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NOVEMBER 2003<br />
Gold Cup • AGM • Finn Clinic • Race reports
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International Finn Association<br />
Executive Committee of IFA 2003-4<br />
President<br />
Philippe Rogge<br />
Koning Boudewijnstraat 11, B-9000, Gent<br />
Belgium<br />
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Clifton Webb<br />
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North Shore, Auckl<strong>and</strong>, New-Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />
Tel: +64 9479 3638<br />
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Executive Director<br />
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The Netherl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
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Chairman Technical Committee<br />
Richard Hart<br />
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Fax: +44 1489 576908<br />
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Cover photo: David Burrows (IRL) off Howth Head,<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>, June 2003. Photo: David O’Brien/Irel<strong>and</strong> Afloat.<br />
Inset: Last race in Cádiz. Photo: Mundo Vela<br />
President’s Letter<br />
As we move into another Olympic year, the<br />
Finn will make its 14th appearance at the<br />
Olympic Games. The longevity of the<br />
classes survival at this level is a tribute not<br />
only to Sarby’s wonderful design, but also<br />
to the sailors that make up the class <strong>and</strong><br />
the technical development that has<br />
continued unabated since 1952.<br />
For those of <strong>you</strong> who were not in Cádiz, it<br />
was a spectacle of epic proportions. The<br />
sheer size of the event <strong>and</strong> the number of<br />
sailors was awesome. I think a lot was<br />
learned by <strong>all</strong> parties there <strong>and</strong> although it<br />
was not the kind of Gold Cup we are <strong>all</strong><br />
used too, it proved to be an exciting regatta<br />
nevertheless, with a thrilling final race.<br />
One man st<strong>and</strong>s out head <strong>and</strong> shoulders<br />
above the rest. Ben Ainslie's per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
this year was remarkable <strong>and</strong> it is going to<br />
be hard to predict who could out-per<strong>for</strong>m<br />
him in Athens next year. Congratulations<br />
to Ben not only on winning both the<br />
Europeans <strong>and</strong> Worlds <strong>for</strong> the second year<br />
running but also <strong>for</strong> being the first Finn<br />
sailor to ever achieve this outst<strong>and</strong>ing feat<br />
two years in a row.<br />
While Ben continues to make history in<br />
front of our eyes, it was great to see some<br />
different faces on the podium this year<br />
especi<strong>all</strong>y the local favourite in Spain,<br />
Rafael Trujilla <strong>and</strong> Ben's good friend Bart<br />
Simpson. It was also good to see great<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mances from other improving sailors<br />
including Jonas Hoegh-Christensen <strong>and</strong><br />
Guilliame Florent.<br />
It would certainly be interesting to watch<br />
today’s stars compete against the stars of<br />
yesteryear in their heyday: Elvstrøm,<br />
Kuhweide, Nelis, Raudacshl, Bruder et <strong>all</strong>.<br />
Differences in gear aside, I would person<strong>all</strong>y<br />
favour the sailors of today, many of them<br />
full time professionals who put so much<br />
into the sport <strong>and</strong> become icons <strong>for</strong> the<br />
rest of us to aspire to.
Rio <strong>and</strong> carnival time beckons <strong>for</strong> early 2004 <strong>and</strong> I am sure this will<br />
be an event to remember. Also based on their per<strong>for</strong>mances in Cadiz,<br />
both Joao Signorini <strong>and</strong> Alej<strong>and</strong>ro Colla will be making a strong South<br />
American ch<strong>all</strong>enge <strong>and</strong> firmly laying down the gauntlet to would-be<br />
ch<strong>all</strong>engers.<br />
Beyond Rio, we have the Europeans in La Rochelle, which will be<br />
the final Olympic Qualification event, so the same quota rules as <strong>for</strong><br />
Cádiz will apply. Then comes the Olympic Regatta <strong>and</strong> fin<strong>all</strong>y the <strong>all</strong>important<br />
ISAF Conference in Copenhagen when we hope the Finn<br />
will be reselected <strong>for</strong> 2008 in Beijing.<br />
Notwithst<strong>and</strong>ing that, the AGM this year brought up many contentious<br />
issues that we have been, <strong>and</strong> will be, addressing in the coming<br />
months. One of the principal changes to the classes structure will be<br />
a contract between ISAF <strong>and</strong> IFA will could change the way the class<br />
operates.<br />
It just remains <strong>for</strong> me to wish <strong>you</strong> <strong>all</strong> season's greetings <strong>and</strong> a happy<br />
<strong>and</strong> prosperous new year. See <strong>you</strong> on the water in 2004.<br />
4<br />
Finn - Men’s Singleh<strong>and</strong>ed Dinghy<br />
Issue date: October 1 2003<br />
Skipper Nation Previous Points<br />
1 Ben AINSLIE GBR 3 5011<br />
2 Mateusz KUSZNIEREWICZ POL 2 4888<br />
3 Sebastien GODEFROID BEL 1 4878<br />
4 Karlo KURET CRO 4 4584<br />
5 Michael FELLMANN GER 6 4526<br />
6 Rafael TRUJILLO VILLAR ESP 13 4515<br />
7 Andrew SIMPSON GBR 7 4465<br />
8 Guillaume FLORENT FRA 14 4464<br />
9 Jonas HOEGH CHRISTENSEN DEN 15 4453<br />
10 Emilios PAPATHANASIOU GRE 5 4356<br />
11 Soren HOLM DEN 12 4268<br />
12 Anthony NOSSITER AUS 10 4256<br />
13 Michael MAIER CZE 18 4206<br />
14 Charlie CUMBLEY GBR 8 4189<br />
15 Jaap ZIELHUIS NED 9 4137<br />
16 Nenad VIALI CRO 22 4104<br />
17 Marin MISURA CRO 19 4096<br />
18 Waclaw SZUKIEL POL 11 4091<br />
19 Ali Enver ADAKAN TUR 17 4010<br />
20 Kristian ADERMAN SWE 20 3950<br />
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FINN NEWS – FINN NEWS – FINN NEWS<br />
Pol<strong>and</strong> wants to organise the 2006 Masters World Championship.<br />
Last August, Pol<strong>and</strong> has offici<strong>all</strong>y applied <strong>for</strong> the organisation of the<br />
2006 Master World Championship. The Race Sailing Association in<br />
Gdynia wants to be the organiser of this event. They have ample<br />
experience in organising several European <strong>and</strong> World Championships<br />
<strong>and</strong> the international ISAF World Championship: IDEA Gdynia Sailing<br />
Days. The Race Sailing Association is known as a professional<br />
organisation with an experienced race committee <strong>and</strong> an extensive<br />
<strong>and</strong> varied social program. One of the best known international <strong>sailing</strong><br />
centres of the Baltic Sea with a renovated <strong>and</strong> modernised Marina<br />
Gdynia is located in the centre of the city <strong>and</strong> would be ideal to host<br />
the Finn Masters in 2006. The first preliminary meetings with large<br />
national <strong>and</strong> international sponsors have already taken place. The<br />
Polish Race Sailing Association has confirmed to support this<br />
c<strong>and</strong>idature.<br />
www.classefinn.it<br />
New British Secretary<br />
After 10 years service, Robert Deaves stepped down as British Finn<br />
Secretary at this year’s Nationals. He was replaced by Phil Laycock.<br />
Phil can be contacted at 23 Bluebell Close, Biggleswade, Beds, SG18<br />
8SL, Engl<strong>and</strong>. Mobile: 07739 727826. Tel/ Fax: 01767 314182. Email:<br />
phil.laycock@lineone.net<br />
Masters 2004<br />
The 2004 Masters will be held Sunday May 30 to Friday June 6,<br />
2004, in Cannes. You can go to ‘Masters 2004’ right now on www.finnfrance.com<br />
where <strong>you</strong> will find in<strong>for</strong>mation about weather,<br />
accommodation, maps <strong>and</strong> contacts. Sailors are advised to start<br />
looking <strong>for</strong> hotel accmodation now. For any in<strong>for</strong>mation about the<br />
Masters 2004, <strong>you</strong> can send emails to masters2004@finn-france.com.<br />
Rio Gold Cup update<br />
New additions to the website include a map of Rio covering the vicinity<br />
of the hosting yacht club with main neighbourhoods <strong>and</strong> hotels. The<br />
organisers are also at <strong>you</strong>r disposal to supply any in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>you</strong><br />
might <strong>need</strong> concerning the 2004 Gold Cup, as well as questions<br />
regarding accommodation <strong>and</strong> logistics that are not covered on the<br />
website. They will also be picking up the skippers at the airport, so<br />
please supply them with the dates <strong>and</strong> times of arrival <strong>and</strong> flight<br />
numbers. For those who are coming to the 2004 Finn Gold Cup in<br />
Rio, please visit the official website at http://www.atividade.com.br/finn<br />
to find the entry <strong>for</strong>m.<br />
IFA Clinics<br />
Further to the success of a Finn Clinic held be<strong>for</strong>e the Gold Cup in<br />
Cádiz, IFA is hoping to organise one clinic be<strong>for</strong>e Rio <strong>and</strong> one be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
La Rochelle. Any sailor interested in this should contact the IFA office.<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003<br />
ISAF Sailor<br />
Earlier this summer, ISAF<br />
announced the introduction of<br />
the ISAF Sailor logo. Since its<br />
introduction in March 2002, the<br />
ISAF Sailor registration<br />
scheme has attracted more<br />
than 15,000 individual sailors.<br />
“ISAF is extremely proud of the support given to ISAF Sailor <strong>and</strong><br />
the growth it has achieved,” said Paul Henderson, ISAF President<br />
“This logo is intended to appeal to sailors around the world. The<br />
logo will be available <strong>for</strong> use by national <strong>sailing</strong> authorities, event<br />
organisers, classes <strong>and</strong> sailors <strong>and</strong> will provide instant recognition<br />
of their support <strong>and</strong> use of ISAF Sailor,” commented Paul<br />
Henderson.<br />
Through ISAF Sailor, ISAF has utilised its unique ability <strong>and</strong><br />
position to develop a vital resource of in<strong>for</strong>mation, with the ISAF<br />
Sailor Biography being considered the central element. The<br />
biographies contain campaign <strong>and</strong> general in<strong>for</strong>mation, images<br />
<strong>and</strong> results. For those sailors who are on the ISAF World Rankings,<br />
their biography will automatic<strong>all</strong>y draw in their current world ranking<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>all</strong> historic event results. ISAF Sailor enables sailors to upload<br />
images <strong>and</strong> sponsor logos, <strong>and</strong> manage their biography in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
on a day to day basis.<br />
The 2003 ISAF World Championship in Cadiz, saw every sailor<br />
participating at the event registered to ISAF Sailor, with links direct<br />
from the online results to the individual sailor's online ISAF Sailor<br />
Biography.<br />
Sailors registered to ISAF Sailor will also be able to use the ISAF<br />
Sailor logo on their campaign websites, thus rein<strong>for</strong>cing their<br />
relationship with the sport <strong>and</strong> ISAF, <strong>and</strong> their use of ISAF Sailor.<br />
ISAF Sailor is a complimentary service providing a portfolio of<br />
products to sailors <strong>and</strong> other users. Complementing the ISAF<br />
Sailor Biography are: Email News – offering both a subscription<br />
service to users <strong>and</strong> a distribution service <strong>for</strong> MNAs, Classes <strong>and</strong><br />
events; ISAF Sailor Classification – applicable <strong>for</strong> those events<br />
which limit the number of professionals on board, Sailor<br />
Classification distinguishes between amateur <strong>and</strong> professional;<br />
Sailors’ Forum – providing media <strong>for</strong> open<br />
debate on the current issues affecting our<br />
sport.<br />
Source: ISAF<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003
With Ben Ainslie looking to retain his title,<br />
Mateusz Kusznierewicz looking <strong>for</strong> his third<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sebastien Godefroid looking <strong>for</strong> a second,<br />
the racing was always going to be close,<br />
especi<strong>all</strong>y with so many others chasing at<br />
their heels. Along with the regulars were some<br />
new faces <strong>and</strong> some old ones. Paul<br />
McKenzie, Richard Clarke <strong>and</strong> Jörgen<br />
Lindhardtsen were back <strong>for</strong> more <strong>and</strong> it was<br />
also pleasing so see entries from many<br />
developing Finn nations.<br />
Day one<br />
After a postponment until 13.30, race one<br />
fin<strong>all</strong>y got underway in 8 to 12 knots easterly<br />
with sm<strong>all</strong> waves. An even split up the first<br />
beat saw David Burrows round first followed<br />
by Joao Signorini, Alej<strong>and</strong>ro Colla <strong>and</strong> Ben<br />
