ORCi Europeans 2022 | trash talk
Some pretty nice photos from the last time Hankø hosted the ORCi Europeans in 2011 (full gallery). Then I had Dobbs Davies as photo boat driver and I remembered we had some heated discussions on the finer details of the VPP 😀 A lot has changed in the last 11 years.
Class A
Looking at the results from the Worlds in 2021, its hould be a two boat affair between TP52 Imagine and Mills 45 Halbtrocken. Maybe a slight edge for Imagine since they’ve done a lot of sailing this year?
| TP52 | Imagine | 433.8 | 15.709 | Holger STRECKENBACH |
| TP52 | Jokerman III | 443.7 | 15.234 | Per Ottar SKAARET |
| Mills 45 | Halbtrocken 4.5 | 467.6 | 13.576 | Michael BERGHORN |
| Fast 40+ | X-DAY | 479.0 | 12.589 | Lars HUECKSTAEDT |
| Swan 45 | KATIMA | 540.6 | 12.102 | Jan OPLÄNDER |
| Soto 40 | UNO SISS | 503.0 | 11.86 | Ole Birger GIÆVER |
| E 44 | Clean Energy | 530.8 | 11.614 | Mati SEPP |
Biggest 🤯 is E44 Clean Energy. How can a sporty 44-footer designed in 2021 have over a ton of internal lead?
I thought we were over the trend of making really slow ORCi-boats after a few of the recent disasters! Why not go with a 2015 Mills 45 instead… Better boat in every way. And probably cheaper as well.
Class B
In this class there’re more boatrs. And more boats that have a shot at the podium. Two designs have a proven track record and will be hard to beat: Landmark 43 and X-41.
Among the Landmarks, Intermezzo, White Shadow and Game should be very close. And Olympic should be a slight favourie before 3-4 other X-41? They won Baltic Offshore Week in june, and had a strong series in the last Worlds (best boat of the ones competing here). But Xini Freedom with Sten Mohr and some of the others will be able to stay close. It’s impossible to cover this meny good boats. Naturally I hope to see Kwanza be able to challenge as well.
Add ClubSwan 42 Sirena into the mix, and this is by far the toughest class.
| XP-44 | TOO BONITA | 545.1 | 11.63 | Knut G HEJE |
| Landmark 43 | Intermezzo | 533.5 | 11.603 | Jens KUPHAL |
| IMX 45 | PhiloXenia | 547.6 | 11.557 | Annelise KULLMAN |
| Landmark 43 | Game | 540.4 | 11.556 | Calle ANDERSEN |
| XP-44 | Born to Run | 548.7 | 11.533 | Pål STIANSEN |
| Landmark 43 | White Shadow | 540.6 | 11.527 | Torkjel VALLAND |
| SWAN 42 | Sirena | 537.7 | 11.498 | Peter BUHL |
| Aquatich 40 | Snakkas | 534.9 | 11.446 | Per SORTEDAL |
| XP 44 | SURPRISE | 548.1 | 11.414 | Marie-Ivonne OTISI-SCHAARSCHMIDT |
| Landmark 43 | Madame Gray | 536.2 | 11.37 | Sampsa VEHKAMÄKI |
| X-41 | Xini Freedom | 568.5 | 10.786 | Martin ESTLANDER |
| X-41 | Nexus | 567.6 | 10.712 | Søren JUNKER |
| X-41 | Gottix | 566.8 | 10.709 | Gustav GOTTEBERG |
| X-41 | Kwanza | 574.0 | 10.697 | Sten HAEGER |
| X-41 | Olympic | 569.2 | 10.675 | Tiit VIHUL |
| King 40 | Magic | 567.1 | 10.657 | Aasmund DROLSUM |
| X-41 mod | PREMIUM | 571.0 | 10.626 | Tanel TAMM |
| X-41 | Xanadu | 569.7 | 10.596 | Sigurd TVEIT |
| Sinergia 40 | Sons of Hurricanes | 577.7 | 10.38 | Jon Sverre HOIDEN |
| J/111 | Dacapo | 572.5 | 10.134 | Jørgen G HEJE |
| X-41 | Salesforce SailLogic | Magnus HEDEMARK |
Class C
Here we have three favourites (!) with past medals to prove it: Patrik Forsgrens First 36.7 Team Pro4, J/112E Matilda 4 with Joachim Aschenbrenner and Aivar Tuulbergs Arcona 340 Katariina II. My bet is on this order…
The biggest threat to the party comes from sevaral Italia 11.98, a model that’s been very suceesful. This years Worlds in Porto Cervo had FOUR boats topping the results. We raced agiant Sugar 3 and Scugnizza in Tre Golfi and those boats are hard to beat. These boats don’t hava a track record (yet) som hard to say who’s got an edge. But it’s hard to bet against Mads Christensen and the team on Stony?
