Flying Dutchman Pre-Worlds Strong winds blow out first two races

by Richard Scarr on 2 Jan 2009 25 to 30 knot winds greeted the Flying Dutchman crews on day 1 of the Pre-Worlds (New Zealand National titles) for the Flying Dutchman’s in Napier New Zealand.

With short steep waves and plenty of breezes some crew opted to stay ashore

Hun 70 a strong contender for the championship was unlucky to break their new Seldon mast at the spreaders whilst sailing up wind. This looked like a compression break at the rivet point on the spreader bracket .

As we write this they have re-rigged a new mast and have been out to test it.

Racing was abandoned for the day with no race's completed.

Racing will take place tomorrow with a 10.55 warning single. There will be four races back to back scheduled

2008 Flying Dutchman World Championship and Open New Zealand Championships Entry List

Boat Details	Country Code	Sail Number	Helm	Crew
1	AUS	1	Duncan McCowan	Andrew McCowan
2	AUS	34	Alister McCowan	Simon McCowan
3	AUS	33	Ian McCrossin	James Cook
4	AUS	332	Matthew Mitchell	Michael Nolan
5	AUS	365	Michael Chapman	David Ham
6	AUS	358	Kelly Ryan	Moore Matthew
7	AUS	327	John Maguire	Noel Whitaker
8	AUS	37	Norman Rydge	Richard Scarr
9	AUS	361	Edward Cox	Peter Bevis
10	ESP	6	Ginés Romero	Álvaro Moreno
11	ESP	91	MARCO SEVILA SCHACHERMAIER	ROBERTO SEVILA
12	ESP	9	Dolores Sánchez-Herrero	Javier Higuera
13	ESP	81	MARTINEZ FRANCISCO	GUIJARROVICENTE
14	GBR	382	Peter Doran	Richard Phillips
15	GBR	386	Tony Lyall	Alex Rogers
16	GER	86	Frank Tobias	Frank Simone
17	GER	13	Hans-Albert Konig	Heinz Bollweg
18	GER	113	Kilian Konig	Johannes Brack
19	HUN	13	András Süli	Dávid Papp
20	HUN	70	Szabolcs Mathenyi	Andras Domokos
21	ITA	7	Alberto Barenghi	TBA
22	NED	341	Toos Zandstra	Durk Zandstra
23	NED	33	Tanja Heijink	Nettie van der Valk
24	NED	122	Erika Geelkerken	Harald Berning
25	NED	348	Thijs Rutten	Theo Rutten
26	NED	4	Mark Brouwer	Paul van der Pol
27	NED	26	Enno Kramer	Ard Geelkerken
28	NED	18	Frank Nooijen	Marc van der Pol
29	NED	5	Fred Schaaf	Casper Schaaf
30	NZL	131	Joseph Bailey	Peter Bailey
31	NZL	145	Paul Scoffin	Pavel Ruzicka
32	NZL	111	Andrew McKee	Matthew Bismark
33	NZL	110	Hideo Tayama	TBA
34	NZL	108	Paul Francis	Simon Mander
35	NZL	112	Edward Markey	Chris Dekkie
36	NZL	103	Tony Lyall	John Hoogerbrug
37	NZL	107	Alisdair Daines	David Gibb
38	NZL	72	John Bailey	Jeroen Bronstring
39	NZL	100	Christine Headey	Gun Caundle
40	POL	133	Pawel Swiderski	Marcin  Zawistowski
41	ROU	100	Butucaru Mihai	Blaga Dragos Mugurel
42	USA	36	Lin Robson	Ian Gregg
43	USA	251	Tim Sayles	Russell Miller
44	USA	1		TBA
45	USA	2		TBA