Ainslie. Most of the fleet favoured the right<br />
side on the run with Sebastien Godefroid<br />
making large gains on the final upwind leg<br />
to move up to second place behind Joao.<br />
After the three offwind legs to the finish, Joao<br />
held onto his lead ahead of Sebastien with<br />
Ben moving up to third. Meanwhile Mateusz<br />
Kusznierewicz was making a charge moving<br />
up 10 places on the final offwind to finish<br />
10th.<br />
Race two<br />
After two general rec<strong>all</strong>s, race two started<br />
under a black flag in an increased breeze of<br />
around 15 to 18 knots. Many of the favourites<br />
were buried on the first beat which saw<br />
Alej<strong>and</strong>ro again at the front, rounding the first<br />
mark in the lead followed by Gasper Vincec<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ali Enver Adakan. Ben was down in the<br />
mid 20s while Mateusz was in the 50s.<br />
6<br />
FINN GOLD CUP 2003 – CÁDIZ<br />
W<strong>all</strong> to w<strong>all</strong> sunshine <strong>and</strong> healthy breezes welcomed 82 sailors to the 2003 Finn Gold Cup in the Bay of Cádiz in<br />
Andalucia in south western Spain. Sailed as part of the ISAF Olympic Sailing World Championships from 11 to 24<br />
September, the onshore organisation was immense. Cádiz put on a show to be proud of with three venues running<br />
the world championships <strong>for</strong> <strong>all</strong> the nine Olympic classes. With the Laser <strong>and</strong> 470 classes at other centres around the<br />
bay, the other seven were based at the impressive El Puerto de Santa Maria.<br />
Sebastien, who had rounded the first mark<br />
in 10th place, found a good shift <strong>and</strong> more<br />
pressure on the right on the second beat<br />
moved from 7th up to first, a position he held<br />
until the finish. David <strong>and</strong> Jonas Hoegh-<br />
Christensen also found good shifts to finish<br />
second <strong>and</strong> third.<br />
The overnight leader, Sebastien later<br />
commented “It was lucky <strong>for</strong> me though; I got<br />
some good shifts on the last upwind in the<br />
first race to move up to second. Although<br />
Ben pushed me hard offwind, I managed to<br />
stay ahead. In the second race I saw a line<br />
a pressure <strong>and</strong> a shift to the right, but the<br />
leaders were going left. It looked good, but<br />
was a risk. So I took it <strong>and</strong> came out on top<br />
with a nice lead. I was pretty happy about that!”<br />
David Burrows commented, “It was a bit of<br />
a scrap upwind with 30 degree shifts, <strong>and</strong><br />
lots of bad air. It was very tricky <strong>sailing</strong> at<br />
times, although there were nice waves offwind<br />
<strong>and</strong> the final beat reached 18 knots, which<br />
was good <strong>sailing</strong>.”<br />
Race three<br />
A cloudless sky, brilliant sunshine <strong>and</strong> a 15<br />
knot breeze greeted competitors <strong>for</strong> the<br />
second day <strong>and</strong> race three. After a two hour<br />
delay while the race committee set, shifted<br />
<strong>and</strong> reset the course, racing fin<strong>all</strong>y started at<br />
13:55 after one general rec<strong>all</strong>. The majority<br />
of the fleet headed <strong>for</strong> the favoured left h<strong>and</strong><br />
side of the course, while a sm<strong>all</strong> bunch<br />
headed to the right. Most of the boats went<br />
left on the second beat as well <strong>and</strong> at the top<br />
mark Rafael Trujillo led from Stefan de Vries,<br />
S<strong>and</strong>er Willems, Kristian Åderman <strong>and</strong><br />
Richard Clarke.<br />
Rafael extended his lead on the final legs to<br />
win by a com<strong>for</strong>table margin. By the finish<br />
Karlo Kuret had worked his way up to third<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ben, as usual, was working his way up<br />
the fleet making a late charge <strong>and</strong> finished<br />
in 7th place behind Jonas <strong>and</strong> Jaap Zielhuis.<br />
It was a good race <strong>for</strong> the Dutch team with<br />
three boats inside the top 12.<br />
Race four<br />
The start of the second race was almost of<br />
copy of the first. Initi<strong>all</strong>y, Emilios led the fleet<br />
to the left but most tacked within 2-300 metres<br />
to cross to the right. By this time the right
was looking better <strong>and</strong> round the first mark<br />
Andrew Simpson emerged with a good lead<br />
ahead of Guillaume Florent, Rafael <strong>and</strong><br />
Jonas. The <strong>sailing</strong> conditions were near<br />
perfect, with 15 knots of breeze <strong>and</strong> good<br />
surfing waves downwind. Andrew held onto<br />
<strong>and</strong> extended his lead on the next round <strong>and</strong><br />
led a bunch of five boats that had broken<br />
away from the pack. Jonas, Emilios,<br />
Guillaume <strong>and</strong> Rafael dutifully followed<br />
Andrew round the course to the finish.<br />
Race five<br />
With the wind at 14 knots, David Burrows,<br />
rounded first followed by Stefan de Vries <strong>and</strong><br />
Andrew Simpson. Andrew had started mid<br />
line <strong>and</strong> started going left, crossed to the right<br />
on a shift stayed at the front of the fleet.<br />
On the subsequent offwind <strong>and</strong> windward<br />
legs, Rafael worked his way into the lead,<br />
but after touching the windward mark dropped<br />
back. This let Andrew into the lead which he<br />
stretched out considerably on the run <strong>and</strong><br />
following beat. He was still leading at the top<br />
of the next beat with David, Sebastien,<br />
Anthony Nossiter <strong>and</strong> Rafael hard on his<br />
heels. On the final downwind, Sebastien<br />
started to push hard <strong>and</strong> got past David, but<br />
couldn’t catch Andrew.<br />
Race six<br />
The sixth race started in similar conditions<br />
with most of the favourites, as usual, headed<br />
left, but at the top of the beat it was Martijn<br />
van Muyden who went right followed by Joao,<br />
Michael Fellmann, David <strong>and</strong> Massimo<br />
Gherarducci. Again the left side was favoured<br />
on the following upwind leg. David sailed well<br />
to take the lead, creating a large lead from<br />
Michael <strong>and</strong> Andrew Simpson. Nenad Viali<br />
had made large gains to round fourth, just<br />
ahead of Ben Ainslie who had been having<br />
an indifferent day so far.<br />
These positions remained the same on the<br />
final downwind, except that Ben’s superior<br />
speed got him past Nenad <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> a while<br />
threatened Andrew as well. Simpson<br />
commented on his day’s work, “It was tough<br />
out there, very hard to break through <strong>and</strong> <strong>you</strong><br />
never re<strong>all</strong>y knew what was going to happen.<br />
However I had good speed round the course<br />
<strong>and</strong> good starts, <strong>and</strong> also a bit of luck, which<br />
helps,” he added, with a grin.<br />
Race seven<br />
After a lay day race seven was fin<strong>all</strong>y started<br />
at 14.40 in a patchy 5-6 knot north-westerly.<br />
Ben takes up the story. “I started just down<br />
from the committee boat where there was a<br />
bit of space, got lifted out of the start <strong>and</strong><br />
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then tacked over to the right where the<br />
majority of the fleet were going.” Ben’s<br />
excellent start put him in clear air <strong>and</strong> he<br />
crossed the whole fleet when going right to<br />
lead into the windward mark by about 10<br />
boatlengths.<br />
The gap that Ben had made <strong>all</strong>owed him to<br />
escape downwind, while the following pack<br />
slowed each other down. Many of the other<br />
favourites were buried in the 20s <strong>and</strong> 30s.<br />
On the second beat, most of the fleet went<br />
hard right again, playing the shifts on the<br />
inshore side of the course. The third beat<br />
followed a similar pattern, with Karlo sneaking<br />
into fourth ahead of Andrew at the windward<br />
mark. However on the three offwind legs to the<br />
finish, Andrew’s superior downwind speed pulled<br />
him through to third place behind Emilios.<br />
Race eight<br />
After one general rec<strong>all</strong>, the fleet got cleanly<br />
away. Half way up the beat Ben, who had<br />
initi<strong>all</strong>y headed right, tacked back to the left<br />
just in time <strong>and</strong> rounded the first mark just<br />
behind Rafael who had worked left of middle<br />
up the course. Rafael extended his lead on<br />
each leg to win by about a minute. The<br />
chasing pack traded places <strong>and</strong> tacks until<br />
the final windward mark. Mateusz rounded<br />
just ahead of Andrew <strong>and</strong> Jonas <strong>and</strong> the race<br />
to the finish was on.<br />
On the downwind leg, Mateusz caught some<br />
nice waves to the right of the course <strong>and</strong><br />
surfed up to Ben, reducing his 100 metre<br />
lead to nothing. On the next wave he was<br />
past <strong>and</strong> led into the final mark, be<strong>for</strong>e, the<br />
short reach to the finish. However it was not<br />
over yet. These two battled hard <strong>for</strong> second<br />
place <strong>and</strong> just yards from the line it looked<br />
like the Pole would get it. But then the yellow<br />
flag went up from the nearby jury boat. Ben<br />
slumped thinking it was him <strong>and</strong> as his second<br />
yellow flag of the regatta he would have to<br />
retire from the race. But the flag was pointed<br />
at Mateusz, who then had to do his turns <strong>and</strong><br />
finish third behind Ben.<br />
Analysing the racing, Ben commented, “It<br />
was still tough out there today, although once<br />
<strong>you</strong> were in front, clear air <strong>and</strong> water were<br />
definitely an advantage, as both myself, this<br />
morning, <strong>and</strong> Rafael this afternoon proved,<br />
although he had pace on me in the breeze<br />
this afternoon. Tomorrow the plan is just to<br />
plug away <strong>and</strong> try <strong>and</strong> do the same.”<br />
Race nine<br />
While many of the favourites started right next<br />
to the boat <strong>and</strong> tacked off to the right, which<br />
had proved heavily favoured so far, David<br />
Burrows led at the first mark from the middle<br />
with a nice lead over Guillaume Florent, Ali<br />
Enver, Mateusz, Sylvain Chtounder <strong>and</strong> Ben.<br />
Sailing a triangle course, the reaches were<br />
<strong>fast</strong> <strong>and</strong> furious with Ben taking several boats<br />
on the first reach <strong>and</strong> the rest on the second,<br />
to lead round the bottom mark. From then on<br />
it was mainly a drag race to the right, <strong>and</strong> no<br />
one could catch Ben downwind, so he sailed<br />
on to his second win of the event.<br />
Race ten<br />
With an increased wind <strong>and</strong> larger waves,<br />
race ten was a Finn sailor´s dream. As the<br />
wind was over 15 knots, the flag was up <strong>for</strong><br />
free downwind pumping. The start line was<br />
biased slightly towards the pin end, but most<br />
thought the favoured side was still right. Race<br />
winner Rafael commented, “I started mid left<br />
on the line <strong>and</strong> had re<strong>all</strong>y good speed off the<br />
line <strong>and</strong> then I tacked <strong>for</strong> the right on a 5<br />
degree shift. After I while I saw Karlo <strong>and</strong><br />
Jonas on the left <strong>sailing</strong> in much more<br />
pressure so I tacked over to get it <strong>and</strong> found<br />
myself leading round the first mark.”<br />
By the now the wind was reaching 18 to 20<br />
knots <strong>and</strong> the fleet re<strong>all</strong>y had fun on the<br />
triangle, with fantastic waves <strong>and</strong> great surfing<br />
to be had. Positions didn’t change much with<br />
Rafael just protecting his lead from Karlo at<br />
the bottom mark <strong>and</strong> then extending it on the<br />
right h<strong>and</strong> track of the next beat <strong>and</strong> never<br />
looking back to record his third win.<br />
Final race<br />
With three possible championship winners<br />
going into the final race, competitors were<br />
frustrated by being held on shore until 13.00<br />
<strong>and</strong> then having to wait on the water until 15:00<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e there was a steady enough wind to be<br />
able to start. Sailing a brilliant race, Alej<strong>and</strong>ro<br />
Colla, <strong>sailing</strong> in his first Gold Cup led the fleet<br />
at the first mark <strong>and</strong> went on to win in fine style.<br />
The drama that was being played out behind<br />
him was the stuff of legends.<br />
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FINN GOLD CUP 2003 – FINAL RESULTS<br />
1 GBR 3 Ben Ainslie 44 3 5 7 8 19 4 1 2 1 10 3<br />
2 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo 48 9 8 1 5 5 10 19 1 6 1 2<br />
3 GBR 6 Andrew Simpson 75 32 14 9 1 1 3 3 4 8 8 24<br />
4 DEN 200 Jonas Hoegh-christensen 84 4 3 6 2 8 23 OCS 6 12 3 17<br />
