SAP 505 World’s set for Adelaide

by Rob Kothe on 19 Jan 2007 The final pre-event for the 2007 SAP International 505 World Championships, the Australian titles, start next Tuesday in Adelaide with the World Championship series starting on January 27th and finishing on the 2nd February 2007.

This will the third time that the 505 Worlds has returned to the sheltered waters of the St. Vincent Gulf at the Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club in Adelaide.

Sir James Hardy, now one of Australia’s sailing icons, won the World titles here in 1966 and the Worlds returned in 1983. In Adelaide for the series, he commented, 'I am looking forward to a great regatta.

‘We have 13 countries from around the world, with 19 crews from the USA, 10 crews from Germany including Hasso Plattner, whose software company SAP is sponsoring the regatta. We have eight UK crews and boats from Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, South Africa and Zimbabwe.’

Amongst the strong US contingent is Howie Hamlin who was second at the 2006 Hayling Island Worlds and he is looking to go one better in Australia.

Hamlin claims the 505 is the best all around two person boat in the world. ‘The 505's light weight, narrow water line, flared topsides, trapeze, large sail area, long spinnaker pole, and comfortable seat tanks, make the boat extremely fast, fun, exciting and pleasurable to sail.'

The development of the Class began at the IYRU trials in 1953, to find the 'best possible two-man centre boarder'. An 18 footer 'Coronet' showed clearly superior to her competitors.

The designer of 'Coronet', John Westell in response to French requests reduced the overall length to 5.05 metres, lightening the hull and modifying it considerably, together with cutting the sail area to 14 sq. metres. And in January 1954 the Five-O-Five was born! The Class expanded rapidly and now at least 18 countries have active fleets. By January 2007 more than 8,925 boats had been registered.

With the crew on the wire and the helmsman hiking, boat stability is good and the boats are easily manouvered. Although any material and type of construction may be used, current boats are now using carbon fibre and epoxy resins. The hull shape is strictly controlled, with minimum weights both for the bare hull and the complete boat in sailing trim.

With 41 Australian crews racing, the host nation should have a good chance of securing the Championship, but its a blue blood field with Olympians and America's cup sailors amongst the favourites. The US, UK and German crews are very strong.

Denny Colliver from the Regatta Office reports, 'This morning the Australian Customs service are inspecting six containers just near the Club and this afternoon unpacking will commence and the international fleet will be on the water tomorrow. We have some gentle soaking rain this morning, but we are looking forward to great weather next week.'

