SAP 505 World Championships Day 4

by Jordan Spencer on 31 Jan 2007 The fourth day of the 2007 World Championship being sailed out of Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club, in Adelaide, South Australia. Race 6 and the forecast was to be a 15-20kn sea breeze.

The morning dawned with a strong ‘gully wind’, a 15kn Sou’ Easter and a lot of cloud. Normally it will bend to the South West and turn into a sea breeze. The cloud was a warning sign, but when it swung to the nor’ East, we knew we were in trouble.

You never get a good sea breeze after a Northerly. Before the race start, it had bent back to the South easter by the time we started; we were heading into a North Wester. There was going to be trouble ahead.

Pressure wise, it was light, 5-8 knots occasionally hitting 10 knots. And there were, as you would expect a lot of shifts. There were some massive positional movements throughout the field, with the field being both compressed several times during the race and then spread on the last beat.

The winner was again Jan Saugmann and Morten Ramsbaek from Denmark, but they had to work hard to do it, digging themselves out from 14th at the first mark.

Their win gives them an 11 point lead at the front of the field. Howie Hamlin and Fritz Lanzinger pulled second after being ninth at the first mark and Boris Herrmann and Julien Kliener picked up third place.

Beyond that there were some huge horror stories. There were plenty of shifts during the race, with the race committee moving the top mark at every bottom mark rounding.

But it was the last beat that was the doozy. The wind had weakened and had bent a little to the left, but there was slightly more pressure to the right and direction was WSW. However as the leaders approached the finish, the wind died and a south easter formed on the shore.

The first two boats crept over the line, and then we had boats coming from the right in a Westerly and boats running from the left with their kites up. In the end the Sou’ Easter kicked in, but a lot of damage was done.

Tomorrow, there are two races and the forecast is again for a 15-20kn sea breeze. We can only hope.

505 World Championships 2007

Brighton & Seacliff Yacht Club

SERIES SCORES for Open up to Race 6 on 31/01/2007 Ties Breaking to Stage 1 & 2 & 3 Duty Score Average of 6 best scores

(Ties: S=Score R=Race B= Bettered. Penalties: A=ARB B=BFD C=DNC D=DNE E=ESP F=DNF G=RDG L=Late Entrant M=DGM N=ENP O=OCS P=Protest Q=DSQ R=RAF S=DNS U=DUT V=AVG X=EXC Z=ZFP Y=SCP #=No Data "(x.y)" Discarded)

Series Results [Open ] up to Race 6 (Drops = 1)

Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Crew	From	Sers Score	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		8620		Jan Saugmann	Morten Ramsbaek	DEN	18.00	1.00	3.00	1.00	7.00	6.00	[20.00]
2		8714	The Black Boat	Mike Martin	Jeff Nelson	USA	29.00	11.00	9.00	2.00	6.00	1.00	[14.00]
3		8266		Howie Hamlin	Fritz Lanzinger	USA	35.00	2.00	14.00	3.00	9.00	[15.00]	7.00
4		8081		Nick Adamson	Steve Bourdow	USA	36.00	12.00	15.00	[17.00]	3.00	2.00	4.00
5	1.0S	8839	Hawaii Five O	Sandy Higgins	Paul Marsh	AUS/SA	39.00	17.00	12.00	[28.00]	1.00	8.00	1.00
6		8882	Musto	Ian Pinnell	Steve Hunt	GBR	39.00	7.00	[24.00]	5.00	14.00	10.00	3.00
7	4.0S	8875		Jens Findel	Johannes Tellen	GER	54.00	4.00	[25.00]	15.00	20.00	4.00	11.00
8		8744		Martin Goerge	Hans-Heinrich Rix	GER	54.00	10.00	19.00	4.00	8.00	13.00	[19.00]
9	2.0S	8894		Chris Nicholson	Darren Nicholson	AUS/NSW	55.00	9.00	[27.00]	22.00	2.00	9.00	13.00
10		8877	Commonwealth Bank	Robin Deussen	Jordan Spencer	AUS/SA	55.00	8.00	21.00	10.00	10.00	[34.00]	6.00
11		8822		Mike Holt	Carl Smit	USA	58.00	23.00	26.00	[34.00]	4.00	3.00	2.00
12		8920	B2	Michael Quirk	Geoff Lange	AUS/NSW	64.00	[18.00]	7.00	16.00	15.00	11.00	15.00
13		7771	Sherwood Scuba	Kevin Taugher	Jon Bell	USA	68.00	6.00	[35.00]	33.00	13.00	7.00	9.00
14	1.0S	8232		Ebbe Rosen	Olle Wenrup	Sweden	69.00	21.00	1.00	11.00	18.00	18.00	[32.00]
15		8784	Slam	Adrian Finglas	Tom Watson	AUS/QLD	69.00	[46.00]	22.00	9.00	28.00	5.00	5.00
16		8881		Terry Scutcher	Christian Diebitsch	GBR	75.00	13.00	16.00	[24.00]	12.00	12.00	22.00
17		8890	Groove Train	Malcolm Higgins	Andrew Chisholm	AUS/SA	76.00	22.00	13.00	12.00	17.00	[25.00]	12.00
18		8915		Hasso Plattner	Peter Alarie	GER	81.00	14.00	[40.00]	7.00	25.00	14.00	21.00
19		8681		Barney Harris	Stuart Park	USA	90.00	31.00	11.00	8.00	[56.00]	23.00	17.00
20		8893	Literacy Circle	Andrew Hewson	Kane Sinclair	AUS/NSW	98.00	20.00	23.00	20.00	[32.00]	17.00	18.00
21		8922	Daring Kestrel 2	Bill Cuneo	John Warlow	AUS/QLD	99.00	15.00	28.00	[45.00]	16.00	16.00	24.00
22		8644	Skat	Phil Gray	Richard Machin	AUS/QLD	100.00	[48.00]	10.00	25.00	35.00	22.00	8.00
23		8554	Panic	Doug Hagan	Michael Duffield	USA /AUS	101.50	26.50	18.00	29.00	5.00	[93.00F]	23.00
24		8631	Blue Steel	Parker Shin	Gareth Williams	USA	118.00	[39.00]	17.00	14.00	33.00	26.00	28.00
25		8853	FARM	Carter Jackson	Ian Taylor	AUS/NSW	120.00	[33.00]	31.00	21.00	21.00	20.00	27.00
26		8783	Mikaila Lee	Michael Thomson	Nick Johnston	AUS/SA	128.00	36.00	44.00	[48.00]	19.00	19.00	10.00
27		8921	Sweaty Betty	Nigel Lott	Bob Franks	AUS/QLD	129.00	35.00	32.00	19.00	22.00	21.00	[43.00]
28		8903		Boris Herrmann	Julien Kleiner	GER	135.00	3.00	5.00	23.00	11.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
29		8880	Lustspiel	Christian Kellner	Robert Rothe	GER	136.50	24.50	30.00	27.00	[34.00]	30.00	25.00
30		8321	Ataraxia	Bertrand Loyal	Laurent Nevo	France	138.00	40.00	2.00	6.00	57.00	[93.00F]	33.00
31		8891	The Surly Mermaid	Damian Carey	Marcus Cooper	AUS/SA	141.00	16.00	48.00	[61.00]	23.00	28.00	26.00
32		8751		Helen Fischer	Angela Stenger	GER	145.00	5.00	8.00	30.00	[59.00]	49.00	53.00
