Rafa Trujillo back in charge as wind ease for Finn Masters in Barbados

by Robert Deaves on 8 Jun 2017 After two days of very strong winds, the third day of the Finn World Masters in Barbados brought a much needed relief to sailors, with slightly lighter winds, though the racing was perhaps even tougher as almost everyone was now racing rather than just surviving. Rafa Trujillo, from Spain, retakes the lead at the top of the 140 boat fleet with a win in Blue fle et. Michael Maier, from Czech Republic, drops to second, and Piet Eckert, from Switzerland, remains in third.

Allen Burrell, from Great Britain, dominated yellow fleet, leading round the top mark and extending on the chasing pack led by the French sailors Marc Allain des Beauvais and Laurent Hay. The downwind was almost sedate compared to recent days, but the upwinds were still a tough slog against the short step waves, with the occasional huge swell rolling across the course area. Eventually Allain des Beauvais pulled away for second with Christoph Burger, of Switzerland, crossing third.

The Blue fleet contained the past three former champions with Trujillo sailing away for an easy win. There was a giant battle for second place between Eckert and 2015 Masters champion, Vladimir Krutskikh, from Russia. Eventually Krutskikh crossed ahead of Eckert, while Maier recovered to cross fourth and remain second overall.

Seventh placed overall, Karl Purdie from New Zealand, did have the day he was hoping for after a series of mistakes left him ninth in the race but he spoke well of the venue.

“It’s awesome to be here in Barbados. The water is so warm, the winds are fantastic. I couldn’t image a better place for the Finn World Masters. It’s a shame I had a bad day today, but it’s just a fantastic place to be, the people are really friendly. Good courses, good waves. The beach is good but it’s better out on the water.”

“The competition is really good. If you make a stupid mistake you are really punished for it. I think each year the standard had gone up, especially from the last time I competed in La Rochelle. It’s a good contest.”

Burger’s third place lifts him to sixth overall.

'This is obviously quite a special place. No one really knew what to expect but we found really nice conditions with pretty strong winds so far. Today was actually the first day with little bit less. The wind shifts a lot, with a lot of puffs, which makes it really interesting and quite a few lead changes through the races and it’s really enjoyable because you don’t really sail a 1one-way track too much.”

In the morning the Annual Masters Meeting took place in the Barbados Yacht Club. Among the decisions taken were to formally adopt a Masters Europeans to follow on and complement the good work done by the club in Tihany, Hungary, over the last six years with the Euro Cup. Then the vote for the 2019 Finn World Masters took place with a very close decision in favour of the Royal Danish YC at Shovskoved, Denmark.

Otto Strandvig, of Denmark, had jointly presented the bid with Lars Hall. Strandvig said of Barbados.

“It’s perfect, with great racing, and excellent wind, Today was a little bit less wind, and it was really good, just a pleasure to be here.”

“The completion is really tough. It’s really difficult up there, and there are a lot of good sailors, different strength winds, a bit of current so a lot of competition. It has been really nice and warm, the people are friendly. It’s a great party and everything has been well organised.”

On 2019, “It’s going to be a really nice regatta. We are starting the planning the organisation as soon as we get home from here. Shovskoved is a great venue and we promise lots of beer and partying.”

While there have been enough races for a valid series, one more is needed to be completed to introduce a discard and to have a medal race.

Two races are scheduled for Thursday to complete the opening series before Friday’s Final Race and then the medal race to decide the 2017 Finn Masters World Champion.

Results after four races

1 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo, M 5
2 CZE 1 Michael Maier, GM 8
3 SUI 86 Piet Eckert, M 10
4 RUS 73 Vladimir Krutskikh, M 10
5 FRA 75 Laurent Hay, GM 12
6 SUI 7 Christoph Burger, M 20
7 NZL 111 Karl Purdie, GM 23
8 GBR 2 Allen Burrell, GM 26
9 GER 501 Fabian Lemmel, M 30
10 GER 707 Ulrich Breuer, GM 30

Full Results:

Results Day 3 - Races 1-4

No	Sailno	Name	Points	1	2	3	5
1	ESP 100	Rafael Trujillo, M	5,0	1	1	2	1
2	CZE 1	Michael Maier, GM	8,0	2	1	1	4
3	SUI 86	Piet Eckert, M	10,0	3	3	1	3
4	RUS 73	Vladimir Krutskikh, M	10,0	2	2	4	2
5	FRA 75	Laurent Hay, GM	12,0	1	2	5	4
6	SUI 7	Christoph Burger, M	20,0	4	11	2	3
7	NZL 111	Karl Purdie, GM	23,0	3	9	3	8
8	GBR 2	Allen Burell, GM	26,0	12	3	10	1
9	GER 501	Fabian Lemmel, M	30,0	16	4	5	5
10	GER 707	Ulrich Breuer, GM	30,0	7	6	6	6
11	NZL 2	Raymond Hall, GM	33,0	10	13	4	6
12	GBR 21	Michael de Courcy, GM	35,0	7	5	9	14
13	FRA 99	Marc Allain des Beauvais, GGM	36,0	26	5	3	2
14	SUI 83	Beat Steffen, M	40,0	14	9	8	9
15	FIN 201	Kristian Sjoberg, GM	45,0	13	14	8	10
16	NED 29	Bas de Waal, GM	45,0	9	16	10	10
17	SVK 470	Andrej Holak, M	46,0	13	6	15	12
18	RUS 41	Felix Denikaev, GM	52,0	8	21	16	7
19	AUS 61	Mark Jackson, GM	55,0	11	18	15	11
20	CHI 12	Antonio Poncell, GM	56,0	5	8	31	7
21	USA 9	Rob Coutts, GGM	56,0	6	23	11	16
22	DEN 6	Lars Hall, GM	56,0	18	15	7	16
23	GBR 720	Julian Smith, GM	57,0	10	14	11	17
24	GBR 65	David Potter, GM	61,0	5	16	16	24
25	FIN 22	Ville Valtonen, GM	63,0	24	17	14	8
26	NED 31	Hans Zuurendonk, GM	66,0	16	7	24	19
27	BRA 177	Andre Mirsky, M	68,0	28	12	23	5
28	GBR 10	Robert Deaves, GM	73,0	22	10	18	23
29	SUI 25	Till Klammer, M	78,0	15	28	13	22
30	FIN 112	Seppo Ajanko, GGM	80,0	11	17	25	27
31	NED 62	Tim van Rootselaar, GM	86,0	19	29	18	20
32	RUS 21	Vladimir Butenko, GM	88,0	18	24	23	23
33	GER 226	Uwe Fernholz, GM	92,0	6	29	32	25
34	RUS 212	Lanfranco Cirillo, GM	93,0	22	24	38	9
35	GBR 17	Paul Blowers, GM	93,0	30	20	28	15
36	GBR 86	Fergus Allan, GM	93,0	17	27	20	29
37	DEN 21	Otto Strandvig, GM	94,0	dns	4	6	14
38	RUS 51	Mikhail Petriga, GGM	94,0	27	15	33	19
39	AUS 267	Darren Gilbert, GM	95,0	9	25	33	28
40	FRA 38	Michel Audoin, GGM	96,0	27	19	29	21
41	SWE 75	Johan Wijk, GM	97,0	20	52	13	12
42	GER 251	Mark-Raimondo Bayer, M	97,0	29	13	34	21
43	GER 960	Klaus Antrecht, GGM	98,0	25	18	17	38
44	NZL 20	Christopher Wells, GM	100,0	21	28	28	18
45	GBR 1	Sander Kooij, GM	102,0	38	27	20	17
46	RSA 51	Philip Baum, GGM	104,0	8	12	14	dns
47	USA 74	Henry Sprague, L	104,0	15	10	9	dsq
48	GER 111	Rainer Haacks, GM	109,0	20	8	dnf	11
49	FIN 228	Harri Kokko, M	110,0	40	22	17	31
50	NZL 10	David Hoogenboom, GGM	111,0	4	19	dsq	18
51	GER 145	Kai-Uwe Göldenitz, GM	111,0	25	32	29	25
52	DEN 1	Frank Hansen, GGM	112,0	37	31	26	13
53	USA 11	Scott Griffiths, GM	114,0	23	37	12	42
54	GBR 93	Tim Simpson, GM	114,0	32	40	22	20
55	GBR 37	Steve Hayles, M	115,0	19	11	dnf	15
56	AUT 7	Michael Gubi, GM	117,0	14	7	26	dns
57	NED 67	Ronald Ruiter, M	119,0	33	34	25	27
58	GBR 52	Will Patten, GM	125,0	33	22	35	35
59	CZE 222	Petr Vinkl, GM	126,0	34	42	19	26
60	SWE 91	Par Friberg, GM	127,0	42	26	31	28
61	RSA 571	Andreas Bohnsack, GM	128,0	48	43	24	13
62	SWE 14	Stefan Nordstrom, GM	129,0	dns	25	12	22
63	USA 12	Steve Landeau, GM	130,0	17	dnf	7	36
64	DEN 80	Michael Staal, GM	132,0	12	dns	19	26
65	GBR 750	Ivan Burden, M	133,0	34	34	22	43
66	AUS 305	David Bull, L	139,0	21	32	41	45
67	GBR 35	Soeren Vonsild, GM	140,0	37	21	47	30
68	AUS 6	Robert Buchanon, GGM	140,0	32	39	36	33
69	SWE 2	Svante Collvin, GM	143,0	35	31	34	43
70	SUI 1	Hans Fatzer, GGM	144,0	24	43	40	37
71	SWE 71	Jonas Andersson, M	144,0	41	39	30	34
72	GER 202	Rolf Elsaesser, GGM	154,0	38	41	40	35
73	NZL 23	Alan Dawson, GGM	158,0	23	36	dnf	29