	SAP 505 WORLDS 2007 entries - incomplete list
Sail #	Boat Name	Helmsman's Name	Crew's Name	Country
8893	Literacy Circle	Andrew Hewson	Kane Sinclair	AUS/NSW
8173	Fussbus	Bob Fussell	Jeremy Fussell	AUS/NSW
8853	FARM	Carter Jackson	Peter Holden	AUS/NSW
8894		Chris Nicholson	Darren Nicholson	AUS/NSW
7983	Absolutely	David Johnson	Grahame Tindall	AUS/NSW
8864		Hamish Jarrett	Chris Pearson	AUS/NSW
8803	Don’t Ask	Ian Bryden	James Bryden	AUS/NSW
8648	Sea Saw	Jeff Robinson		AUS/NSW
8920	B2	Mike Quirk	Geoff Lange	AUS/NSW
8637	Blowflies	Sam Cronin	Kevin Whitbread	AUS/NSW
8759	The Missus	Scott Ovenden	Bryce Penfold	AUS/NSW
8589	Ross Island	Annabel Jones	Brian Jones	AUS/QLD
8922	Daring Kestrel 2	Bill Cuneo	John Warlow	AUS/QLD
8876		Chris Tattersall	Greg Clarke	AUS/QLD
8781	Alexander & Assoc.	Earle Alexander	Ian Gregg	AUS/QLD
8840	The Full Monty	Kevin Cameron	Jeremy Manders	AUS/QLD
8921	Sweaty Betty	Nigel Lott	Bob Franks	AUS/QLD
6765	Infrared	Peter Croft	Gary Rushton	AUS/QLD
8644	Skat	Phil Gray	Richard Machin	AUS/QLD
8092	Swift	Bill Travis	Warren Cosh	AUS/SA
8884	Schiavello	Chris Went	Karl Olson	AUS/SA
8891	The Surly Mermaid	Damian Carey	Marcus Cooper	AUS/SA
7338	Bluebeard	Glen Greenhalgh	Paul Greenhalgh	AUS/SA
8765	Into the Red	Greg Illman	Andrew Slater	AUS/SA
8785	SS Cardsharks	Ian Burford	Wayne Boyd	AUS/SA
8810	Go	John Jenkins	Steve Sievewright	AUS/SA
8796	Fangin Hoons	Jonno Bannister		AUS/SA
8602	Makybe Diva	Kym Campion	Charlie Longbottom	AUS/SA
8890	Groove Train	Malcolm Higgins	Andrew Chisholm	AUS/SA
8292	Zooom	Mark Scrymgour		AUS/SA
8795	Sleek	Martin Pike	Dan Cowan	AUS/SA
8783	Mikaila Lee	Michael Thomson	Nick Johnston	AUS/SA
8760	2 Minute Noodles	Peter Woolman	Phil Webb	AUS/SA
8349	A Cunning Plan	Robin Cross	Mark Raparella	AUS/SA
8877	Commonwealth Bank	Robin Deussen	Jordan Spencer	AUS/SA
8839	Hawaii Five O	Sandy Higgins	Paul Marsh	AUS/SA
8501	TSTOY Windscreen	Heath Patten	Nick Merker	AUS/WA
7830	Stiff Ripples	Jake Flintoff	Jesse Flintoff	AUS/WA
8278	Valkyrie	Luke Payne	Ben Davis	AUS/WA
8855	Occy	Mark Stowell		AUS/WA
8811	Crimson Autograph	Matt Hansen	Shane Attwell	AUS/WA
8755	Banshee	Brian Trainor	Karl Oswald	CAN
8620		Jan Saugmann	Morten Ramsbaek	DEN
8826	Powerware	Tom Bojland	Jakob Karbo	DEN
8849		Per Larsen	Andreas Carlsson	DEN/SWE
8746	Panther	Raimo Raita	Juha Nurmela	Finland
8321	Ataraxia	Bertrand Loyal		France
8366	Dindo	Francios Gautier	Nicolas Leluan	France
8885		Ben Iliffe	Simon Lake	GBR
8882	Musto	Ian Pinnell	Steve Hunt	GBR
8907	Zimmerjim	Jim Berry	Carl Gibbon	GBR
8925		Martin Wedge	Scott Allen	GBR
8905		Stuart Turnbull	Jason Lunn	GBR
8881		Terry Scutcher	Christian Diebitsch	GBR
8435		Patrick McGale	Marcus Korobacz	GBR/AUS
8701	Orlando	Rob Napier	Pip Pearson	GBR/AUS
8903		Boris Herrmann	Julien Kleiner	GER
8880	Lustspiel	Christian Kellner	Robert Rothe	GER
8915		Hasso Plattner	Peter Alarie	GER
8751		Helen Fischer	Angela Stenger	GER
8418		Jan Sell	Wiebke Gewinn	GER
8875		Jens Findel	Johannes Tellen	GER
8744		Martin Goerge	Hans-Heinrich Rix	GER
8728	XY	Meiki Schomaeker	Rainer Goerge	GER
8777	Strawberry	Stefan Schollmayer	Frisco Sanguino	GER
8675	Graue Maus	Volker Goerge	Friederichs Hartwig	GER
8817	Cut Snake	Marco Gambardella	Gabriele Cortegiani	ITA
7539	ADHD	Kuba Pawluk	Piotr Zoltowski	POL
8707	Aitsa	Albrecht Holm	Warrick Ham	RSA
8520	Geelslang	Rudolph Holm	Dirk Rother	RSA
8789	Flobalob	Tony Murray	K Kuhn	RSA
8232		Ebbe Rosen	Olle Wenrup	Sweden
8084	88th Planet	Aaron Ross	Rob Waterman	USA
8867		Allan Staley	Mary Louise Vidas	USA
6499	Orgasmatron	Angus Brackett	Colin Orcini	USA
8643		Barney Harris		USA
8577	Plum Crazy	Bruce Van Deventer	Scott Weiler	USA
8813	The Regurgitator	Evert Meyer	Matt Kennerknecht	USA
8647	Liberator	Hank Henry	Mike Zimmerman	USA
8012		Henry Amthor	Douglas Amthor	USA
8764		Howie Hamlin		USA
8687		Hubert Guy	Steve Adolph	USA
7771	Gummy	Kevin Taugher	Jon Bell	USA
7873	Floyd	Mark Dowdy	Jason Bright	USA
8831		Mats Elf	Paul VonGrey	USA
8822		Mike Holt	Carl Smit	USA
8714	The Black Boat	Mike Martin	Jeff Nelson	USA
8919		Neal Fowler	Doug McKeige	USA
8081		Nick Adamson	Steve Bourdow	USA
8631	Blue Steel	Parker Shin	Gareth Williams	USA
8554	Panic	Doug Hagan	Michael Duffield	USA /AUS
8445	Big Red Todger	Patrick McCosh	David Horsfall	ZIM