33		8826	Powerware	Tom Bojland	Jakob Karbo	DEN	146.00	[93.00R]	29.00	26.00	26.00	29.00	36.00
34	6.0S	8919		Neal Fowler	Doug McKeige	USA	148.00	30.00	6.00	35.00	39.00	[51.00]	38.00
35		8831		Mats Elf	Paul VonGrey	USA	148.00	[52.00]	33.00	42.00	30.00	27.00	16.00
36		8840	The Full Monty	Kevin Cameron	Jeremy Manders	AUS/QLD	157.00	47.00	4.00	32.00	38.00	36.00	[50.00]
37	19.0S	8777	Strawberry	Stefan Schollmayer	Frisco Sanguino	GER	166.00	19.00	37.00	31.00	46.00	33.00	[93.00F]
38		8855	Occy	Mark Stowell	Anthony Dean	AUS/WA	166.00	32.00	36.00	40.00	27.00	31.00	[40.00]
39		8701	Orlando	Rob Napier	Pip Pearson	GBR/AUS	168.50	26.50	42.00	18.00	[52.00]	47.00	35.00
40		8781	Alexander & Assoc.	Earle Alexander	Ian Gregg	AUS/QLD	174.50	24.50	34.00	47.00	24.00	[93.00S]	45.00
41		8012		Henry Amthor	Douglas Amthor	USA	185.00	41.00	39.00	38.00	29.00	38.00	[49.00]
42		8905	Itinerant	Stuart Turnbull	Jason Lunn	GBR	199.00	28.00	38.00	[93.00S]	47.00	42.00	44.00
43		8849		Per Larsen	Andreas Carlsson	DEN/SWE	200.00	93.00F	20.00	13.00	31.00	43.00	[93.00F]
44	24.0S	8557	Whatever	Neil Long	Les Evans	AUS/NSW	210.00	43.00	[71.00]	56.00	58.00	24.00	29.00
45		8084	88th Planet	Aaron Ross	Rob Waterman	USA	210.00	[68.00]	52.00	41.00	51.00	35.00	31.00
46		8884	Schiavello	Chris Went	Mitchell McDonald	AUS/SA	212.00	37.00	46.00	46.00	37.00	[93.00F]	46.00
47		8810	Go	John Jenkins	Steve Sievewright	AUS/SA	226.00	42.00	65.00	43.00	[68.00]	46.00	30.00
48		8520	Geelslang	Rudolph Holm	Dirk Rother	RSA	227.00	50.00	58.00	[93.00Q]	50.00	32.00	37.00
49		8876		Chris Tattersall	Greg Clarke	AUS/QLD	239.00	[70.00]	41.00	49.00	62.00	48.00	39.00
50		8759	The Missus	Scott Ovenden	Bryce Penfold	AUS/NSW	241.00	51.00	59.00	36.00	54.00	[93.00S]	41.00
51		8675	Graue Maus	Volker Goerge	Friederichs Hartwig	GER	242.00	54.00	[55.00]	50.00	49.00	41.00	48.00
52	29.0S	8864		Hamish Jarrett	Chris Pearson	AUS/NSW	248.00	29.00	61.00	53.00	[71.00]	58.00	47.00
53		8785	SS Cardsharks	Ian Burford	Wayne Boyd	AUS/SA	248.00	45.00	54.00	57.00	48.00	44.00	[64.00]
54		6499	Orgasmatron	Angus Brackett	Colin Orsini	USA	249.00	34.00	43.00	37.00	42.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
55		8925		Martin Wedge	Scott Allen	GBR	252.00	[82.00]	45.00	65.00	60.00	40.00	42.00
56		8796	Fangin Hoons	Jonno Bannister	Matt Burns	AUS/SA	260.00	81.00	49.00	52.00	41.00	37.00	[93.00S]
57		8817	Cut Snake	Marco Gambardella	Gabriele Cortegiani	ITA	270.00	[85.00]	50.00	69.00	55.00	45.00	51.00
58		7539	ADHD	Kuba Pawluk	Piotr Zoltowski	POL	272.00	38.00	53.00	63.00	[65.00]	57.00	61.00
59		8795	Sleek	Martin Pike	Dan Cowan	AUS/SA	275.00	[77.00]	62.00	58.00	67.00	54.00	34.00
60		8760	2 Minute Noodles	Peter Woolman	Phil Webb	AUS/SA	282.00	53.00	64.00	73.00	40.00	[93.00S]	52.00
61		8786		Hubert Guy	Steve Adolph	USA	283.00	55.00	70.00	55.00	44.00	[93.00F]	59.00
62		8648	eziboats.com	Jeff Robinson	Mick O'Donnell	AUS/NSW	290.00	60.00	57.00	44.00	36.00	93.00F	[93.00F]
63		8278	Valkyrie	Luke Payne	Ben Davis	AUS/WA	293.00	44.00	72.00	62.00	[77.00]	53.00	62.00
64		7873	Floyd	Mark Dowdy	Jason Bright	USA	294.00	72.00	68.00	[74.00]	61.00	39.00	54.00