Outsiders in lighter winds could be Melges 32 Hotshot and Bashford 36 Virginia.
| Bashford 36 | Virginia | 593.0 | 9.775 | Knut NYGAARD |
| Italia 11.98 | Rhino | 594.3 | 9.766 | Saulius PAJARSKAS |
| Salona 380 | Aquarius | 602.7 | 9.717 | Bjorn Erik BJORNSEN |
| J/112E | Shadow | 596.4 | 9.707 | Harles LIIV |
| Arcona 385 | Ibb | 602.8 | 9.692 | Henrik TANGEN |
| Italia 11.98 | Stony VIII | 590.3 | 9.677 | Steen TOFTEBJERG |
| Italia 11.98 | Arabela | 589.4 | 9.674 | Raimondas SIUGZDINIS |
| Matilda 4 | J/112E | 596.8 | 9.635 | Juss OJALA |
| Melges 32 | Hotshot | 540.1 | 9.446 | Christopher Robin ALVEBERG |
| NEO 350 | DIA | 598.1 | 9.398 | Tauras RYMONIS |
| Arcona 370 | Bris | 613.5 | 9.329 | Ragnar ANDREASSEN |
| J/109 | Jubel | 617.2 | 9.219 | Jon HOLM |
| First 35 | JAZZ | 615.9 | 9.166 | Henri ROIHU |
| First 36.7 MOD | Team Pro4u | 621.8 | 9.159 | Patrik FORSGREN |
| X-35 | Akhillevs-X | 607.0 | 9.138 | Yngve AMUNDSEN |
| X-35 | Vortex | 606.8 | 9.078 | Martin MOE |
| First 35 | Smil | 626.5 | 9.075 | Ragnar WISLØFF |
| Arcona 340 | KATARIINA II | 612.8 | 9.073 | Aivar TUULBERG |
| First 36.7 | LUCKY LADY II | 627.6 | 9.068 | Morten LYCKE |
| Sun Fast 3300 | Hyrrokin | 599.3 | 8.806 | Tim SANDBERG |
| Farr 30 | Farrari | 594.5 | 8.769 | Lars AARUM |
| X-34 | Extase | 638.4 | 8.768 | Nils KAMFJORD |
| Farr 30 | Wii 2 | 593.1 | 8.743 | Ole AABEL |
| Farr 30 | Le Granville Express | 587.3 | 8.742 | Christopher ANDERSEN |
| Farr 30 | PAKALOLO II | 587.5 | 8.697 | Marius ANDERSEN |
| Farr 30 | Farrgo | 594.3 | 8.653 | Per ALGOTSSON |
| First 34.7 | Lethe | 635.8 | 8.528 | Øyvind KNUDSEN |
| Corby 33 | Mrs Freckles | Lena HAVING |
Aug 2, 2022 @ 19:15
Väldigt få Svenska båtar våra ”fattiga” kusiner i öst har betydligt flera och mycket längre tillsägning. Hur kan det komma sig?
Aug 2, 2022 @ 19:33
Jag tror den största skillnaden här är att varje nation har 4-5 team som seglar på denna nivå, och som åker på dessa event oavsett var man kör. Sedan brukar många från närområdet dyka upp för att det är ett kul event.
Jag är kanske mest förvånad över att vi inte ser fler båtar från Stockholmstrakten. Det är ju trots allt där det seglas ORCi lite mer seriöst.
Aug 7, 2022 @ 18:06
As expected?
𝗢𝗥𝗖 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 – 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗸ø, 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘆
Today the sailors and Race Committee at the ORC European Championship in Hankø, Norway had a Practice Race – for the RC to test their teamwork, communications etc and for the sailors to get familiarised with one of the next week’s race courses.
The race results are available here 👉
https://orc.org/ec22
Aug 9, 2022 @ 14:34
any rumours where is E 44 Clean Energy?
Aug 9, 2022 @ 14:46
I think they have battery/electronics problem and haven’t splashed this year.
Aug 9, 2022 @ 14:47
“Clean Energy will not race the Europeans unfortunately. They have a big issue with the electric engine system. Very expensive batteries pack are gone and there is a big fight going on with producer.”
😮
Aug 9, 2022 @ 14:53
Resultat här.
Snyggt seglat av Team Pro4u som vann klass C och Kwanza som var 2:a i B.
Aug 11, 2022 @ 07:31
Inga överraskningar här (efter 4 race)?
Class A: 1. HALBTROCKEN (GER), 2. KATIMA (GER), 3. JOKERMAN (NOR)
Class B: 1. INTERMEZZO (GER), 2. WHITE SHADOW (NOR), 3. OLYMPIC (EST)
Class C: 1. KATARIINA II (EST), 2. MATILDA 4 (EST), 3. TEAM PRO4U (SWE)
Alla resultat på https://orc.org/ec22.
Aug 11, 2022 @ 20:18
Hela tillställningen verkar vara till för att ett gäng extremt arroganta ORC funktionärer skall får gratis semester. Korta ”offshore” racet är ett ännu större skämt än det långa. Fram och tillbaka innanför öar vid Hankø. Sen ToR Faerdern. Tur vi har 4% av vikten i livflottar och annan säkutrustning, känns motiverat. Särskilt som Italia 11:98 har det samma
Aug 13, 2022 @ 16:48
Då verkar det vara slutseglat?
Klass A:
1. Mills 45 Halbtrocken 4.5, 2. TP 52 Jokerman, 3. TP 52 Imagine. Som tippat? Bra av Jokerman att slå Imagine.
Klass B:
1. Landmark 43 Intermezzo, 2. Landmark 43White Shadow, 3. X-41 Olympic. Inga överraskningar?! Bra seglat av Kwanza som knep en 7:e plats – mitt i X-41-fleeten.
Class C:
1. Arcona 340 Katariina II, 2. J/112E Matilda 4, 3. First 36.7 Team Pro4u. Stort grattis till Patrik Forsgren och hans team till ännu en medalj. Svårt att rå på proffsen här.
Farrgo slutade 12:a och Mrs Freckles 27:a.
Alla resultat: https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=index&eventid=EC22