74	GBR 20	Andy Denison, GM	163,0	36	36	21	dns
75	GBR 80	Ray New, GGM	163,0	43	35	35	45
76	AUS 68	Jay Harrison, GGM	163,0	47	38	36	42
77	GER 122	Holger Krasmann, GM	164,0	31	33	dnf	30
78	GBR 13	Roman Khodykin, M	166,0	dns	35	37	24
79	GBR 62	Jerry Andrews, GM	167,0	35	30	32	dns
80	GER 57	Heinz Wendel, GGM	167,0	36	44	43	44
81	AUT 350	Peter Groegl, GM	169,0	28	33	38	dsq
82	SUI 63	Thomas Gautschi, GM	171,0	dns	30	30	41
83	GER 17	Kai Schrader, GM	172,0	48	dns	21	33
84	USA 101	Peter Frissell, GGM	172,0	31	37	dnf	34
85	AUT 19	Gerald Raschke, GGM	172,0	44	50	37	41
86	GBR 635	Robin Toozs-Hobson, GM	173,0	39	51	39	39
87	RSA 574	David Kitchen, GGM	175,0	51	48	44	32
88	AUT 21	Erich Scherzer, GGM	181,0	44	47	41	49
89	GBR 42	Richard Phillips, GGM	181,0	42	42	45	52
90	NED 13	Harold Lensing, GGM	184,0	41	45	48	50
91	NED 34	Stephan van Bloemendaal, M	184,0	50	41	46	47
92	GER 69	Thomas Huber, GM	187,0	40	46	49	52
93	GBR 787	Steve Popple, GM	193,0	30	23	dne	dns
94	GBR 33	Kieron Holt, M	196,0	52	47	27	dns
95	USA 40	Charles Rudinsky, L	196,0	45	45	dnf	36
96	GBR 100	Matthew Walker, M	198,0	49	44	39	56
97	AUT 302	Alfred Braumueller, GGM	198,0	55	54	42	47
98	GER 103	Ralf-Udo Lemke, GGM	200,0	dsq	20	ocs	40
99	GER 909	Udo Murek, GM	200,0	29	dnf	dnf	31
100	GBR 58	Paul Brown, GGM	200,0	43	38	dns	49
101	NZL 3	Ben Winters, L	204,0	46	49	dnf	39
102	GBR 564	Peter Vinton, GM	204,0	47	dns	43	44
103	NED 8	Rodrick Casander, L	206,0	dsq	26	dns	40
104	GER 256	Peter Langer-Langmaack, GGM	210,0	54	53	50	53
105	GER 112	Egbert Vincke, L	211,0	45	dns	42	54
106	NZL 19	Denis Mowbray, GGM	215,0	dnf	dns	27	48
107	USA 99	Stephen Fuccillo, GGM	218,0	56	dns	44	48
108	SUI 57	Rudolf Baumann, GGM	220,0	46	48	dnf	56
109	RSA 600	Arend van Wamelen, GM	220,0	53	46	dnf	51
110	FIN 145	Mathias Tallberg, GM	225,0	39	dns	dnf	46
111	GBR 739	Paul Ward, GM	233,0	26	dns	dns	57
112	SWE 44	Bengt Stromberg, GGM	242,0	dsq	dns	dns	32
113	SWE 100	HansPeter Hylander, GGM	247,0	dns	dns	dns	37
114	SVK 11	Robert Poor, M	248,0	dns	dns	dns	38
115	GER 214	Bernd Schulz-Stuecher, GM	250,0	dne	40	dnf	dns
116	SUI 3	Carlo Lazzari, GM	254,0	57	bfd	dns	57
117	GBR 777	Howard Sellars, L	256,0	dns	dns	dns	46
118	NZL 193	Gerrit Bearda, GGM	261,0	dns	dns	dns	51
119	CZE 22	Milos Mares, M	263,0	dns	dns	dns	53
120	RSA 570	Gerd Bohnsack, SL	264,0	dnf	dns	dns	54
121	USA 801	Eric Stiverson, GM	265,0	dns	dns	ocs	55
122	USA 32	Charles Heimler, GGM	265,0	dns	dns	dns	50
123	SWE 20	Gosta Eriksson, GGM	268,0	dns	dnf	dns	58
124	GBR 77	Stewart Mitchell, GM	269,0	dns	dns	dns	59
124	GER 293	Georg Siebeck, L	269,0	dns	dns	dns	59
126	GBR 67	Gary Pearson, GM	275,0	dns	dns	dns	55
127	MON 234	Michael Kurtz, GGM	278,0	dns	dns	dns	58
128	GBR 721	Graham Dale-Jones, L	280,0	dns	dns	dnf	60
129	AUS 98	James Ley, L	280,0	dns	dns	dnf	dns
129	AUT 322	Wilhelm Kasinger, GGM	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns
129	CAN 3	Ian Bostock, GGM	280,0	dns	dns	dnf	dns
129	GBR 4	Russell Ward, GM	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns
129	GBR 553	Paul Beasley, GGM	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns
129	GER 62	Uwe Barthel, GGM	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns
129	NED 72	LacusJan Groenhout, GM	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns
129	NZL 213	Maurice Duncan, L	280,0	dns	dns	dnf	dns
129	SUI 2	Helmut Klammer, L	280,0	dns	dns	dns	dns

