a rusty walnut colour, a great favourite of one and all. Comments Steve: “A huge dept of gratitude is owed to all the supporters of Cowes Radio over the last 25 years: major sponsors, especially Nanny Cay, eDigital Research, Skandia of course and many, many more. Raymarine the providers of sailing instruments for the commentary boat; advertisers; the exceptionally talented and loyal reporting and back-up teams. They are the ones who make it possible for us to be on air year after year”. Pink and McGrane are I-14 POW Week winners . . . After winning the POW Cup on Saturday with Roger Gilbert, McGrane joined with John Pink to win all three races on Sunday for the championship week title at Hayling ISland SC.  After a dramatically shortened I-14 Championship week due to gale force winds on the Thursday and Friday, the Prince of Wales Cup for the UK Championship title was finally held on Saturday and won by Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane in a tough race that saw half the fleet retire - see separate report below. McGrane returned on Sunday with 49er sailor, John Pink on the helm and the pair won all three trophy races to take the POW Week title. Second in each of the three races were Tom Heywood and Ed Clay and third overall Georg Borkenstien and Eike Dietrich of Germany. I-14 - POW Week leading overall positions (37 entries) 1st 28 GBR 1541 John Pink Ben McGrane HISC 1.0 1.0 1.0 3.0pts 2nd 9 GBR 1484 Tom Heywood Ed Clay HISC 2.0 2.0 2.0 6.0 3rd 31 GER 28 Georg Borkenstein Eike Dietrich WSCW 6.0 10.0 3.0 19.0 4th 11 GBR 1496 Martin Pascal Robin Pascal Itchenor SC 8.0 6.0 11.0 25.0 5th 15 GBR 527 Steve Fisher Neil Barber HISC 5.0 15.0 7.0 27.0 6th GBR 1523 Doug Walker Louise Walker Itchenor SC 7.0 11.0 12.0 30.0 7th 17 GBR 1520 Katie Nurton David Royse Itchenor SC 9.0 12.0 10.0 31.0 8th 36 GBR 1500 Archie Massey Damian Ash Itchenor SC 38.0 DNF 3.0 4.0 45.0 9th 22 GBR 1531 Andrew Penman Phil Kennard Itchenor SC 4.0 38.0 DNF 6.0 48.0 10th 10 GBR 1495 Charles Duchesne Andrew Handasyde Dick Itchenor SC 38.0 DNC 4.0 9.0 51.0 I-14 - Lowestoft Bowl 1 GBR 1541 John Pink Ben McGrane HISC 1 1.0 2 GBR 1484 Tom Heywood Ed Clay HISC 2 2.0 3 GBR 1534 Andy Fitzgerald Leif Stenhouse Itchenor SC 3 3.0 I-14 - Hunstanton Plate 1 GBR 1541 John Pink Ben McGrane HISC 1 1.0 2 GBR 1484 Tom Heywood Ed Clay HISC 2 2.0 3 GBR 1500 Archie Massey Damian Ash Itchenor SC 3 3.0 I-14 - Island Commemorative Trophy 1 GBR 1541 John Pink Ben McGrane HISC 1 1.0 2 GBR 1484 Tom Heywood Ed Clay HISC 2 2.0 3 GER 28 Georg Borkenstein Eike Dietrich WSCW 3 3.0 Full story at http://www.hisc.co.uk Final Results Round-up from Cork Week . . Watery sunshine, 15 knots from the northwest were to provide some tricky conditions for all classes. Cork Harbour and the surrounding area have huge land effects on the wind, especially today, the gradient made for constant changes. It proved to be a day for keeping heads out of the boat, looking for changes in the weather. However, that is only one part of the overall puzzle. Boat-on-boat tactics and strong tides are also in the mix. Racing today at Cork Week was like a game of three-dimensional chess.  