5 FRA 73 Guillaume Florent 94 21 6 25 4 7 12 RAF 5 2 6 6<br />
6 POL 17 Mateusz Kusznierewicz 97 10 17 18 13 9 14 7 3 5 11 8<br />
7 IRL 8 David Burrows 98 5 2 17 18 3 1 35 29 4 5 14<br />
8 AUS 221 Anthony Nossiter 100 6 20 15 9 4 OCS 8 7 19 7 5<br />
9 BEL 7 Sebastien Godefroid 101 2 1 16 11 2 OCS 12 11 21 9 16<br />
10 CRO 11 Karlo Kuret 102 18 9 3 16 25 7 4 9 14 2 20<br />
11 TUR 6 Ali Enver Adakan 143 13 13 10 12 18 25 10 25 7 31 10<br />
12 GRE 6 Emilios Papathanasiou 153,3 46 7 2 3 13 24 2 16 25 RDG DNC<br />
13 NED 6 Stefan De Vries 163 22 11 8 34 6 8 14 28 24 21 21<br />
14 DEN 7 Soren Holm 179 14 19 13 20 11 22 42 26 27 12 15<br />
15 BRA 10 Joao Signorini 181 1 BFD 30 36 10 27 6 20 9 33 9<br />
16 GBR 15 Charlie Cumbley 189 7 12 23 47 29 20 28 10 11 27 22<br />
17 SLO 5 Gasper Vincec 192 48 4 43 19 12 26 5 32 15 17 19<br />
18 CAN 303 Richard Clarke 192 11 31 12 32 23 15 25 15 10 RAF 18<br />
19 GER 79 Michael Fellmann 193 29 22 26 23 21 2 37 38 3 4 26<br />
20 NED 78 Jaap Zielhuis 193 17 28 5 14 31 17 22 14 45 34 11<br />
21 GBR 577 David Mellor 197 51 16 20 6 17 35 11 22 13 30 27<br />
22 CZE 1 Michael Maier 197 28 15 22 27 15 28 20 33 16 13 13<br />
23 CRO 14 Nenad Viali 227 35 10 21 15 24 5 57 35 23 14 45<br />
24 SUI 7 Christoph Burger 229 24 48 33 7 14 9 34 19 38 18 33<br />
25 NED 701 Martijn Van Muyden 254 23 23 34 39 34 11 45 44 18 24 4<br />
26 SWE 7 Kristian Åderman 261 25 18 4 29 42 48 16 27 34 26 40<br />
27 USA 12 Kevin H<strong>all</strong> 264 16 25 51 25 DNC29 32 18 29 32 7<br />
28 NZL 27 Clifton Webb 265 53 24 19 24 30 21 26 21 36 25 39<br />
29 CAN 41 Chris Cook 286 59 40 28 49 16 34 17 23 26 19 34<br />
30 CRO 25 Marin Misura 311 34 32 24 17 22 18 23 30 28 OCS OCS<br />
31 AUS 222 Paul Mckenzie 321 56 26 40 44 44 31 43 13 31 37 12<br />
32 NZL 19 Peter Fox 326 47 29 14 22 OCS51 18 39 40 22 44<br />
33 GBR 550 Matthew Howard 335 44 38 62 40 36 19 9 24 22 OCS 41<br />
34 FRA 972 Ismael Bruno 353 20 43 37 10 43 39 36 41 47 38 46<br />
35 ARG 1 Alej<strong>and</strong>ro Colla 354 12 41 60 45 56 44 21 37 50 47 1<br />
36 POL 12 Waclaw Szukiel 358 26 39 DSQ 35 OCS38 15 31 32 29 30<br />
37 CZE 9 Michal Hruby 364 39 50 35 37 27 46 39 47 DSQ 15 29<br />
38 FRA 7 Sylvain Chtounder 366 27 37 39 60 33 42 DNC 43 20 16 49<br />
39 GBR 593 Edward Greig 371 57 36 41 38 39 32 38 57 30 28 32<br />
40 SWE 736 Johan Till<strong>and</strong>er 387 43 46 45 28 26 36 OCS 53 44 35 31<br />
41 IRL 10 Aaron O'grady 395 30 42 31 51 20 64 58 58 42 20 43<br />
42 CRO 16 Emil Tomasevic 402 OCS33 38 50 52 40 65 40 33 23 28<br />
43 RUS 8 Evgeniy Chernov 408 15 30 49 43 28 58 67 59 39 45 42<br />
44 USA 16 Mo Hart 411 31 27 50 21 32 43 29 12 DNC DNC OCS<br />
45 ITA 71 Massimo Gherarducci 413 8 45 32 30 35 6 DNE 8 DNC DNC DNC<br />
46 USA 11 Geoffrey Ewenson 414 OCS57 36 52 51 13 DNF 17 43 39 23<br />
47 RUS 7 Vladislav Kapitonov 436 62 61 63 48 48 52 13 36 41 50 25<br />
48 ITA 15 Michele Marchesini 439 19 DNC29 42 45 50 60 50 52 54 38<br />
49 USA 1140 Bryan Boyd 439 49 53 42 26 46 60 27 52 DNC 48 36<br />
50 POL 7 Rafal Szukiel 442 36 55 47 46 55 59 33 46 37 40 47<br />
51 BEL 2 Philippe Rogge 444 38 58 57 56 38 61 48 34 17 46 52<br />
52 AUT 271 Raudaschl Florian 461 37 54 46 54 61 37 41 45 51 DNC 35<br />
53 ESP 107 Agustin Juarez 469 40 21 59 31 41 45 55 48 46 DNC DNC<br />
54 CHN 155 Xiangfeng Zhang 475 52 47 52 55 37 33 51 49 49 DSQ 50<br />
55 USA 1181 Darrell Peck 477 70 49 44 41 40 54 56 56 35 42 60<br />
56 NED 80 S<strong>and</strong>er Willems 491 63 35 11 33 OCS16 30 54 DNC DNC OCS<br />
57 IRL 5 Youen Jacob 492 60 59 27 73 OCS69 24 51 48 44 37<br />
58 DEN 9 Thomas Laursen 507 65 52 56 57 49 30 44 60 55 51 53<br />
59 FIN 216 Tapio Nirkko 526 67 64 48 59 57 55 40 42 DNC 36 58<br />
60 SWE 734 Anders Nilsson 549 45 51 58 68 58 53 62 64 54 41 63<br />
61 GRE 8 Alex<strong>and</strong>ros Dragoutsis 565 33 60 64 67 67 66 46 65 56 53 55<br />
62 CHN 188 Peng Zhang 565 55 34 55 DNF 47 56 50 68 53 DNC 64<br />
63 DEN 208 Joergen Lindhardtsen 565 42 71 65 53 59 47 59 74 66 55 48<br />
64 USA 78 Andy Kern 567 68 56 53 58 50 41 52 55 DNC DNC 51<br />
65 GER 151 Matthias Miller 574 41 65 61 61 OCS57 64 69 59 43 54<br />
66 ESP 1 Diego Fructuoso 614 64 44 67 63 53 72 54 73 DNC 57 67<br />
67 GER 126 Paul Kessler 622 74 62 68 65 60 63 71 62 60 52 59<br />
68 EST 7 Harles Liiv 625 54 70 54 62 64 DNC 73 72 61 49 66<br />
69 JPN 1 Takeshi Kuroda 629 61 66 74 66 62 65 53 66 DSQ 60 56<br />
70 POL 40 Robert Polczynski 632 66 67 70 69 66 68 31 70 63 DNC 62<br />
71 ITA 101 Riccado Cordovani 649 50 77 66 70 54 49 61 77 62 DSQ OCS<br />
72 GER 81 Jan-dietmar Dellas 656 72 63 72 64 65 62 68 76 58 56 DNC<br />
73 EST 15 Janno Hool 665 73 74 71 DNC 69 71 47 63 57 DNC 57<br />
74 SWE 31 Bjorn Smit 672 58 75 76 DNC 71 73 69 61 67 61 61<br />
75 AUS 223 Dean Mcaullay 673 75 69 69 72 63 70 72 71 64 58 65<br />
76 AUS 224 John Sh<strong>all</strong>vey 696 71 72 75 71 70 67 70 79 68 63 69<br />
77 ESP 310 Claudio Montalbön 699 69 73 77 DNC 68 74 49 75 69 62 OCS<br />
78 IRL 4 Gareth Martel 701 76 76 73 74 72 75 63 DSQ65 59 68<br />
79 HUN 5 Tibor P<strong>all</strong>ay 777 78 68 DNC DNC DNCDNC 66 67 DNC DNC DNC<br />
80 HUN 6 Gaszton Pal 785 79 79 78 75 73 OCS 74 78 DNC DNC DNC<br />
81 ISV 1 Ben Beer 819 77 78 DNC DNC DNCDNC DNC DNCDNC DNC DNC<br />
82 ITA 1 Luca Devoti 830 DNCDNCDNC DNC DNCDNC DNC DNCDNC DNC DNC<br />
From top: Mateuesz Kusznierewicz,<br />
Juri Saraskin,<br />
Jonas Hoegh-Christensen,<br />
Peng Zhang <strong>and</strong> Xiangfeng Zhang,<br />
Darrell Peck, British Team
At the start the wind was at 6-7 knots <strong>and</strong><br />
patchy in places with a fairly flat sea. The<br />
race initi<strong>all</strong>y followed a similar pattern to<br />
previous days. Many started at the committee<br />
boat <strong>and</strong> tacked off to the right. Further down<br />
the line, regatta leader Ben Ainslie got buried<br />
out of the start <strong>and</strong> has difficulty finding clear<br />
lanes. His main rival <strong>for</strong> the title, Rafael Trujillo<br />
did find the right shifts to round the top mark<br />
6th. However the man who could do no wrong<br />
was Alej<strong>and</strong>ro, who emerged from the middle<br />
right with a substantial lead.<br />
Rafael rounded fifth <strong>and</strong> Ben rounded 23rd,<br />
accompanied by shocked silence from the<br />
British supporters. Surely even Ben couldn’t<br />
recover from that position... However the first<br />
downwind was the key leg of the race. Ben<br />
tells his side of the story. “There was no one<br />
on the left of the course. I saw Rafa doing<br />
well down there <strong>and</strong> I re<strong>all</strong>y <strong>need</strong>ed to catch<br />
up. So I went left <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong>tunately it worked<br />
well <strong>and</strong> I picked up a lot of ground.” In fact<br />
he took over ten places on that leg alone.<br />
There was now very much a race on.<br />
By the next windward mark, Alej<strong>and</strong>ro had<br />
extended his lead <strong>and</strong> Rafael had moved up<br />
to second place. Anthony Nossiter <strong>and</strong> Martijn<br />
van Muyden were up in third <strong>and</strong> fourth, while<br />
Ben had taken more places to move into<br />
seventh.<br />
The right was gener<strong>all</strong>y paying on the beat<br />
<strong>and</strong> at the end of the next downwind, during<br />
which Ben had inevitably moved up to fifth,<br />
Alej<strong>and</strong>ro led a group to the right, while Ben<br />
led another group round the right h<strong>and</strong> mark<br />
to the left of the course. Ben emerged round<br />
the top mark just behind Rafael <strong>and</strong> after<br />
three offwind legs, with the positions<br />
unchanged, he had retained the title he had<br />
won in Athens last year.<br />
Alej<strong>and</strong>ro won his first Finn Gold Cup race<br />
after much promise at the start of the regatta.<br />
He said afterwards, “I dedicate this win to my<br />
mother, who died a year <strong>and</strong> a half ago. My<br />
boat is named Mami in honour of her. This<br />
win will give me the incentive I <strong>need</strong> to<br />
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improve <strong>and</strong> come back to La Rochelle to<br />
qualify Argentina <strong>for</strong> the 2003 Olympics.”<br />
Second in the race <strong>and</strong> the Silver medal<br />
winner, Rafael, was pleased the regatta came<br />
down to the last race. He said, “I am very<br />
pleased because norm<strong>all</strong>y the winners have<br />
<strong>all</strong> been decided be<strong>for</strong>e the last race, <strong>and</strong><br />
there has always been a clear winner, so this<br />
year was good because we didn’t know until<br />
the very end. I am glad about that. It made<br />
<strong>for</strong> a good competition.”<br />
Third in the race <strong>and</strong> Gold Cup winner, Ben<br />
Ainslie concurred, “The last race was very<br />
exciting <strong>for</strong> spectators. There was a lot going<br />
on. It has been very hard because both Rafa<br />
<strong>and</strong> Bart have been <strong>sailing</strong> very well. I was<br />
a bit worried after the first mark, <strong>and</strong> it was<br />
re<strong>all</strong>y tough to get back into the race. I am<br />
very pleased.”<br />
Geoff Ewensen going the wrong way again<br />
The race <strong>for</strong> the bronze medal looked over<br />
at the first mark with both Andrew <strong>and</strong> Jonas<br />
somewhere in the 50s. However, Jonas’s<br />
phenomenal ability to make comebacks saw<br />
him take boat after boat <strong>and</strong> overtake Andrew<br />
on the final offwind to finish 17th. However,<br />
Andrew stayed close enough to be sure of<br />
the bronze medal. Andrew later commented,<br />
“I had a good gap beneath me in the points,<br />
so I decided to take a risk <strong>and</strong> go to an<br />
extreme to try <strong>and</strong> get a result. I had to do<br />
something spectacular if I was a going to win,<br />
so decided to take the risk. However it didn’t<br />
re<strong>all</strong>y pay off. I wasn’t re<strong>all</strong>y aware of where<br />
Jonas was <strong>and</strong> he got past me when I wasn’t<br />
paying attention. However that woke me up<br />
<strong>and</strong> I started trying harder again <strong>and</strong> kept in<br />
touch with him to stay in third over<strong>all</strong>.”<br />
Twice <strong>for</strong>mer world champion Mateusz<br />
Kusznierewicz ended, what <strong>for</strong> him was a<br />
poor regatta, in sixth place. After having a<br />
bad start to the week with a 17th <strong>and</strong> 18th,<br />
he has been trying to underst<strong>and</strong> what was<br />
going wrong. He revealed, “I have been<br />
having bad upwind speed <strong>all</strong> week. I don’t<br />
know why. I <strong>need</strong> to look at things <strong>and</strong> make<br />
some improvements I think. After my terrible<br />
first two days though, I am delighted with<br />
sixth over<strong>all</strong>.” On the future <strong>for</strong> him he<br />
commented, “I will sail in Brazil next year <strong>and</strong><br />
then in Athens, but then I will give up <strong>sailing</strong><br />
the Finn. I might be tempted to come back<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Moscow Gold Cup as it sounds like<br />
that will be good.”<br />
In the Junior Finn Gold Cup Marin Misura<br />
(CRO) finished in 30th place, ahead of Edward<br />
Greig (GBR) in 39th <strong>and</strong> Tapio Nirkko (FIN)<br />
in 59th.<br />
The prizegiving was held by the swimming<br />
pool of the Hotel Yacht Club in Puerto Sherry<br />
with the medals being awarded by ISAF Vice-<br />
President, Fern<strong>and</strong>o Bolin.<br />
Below: Rafael Trujillo congratulates<br />
Ben Ainslie after the final race<br />
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INTERNATIONAL FINN ASSOCIATION<br />
2003 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING<br />
Cádiz, Spain<br />
MINUTES<br />
Present:<br />
Executive Committee: Philippe Rogge,<br />
President; Ali Enver Adakan, Vice-President<br />
Sailing, Clifton Webb, Vice-President<br />
Development; Martijn Van Muyden, Treasurer;<br />
Corinne Roll<strong>and</strong>-McKenzie, Secretary;<br />
Richard Hart, Chairman Technical Committee,<br />
Robert Deaves, Chairman Marketing<br />
Committee, Michele Marchesini, IFA coach.<br />
Countries represented: Australia, Belgium,<br />
Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Hungary,<br />
Italy, The Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, New-Zeal<strong>and</strong>, Pol<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Russia, Turkey, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, USA, Sweden,<br />
UK.<br />
1. National Class Associations<br />
Voting cards were distributed to the National<br />
Class Association representatives based on<br />
the 2003 IFA dues received.<br />
2. Minutes from the last meeting<br />
The minutes from the 2002 IFA AGM were<br />
approved<br />
3. Accounts<br />
a. The 2002 accounts <strong>and</strong> the budget <strong>for</strong><br />
2003/2004 were approved (Appendix A)<br />
4. Elections of Members to IFA Committees<br />
Gilbert Lamboley has been proposed by<br />
Richard Hart <strong>and</strong> elected in the Technical<br />
Committee.<br />
IFA AGM MINUTES 2003<br />