  
Scoring penalties are as follows: 

	GER 707	Ulrich Breuer, GM	race 5	6, 6 --> 11 points, scp
	CHI 12	Antonio Poncell, GM	race 5	7, 7 --> 12 points, scp
	GBR 720	Julian Smith, GM	race 1	10, 10 --> 15 points, scp
	NZL 20	Christopher Wells, GM	race 5	18, 18 --> 23 points, scp
	DEN 1	Frank Hansen, GGM	race 5	13, 13 --> 18 points, scp
	CZE 222	Petr Vinkl, GM	race 3	19, 19 --> 24 points, scp
	DEN 80	Michael Staal, GM	race 5	26, 26 --> 31 points, scp
	GBR 35	Soeren Vonsild, GM	race 5	30, 30 --> 35 points, scp
	GBR 80	Ray New, GGM	race 1	43, 43 --> 48 points, scp
	GBR 635	Robin Toozs-Hobson, GM	race 1	39, 39 --> 44 points, scp
	GBR 100	Matthew Walker, M	race 5	56, 56 --> 66 points, scp
	GBR 739	Paul Ward, GM	race 5	57, 57 --> 67 points, scp
	USA 801	Eric Stiverson, GM	race 3	ocs, 70 --> 70 points, scp
	USA 32	Charles Heimler, GGM	race 5	50, 50 --> 55 points, scp
	GBR 67	Gary Pearson, GM	race 5	55, 55 --> 65 points, scp
	MON 234	Michael Kurtz, GGM	race 5	58, 58 --> 68 points, scp
	GBR 721	Graham Dale-Jones, L	race 5	60, 60 --> 70 points, scp