Cork Week 2010 - Summary Final Class Leaders - Friday 16 JulyBoat of the Week - Kinsale Kettle Marinerscove.ie David Dwyer Errislannan Paul Kirwan Sisk Group Corinthian Cup - Jammy Dodger, Neil Martin Prix d'Elegance - Starry Night, Dr Jose Awarez TP52 Carroll Cup - Pace, Johnny Vincent Cork Week 2010 J109 European Championships 1 Bluejay Greg Burgess 10 2 JUKE BOX Brian Moreton 18 3 JELLY BABY Ian Nagle & Paul O'Malley 28 Cork Week 2010 Super 0 1 PACE Johnny Vincent 12 2 INTERLODGE Austin Fragomen 16 3 BOB Gray, Laidlaw 16 Cork Week 2010 IRC0 1 MARINERSCOVE.IE David Dwyer 16 2 NEMO OF COWES Richard Cotter 21 3 ANTIX Anthony O'Leary 27 Cork Week 2010 IRC1 1 Jump Juice Conor & Denise Phelan 12 2 ROXY 6 Robert Davies 13 3 IMPETUOUS Richard Fildes 16 Cork Week 2010 IRC2 1 ROCKABILL V Paul O'Higgins 14 2 Visit Malta Puma Sailing Logic Limited 16 3 Fools Gold Rob Mc Connell 20 Cork Week 2010 IRC3 1 BENGAL MAGIC John Moorehead & Chris Ferres 7 2 Equinox Ross McDonald 15 3 That's Life! Martin Breen 23.5 Cork Week 2010 IRC4 1 ERRISLANNAN Paul Kirwan 11 2 Alpaca Paul & Deirdre Tingle 15 3 RUTHLESS Conor Ronan 19 Cork Week 2010 IRC5 1 YANKS $ FFRANCS Vincent O'Shea 18 2 ANTIX John Allen 26 3 NO EXCUSE Ted Crosbie 31 Cork Week 2010 IRC6 1 Tiger James O'Brien, Kenefick & Kenefick 7 2 HARD ON PORT Flor O'Driscoll 14 3 WOODY Jason Losty 25 Cork Week 2010 1720/Mixed Sports Boats 1 Yknot Michael Wilson 12 2 King Louie Malcom Thorpe 18 3 Aquatack Denis Murphy 18 Cork Week 2010 SB3 1 Sharkbait Ben Duncan & Brian Moran 7 2 Bullet Trevor D'Arcy 11 3 Profile Park Ronan Downing 23 Cork Week 2010 White Sail 1 1 ORNA Philip Dilworth 7 2 AISHA Kevin Lane 15 3 Xerxes Dan O'Neill 25 Cork Week 2010 White Sail 2 1 HARMONY Jerome McCarthy, Clarke & McMullin 7 2 EXPRESSION Billy Duane 12 3 MINX III Tom McNeice 19 Luca Lalli is Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Champion . . . Luca Lalli, aboard his B-Lin Sailing, with tactician Lorenzo Bressani and crew of is the 2010 Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Champion. He also delivered an astounding last day performance to win the Malcesine edition of the four-part series. In second overall in the series is Lanfranco Cirillo on Fantastica with tactician Michele Paoletti. Carlo Alberini on Calvi Network is third. Only two races were ran on Sunday with the breeze blowing more than 20 knots and Lalli demolishing any chance Cirillo ever had of capturing the event win as well as the series victory. American entrant John Kilroy on Samba Pa Ti with tactician Stu Bannatyne won race 1 and 2010 European Melges 32 Champion Joe Woods on Red with Paul Goodison on tactics won the final heat of the regatta. Melges 32 - Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series, Leading Results (After 8 Races) 1.) Luca Lalli/Lorenzo Bressani, B-Lin Sailing; 5-[11]-3-5-2-7-2-3 = 27 2.) Edoardo Lupi/Branko Brcin, Torpyone; 1-8-[10]-1-4-5-8-2 = 29 3.) Carlo Alberini/Gabriele Benussi, Calvi Network; 3-1-7-3-3-8-[12]-10 = 35 4.) Mauro Mocchegiani/Matteo Ivaldi, Rush Diletta; 11-3-6-2-5-2-[15]-6 = 35 5.) John Kilroy, Stu Bannatyne, Samba Pa Ti; 10-4-1-7-9-[11]-1-4 = 36 6.) Joe Woods/Paul Goodison, Red; 7-7-2-8-7-[15]-6-1 = 38 Gold for Australia and the Netherlands at 470 Worlds . . . Brilliant sunshine and a 12 knot southwesterly breeze for the Men's and Women's medal races, held directly off the beach at the Hague. In the Men's race Australians Matt Belcher and Malcolm Page had secured gold through their 20 point lead yesterday to claim the Men's World Championship title. In the women's event Dutch defending World Champions, Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout added a fifth World Championship win.  Skandia Team GBR’s medal hopes faded on Saturday’s penultimate day when leading Brits Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell were forced to sit out of two races after sustaining rudder damage, leaving two-time World Champions Nic Asher and Elliot Willis to fight for the podium spots in the final medal race Sunday. A fifth place in the final ten-boat double points-scoring race wasn’t quite enough to see the British pair onto the podium. Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark impressed at their first World Championship together, and Ayton’s first in the 470 class since making the switch from the Yngling keelboat. The Skandia Team GBR pairing were in overall fourth heading into the final day, but in spite of losing a place to finish fifth overall, they were delighted with their first World Championship campaign. This is the first major championship The Hague has hosted since the International Sailing Centre has opened. However the city is gunning hard to host the ISAF World Sailing Games prior to the 2016 Olympic Games. 470 Men - Final 2010 World Championship 1 AUS 11 BELCHER Mathew, PAGE Malcolm 44,0 2 FRA 7 CHARBONNIER Nicolas, MEYER DIEU Baptiste 65,0 3 CRO 83 FANTELA Sime, MARENIC Igor 69.0 GBR 4 GBR 854 ASHER Nic, WILLIS Elliot 78,0 8 GBR 844 PATIENCE Luke, BITHELL Stuart 95,0 470 Women - Final 2010 World Championship 1 NED 11 WESTERHOF Lisa, BERKHOUT Lobke 30,0 2 NZL 75 ALEH Jo, POWRIE Olivia 37,0 3 ITA 23 CONTI Giulia, MICOL Giovanna 55,0 GBR 5 GBR 842 AYTON Sarah, CLARK Saskia 85,0 8 GBR 850 CLARK Penny, HUGHES Katrina 105,0 Full story at http://www.470worlds2010.com Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane win POW . . . Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane powered away to win the International 14 POW Cup in a wipe-out championship race at Hayling Island SC on Saturday. The traditional class championship race was delayed from Friday due to gale force winds and only half the fleet finished the course.  Only 16 of the the 37 starters finished the race, the winner of which is the class national champion. Just after the start the wind strength went from 15 knots to almost 20 knots and the sea state, already confused from several days of strong winds caused difficulties for the competitors as they approached the first gybe mark. Gilbert and McGrane went left off the line, out to sea, led round the first mark and were never headed, chasing them in second were 1538, Martin Jones and Zeb Elliot with 1543, Glen Truswell and Chris Blackburn in third and 1536, Jarrod Simpson and Tim Paull fourth, 1544, Douglas Pattison and Mark Tait fifth. This was before the wind increase and most of the early leaders fell away, with capsizes and damage, but Gilbert and McGrane continued their course. Eventually by the third visit to the windward mark, 1540, Andy and Tom Partington were in second, with 1526, Mark Upton-Brown and Matt Gotrel third. Final finishing was 1st Gilbert and McGrane, 2nd Archie Massey and Damian Ash and 3rd Upton-Brown and Gotrel. This is a second POW win for Gilbert and McGrane. A special mention for the Japanese crew Takashi Furugaki and Satoshi Ishida who battled round, capsized at the final mark, ripping their mainsail, limped to the finish line, then capsized again. They lowered their main to sail back under jib and eventually accepted a tow back to HISC. POW Images Here . . . I-14 POW finishing positions (37 entries) 1st GBR 1541 Roger Gilbert Ben McGrane HISC 1 2nd GBR 1500 Archie Massey Damian Ash Itchenor SC 2 3rd GBR 1526 Mark Upton-Brown Matt Gotrel HISC/Itchenor SC 3 4th GBR 1540 Andy Partington Tom Partington HISC 4 5th GER 28 Georg Borkenstein Eike Dietrich WSCW 5 6th GBR 1536 Jarrod Simpson Tim Paull HISC 6 7th GBR 1531 Andrew Penman Phil Kennard Itchenor SC 7 8th GBR 1496 