5. Executive Committee Reports<br />
Verbal reports were received from members<br />
of the Executive Committee (Appendix B)<br />
IFA Technical Committee report (Appendix C)<br />
6. IFA Championships<br />
An update was received from Joao Signorini<br />
on the 2004 FGC in Rio. Dates of the<br />
Championship: 12th to 20th of February.<br />
In<strong>for</strong>mation on accommodation <strong>and</strong> boat<br />
transport have been posted on the event<br />
website: www.atividade.com.br/finn, <strong>you</strong> will<br />
also find in<strong>for</strong>mation on warm up regattas<br />
<strong>and</strong> the most famous Carnival is starting a<br />
few days only after the regatta.<br />
Dates <strong>for</strong> the Europeans in La Rochelle are<br />
confirmed to be between the 7th <strong>and</strong> the 15th<br />
of May. It will be the last Olympic Qualifier.<br />
b. Bids were received from:<br />
Warnemunde (GER), Balaton, (HUN),<br />
Kalmar (SWE), Moscow (RUS)<br />
Moscow received 13 voices <strong>and</strong> was elected<br />
to host the 2005 FGC. However, the location<br />
being a lake, the council gave the IFA EC the<br />
chance to go <strong>and</strong> assess the suitability of the<br />
location be<strong>for</strong>e giving full consent. Moscow<br />
has committed to build 100 <strong>Finns</strong> that they<br />
will lend, free of charge, to the competitors.<br />
Dates will be between SPA regatta <strong>and</strong> Kiel<br />
Week to <strong>all</strong>ow the sailors to fly from Hamburg.<br />
A charter flight will be available at a very<br />
competitive price at a set date <strong>and</strong> time.<br />
Accommodation was offered free of charge<br />
to the top 10 sailors but IFA asked <strong>for</strong> the<br />
offer to be given to developing nations instead.<br />
Visas will be organised in conjunction with<br />
the organisers <strong>and</strong> each country Russian<br />
IFA ACCOUNTS 2003<br />
INTERNATIONAL FINN ASSOCIATION 2002 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS – English Pounds GBR<br />
Embassy. To facilitate this operation <strong>for</strong> the<br />
sailors, dates to collect visas will be organised<br />
with each country.<br />
Kalmar in the South of Sweden was elected<br />
to host the 2005 European Championship.<br />
This event will be part of the 50 years<br />
anniversary celebration of the Swedish Sailing<br />
Federation.<br />
7. IFA rules <strong>and</strong> Constitution<br />
a. Constitution: ‘Mission Statement’: deferred<br />
to the next AGM<br />
b. Racing:<br />
(i) Increase the number of judges from 6 to<br />
8 in major events where the fleet is likely to<br />
exceed 80 boats. (recommendation in IFA<br />
Championship manual)<br />
Voted against.<br />
(ii) Fleet or group racing <strong>for</strong>mat in large fleet<br />
events.<br />
Fleet <strong>for</strong>mat is still the most preferred <strong>for</strong>mat.<br />
(iii) Bring the age of Juniors from 21yo to<br />
25yo (submission from Finn Club Holl<strong>and</strong>)<br />
Voted against. However some measures are<br />
being studied to help Juniors to sail the Finn.<br />
(creation of a Junior Major event, Juniors<br />
clinics...)<br />
8. Any other business<br />
The 2004 AGM will be held in La Rochelle<br />
during the European Championship.<br />
RRS42:<br />
A late submission was submitted during the<br />
AGM by a few sailors <strong>and</strong> accepted by the<br />
council.<br />
See appendix D.<br />
Revenue 2002 2001 Expenses 2002 2001 Assets 2002 2001<br />
Memberships 16 315 16 064 Salaries 10 200 11 921 Accounts receivable 4 025 -<br />
Sail labels 7 150 6 832 Office expenses 2 131 1 266 Working Account 18 498 19 854<br />
Mast labels 2 957 1 958 Regatta expenses 1 653 2 186 Capital Account 31 048 30 542<br />
Rule books 6 413 6 706 Bank Charges 292 77<br />
Interest 496 1 084 Finnfare expenses 7 885 7 684 53 571 50 408<br />
Advertising 3 579 3 922 Postage 173 485<br />
‘Finnatics, Finnlog’ 746 1 513 ISAF Building fee 4 586 4 159 Liabilities<br />
Other 30 - Stickers & RB 2 837 596<br />
Masters admin. 669 1 101 Salary owing 1 120 1 468<br />
Website 706 - Bond - GRE - 1 845<br />
Various* 1 198 - Capital 52 451 47 095<br />
Profit <strong>for</strong> the year 5 356 8 623<br />
37 686 38 079 37 686 38 079 53 571 50 408<br />
* new Lamboley
IFA Clinic 9-12 September 2003, Cádiz – by Arif Gurdenli<br />
The 2003 Finn Clinic took place in Cádiz just<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e the Gold Cup, with participation from<br />
China, Japan <strong>and</strong> France. The program had<br />
intensive content, both on shore <strong>and</strong> on the<br />
water. The mornings were covered by<br />
classroom work, where Luca Devoti, Ben Ainslie<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sebastian Godefroid were the guest<br />
speakers. On the water (2-4 hours per day)<br />
sail trim, speed testing, boat h<strong>and</strong>ling drills<br />
(mark rounding, tacking, gybing), start drills,<br />
short races were the focus areas.<br />
Luca’s lecture was on boats, rigs <strong>and</strong> tuning:<br />
<strong>all</strong> the secrets <strong>for</strong> a <strong>fast</strong> Finn<br />
Optimum weight <strong>for</strong> a Finn sailor<br />
These days the optimum weight seems to be around<br />
103. This may be down to 95 as minimum, <strong>and</strong> up<br />
to 115 as max. to be competitive.<br />
Centreboard pin position<br />
In general, heavy guys can move the pin<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward where the lighter sailors would prefer<br />
to move it back. Also in light winds it would be<br />
<strong>fast</strong>er to move it <strong>for</strong>ward <strong>and</strong> would be <strong>fast</strong>er<br />
to move back in heavy winds.<br />
Deck ring position<br />
Considering Devoti boats, 1 big + 1-2 sm<strong>all</strong> pieces<br />
of blocks would be ideal in from of the mast ring.<br />
In heavy wind the ring can be placed more <strong>for</strong>ward<br />
<strong>and</strong> in light winds could be moved aft.<br />
Mast rake<br />
More technology is involved in the rake<br />
measurement. A tape is still used but a weight<br />
system seems to be more accurate. With a<br />
tape, 6.77 metre would be an average rake.<br />
Using a cord of leach length where an electronic<br />
scale is attached at the end, boom is positioned<br />
on deck <strong>and</strong> the load is measured as 37 kg <strong>for</strong><br />
an average measurement. This can go down<br />
to 32-33 kg as a minimum (by raking the mast<br />
aft). In flat waters <strong>and</strong> light winds <strong>you</strong> can rake<br />
the mast more back <strong>and</strong> in choppy conditions<br />
more <strong>for</strong>ward.<br />
Mast types<br />
Two type of masts seem to dominate the class<br />
these days :<br />
a) Diamond shape; can deliver more consistent<br />
masts according to the required measures.<br />
Since the shape is more symmetrical <strong>and</strong> the<br />
draft position is in the middle, it's easier to build<br />
the mast to the numbers. Also the centre of<br />
gravity may be slightly lower. These masts<br />
have quick response (more nervous).<br />
b) Teardrop shape; may have a better<br />
aerodynamic shape to produce a narrower<br />
angle of attack on the sail. This type of masts<br />
are more difficult to produce to the required<br />
numbers. There<strong>for</strong>e, would be vise to get the<br />
numbers of already built masts <strong>and</strong> choose in<br />
between. These masts are slower in reaction.<br />
Mast deflection<br />
Most sailors <strong>and</strong> sailmakers test the masts by<br />
supporting the mast at the bottom <strong>and</strong> at the<br />
deck ring, then by attaching 12 kg at the tip.<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003<br />
Fore/aft measurements:<br />
Tip deflection (difference of mast tip position be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
attaching the 12 kg, <strong>and</strong> after attaching it) ; 49 cm<br />
is stiff - 52 cm is on the softer side.<br />
Middle deflection; 110 (stiff) - 125 (soft)<br />
An <strong>all</strong>-round mast (<strong>for</strong>e/aft); 86 mm at 1/4 - 117 mm<br />
at 1/2 - 86 mm at 3/4 with 51.5 cm tip deflection<br />
Side to side measures:<br />
Tip deflection; 37 (stiff) - 42 (soft)<br />
Middle deflection; 115 (stiff) - 130 (soft)<br />
3/4 deflection; 90-93% of middle deflection<br />
An <strong>all</strong>-round mast (side to side); 127 mm at<br />
1/2 - 92% at 3/4 with 39 cm tip deflection.<br />
Sails<br />
North Sails have a firmer cloth <strong>and</strong> is built <strong>for</strong><br />
relatively stiffer masts. Victory Sails have softer<br />
clothes, <strong>need</strong> more mast bend in the middle.<br />
In general, best would be to decide on one sail<br />
<strong>and</strong> stick with it, since the feelings are very<br />
different. 1 mm of change in the mast curve<br />
(by the measurement) may result in 0.8 mm<br />
change in luff curve of the sail.<br />
Sebastien’s lecture was on fitness: must do<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>all</strong> Finn sailors.<br />
Balance seems to be the most important idea<br />
in the physical preparation. In <strong>sailing</strong> certain<br />
muscles work more than the others <strong>and</strong> they<br />
are more developed. During the workout<br />
program, it’s more important to focus on unused<br />
parts of the body, to develop those muscles.<br />
This will result in a better per<strong>for</strong>ming body in<br />
the long term (over a busy season). Be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
starting a training program it’s very critical to<br />
find a good physio man who can analyse <strong>you</strong>,<br />
<strong>you</strong>r movements in a Finn <strong>and</strong> can come up<br />
with a specific program to <strong>you</strong>r <strong>need</strong>s. In<br />
general, be<strong>for</strong>e developing <strong>you</strong>r most <strong>need</strong>ed<br />
muscles in a Finn, it's necessary to develop the<br />
opposite muscles to those. Resting is a very<br />
important aspect of the total preparation. When<br />
the regatta season is over, one month of resting<br />
(in October) , with little exercises would be good.<br />
In November, starting a heavy physical training<br />
with 3 sessions a day, 6 days a week:<br />
Program type-A (in a day)<br />
1st session ; cardio by 2 hours bike or 1 hour run<br />
2nd session; Gym <strong>for</strong> about 1.5-2 hours.<br />
3rd session; Trunk (upper body) workout<br />
Program type-B (in a day)<br />
1st session; cardio intervals (focus on speed<br />
- explosion)<br />
2nd session; gym <strong>for</strong> about 1.5-2 hours.<br />
3rd session; stretching<br />
In December, include <strong>sailing</strong> in the training<br />
program after the cardio session in the morning.<br />
On <strong>sailing</strong> days, gym work can be combined<br />
with trunk workout after <strong>sailing</strong> session.<br />
In January, it’s good to travel to warm countries<br />
<strong>for</strong> more on the water training <strong>and</strong> regattas.<br />
Less cardio work <strong>and</strong> opposite muscles workout<br />
(heavy weight less reps) in the gym should be<br />
integrated in the program. Longer <strong>sailing</strong><br />
sessions replace cardio time.<br />
In February, training type turns to speed/quick<br />
<strong>and</strong> active sessions in gym <strong>and</strong> cardio. On the<br />
water focus on short racing <strong>and</strong> start drills by<br />
doing <strong>you</strong>r best (maximum ef<strong>for</strong>t) <strong>for</strong> shorter<br />
periods. Closer to the regatta season focus<br />
more on the shorter, quicker training style with<br />
more ef<strong>for</strong>t in a shorter time interval.<br />
Sailing season; focus on 3-4 major regattas<br />
(like Hyeres, Europeans, Worlds). Train re<strong>all</strong>y<br />
hard <strong>for</strong> 3 weeks be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>you</strong>r important regatta.<br />
During <strong>you</strong>r important regattas stop <strong>you</strong>r cardio<br />
<strong>and</strong> gym work. In other regattas, gym <strong>and</strong><br />
cardio work should continue as be<strong>for</strong>e.<br />
There<strong>for</strong>e, it's important to find a good gym as<br />
the first thing when <strong>you</strong> arrive at the venue.<br />
Between regattas, take a rest, by <strong>sailing</strong> just<br />
1-2 times a week. Fitness training continues.<br />
Heart rate<br />
Keep track of <strong>you</strong>r heart rate in the night. If the<br />
difference between night <strong>and</strong> day is high, <strong>you</strong>'re<br />
doing good.<br />
Nutrition<br />
Strong break<strong>fast</strong> with lots of carbohydrate is<br />
essential. No fat be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>sailing</strong>. Lots of drinks<br />
during <strong>sailing</strong>, especi<strong>all</strong>y in light wind <strong>and</strong> hot<br />
days. Rehydration specific drinks are good in<br />
such days. In long days of <strong>sailing</strong>, energy drinks<br />
can be included as well. Protein rich meals<br />
could be eaten 30 min. after training. Carbo<br />
