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Vi hoppas på lite mer vind än förra året. Senaste versionen av startlistan (pdf). 45 riktigt bra båtar i vår klass, som går iväg 12:50 på fredag. Det här blir ingen lek…
Klasse: LYS R36 Starttid:13.06.2008 12:50:00 Startflagg: H
NOR 10912 ANIE First 36.7 Thor Morten Hem LaSF blå 1,28
NOR 12471 FLORA CB 365 johan andersen Soon SF hvit 1,28
NOR 9148 REDUCTION J/105 Henrik Vislie Bærum SF hvit 1,28
NOR 9629 ANNE-MARIE CB 365 Kjell Norli Fredrikstad SF hvit 1,28
NOR 9634 FRØKEN FRYD CB 365 Tom Olberg Soon SF hvit 1,28
SWE 10570 SNUBBLER X-382 Jan Svernhage GKSS vit 1,28
NOR 12448 SIDDIS III Salona 37 Doug Mellgren KNS hvit 1,29
NOR 10126 TULAMA Dehler 36 Lars Martin Sørhaug Røyken SF blå 1,29
NOR 10185 FRI AV FJÆRHOLMEN Dehler 36 Jan Petter Rød Tønsberg SF blå 1,29
NOR 10362 LATX X-362 Sport Håkon Hjorthøy Asker SF blå 1,29
NOR 10701 ZIKK ZAKK 7 First 36.7 Per Kristoffer Lie Bundefj. SF hvit 1,29
NOR 11177 DIONE 2 Dehler 36 JV Svein W. Eriksen Skøyen SF hvit 1,29
NOR 11197 MULEN First 36.7 Birger Christoffersen Bærum SF hvit 1,29
NOR 11290 BONUS First 36.7 Steinar Flaa KNS hvit 1,29
NOR 11512 TOLAMA Dehler 36 SQ Asbjørn Næss Larvik SF blå 1,29
NOR 11880 NY PERS Bavaria 35 Match Per Østbye KNS 1,29
NOR 9668 XPLORER X-362 Sport Carl Einar Wathne Bærum SF blå 1,29
NOR 9935 ANETTE CB 365 Roald L. Hoem Bærum SF hvit 1,29
NOR 9994 X´EST LA VIE X-362 Sport Ketil Fridheim KNS blå 1,29
NOR 9996 ATOM X X-362 Sport Pål Raaum KNS blå 1,29
SWE 109 SUNDANCE First 36.7 Jan A Persson Karlstads SS vit 1,29
SWE 92961 CHAMSIIN X-382 Peter Dahlsten GKSS vit 1,29
NOR 10388 JAMBO J/109 Torgeir Sten Askvig Asker SF white 1,30
NOR 11541 JJ FLASH J/109 Geir Inge Juriks KNS hvit 1,30
NOR 11543 CARMENCITA Arcona 370 Jørgen Husvik Bærum SF hvit 1,30
NOR 12784 SARA CHARLOTTE Arcona 370 Henrik Torgersen KNS hvit 1,30
SWE 326 BLUR J/109 Peter Gustafsson GKSS vit 1,30
NOR 10721 KONSTANSE Bavaria 38 Match David Kristianslund Fr SF hvit 1,31
NOR 11065 TELLUS Bavaria Match 38 Nils Bøe Gandsfjord SF hvit 1,31
SWE 461 WWW.SKI.IT First 36.7 Fredrik Wenehult GKSS vit 1,31
SWE 8 AMALIA CR 360 Lars E Granqvist SSN Fjällbacka Sverige vit 1,31
NOR 11686 LA SIRENA Grand Soleil 37 Per Bomann-Larsen Tønsberg SF hvit 1,32
NOR 11958 HYAK Grand Soleil 37 B&C Pål Kragerud KNS hvit 1,32
NOR 12202 DAGNY A35 christoffer fjeld-eiken Moss SF hvit 1,32
SWE 52 CAPIO Salona 37 Fredrik Thafvelin Hjuvik Gøteborg vit 1,32
SWE 3 DRAKLUNNE 38 Match Mattias Wilson GKSS blå 1,32
NOR 11595 SOLGANG Pronavia 38 Rudolf Ugelstad KNS hvit 1,33
NOR 12502 BRAVEHEART IMX-38 Kim Reidar Knudsen KNS blå 1,33
NOR 11850 RED DEVIL C&C 115 Thorgeir Hagen KNS rød 1,34
NOR 12221 MILLIWAYS Seaquest 36 Andreas S.T. Brunvoll Vestfj. SF hvit 1,34
NOR 20 APL X-35 Joachim Nærø Arendals SF hvit 1,34
NOR 22 ELLEVILLE X-35 Erik Brantzeg Lillesand SF hvit 1,34
NOR 9100 VIRGINA Bashford 36 Michael Nygaard Stavanger SF 1,34
GER 4294 TANGO Mumm 36 Iver Iversen Nesodden SF grå 1,36
NOR 11757 SVANEN Bavaria 35 Match Egil Carlsen Soon SF hvit 3,00
Jag hade en teori om att Sverige låg för långt norrut för att moderna saker som asymmetriskt på peke, fathead eller sportbåtar skulle fungera. Något med klimatet. Eller närheten till nordpolen.