Martin Pascal Robin Pascal Itchenor SC 8 9th GBR 1505 Simon Hiscocks Olly Spensley Corfield HISC 9 10th GBR 527 Steve Fisher Neil Barber HISC 10 11th GBR 1520 Katie Nurton David Royse Itchenor SC 11 12th GBR 1425 Kimball Morrison Charlie Crone Itchenor SC 12 13th GBR 1509 Sam Pascoe Alex Knight Castle Cove SC 13 14th GBR 1523 Doug Walker Louise Walker Itchenor SC 14 15th GER 12 Dirk Rother Kai Lassen SV Wakenitz 15 16th GBR 1488 Takashi Furugaki Satoshi Ishida Japan i14 fleet 16 Full story at http://www.sailweb.co.uk Boyde-Linnell of Great Britain win Laser 4000 Europeans . . . The Laser 4000 European Championship at Fraglia Vela Riva concluded Saturday after eleven good, fast and clean races. Brits Martin Boyde and Toby Linnell are the new champions.  Once again Riva del Garda was the venue of an event with exceptional organization on water and on land, from the race committee and the buoy staff to the expert technicians and a venue like Garda Trentino which, with southerly winds of at least fifteen knots, provided the best conclusion for this event organised by Fraglia Vela Riva. The podium was all British, as predicted from the start of the competition, with Boyde-Linnell leaders from the second day. There wasn’t much change in second and third places. Silver went to the mixed crew of Gould-Hooper (first in the tenth and penultimate race) and bronze for the other mixed crew of Hodgson-Ogg (today fourth and first). Unfortunately Richards-Williamson, who yesterday were only one point behind third position, today had to withdraw from the first race due to a breakdown. They finished, however in fourth place even though the bronze medal had been within their grasp. Rudder failure ends Worlds medal hopes for Patience and Bithell Leading British sailors Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell were out of contention at the Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships in the Netherlands after a rudder breakage on the penultimate day ended their hopes of a second consecutive Worlds medal. The Skandia Team GBR pair – lying in second place overall heading into the three-race day – saw great pace in Saturday’s opening race to finish third and advance them into the gold medal position.  It was in race two that their fortunes changed. The silver medallists at the 2009 World Championships, were again in a dominant position and heading to the windward mark for the second time in second place when their rudder gudgeon broke off, leaving them unable to steer the boat. With the damage unable to be fixed on the water, Patience from Helensburgh and Rochdale’s Bithell were forced to abandon that race and the ensuing third race, and instead were towed back to shore. They still make the cut for the ten-boat medal race finale on Sunday, in eighth place overall, but a podium spot in The Hague is now out of their grasp. In the women’s fleet, Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark are putting on an impressive show in their first World Championship together – and Ayton’s first in the 470 class. In spite of picking up a black flag penalty in the middle of the three races, the pair had an otherwise solid day with their disqualification sandwiched by two fourth places to see them into fourth place overall. With 16 points separating them from the bronze medal position, a podium spot is still a mathematical possibility for the Skandia Team GBR pair, but it would require a sub-par performance from Italy’s Giulia Conti and Giovanna Micol who’ve got the better of them in most of the week’s