intake is necessary during gym training.<br />
Ben’s lecture was on Regatta preparation:<br />
should be considered by anyone with big goals.<br />
For a good preparation of an important regatta,<br />
logistics are very important. Finding a good<br />
place to stay, a gym, restaurants to <strong>you</strong>r taste,<br />
nice pubs etc. that can make <strong>you</strong> feel relaxed<br />
after a long <strong>and</strong> stressful day is <strong>need</strong>ed. To<br />
get used to the conditions, three weeks would<br />
be a good time in advance. More than 3 weeks<br />
would be boring <strong>and</strong> cause demotivation during<br />
the regatta. During the three week period,<br />
focusing on wind patterns, wave types, sm<strong>all</strong><br />
racing. Spending 3-5 hours on the water is<br />
good enough.<br />
If <strong>you</strong> re<strong>all</strong>y focus on the regatta, coming to<br />
the same location <strong>and</strong> training 3-5 months<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e could be very positive. For the 2003<br />
Worlds, Ben was in Cadiz in March.<br />
Extra info by Ben<br />
Few things to consider in downwind :<br />
• After rounding the windward mark, do not<br />
gybe too soon. This will help <strong>you</strong> in keeping<br />
clear wind.<br />
• Boom vang tension is more crucial on reaches<br />
than on the run.<br />
• Keep 1/4 of the centreboard down on the run,<br />
where 1/2 could be down in reaches.<br />
• Using the rudder is very slow downwind.<br />
Keeping the balance of the boat while playing<br />
the waves to have minimum rudder action is<br />
very critical.<br />
• Planning down the wave, keeping the boat<br />
flat or slightly to leeward seems <strong>fast</strong>er.<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003
Name: Guillaume Florent<br />
Age: 29<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r home town?: I live in<br />
Cagnes-sur-Mer (south of France) but<br />
I was born in Dunkerque. I consider<br />
Dunkerque my hometown.<br />
When did <strong>you</strong> start <strong>sailing</strong>?: 4 -<br />
When I was 1, on the family boat.<br />
Summary of <strong>sailing</strong> career:<br />
Optimist - Europe - Laser - Finn<br />
Why did <strong>you</strong> take up <strong>sailing</strong>?: I<br />
liked it.<br />
What was <strong>you</strong>r first boat?: My<br />
first dinghy was an optimist.<br />
What was <strong>you</strong>r favourite boat <strong>and</strong><br />
why?: My favourite boat is the one I currently sail.<br />
What class did <strong>you</strong> first race in?: Optimist<br />
How much time do <strong>you</strong> spend on the water each week?: Between<br />
0 <strong>and</strong> 25 hours<br />
Who are <strong>you</strong>r <strong>sailing</strong> heroes <strong>and</strong> why?: Scheidt <strong>for</strong> inventing new<br />
techniques.<br />
Why did <strong>you</strong> take up the Finn?: For the technological side <strong>and</strong><br />
because I was fed up of eating only salad <strong>and</strong> cucumbers to keep<br />
my weight down <strong>for</strong> the Laser.<br />
How long have <strong>you</strong> sailed the Finn?: 1 <strong>and</strong> a half years.<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r favourite venue?: Hyéres (sunny, windy, beautiful<br />
scenery, very good organisation)<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r least favourite venue?: Maarstr<strong>and</strong><br />
When was <strong>you</strong>r first major win?: 1 year ago, winning the Nationals<br />
ahead of Rohart.<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r best ever result?: Gold Cup: 5th in Cadiz<br />
What are <strong>you</strong>r strengths in <strong>sailing</strong>?: Determination <strong>and</strong> curiosity<br />
What are <strong>you</strong>r weaknesses in <strong>sailing</strong>?: Lack of time to train<br />
What result gave <strong>you</strong> the most satisfaction?: 2nd in Hyéres after<br />
3 months in the Finn (some paranormal phenomenon - Mulder <strong>and</strong><br />
Scully came to Hyéres to investigate).<br />
What is the single most important piece of <strong>sailing</strong> advice <strong>you</strong> could<br />
give to a <strong>you</strong>ng sailor?: Don’t mess up with me.... (just kidding). More<br />
seriously, I would tell him to focus on the learning, not on the results.<br />
What is the Finn classes greatest asset?: 1) The sailors 2) The<br />
possibility to adapt the boat to one’s style<br />
What are its disadvantages?: No major disadvantage<br />
Are there any changes <strong>you</strong> like see happen to the Olympic<br />
classes <strong>sailing</strong> circuit?: More freedom with rule 42<br />
What class would <strong>you</strong> like to move into after the Finn?: The<br />
IACC or the Star<br />
Do <strong>you</strong> think the spread of Olympic classes should be changed <strong>and</strong><br />
how?: Too complicated <strong>for</strong> me - Ask Paul Henderson or Jacques Rogge.<br />
What’s the funniest thing <strong>you</strong>’ve ever witnessed at a regatta?:<br />
A dog swimming after his master’s boat <strong>for</strong> 2 miles after launching<br />
<strong>and</strong> stopping on a rock in the middle of the bay. His master saw his<br />
dog on his way back to the shore <strong>and</strong> took him in his boat.<br />
Other hobbies <strong>and</strong> interests?: Golf, cycling, computers<br />
What job would <strong>you</strong> be doing if <strong>you</strong> were not <strong>sailing</strong>?: In fact .....<br />
I also work as a computer engineer.<br />
Where would <strong>you</strong> like to see the Gold Cup sailed in the future?:<br />
Cannes, Dunkerque, Caribbean, Cape Town.<br />
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SAILOR PROFILES<br />
Name: Joao Signorini<br />
Age: 26<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r home town?: Rio de Janeiro<br />
When did <strong>you</strong> start <strong>sailing</strong>?: At the age of 8<br />
Summary of <strong>sailing</strong> career: I’ve started in Optimist in 1988, winning<br />
the Rio de Janeiro state championship in the same year. Then in<br />
1991 I went to the Europe class, winning 2 times the Rio state<br />
championship. In 1995 I went to the Laser class, winning the South<br />
American Championship in 2000. I was 5 time 2nd in the Laser<br />
National Championship between 1998 <strong>and</strong> 2002. In 2002 I went to<br />
the Finn class <strong>and</strong> began my Olympic campaign. In this year I got<br />
the Olympic place <strong>for</strong> Brazil at the Finn Gold Cup <strong>and</strong> got a third<br />
place at the Athens 2002 Regatta.<br />
Why did <strong>you</strong> take up <strong>sailing</strong>?: Because of an uncle.<br />
What was <strong>you</strong>r first boat?: An Optimist<br />
What was <strong>you</strong>r favourite boat <strong>and</strong> why?: I don’t have any particular<br />
favourite boat.<br />
What class did <strong>you</strong> first race in?: Big boat regatta<br />
How much time do <strong>you</strong> spend on the water each week?: +- 12<br />
hours<br />
Who are <strong>you</strong>r <strong>sailing</strong> heroes <strong>and</strong> why?: Torben Grael <strong>and</strong> Marcelo<br />
Ferreira, because of their style. Even winning the most important<br />
championships, they can still have a relaxed attitude.<br />
Why did <strong>you</strong> take up the Finn?: A friend of mine lent me his boat<br />
<strong>for</strong> a championship. I won the championship, <strong>and</strong> began my Olympic<br />
campaign.<br />
How long have <strong>you</strong> sailed the Finn?: Since January 2002.<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r favourite venue?: Büzios <strong>and</strong> Rio, both in Brazil<br />
What is <strong>you</strong>r least favourite venue?: The cold one.<br />
What is the single most important piece of <strong>sailing</strong> advice <strong>you</strong><br />
could give to a <strong>you</strong>ng sailor?: To have fun when <strong>sailing</strong>.<br />
What is the Finn classes greatest asset?: After <strong>sailing</strong> a Finn, it<br />
is easy to sail others boats.<br />
What are its disadvantages?: The price of the boat <strong>and</strong> equipment.<br />
Other hobbies <strong>and</strong> interests?: Big boat regattas<br />
What job would <strong>you</strong> be doing if <strong>you</strong> were not <strong>sailing</strong>?: Engineering<br />
Where would <strong>you</strong> like to see the Gold Cup sailed in the future?:<br />
I will see it in my home town in 2004.<br />
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AUSTRALIA<br />
John Sh<strong>all</strong>vey writes “This summer we have<br />
planned to team up with the Europeans as<br />
much as possible. The class in Australia will<br />
hold 3-4 regattas close together to<br />
accommodate any who wish to live <strong>and</strong> train<br />
in the best summer conditions. Firstly there<br />
is the Sydney International on the Harbour<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Austrian Open Championship<br />
2 September 2003 00:55<br />
Erich Scherzer writes “From 21-28 of August<br />
the UYC Wolfgangsee in St. Gilgen organised<br />
a perfect Open Austrian Championship. 95<br />
competitors from 7 different countries found<br />
their way to this most most beautiful of areas!!<br />
Besides the beautiful l<strong>and</strong>scape we had<br />
excellent weather <strong>and</strong> the typical thermal<br />
‘Brunnwind’ with a nice <strong>for</strong>ce 2 -5 on every<br />
day of racing.<br />
After some very ch<strong>all</strong>enging races in<br />
sometimes difficult shifty conditions the host<br />
club UYCWg offered great food, drinks <strong>and</strong><br />
music every evening !<br />
After 3 days of racing <strong>all</strong> 6 races were finished<br />
with a great winner. Michal Hruby from CZE<br />
beat, among others, Olympic sailor Michael<br />
Maier <strong>and</strong> 2003 Masters World Champion<br />
Eberhard Bieberitz. National champion<br />
Michael Gubi finished fin<strong>all</strong>y second over<strong>all</strong><br />
– showing once more his great talent.”<br />
1 CZE 9 Michal Hruby 12<br />
2 AUT 7 Michael Gubi 23<br />
3 CZE 1 Michael Maier 27<br />
4 GER 10 Eberhard Bieberitz 30<br />
5 CZE 22 Roman Babicky 33<br />
6 ITA 24 Peter Stuffer 36<br />
7 ITA 16 Harald Stuffer 45<br />
8 GER 8 Jürgen Eiermann 46<br />
9 GER 39 Karl-Heinz Erich 47<br />
10 NED 66 Ewout Meijer 58<br />
11 HUN 1 Balazs Hajdu 61<br />
12 AUT 271 Florian Raudaschi 65<br />
13 AUT 11 Bernd Moser 66<br />
14 SUI 7 lvan Rames 72<br />
15 GER 151 Matthias Miller 75<br />
16 GER 36 Adalbert Wiest 81<br />
17 GER 3 Walter Mai 86<br />
18 CZE 70 Vaclav Cintl jr. 90<br />
19 NED 804 Cees Scheurwater 95<br />
20 GER 701 Klaus-Dieter Götz 98<br />
21 CZE 8 Jiri Outrata 100<br />
22 GER 165 Dirk Meid 105<br />
23 GER 48 Manni Pöschl 106<br />
24 CZE 318 Martin Plectiy 122<br />
25 GER 71 Benedikt Göch 126<br />
26 GER 311 Bernd Fischer 128<br />
27 GER 63 Michael P<strong>and</strong>ler 128<br />
28 SUI 465 Thomas Brack 130<br />
29 AUT 12 Jörg Werner 133<br />
30 GER 32 Felix Spring 143<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003<br />
COUNTRIES REPORTS<br />
in December, then training coaching regatta<br />
Middle Harbour Sydney after Christmas, the<br />
pre-sail at Melbourne at the Royal Brighton<br />
over 3-6 January, <strong>and</strong> fin<strong>all</strong>y Sail Melbourne.<br />
I am happy to coordinate transport or stowage<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Australian authority is happy to<br />
support with transport <strong>and</strong> storage. I can also<br />
offer membership privilege in Melbourne <strong>for</strong><br />
those who wish to train <strong>and</strong> play.”<br />
31 AUT 284 Erich Scherzer 144<br />
32 GER 150 Günther Hoffmann 152<br />
33 HUN 11 Lovas Püter 153<br />
34 GER 86 Peter Mannes 154<br />
35 GER 92 Detlef Gumminski 156<br />
36 GER 55 Herbert Sondermann 159<br />
37 AUT 272 Franz Kloiber 162<br />
38 GER 20 Stefan Weigl 166<br />
39 ITA 3 Klaus Stuffer 167<br />
40 GER 130 Alfred Blum 172<br />
41 CZE 7 Vaclav Cinti 172<br />
42 HUN 4 Varga Lajos 187<br />
43 GER 49 Horst Klein 201<br />
44 AUT 260 Johannes Poell 206<br />
45 GER 18 Mike Wendler 214<br />
46 GER 122 Herbert Herwig 214<br />
47 ITA 39 Thomas Pichler 219<br />
48 HUN 6517 Keresztes Gábor 222<br />
49 GER 1 Werner Beuck 222<br />
50 ITA 93 Klaus Mair 222<br />
51 GER 2 Nils Peters 225<br />
52 SUI 40 Heinz Stammnitz 229<br />
53 ESP 100 Pavel Frohlich 237<br />
54 ITA 72 Andrea Guidi 244<br />
55 ITA 84 Pierluigi Pinzan 245<br />
56 AUT 210 Walter Schuster 251<br />
57 HUN 99 Barnabás Doromby 261<br />
58 AUT 199 Hannes Blaschke 272<br />
59 GER 35 Fiffi Ehlers 275<br />
60 GER 102 Siegfried Böhl 276<br />
61 AUT 268 Maximilian Pfeiffer 279<br />
62 GER 266 Michael Eller 283<br />
63 ITA 66 Stefan Stefula 291<br />
64 CZE 10 Vaclav Hudec 295<br />
65 GER 333 Hans Jürgen Brenninger 303<br />
66 GER 120 Christian Wächter 305<br />
67 HUN 41 Bartos Zoltan 307<br />
68 HUN 6 Pál Gaszton 313<br />
69 GER 65 Claus Donner 317<br />
70 GER 303 Wolfgang Herter 318<br />
71 AUT 223 Tobias Drugowitsch 319<br />
72 HUN 70 Gyorgy Vas 325<br />
73 GER 95 Gert Bollrath 328<br />
74 GER 2155 Johannes Gauwerky 330<br />
75 GER 222 Wilhelm Emde 333<br />