65		8811	Crimson Autograph	Matt Hansen	Shane Attwell	AUS/WA	301.00	67.00	[67.00]	64.00	63.00	50.00	57.00
66		8445	Big Red Todger	Patrick McCosh	David Horsfall	ZIM	304.00	49.00	47.00	51.00	64.00	93.00F	[93.00F]
67		8746	Panther	Raimo Raita	Juha Nurmela	Finland	306.00	57.00	51.00	60.00	45.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
68		8577	Plum Crazy	Bruce Van Deventer	Scott Weiler	USA	312.00	58.00	60.00	54.00	76.00	64.00	[93.00F]
69		8885		Ben Iliffe	Simon Lake	GBR	316.00	62.00	56.00	39.00	66.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
70		8501	TSTOY Windscreen	Heath Patten	Nick Merker	AUS/WA	325.00	78.00	[89.00]	72.00	53.00	66.00	56.00
71		8092	Swift	Bill Travis	Warren Cosh	AUS/SA	331.00	64.00	73.00	71.00	[73.00]	56.00	67.00
72		8637	Blowflies	Sam Cronin	Kevin Whitbread	AUS/NSW	334.00	69.00	79.00	79.00	[84.00]	52.00	55.00
73		8789	Flobalob	Tony Murray	Karl Kuhn	RSA	345.00	66.00	84.00	75.00	[93.00F]	62.00	58.00
74		8602	Makybe Diva	Kym Campion	Charlie Longbottom	AUS/SA	346.00	75.00	78.00	[84.00]	78.00	55.00	60.00
75	56.0S	8418		Jan Sell	Wiebke Gewinn	GER	348.00	56.00	66.00	59.00	74.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
76		8589	Ross Island	Annabel Jones	Brian Jones	AUS/QLD	348.00	79.00	75.00	68.00	[79.00]	60.00	66.00
77		8707	Aitsa	Albrecht Holm	Warwick Ham	RSA	352.00	61.00	63.00	93.00Q	72.00	63.00	[93.00Q]
78	61.0S	8040	A Cunning Plan	Robin Cross	Mark Paparella	AUS/SA	353.00	74.00	69.00	67.00	82.00	61.00	[93.00F]
79		8173	Fussbus	Bob Fussell	Jeremy Fussell	AUS/NSW	353.00	65.00	85.00	66.00	69.00	[93.00F]	68.00
80		8803	Don't Ask	Ian Bryden	James Bryden	AUS/NSW	372.00	93.00S	93.00S	80.00	43.00	[93.00S]	63.00
81		8765	Into the Red	Greg Illman	Andrew Slater	AUS/SA	378.00	83.00	76.00	77.00	83.00	59.00	[93.00F]
82		8292	Zooom	Mark Scrymgour	Liam McMahon	AUS/SA	380.00	84.00	[86.00]	81.00	85.00	65.00	65.00
83	59.0S	8808	The Regurgitator	Evert Meyer	Matt Kennerknecht	USA	381.00	59.00	81.00	78.00	70.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
84		8907	Zimmerjim	Jim Berry	Carl Gibbon	GBR	381.00	63.00	74.00	76.00	75.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
85		7830	Stiff Ripples	Jake Flintoff	Jesse Flintoff	AUS/WA	402.00	71.00	87.00	70.00	81.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
86		8755	Banshee	Brian Trainor	Karl Oswald	CAN	416.00	73.00	82.00	82.00	86.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
87		7983	Absolutely Fugly	David Johnson	Grahame Tindall	AUS/NSW	417.00	80.00	77.00	87.00	80.00	93.00S	[93.00F]
88		7338	Bluebeard	Glen Greenhalgh	Jeff Keogh	AUS/SA	430.00	76.00	88.00	86.00	87.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
89		8647	Liberator	Hank Henry	Mike Zimmerman	USA	433.00	87.00	80.00	85.00	88.00	93.00S	[93.00S]
90		8435		Patrick McGale	Marcus Korobacz	GBR/AUS	438.00	86.00	83.00	83.00	93.00F	93.00S	[93.00S]
91		6765	Infrared	Peter Croft	Gary Rushton	AUS/QLD	448.00	88.00	90.00	88.00	89.00	93.00F	[93.00F]
92		8728	XY	Meiki Schomaeker	Rainer Goerge	GER	465.00	93.00S	93.00S	93.00S	93.00S	93.00S	[93.00S]