races. Penny Clark and Katrina Hughes will also feature for Skandia Team GBR in the women’s medal race, in spite of a testing day. They picked up 19,9,14 from their three races and made the cut in seventh place, with a strong medal race on Sunday offering them the chance to finish their regatta in fifth place overall. Only Izzy Hamilton collects medal at Youth Worlds . . . Britain’s young guns are contemplating what could have been after Izzy Hamilton landed RYA Volvo Team GBR’s only medal at this year’s event picking up a second consecutive silver in the RS:X girls class on the final day of the 2010 Volvo Youth sailing ISAF World Championships on Friday. Hamilton was determined to beat her Israeli rival Ofir Halevy after she toppled the 17-year-old at the RS:X Europeans in the lead up to this week’s event and that she did, but it was Poland’s Kamila Smektala who emerged victorious after a demanding week. “I’m really happy to have got silver. I was fourth the day before yesterday and third yesterday so I’m happy to have gone up to silver today. ” said Hamilton. With plenty of medal winning potential among the 12-strong British team, the RYA Volvo Team GBR contingent were left feeling slightly short changed after Henry Lloyd Williams/Sam Batten (29er), Hannah Mitchell/Joanna Freeman (420) and Adam Butler/Nikki Boniface (SL16) finished just outside the medal bracket in fourth place, with both the 29er and 420 pairs missing out by just one point and the SL16 duo tied on points losing out on count back. RS:X - Girls Final Leading positions 1st POL KAMILA SMEKTALA 16.0pts 2nd GBR ISOBEL HAMILTON 21.0pts 3rd ISR OFIR HALEVY 26.0pts Other GBR Final positions: SL16 - 4th NICOLA BONIFACE and ADAM BUTLER 29er - 4th HENRY LOYD WILLIAMS and SAMUEL BATTEN RS:X Boys - 8th SAMUEL SILLS 420 Boys - 6th MICHAEL WOOD HUGH BRAYSHAW 420 Girls - 4th JOANNA FREEMAN and HANNAH MITCHEL Radial Boys - 6th CAMERON DOUGLAS Radial Girls - 13th SOPHIE MC KEENAN Guy Bancroft and David Grace retain B14 World title . . . Guy Bancroft and David Grace from Australia retained their B14 World title after a wild final race when the wind had increased to borderline survival conditions.  A full on survival race followed with Dave Lorimer and Raf Heale showing their expertise in the extreme conditions taking their second victory of the day. They were followed home by Fells/Ramus and Bancroft/Grace in 2nd and 3rd. This meant that the 2010 B14 World Championship went to defending champion Guy Bancroft with new crew David Grace from McCrae YC in Australia. Second place went to Scott Cunningham and Pup and third to Nick Craig and MJ The next B14 Worlds are scheduled for January 2012 in Perth, Western Australia. B14 - Worlds, final leading scores 1 AUS 778 BANCROFT Guy / GRACE David 22.00 2 AUS 7 CUNNINGHAM Scott / WALKER Jason 29.00 3 GBR 773 CRAIG Nick / JOHNSON Matt 33.00 4 AUS 374 LORIMER David / HEALE Rafael 35.00 5 GBR 758 HARRISON Tim / RATCLIFFE Jonny 53.00 Wind turbine blown down at Weymouth Sailing academy . . . A Wind turbine in the Weymouth Sailing academy’s car park was levelled in the early hours of Thursday as the Portland coastline was lashed by winds of up to 55 miles per hour. No-one was injured when the turbine was brought down and no vehicles in the car park were damaged. Scottish and Southern Energy who installed the micro wind turbine at the sailing academy, have sent a team of engineers from SEC to thoroughly investigate the incident and ensure the equipment is removed safely. |
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