76 GER 93 Otto Käser 334<br />
77 ITA 902 Fritz Starke 340<br />
78 GER 200 Helmut Vetter 344<br />
79 AUT 277 Gerhard Schlipfinger 347<br />
80 AUT 19 Frank Schimak 357<br />
81 AUT 234 Robert Erhart 358<br />
82 GER 109 Manfred Tomaszewski 376<br />
83 AUT 36 Helmuth Gubi 382<br />
84 ITA 43 Pietro Piran 382<br />
85 AUT 214 Thomas Kattinger 383<br />
86 GER 1852 Rudiger Stelzl 388<br />
87 SUI 64 Hans-Rudolf Osterwalder 393<br />
88 AUT 13 Andreas Poell 397<br />
89 ITA 86 Stefan Kaspar 398<br />
90 AUT 253 Johann Raudaschl 421<br />
91 AUT 211 Michael Gerstmayer 422<br />
92 GER 2035 Stefan Magirus 430<br />
93 SUI 531 Rol<strong>and</strong> Schneider 431<br />
94 GER 69 Simon Löffelmann 446<br />
95 0E 1 Dieter Lesiak 469<br />
Austrian Ranking List 2003 (top 20)<br />
1 Gubi Michael 361<br />
2 Raudaschl Florian 336<br />
3 Moser Bernd 324<br />
4 Werner Jörg 274<br />
5 Poell Johannes 266<br />
6 Gubi Helmuth 259<br />
7 Scherzer Erich 217<br />
8 Schuster Walter 214<br />
9 Fischer Michael 196<br />
10 Pfeiffer Max 186<br />
11 Grögl Peter 174<br />
12 Drugovitsch Tobias 124<br />
13 Gfreiner Gerhard 109<br />
14 Poell Andreas 102<br />
15 Schlipfinger Gerhard 100<br />
16 Eder Harald 99<br />
17 Raudaschl Johann 64<br />
18 Kloiber Franz 58<br />
19 Erhard Robert 48<br />
20 Gfreiner Hartwig 46<br />
Austrian Secretary Bernd Moser<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003
CANADA<br />
Canadian Nationals 2003<br />
Whitby, Ontario July 11-13<br />
A dozen North Americans ventured to Whitby,<br />
Ontario July 11-13 <strong>for</strong> the Canadian National<br />
Championship sailed on Lake Ontario in winds<br />
from 15-20 knots with big waves, uncharacteristic<br />
<strong>for</strong> the usu<strong>all</strong>y shifty <strong>and</strong> light venue.<br />
This regatta was a homecoming <strong>for</strong> Chris<br />
Cook, who grew up in Whitby <strong>and</strong> started<br />
<strong>sailing</strong> at WYC when his mother Geri, enrolled<br />
him in its junior program. Geri was on h<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> the regatta <strong>and</strong> help played den mother<br />
to the Finn fleet. A fine crew of WYC<br />
volunteers put on a great regatta complete<br />
with food <strong>and</strong> an old Finn filled with ice <strong>and</strong><br />
Lone Star beer.<br />
The best U.S. per<strong>for</strong>mance, a second, was<br />
put on by US Sailing Team member Geoff<br />
Ewenson. John Porter, who campaigned<br />
actively <strong>for</strong> the 2000 Olympics, has come out<br />
of retirement <strong>and</strong> placed third, followed by<br />
Andy Kern, who <strong>for</strong>got his rudder <strong>and</strong> had to<br />
bondo together two pieces of plywood in the<br />
middle of night in order to sail. Jon Clark,<br />
DENMARK<br />
Lars Vesterholm writes: The Danish 2003<br />
regatta-season is now coming to an end (but<br />
FRANCE<br />
Cercle de la Voile Bordeaux<br />
8-9 August 2003<br />
20 sailors participated to the celebration of<br />
the Finn fleet rebirth in Maubuisson. Among<br />
them, big names such as: Philippe Soria,<br />
Yves-Louis Pinault, Serge <strong>and</strong> Alain Maury,<br />
Jean-Jacques Busquet, Pierre Mondeteguy<br />
<strong>and</strong> Didier Poissant (3 of them past Finn<br />
Olympian). Five light wind races were sailed<br />
<strong>and</strong> every competitor had the opportunity to<br />
change their boat be<strong>for</strong>e the starts. Philippe<br />
Soria, Alain <strong>and</strong> Serge Maury won each won<br />
a race, proving if necessary that ‘old soldiers<br />
never die’. It was a great feast of friends <strong>and</strong><br />
14<br />
from Ottawa,<br />
taking time off<br />
from his position<br />
as <strong>sailing</strong><br />
p r o g r a m<br />
administrator <strong>and</strong><br />
full-time university<br />
student, placed<br />
fifth. Bill<br />
Upthegrove, in his<br />
re-built Teal,<br />
finished in sixth<br />
<strong>and</strong> was first<br />
master.<br />
Chris Cook in Cádiz<br />
Results<br />
1 Chris Cook CAN 41 6<br />
2 Geoff Ewenson USA 11 14<br />
3 John Porter USA 14 23<br />
4 Andy Kern USA 78 25<br />
5 Jon Clark USA 111 34<br />
6 Bill Upthegrove USA 7 39<br />
7 Mike Milner CAN 4 47<br />
8 Steve Cutting CAN 24 61<br />
9 Charles Heimler USA 1111 61<br />
10 Chris Kent BAR 1 68<br />
11 Ian Bostock CAN 3 73<br />
12 Ian Robertson CAN 105 78<br />
most of us will continue until the marinas<br />
freeze over). In this situation it is always nice<br />
to look back at the results of a splendid 2003.<br />
2003 has been a very good year <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Danish Finn Sailors. The number of sailors<br />
that decided to visit other countries raised<br />
significantly <strong>and</strong> the fine results have been<br />
pouring in... Jonas <strong>and</strong> Soren both won<br />
regattas in the early spring <strong>and</strong> continued to<br />
show great <strong>for</strong>m over the summer.<br />
On August 8-10th the Open Danish<br />
Championship 2003 was held in Egaa (north<br />
of Aarhus) in extremely fine conditions. Superb<br />
winds, 30+ degrees (celcius) <strong>and</strong> absolutely<br />
no clouds. In addition the Danish Finn<br />
Association had sponsored a special trophy<br />
to the over<strong>all</strong> winner of the event – a 1:1<br />
bronze replica of Paul Elvstrøm’s left h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
36 Sailors from 4 nations showed up <strong>and</strong><br />
raced <strong>for</strong> the honour of being the first sailor<br />
to win this trophy. Christian Aderman from<br />
Sweden won the event not even having to<br />
start in the last race. Soren came in second<br />
<strong>all</strong> of these 50s, 60s <strong>and</strong> 70s heroes still<br />
consider Finn as the missing link between a<br />
Rambr<strong>and</strong>t painting <strong>and</strong> a Stradivarius !<br />
Port-Blanc, 8-11 May.<br />
Port-Blanc is probably one of the most<br />
beautiful <strong>and</strong> windy places to sail in France<br />
(northern Bretagne). For this regatta only 13<br />
sailors (the creme of the French Finn class)<br />
decided to come <strong>for</strong> a nice fight in medium<br />
winds <strong>and</strong> choppy water. Jean Duru from<br />
Paris had a very consistent regatta <strong>and</strong> was<br />
most of the time ahead of the fleet winning<br />
7 of the 9 races. He won with only 9 points.<br />
Second was Patrick Zagazuc from Dinard<br />
with 27 points,<strong>and</strong> third was Gaël Seguin<br />
1 Kristian Åderman 5<br />
2 Søren Holm 10<br />
3 Johan Till<strong>and</strong>er 15<br />
4 Thomas Laursen 16<br />
5 Anders Nilsson 27<br />
6 Jørgen Lindhartsen 27<br />
7 Michael Båk 32<br />
8 Cees Scheurwater 36<br />
9 Ewout Meijer 40<br />
10 Mikael Br<strong>and</strong>t 40<br />
11 Dirk Meid 40<br />
12 Frank Hansen 51<br />
13 Lars Juel Christensen 58<br />
14 Michael Staal 63<br />
15 Lars Stenfeldt 66<br />
16 Henrik Thomsen 69<br />
17 Lars Vesterholm-Lavesen 71<br />
18 Loek Kruyer 76<br />
19 Olof Lundqvist 82<br />
20 Thorsten Schacht 90<br />
21 Ole Vorm 95<br />
22 Thomas Bo Nielsen 99<br />
23 Flemming Jensen 99<br />
24 Hank De Jager 102<br />
25 Kim Siestø 105<br />
26 Lars Gelbjerg-Hansen 120<br />
27 John van Altena 122<br />
28 Sten Waldo 124<br />
29 Olaf van Heusden 128<br />
30 Peter Verhoef 133<br />
31 Richard Berg-Larsen 133<br />
32 Peter Malm 145<br />
33 Martin Leifeldt 150<br />
34 Finn Andersen 167<br />
35 Per Cederholm 169<br />
36 Lars Hauschultz 170<br />
in a borrowed boat (<strong>and</strong> missing the first race<br />
when the owner sailed <strong>and</strong> Soren stayed<br />
onboard the committee boat).<br />
In the Danish Nationals the winner <strong>and</strong> gold<br />
medalist was Soren Holm <strong>and</strong> silver medalist<br />
was Thomas Laursen (who fin<strong>all</strong>y <strong>and</strong> well<br />
deserved made it to the podium). Bronze<br />
went to – yes – Jørgen Lindhardtsen.<br />
with 32 Points. During the prize-giving<br />
ceremony the organisers gave each<br />
competitor a CD ROM with more than 250<br />
pictures taken during the regatta.<br />
Start at Port Blanc
Binic - Thamer, 6-7 September<br />
In the 70s Binic was a well known spot <strong>for</strong><br />
Finn <strong>and</strong> the Yacht Club of Binic was proud<br />
to have a fleet of more than 20 <strong>Finns</strong>ters.<br />
Bruno Rossignol put his natural energy <strong>and</strong><br />
good public relations to produce a Finn<br />
comeback in his club. It has been decided<br />
that every year in last weekend of September<br />
will be a two day regatta in Binic. Saturday<br />
saw a good <strong>and</strong> steady medium wind from<br />
west. Pierre Le Chatelier won 2 races far<br />
ahead from the fleet, <strong>and</strong> Gilles Mal-Sevré<br />
one. Sunday was not a very nice day to sail<br />
as the wind was very shifty <strong>and</strong> light. The<br />
committee ran 4 races, Alain Keraudy with<br />
his ‘skinny’ Devoti won 2 races, Pierre Luce<br />
<strong>and</strong> P.Le Chatelier the two others. We will<br />
certainly have more than 25 on the start line<br />
next year as this one was a real success!<br />
1 888 LE CHATELIER PIERRE 11<br />
2 7 KERAUDY ALAIN 17<br />
3 826 MALSERVET GILLES 21<br />
4 534 LUCE PIERRE 24<br />
5 797 DESEILLIGNY CHRISTOPHE25<br />
6 821 LE MAITRE SIMON 31<br />
7 807 SIOT RENE 45<br />
8 837 GUILLOU ALAIN PIERRE 49<br />
9 785 LIGUET JAEN JOSEPH 49<br />
10 806 ZAGAZUC PATRICK 55<br />
11 760 GAUCHET XAVIER 59<br />
12 73 ROUX PHILIPPE 60<br />
13 762 CHOMET PATRICK 69<br />
14 792 CHAGNAUD FRANCIS 89<br />
15 847 ROSSIGNOL BRUNO 96<br />
International Sailing Week<br />
Cannes, 26 April - 1 March, 2003<br />
70 participants from 7 different countries gave<br />
the strong feeling that it was more than a<br />
district regatta. As usual the atmosphere was<br />
re<strong>all</strong>y cordial <strong>and</strong> we <strong>all</strong> know that it is a<br />
distinctive feature of our class to have this<br />
excentrical <strong>for</strong>ce. Thanks to <strong>all</strong> of <strong>you</strong> who<br />
have made such a long trip to join us (Danish<br />
team <strong>for</strong> instance). The first day of regatta<br />
sew rough weather conditions, <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> safety<br />
reasons the race committee did not start any<br />
race. We spent much time <strong>and</strong> of course a<br />
lot of money at the bar ... For the second day<br />
the wind was light <strong>and</strong> very shifty, Guillaume<br />
Florent won the first race <strong>and</strong> Søren Holm<br />
the second one. On the last day the wind<br />
steadied at 2 pm <strong>and</strong> the committee set two<br />
races. Søren got two bullets. Cannes will be<br />
the spot <strong>for</strong> the 2004 Masters <strong>and</strong> we expect<br />
more than 80 participants <strong>for</strong> the third<br />
international <strong>sailing</strong> week in Cannes from 18<br />
to 21 February next year as this event will<br />
be a perfect practice <strong>for</strong> those who came<br />
back in May <strong>for</strong> the Masters.<br />
1 DEN 7 HOLM Søren 3<br />
2 FRA 73 FLORENT Guillaume 7<br />
3 FRA 17 RAMBEAU Pascal 8<br />
4 SUI 6 WA’LCHI Dominique 14<br />
5 DEN 9 LARSEN Thomas 14<br />
6 DEN 201 HENDRIKSEN Lars 20<br />
7 FRA 7 CHTOUNDER Sylvain 21<br />
8 FRA 11 DEPLANQUE Mathieu 22<br />
9 SUI 4 BRUN Daniel 22<br />
10 AUT 271 RAUDASCHL Florian 28<br />
11 ITA 25 BATTAGLIA Arm<strong>and</strong>o 33<br />
12 AUS 222 MC KENZIE Paul 34<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003<br />
13 GBR 53 COBB Rodney 36<br />
14 FRA 8 GASTON Jean Paul 42<br />
15 ITA 111 CATALAN Bruno 44<br />
16 ITA 727 BUGLIELLI Marco 45<br />
17 HUN 11 LOVAS Peter 46<br />
18 ITA 111 SALANI Mario 47<br />
19 GER 13 TAMM Wolfgang 50<br />
20 SUI 452 RICKERT Wolfgang 53<br />
French Nationals 2003, 9-12 July<br />
For the 4th time in a row, Quiberon was the<br />
choice to host the French Finn Nationals. As<br />
the previous events, this event was sailed in<br />
light winds <strong>and</strong> in these conditions it was a<br />
very tough battle <strong>for</strong> the 49 sailors because<br />
there was not so much big boat speed<br />
difference. Those who finished in the top 5<br />
places has most of the time been able to<br />
place in the top ten in every race. In the last<br />
day, the wind steadied to <strong>for</strong>ce 3-5 <strong>and</strong> two<br />
races were sailed <strong>and</strong> determined who will<br />
be the winner between Jean-Paul Gaston<br />
<strong>and</strong> Pierre Le Chatelier. On the over<strong>all</strong> results<br />
P. le Chatelier won the championship, 1 point<br />
ahead of Gaston, <strong>and</strong> Gaël Seguin third.<br />
Thanks to British <strong>and</strong> German fellows who<br />
participated in this event <strong>and</strong> hope to meet<br />
<strong>you</strong> next year.<br />
1 FRA 888 LE CHATELIER PIERRE 16<br />
2 FRA 8 GASTON JEANPAUL 17<br />
3 FRA 804 SEGUIN GAEL 26<br />
4 GER 17 SCHARDER KAI 36<br />
5 FRA 848 ROUMAILLAC JEAN CLAUD 36<br />
6 FRA 817 VALLIER PHILIPPE 45<br />
7 FRA 534 LUCE PIERRE 47<br />
8 GBR 53 COBB RODNEY 53<br />
9 FRA 846 HENAFF GILLES 59<br />