Några läsare hade gjort samma spaning efter årets första race. Lidingö Runt, Ornö Runt och Pater Noster Race. Få eller inga sportbåtar, nästan inga gennakers utan gamla hederliga segelbåtar, “så som de skall se ut”. Det är till och med så att folk som köper båtar med peke väljer att plocka av dem (typiskt A35 och First 34.7). Och massor av sportbåtar verkar stanna hemma när det skall kappseglas (vilket ju är konstigt eftersom de antagligen köptes just för att kappsegla med)?
Och vilka entypsklasser är heta? 606 är glödhett, Express firar snart 30 år som folkhemsracer och H-båtarna samlar rekordfält. Folkbåt, IF, Drake och skärgårdskryssare är det som gäller på kvällsseglingarna. CB66 är väl undantaget som bekräftar regeln. Men några fält i Melges 24 eller J/80 är inte att fundera på…
Varför?
Är vi ett konservativt folk? Har vi inte råd? Är peke djävulens påfund? Är unga seglare rädda för fart? Är LYS hämmande och syftar till att “skydda befintlig flotta”? Är det många som tycker att det var bättre förr, och hoppas på att flugan skall gå över?
Eller bor vi bara för nära nordpolen?
Michael Jones och Richard Hinde-Smith i Joyride vann alla tre racen i helgens doublehanded-regatta på The Solent.
Fabulous summer sailing weather over the two days, combined with great racing, contributed to what the 50 competitors agreed was a fantastic MDL Marinas Double Handed Regatta, organised by the Royal Southampton YC in the central Solent over the past weekend.
Saturday’s racing started with a steady 12 knot NW breeze and the race officers set courses for the 5 classes for what they hoped would be a 2 hour first race. The wind subsequently dropped to 8/10 knots and this made a beat against a strong easterly tide a lengthy and tactical process, until the tide changed.
With no early sea breeze, the second race in the afternoon was intended to be shorter, but a wind shift to the West after the starts made for more reaches and an even shorter one and a quarter hour race for some, but that was appreciated by the crews after what had been a long day on the water.
Forecasters had predicted even less wind for the Sunday, but race officers were met with a fresh northerly wind gusting up to 20 knots before the start. The question was: would it last, or fade to the strength that had been forecast? The race team took a conservative view and opted for courses ranging from 7.5 miles for the smaller boats to 10.5 miles for Class 1 and Multi-hulls. The wind did drop to an average of 10 knots during the racing, but all classes had an average of a two hour race.
Class 1 was dominated by the J109 Joyride, sailed by Michael Jones and North Sails’ Richard Hinde-Smith in their first RSYC Double Handed season together, who won all three races. Likewise, Chris and Hannah Neve from Lymington sailing their First 34.7 No Doubt won every race in Class 2. The J92 Solan Goose came second in all three races in Class 2. The Laser 28’s of Kathy & Rupert Smalley and Andy and Peter Pickett tried to dominate Class 3, but Harry Walsh in his J24 Juliette spoiled their party by sneaking between them to take second place overall. Kathy Smalley in Flying Fish won the regatta – perhaps fittingly for RSYC’s Captain of Racing – with two firsts and a third.
Class 4 was more open with Will Bridge on Fusion III and Andy & Sara Horwood on Asante tying for first place overall. Fusion III won the regatta on countbacks, with Michael Stoner and Rebecca Meigh’s Folkboat Svenja in third place. The Multi-Hull class was won by Simon Forbes in his Dragonfly 800 and crewed by Roger Barber on Saturday and Cathy Foster on Sunday, with two firsts and a second. George Burn, sailing with Rebecca Bernstein in his brand new Corsair F32R Freebird, achieved two seconds and a first, to take second place overall, with Harvey Bowden in his brightly coloured Firebird Orion taking third place overall.
Prizes were given out on Sunday afternoon by Michael Glanville, Manager of MDL Marinas at Ocean Village. He said “We were delighted to sponsor the Regatta and even more delighted that the competitors had such wonderful sailing weather for the whole weekend. It was great to see so many happy faces after racing each day and to know that they had had a good time.”
Victorious Michael Jones from Joyride described the weekend as “fantastic” with really good courses, decent length legs and sensible mark roundings. “The second race on Saturday became a bit one sided with the wind shift, but that suited us well. The J109 is a perfect boat for two handed racing. The Sunday race was again a bit one sided on the first beat, but there were a lot of gybes on the runs, which with the strong tide, made for very tactical racing. Overall, it was a well organised and fantastic weekend.”
Så här går det till i St. Tropez. Både Kurt Arrigo och Carlo Borlenghi är på plats och fotar. Nice!
One of the most renowned distance races in the Mediterranean, the Giraglia Rolex Cup has been a tradition for European sailors for over 50 years. From the race start off the historic port of St. Tropez, France, the fleet heads through the idyllic Iles des Hyeres and across the sea to round the Giraglia, a rocky islet off northern Corsica, before racing for the finish off Genoa, Italy, a total distance of 243 nautical miles.