10 FRA 822 LESAGE VINCENT 61<br />
11 FRA 897 LOQUINEAU JEAN MARC 64<br />
12 FRA 77 DURU JEAN 65<br />
13 FRA 821 LEMAITRE SIMON 69<br />
14 FRA 14 MONTORIOL CHRISTOPHE70<br />
15 FRA 18 BOUTEMY YVES 71<br />
16 SUI 7 KERAUDY ALAIN 76<br />
17 FRA 776 HERAUDET JEAN BERNARD 79<br />
18 FRA 76 HAUTECOEUR JEAN PIERR84<br />
19 FRA 1 POISSANT DIDIER 85<br />
20 FRA 837 GUILLOU ALAIN-PIERRE86<br />
Hourtin Medoc (Maubuisson Lake)<br />
31 October - 2 November 2003<br />
53 sailors from 4 different countries sailed 7<br />
races in good strong <strong>and</strong> steady medium<br />
winds. It was obvious that this regatta was<br />
the most interesting <strong>and</strong> physical of <strong>all</strong> of<br />
these sailed this season in France. Many<br />
capsizes, one broken mast, <strong>and</strong> one sailor<br />
that spent a part of the night at the hospital<br />
prove that there was some thrills especi<strong>all</strong>y<br />
at the gybe mark. Mario Salani from Italy after<br />
a long trip from Tuscany had enough energy<br />
to show to some of his French mates how to<br />
cook pasta, thanks Mario! Mario won 4 races<br />
<strong>and</strong> got 3 second places, Paul got 3 victories<br />
<strong>and</strong> 2 secons places. Un<strong>for</strong>tunately <strong>for</strong> Paul,<br />
he scored an OCS that cost him second place<br />
on the over<strong>all</strong> result. This event testifies the<br />
good health of the Finn class in France <strong>and</strong><br />
the search to build new Finn fleets in different<br />
geographical <strong>and</strong> strategical parts of the<br />
country. We hope to meet <strong>all</strong> of <strong>you</strong> from<br />
Holl<strong>and</strong>, Italy <strong>and</strong> maybe Paul next year.<br />
1 ITA 11 SALANI Mario 8<br />
2 8 GASTON JEANPAUL 19<br />
3 7 LE CHATELIER PIERRE 34<br />
4 NED 1 VANDERHORST Jan 38<br />
5 NED 7 ALTENA John 51<br />
6 AUS 222 MCKENZIE Paul 61<br />
7 826 MALSERVET GILLES 63<br />
8 77 DURU JEAN 66<br />
9 848 ROUMAILLAC JEAN CLAUDE 75<br />
10 791 GRANCHAMP JEAN JACQUES80<br />
11 804 SEGUIN GAEL 96<br />
12 822 LESAGE VINCENT 101<br />
13 73 LEMAITRE SIMON 104<br />
14 19 ALBERT JEAN MARC 109<br />
15 534 LUCE PIERRE 111<br />
16 797 DESEILLIGNY CHRISTOPHE 112<br />
17 NED 704 LAMME Jan jaap 121<br />
18 838 TANGUY SYLVAIN 124<br />
19 NED 38 HEUSDEN Olaf 129<br />
20 76 HAUTECOEUR JEAN PIERRE132<br />
Competitors at the French Nationals<br />
FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2003
GREAT BRITAIN<br />
UK National Championship 2003<br />
Warsash Sailing Club<br />
1 Charlie Cumbley GBR 15 9<br />
2 Aaron O’Grady IRL 7 11<br />
3 Ed Greig GBR 593 23<br />
4 Adam Cowling GBR 2 26<br />
5 Thomas Greig GBR 567 39<br />
6 Nick Daniels GBR 58 43<br />
7 Phil Laycock GBR 3 65<br />
8 S<strong>and</strong>er Kooij GBR 1 80<br />
9 Richard Hart GBR 531 87<br />
10 Stuart Glover GBR598 91<br />
HUNGARY<br />
Hungarian Nationals<br />
Lake Balaton, 3-7 September 2003<br />
This year’s Finn Class Nationals took place<br />
at Lake Balaton with 35 boats at the start.<br />
The fleet contained 8 junior <strong>and</strong> 12 masters<br />
sailors, as well. Seven races were sailed in<br />
light to medium winds with two olympians<br />
(Antal ‘Tonyo’ Szekely, Seoul1988 <strong>and</strong> Balazs<br />
Hajdu, Sydney 2000) battling out the top two<br />
over<strong>all</strong> places. Due to the proper timing of<br />
the event within the local <strong>sailing</strong> season, most<br />
races <strong>all</strong>owed <strong>for</strong> fair <strong>and</strong> exciting racing. The<br />
fleet showed again some new faces joining<br />
the Hungarian Finn scene <strong>and</strong> - thanks to<br />
PATA Boats - a general improvement of<br />
equipment was noticeable. As to the results,<br />
the regatta was com<strong>for</strong>tably won by Balazs<br />
Hajdu, scoring four first <strong>and</strong> three second<br />
places. He was followed by Antal Szekely,<br />
who showed great boat speed, <strong>for</strong>midable<br />
determination <strong>and</strong> proved that real <strong>sailing</strong><br />
skills cannot be unlearned. Tibor P<strong>all</strong>ay came<br />
third over<strong>all</strong> scoring a first <strong>and</strong> a sixth place<br />
on the last day. With his great over<strong>all</strong> result<br />
ITALY<br />
Coppa Italia Finn 2003<br />
Coppa Italia, a series of 6 regattas held during<br />
spring <strong>and</strong> summer weekends in Italy, had<br />
its epilogue in Pesaro at the beginning of<br />
September.<br />
Un<strong>for</strong>tunately this last<br />
race had only a few<br />
competitors. Anyway<br />
the local Maurizio<br />
Grati won it with 2<br />
bullets <strong>and</strong> 3 second<br />
places, <strong>and</strong> second<br />
was the Italian Navy<br />
representative Marc<br />
Arata. The convincing<br />
over<strong>all</strong> winner of<br />
16<br />
11 Robert Deaves GBR 10 91<br />
12 Russell Ward GBR 4 93<br />
13 Graham Page GBR 33 93<br />
14 Rowan Chaplin GBR 7 97<br />
15 Gordon Watson GBR 544 101<br />
16 Mark Andrews GBR 88 113<br />
17 Martin Hutchins GBR 563 121<br />
18 Graeme Macdonald GBR 556 123<br />
19 Tim Powell GBR 583 123<br />
20 Ed Thorburn GBR 595 124<br />
21 Mark Macdonald GBR 572 125<br />
22 Howard Sellars GBR 77 132<br />
23 Justin Chisolm GBR 23 133<br />
24 Jon Powell GBR 582 155<br />
Antal Szekely was declared National Masters<br />
Champion with Gaszton Pöl winning the junior<br />
title. Sincere thanks are given to Silvy Szekely,<br />
who once again managed to organise a<br />
fantastic Finn event <strong>for</strong> 35 hungry <strong>and</strong> thirsty<br />
wolves.<br />
1 HUN 1 Hajdu Baläzs 8<br />
2 Szükely Antal 15<br />
3 HUN 5 P<strong>all</strong>ay Tibor 27<br />
4 HUN 71 Kertäsz Gábor 28<br />
5 HUN 2 Sipos Peter 28<br />
6 HUN 11 Lovas Peter 35<br />
7 HUN 6 Pöl Gaszton 43<br />
8 HUN 113 Berecz Zsombor 53<br />
9 HUN 65/17 Keresztes Gábor 57<br />
10 SUI 347 Zsindely Lászlo 61<br />
12 HUN 4/479 Varga Lajos 63<br />
13 HUN 99 Dorombi Barnabás 70<br />
14 HUN 41 Bartos Zoltán 79<br />
15 HUN 14/51 Göl Dezsá 84<br />
16 HUN 21 Sipos Bence 89<br />
17 HUN 1111 Bisztray Frigyes 89<br />
18 HUN 7 Mihály ¡döm 94<br />
19 HUN 171 Biszküt Peter 106<br />
20 HUN 81 Szendrüi Merton 110<br />
Coppa Italia 2003 is Michele Marchesini, with<br />
Marco Buglielli at second place <strong>and</strong> the <strong>you</strong>ng<br />
hopeful Riccardo Cordovani in third place.<br />
Also this year this series of races was a big<br />
success, with 85 Italian competitors <strong>and</strong><br />
several <strong>for</strong>eign guests, particularly in the<br />
traditional Stuffer-Vitessa Trophy on Caldaro<br />
lake.<br />
1 ITA 15 Michele Marchesini (left) 414<br />
2 ITA 727 Marco Buglielli 404<br />
3 ITA 101 Riccardo Cordovani 379<br />
4 ITA 11 Mario Salani 324<br />
5 ITA 111 Bruno Catalan 279<br />
6 ITA 71 Massimo Gherarducci 253<br />
7 ITA52 Franco Martinelli 249<br />
8 ITA 898 Johannes Van Asperen 231<br />
9 ITA22 Frank Lokin 219<br />
10 ITA 38 Claudio Bosetti 205<br />
25 James Wyburd GBR 576 172<br />
26 Mike Woodhead GBR 16 178<br />
27 Mathieu de Verdiere GBR 537 182<br />
28 Robert Plant USA 1201 185<br />
29 Andrew Wylam GBR 53 197<br />
30 Simon Stonehouse GBR 11 200<br />
31 Mike Till GBR 55 204<br />
32 Ian Kay GBR 581 212<br />
33 Mark Ingram GBR 424 221<br />
34 Tim Tavinor GBR 9 222<br />
35 Keith Fedi GBR 596 227<br />
36 David Martin GBR 69 254<br />
37 Michael Stringer GBR 578 258<br />
38 L Maudsley GBR 567 267<br />
Photos by Eddie Mays (eddie@eddiemays.com)<br />
21 HUN 15 Gulyás Gábor 117<br />
22 HUN 163 Böna Gábor 126<br />
23 M 104 Tirvol Tamás 127<br />
24 HUN 61 Anka Attila 137<br />
25 HUN 275 Vincz Tibor 143<br />
26 HUN 8 Beliczay Merton 149<br />
27 HUN 3 Koller Tam´ås 152<br />
28 HUN 55 Szalai Lászlo 158<br />
29 HUN 300 Farkas Jözsef 166<br />
30 HUN 771 Kudron Zoltán 175<br />
31 HUN 743 dr Mucs Mihály 185<br />
32 M 3 Sarina Robert 190<br />
33 HUN 17/12 Boros Ferenc 190<br />
34 HUN 1144 Szendrái Dávid 199<br />
35 M 158 Szili Károly 213<br />
Malcesine Finn Cup<br />
The traditional Finn Cup was held in<br />
Malcesine at the beginning of October, but<br />
this year this wonderful regatta was disturbed<br />
by a capricious weather, which <strong>all</strong>owed only<br />
2 races to be completed. 68 Finn sailors were<br />
present, despite the clash with the German<br />
Finn championship. The first day the usual<br />
gardesan Ora didn’t show up, <strong>and</strong> the only<br />
com<strong>for</strong>t came from the very abundant <strong>and</strong><br />
tasty ‘merenda’ offered by Hans Chiocchetti.<br />
On Saturday a good northerly wind was<br />
present, but it was unusu<strong>all</strong>y unstable, <strong>and</strong><br />
only one race was held with a dying wind,<br />
which was won by Michael Maier who beat<br />
his fellow Czech Michail Hruby <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Slovenian Vincec Gasper. The last day<br />
everybody was ready at 8 am <strong>for</strong> an early<br />
start, but torrential rain <strong>and</strong> a strong northerly
<strong>for</strong>ced the race committee to postpone the<br />
start. At 11 am the rain stopped <strong>and</strong> the wind<br />
decreased a bit, <strong>and</strong> a race was started in<br />
some 25 knots increasing with gusts up to<br />
33 knots. In these tough conditions Michael<br />
Maier won again after a hard fight against<br />
Luca Devoti, <strong>and</strong> only 11 boats managed to<br />
finish the race.<br />
1 CZE 1 MAIER MICHAEL 2<br />
2 CZE 9 HRUBY MICHAL 5<br />
3 SLO 5 GASPER VINCEC 7<br />
4 ITA 15 MARCHESINI MICHELE 9<br />
5 CZE 3 LIDARIK RUDOLF 12<br />
6 AUT 271RAUDASCHL FLORIAN 12<br />
7 ITA 1 DEVOTI LUCA 17<br />
8 CZE 318PLECITY MARTIN 21<br />
9 ITA 727 BUGLIELLI MARCO 29<br />
10 ITA 890 TACCHINO JACOPO 30<br />
Ooops!<br />
NETHERLANDS<br />
Grevelingen, Zeel<strong>and</strong>, August 9-10<br />
This event was held on the beautiful water<br />
of the Grevelingen in Zeel<strong>and</strong>, the weather<br />
was nice, but light wind conditions. Here we<br />
met a new <strong>you</strong>ngster Finn sailor Wietze<br />
Zetsema, <strong>and</strong> he took the first place – so<br />
watch out, here he comes.<br />
1 NED 724 W.Zetzema<br />
2 NED 757 L.Kuijper<br />
3 NED 712 R.Baerends<br />
4 NED 5 R. Tobe<br />
5 NED 759 G.v.Woudenberg<br />
Gaastra ONK FINN Masters<br />
Harderwijk, August 30-31<br />
This year the Masters were separated from<br />
the Dutch Open, due to late time of this event<br />
in October. 50 boats were competing <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Dutch Masters title, including six German <strong>and</strong><br />
one Belgian entry. Mateusz Kusznierewicz,<br />
who was invited by Gaastra, followed the<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
International Finn Swiss Championship<br />
Lake Silvaplana/St. Moritz<br />
August 17. 20.2003<br />
There was no doubt that the Swiss mountains<br />
would attract sailors from <strong>all</strong> over Europe to<br />
sail some races on one of the most<br />
spectacular ‘Finnable’ lakes <strong>you</strong> can find. At<br />
an altitude of 1800 metres, surrounded by<br />
high mountains <strong>and</strong> woods <strong>and</strong> close to the<br />
well known jet set melting pot of St. Moritz,<br />
a record fleet of 70 boats from 8 countries<br />
fought hard <strong>for</strong> the championship. The well<br />
known ‘Maloja Wind’ (thermal wind reaching<br />
4-5 Bft) didn’t re<strong>all</strong>y blow early in the series<br />
<strong>and</strong> one day was even spent on shore without<br />
racing. Dutch sailor Ewout Meijer <strong>and</strong> masters<br />
world champion Eberhard Bieberitz were the<br />
early leaders after three races. Most sailors<br />
collected at least one bad race in the<br />
sometimes tricky conditions. A jury that took<br />
its job just a little bit too serious listed additional<br />
sailors on the victims list (there have never<br />
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fleet during the regatta. In the evening he<br />
held a clinic about some situations on the<br />
water earlier. It was a great success. Luuk<br />
Kuijper took the Gaastra ONK Mastertitle.<br />
1 NED 757 Luuk Kuijper 17<br />
2 GER 10 Eberhard Bieberitz 27<br />
3 GER 209 Steffen Folsing 33<br />
4 NED 5 Richard Tobe 56<br />
5 GER 55 Herber Sondermann 60<br />
Gaastra Pro Ranking list:<br />
1 Ewout Meijer S 14,770<br />
2 Stefan de Vries S 14,206<br />
3 Cees Scheurwater S 14,132<br />
4 Jaap Zielhuis S 13,248<br />
5 Martijn van Muyden S 13,205<br />
6 S<strong>and</strong>er Willems S 9,529<br />
7 John van Altena M 7,334<br />
8 Loek Kruijer M 7,127<br />
9 Ab Schippers M 6,652<br />
10 Wouter Molenaar M 6,613<br />
11 Richard Tobé M 6,594<br />
12 Luuk Kuijper M 6,362<br />
been slower moving Finn sailors than this<br />
year on Lake Silvaplana – even a <strong>fast</strong><br />
movement of the little finger immediately<br />
attracted the jury’s attention followed by a<br />
‘freezing stage’ of the sailor). The last day<br />
brought back the ‘Maloja Wind’ with three<br />
wonderful races. Masters champion Eberhard<br />
Bieberitz scored two bullets <strong>and</strong> took the<br />
championship two points ahead of Balazs<br />
Hajdu <strong>and</strong> Andrea Guidi. Defending Swiss<br />
champion Christoph Christen could not make<br />
use of his excellent position be<strong>for</strong>e the last<br />
race. A bad start <strong>and</strong> 16 additional points on<br />
the score pushed him from the podium.<br />
1 GER 10 Eberhard Bieberitz 19<br />
2 HUN 1 Balazs Hajdu 21<br />
3 ITA 72 Andrea Guidi 24<br />
4 SUI 465 Christoph Christen 26<br />
5 GER 151 Matthias Miller 30<br />
6 CZE 8 Jiri Outrata 34<br />
7 GER 209 Steffen Fölsing 43<br />
8 ITA 25 Arm<strong>and</strong>o Battaglia 50<br />
9 CZE 70 Vaclav Cintl (jun) 52<br />
10 SUI 6 Dominique Wölchli 53<br />
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13 Bas de Waal S 6,328<br />
14 Thierry van Viersen S 5,666<br />
15 Nanno Schuttrups J 5,357<br />
16 Henk de Jager M 5,179<br />
17 Nanne Boot M 4,838<br />
18 Jan Jaap Lamme M 4,790<br />
19 Eric Bakker S 4,637<br />
20 Fons van Gent M 4,266<br />
21 Hans Willekes M 3,987<br />
22 Pim de Visser S 3,821<br />
23 Roderik Cas<strong>and</strong>er M 3,708<br />
24 Ruurd Baerends M 3,522<br />
25 Lucio Nodari M 3,418<br />
11 GER 71 Benedikt Güch 57<br />
12 NED 66 Ewout Meijer 58<br />
13 SUI 462 Thomas Brack 78<br />
14 GER 19 Andreas Bollongino 79<br />
15 NED 804 Cees Scheurwater 82<br />
16 AUT 12 Jörg Werner 83<br />
17 GER 701 Klaus Dieter Götz 85<br />
18 NED 22 Jaap van der Weele 92<br />
19 GER 206 Klaus Reffelmann 93<br />
20 CZE 7 Vaclav Cintl (sen) 93<br />
21 CZE 318 Martin Plecity 95<br />
22 GER 266 Michael Eller 99<br />
23 SUI 57 Rudolf Baumann 109<br />
24 SUI 12 Franz Bürgi 115
25 ITA 27 Andrea Bianchi 117<br />
26 GER 55 Herbert Sondermann 119<br />
27 SUI 8 Nick Benz 132<br />
28 SUI 475 Frederik Huck 136<br />
29 SUI 473 Silvan Zuppiger 151<br />
30 SUI 490 Andreas Fürer 152<br />
31 SUI 11 Hans Fatzer 155<br />
32 SUI 65 Mark Kruisheer 158<br />
33 GER 40 Heinz Stammnitz 159<br />
34 SUI 14 Andreas Meyer 159<br />
35 GER 117 Manfred Zälow 162<br />
36 GER 154 Rol<strong>and</strong> Wenz 179<br />
37 ITA 24 Peter Stuffer 180<br />
38 HUN 70 György Vas 182<br />
39 SUI 60 Peter Kurz 188<br />
40 FRA 794 Joseph Rochet 191<br />
41 GER 222 Wilhelm Emde 192<br />
42 GER 293 Georg Siebeck 198<br />
43 SUI 466 Heinz Wyss 203<br />
44 GER 102 Siegfried Böhl 204<br />
45 GER 2 Nils Peters 211<br />
46 ITA 30 Stefano Neri 211<br />
47 SUI 4 Daniel Brun 212<br />
48 ITA 43 Pietro Piram 216<br />
49 GER 92 Detlev Guminsky 226<br />
50 ITA 11 Mario Salani 229<br />
51 SUI 13 Peter Kilchenmann 230<br />
52 SUI 340 Rainer Klosterman 232<br />
53 SUI 433 Thomas Roost 238<br />
54 SUI 463 Martin Leuch 240<br />
55 GER 65 Claus Donner 244<br />
USA<br />
Toilet Bowl<br />
Cazenovia, NY Aug 16-17, 2003<br />
The 34th edition of the Toilet Bowl was sailed<br />
in light conditions on August 16 <strong>and</strong> 17. This<br />
year five races were sailed on Saturday <strong>and</strong><br />
two on Sunday. There were 13 competitors,<br />
the turnout being somewhat sm<strong>all</strong>er due to<br />
difficulties elsewhere caused by the effects<br />
of that week’s blackout.<br />
The event proved to be mainly a duel between<br />
last year’s winner, Bill Upthegrove of<br />
Cambridge, Mass. <strong>and</strong> first year ace sailor<br />
<strong>and</strong> boat converter, Dave Powlison of<br />
Shelburne, Vermont. Both sailed older Teel<br />
hulls <strong>and</strong> were the two oldest boats<br />
competing. Only Art Diefendorf’s Vanguard<br />
was anywhere near as old (<strong>and</strong> NO boats<br />
raced were anywhere near as old as Gus<br />
Miller <strong>and</strong> Art). The issue was in doubt until<br />
the last leg of the last race, which was won<br />
by Bill with his slightly altered sail. He had<br />
manu<strong>all</strong>y ‘ventilated’ it during a frustrating<br />
moment in race six. Wayne Myers, who came<br />
fourth, took home the Masters’ prize.<br />
18<br />
56 SUI 454 Arnold Baumann 245<br />
57 SUI 96 Hans Lehmann 246<br />
58 NED 766 Coen Snijders 246<br />
59 SUI 401 Daniel Buchhofer 260<br />
60 SUI 50 Wolfgang Rickert 272<br />
61 GER 1 Werner Beuck 272<br />
62 SUI 22 Harry Geisser 272<br />
63 GER 998 Elmar Rist 281<br />
64 AUT 2 Kurt Schimitzek 287<br />
The usual plentiful quantity of charbroiled<br />
tenderloin <strong>and</strong> other goodies were consumed<br />
Saturday night, thanks to excellent preparation<br />
by Finn wives ably assisted at the fire by<br />
Steve Burrell <strong>and</strong> Phil Tate. The usual lies<br />
were told, <strong>and</strong> those who overindulged paid<br />
the usual heavy price on Sunday. Everyone<br />
took home fancy new <strong>sailing</strong> caps. Ray<br />
Cudney did his usual superlative job as RC<br />
Chairman, <strong>and</strong> also presented each<br />
competitor with a suitable-<strong>for</strong>-framing photo.<br />
What a guy! All visitors spoke enthusiastic<strong>all</strong>y<br />
about the terrific hospitality <strong>and</strong> <strong>all</strong> around<br />
helpfulness exhibited by WBYC staff. This<br />
will be the first year that the staff did not<br />
require counselling following the event. The<br />
local Finn Sensitivity Group is most<br />
appreciative.<br />
65 ITA 16 Harald Stuffer 309<br />
66 SUI 64 Hans Rudolf Osterwalder 309<br />
67 SUI 531 Rol<strong>and</strong> Schneider 309<br />
68 SUI 479 Roberto Upazzoli 314<br />
69 SUI 66 Denise Sonderegger 319<br />
70 SUI 427 Daniele Panzeri 329<br />
71 GER 303 Wolfgang Herter 365<br />
71 SUI 430 Mauro Biraghi 365<br />
North American Championship<br />
Kingston, ON July 17-19, 2003<br />
The 2003 North Americans returned to<br />
Kingston, Ontario hosted by Ross Cameron<br />
<strong>and</strong> his intrepid CORK regatta staff. The<br />
conditions <strong>for</strong> the regatta were fantastic. Each<br />
day brought a sea breeze that came in at<br />
about 10 kts <strong>and</strong> built to 18-20kts. The race<br />
course was set just off Portsmouth Olympic<br />
Harbour which made <strong>for</strong> easy in <strong>and</strong> out<br />
access <strong>for</strong> the 15 <strong>Finns</strong> who attended. Chris<br />
Cook dominated the event showing superior<br />
uphill speed <strong>and</strong> was able to maintain his<br />
leads with good downwind speed. Kevin H<strong>all</strong><br />
was also quick upwind but is still getting his<br />
groove on in the downwind department. He<br />
placed second in the event showing why he<br />
was the strategist in the last One World<br />
Campaign. He is clearly going to be a favourite<br />
going into the US Trials.<br />
Ewenson was a bit off the pace upwind <strong>and</strong><br />
often had to rely on his downwind jets to pass<br />
the likes of the unknown comic (Kern), John<br />
Porter, <strong>and</strong> the silent Canadian – John Clark.<br />
CORK was a busy place as they were hosting<br />
a Star event with the Finn NAs <strong>and</strong> preparing<br />
to run the Albacore Worlds starting the day<br />
The evergreen Gus Miller<br />
1 USA 7 Bill Upthegrove 9<br />
Art Diefendorf<br />
2 USA 935 Dave Powlison 10<br />
3 USA 1176 Phil Tate 22<br />
4 USA 996 Wayne Myers 28<br />
5 USA 999 Art Diefendorf 34<br />
6 USA 1026 Federico Meira 35<br />
7 USA 975 Gus Miller 35<br />
8 USA 1146 Steve Burrell 36<br />
9 CAN 3 Ian Bostock 43<br />
10 USA 1080 Bruce Campbell 57<br />
11 USA 1074 Eric Johnson 58<br />
12 USA 1776 Joe Burke 64<br />
13 USA 1111 John Dzioba 75
INTERNATIONAL RACING CALENDAR 2004<br />
DECEMBER<br />
December 26 Christmas Cup Hellerup Denmark berg-lar@post5.tele.dk<br />
December 26-30 Christmas Race Palamos Spain<br />
JANUARY 2004<br />
January 12-17 Sail Melbourne S<strong>and</strong>ringham Australia<br />
January 26-30 Rolex Miami OCR Miami USA<br />
January 28-31 Rio de Janeiro Cup Rio de Janeiro Brazil www.atividada.com.br/finn<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
February 6-9 Sail Aukl<strong>and</strong> Auckl<strong>and</strong> New Zel<strong>and</strong><br />
February 8-11 South American Championship Rio de Janeiro Brazil www.atividada.com.br/finn<br />
February 12-20 FINN GOLD CUP Rio de Janeiro Brazil www.atividada.com.br/finn<br />
February 17-21 Athens Eurolymp Week Athens Greece<br />
February 18-21 Cannes week Canne France ww.finn-france.com<br />
February 26-29 IV International Carnival Regatta Cadiz Spain<br />
MARCH<br />
March 13-20 Olympic Garda Riva Del Garda Italy<br />
March 26-30 X Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week Barcelona Spain<br />
March 27-28 OCR (tbc) Weymouth UK phil.laycock@lineone.net<br />
March 27-31 X Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week Barcelona Spain<br />
APRIL<br />
April 2-9 XXXV Princess Sofia Trophy Palma de M<strong>all</strong>o Spain<br />
April 7-11 Izola Spring Cup Izola Slovenia<br />
April 17-18 Southern Championships (tbc) Warsash UK phil.laycock@lineone.net<br />
April 23-30 Semaine Olympique Francaise Hyeres France<br />
MAY<br />
May 7-15 EUROPEANS La Rochelle France<br />
May 8-9 Lilac Festival OCR Ontario Canada<br />
May 22-23 Canadian OCR Toronto Canada<br />
May 26-30 SPA Regatta Medemblik Netherl<strong>and</strong>s www.sparegatta.org<br />
May 28 June 4 FINN WOLRD MASTERS Cannes France<br />
JUNE<br />
June 10-13 Austrian Championship Attersee Austria<br />
June 11-13 British Nationals (tbc) Torbay UK phil.laycock@lineone.net<br />
June 11-13 Open Swedish Championship Malmo Sweden<br />
June 17-21 Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian Race Week Rungsted Denmark<br />
June 23-27 Kiel Week Kiel Germany<br />
June 30- 4 July Austrian Lakes Week Eurolymp Neusiedlersee Austria<br />
JULY<br />
July 3-10 International Baltic Regatta St Petersburg Russia<br />
July 3-11 Warnemunder Woche Warnemunde Germany<br />
July 8-11 Intervela Riva Del Garda Italy<br />
July 14-17 French Nationals Loctudny France www.finn-france.com<br />
July 23-1 August Travemunder Woche Travemunder Germany<br />
July 25- 31 Istanbul Sailing Week Istanbul Turkey<br />
July 31-August 1 French Open Socoa France ww.finn-france.com<br />
AUGUST<br />
August 3-7 Idea Gdynia Sailing Days Gdynia Pol<strong>and</strong><br />
August 14-29 2004 Olympic Regatta Athens Greece<br />
August 21-29 CORK Kingston Canada<br />
Derek Mess, Bill Upthegrove,<br />
John Audley <strong>and</strong> Doug Carey<br />
after the NAs. All in <strong>all</strong> it was a classic Finn event<br />
that brought out the best in the class- Gus Miller,<br />
Art Diefendorf, Lou Nady <strong>and</strong> Paul Phelan were<br />
on h<strong>and</strong> to represent the old school crowd. Sorry<br />
I meant the senior leadership of the North<br />
American contingent. Lou won that group h<strong>and</strong>ily.<br />
Class newcomer, Chris Kent showed upwind<br />
speed at times but had a propensity <strong>for</strong> spear<br />
fishing with the mast on downwind legs. Canadian<br />
Finn Class convert Rob Cullen also showed<br />
signs of life as he regularly rounded the top mark<br />
in the top few boats but he too had read the<br />
breaststrokers guide to Finn Sailing.<br />
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Bill Upthegrove was on h<strong>and</strong> to show how one<br />
can pretty up an old Finn. Ian Bostock rounded<br />
out the fleet making it a pretty even split between<br />
Canuks <strong>and</strong> Seppos. All in <strong>all</strong> it was a great<br />
event that was a bit short in attendance. Mike<br />
Milner was a seen in a Star, <strong>and</strong> several others<br />
were apparently repelled at the border due to<br />
the heightened security level <strong>for</strong> that weekend.<br />
1 Chris Cook CAN 41 7<br />
2 Kevin H<strong>all</strong> USA 1208 12<br />
3 Geoff Ewenson USA 11 22<br />
4 Andy Kern USA 78 25<br />
5 Jon Clark USA 1157 25<br />
6 John Porter USA 14 29<br />
7 Rob Cullen CAN 11 47<br />
8 Louie Nady USA 150 48<br />
9 Paul Phelan CAN 220 52<br />
10 Bill Upthegrove USA 7 56<br />
11 Chris Kent BAR 1 60<br />
12 Dave Powlison USA 111 69<br />
13 Ian Bostock CAN 3 77<br />
14 Gus Miller USA 975 80<br />
15 Art Diefendorf USA 999 88<br />
For further in<strong>for</strong>mation on any event,<br />
to check the latest in<strong>for</strong>mation on<br />
dates <strong>and</strong> venues or to add events<br />
<strong>and</strong> contact numbers to this list<br />
contact the IFA Office or see the IFA<br />
or ISAF website. Please check <strong>all</strong><br />
details with organisers be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
travelling.<br />
St Helens Regatta<br />
St Helens, OR Sept 6 -7 2003<br />
1 Darrell Peck USA 1151 11<br />
2 Henry Sprague USA 74 17<br />
3 David Branch USA 3 22<br />
4 Brad Nieuwstad USA 1063 24<br />
5 Bob Carlen USA 1109 40<br />
6 Andras Nady USA 970 42<br />
Henry Sprague <strong>and</strong> friends!<br />
Editorial<br />
Thanks to <strong>all</strong> those who answered the c<strong>all</strong> <strong>for</strong> material. This time – <strong>for</strong> a change – I had<br />
more than I could ever use <strong>and</strong> some has been left over <strong>for</strong> next time. Please keep it<br />
coming. It is re<strong>all</strong>y great to receive so much Finn news <strong>and</strong> photos from around the<br />
world. Next issue deadline is March 17th 2004.<br />
Robert<br />
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