|
Sail-World.com : 505 Worlds Final day
|
|
'Kites - 505 Worlds'
Vincenzo Baglione
|
Yet another glorious sunrise greeted competitors in the 505 Worlds here in Mondello Sicily this morning. The Med was magnificent, the breakfast's sumptuous and the wind non-existent... again. To cheer you up we have pictures from earlier days when the wind did actually blow.
 | Bottom - 505 Worlds - Vincenzo Baglione |
The term 'Groundhog Day' has gained significant traction here as we awaken to the same gloriousness over and over, with the full knowledge there will be little or no wind. This was the second day in a row where racing was impossible.
Today held a little promise to start, as a light westerly front was forecast, but it arrived too late to move the temperature inversion that settled over the coast, stopping the breeze forming.
The race committee abandoned racing and the front came through (naturally) merely proving a little inconvenient for the 122 participants trying to pack their boats into containers and trailers while trying to keep everything dry in the rain.
In the absence of wind here in Mondello the sailors have acquired plenty of good tans, some solid beach volley ball skills. Those (bikini clad) Germans are hard to beat though. Lots of surreptitious photo's of pretty girls on the beach and a strong understanding of the local’s excellent coffee making skills.
It was a shame that yet another day was lost to no wind, but the good guys did well and nothing can change that.
Ian Pinnell and Carl Gibbon (Great Britain) are the new World Champions. Howie Hamlin (who is now on his seventh second place at the Five-Oh worlds) and Andy Zinn (USA) did a great job for second. Wolfgang Hunger and new crew Julien Kliener (Germany) round out the top three.
It’s been a tough regatta, for those who did the Pre-Worlds/Europeans it’s been a tough two weeks. Tough on the water at least; little or no breeze each day, sometimes current, shifty, slow and often excruciating.
On land though, Mondello is a haven and all the participants and their families have loved it.
Next year to San Francisco. Big winds are promised, but how's the coffee?
 | Gybe Mark - 505 Worlds - Vincenzo Baglione |
 | Thats gonna hurt - 505 Worlds - Vincenzo Baglione |
 | Mondello Sicily - |
by Simon Reffold
Click on the FB Like link to post this story to your FB wall
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?nid=49867
9:31 PM Fri 17 Oct 2008 GMT
Click here for printer friendly version
Click here to send us feedback or comments about this story.
Click for further information on
Related News Stories:
MORE STORIES ...
|
|
|
Our Advertisers are committed to our sport, please support them!
This site and its contents are © Copyright TetraMedia Pty. Ltd and/or the original author, photographer etc. All Rights Reserved.
Photographs are copyright by law. If you wish to use or buy a photograph you must contact the photographer directly (there is a hyperlink in most cases to their website, or do a Google search.) with your request.
Please do not contact
Sail-World.com
as we cannot give permission for use of other photographer’s images.
Only if the photographer named on the image is Sail-world.com, Powerboat-world.com, Marinebusiness-world.com or NZBoating-World.com.
Contact us
.
Ph: +61 2 8006 1873
or complete our
feedback form
Contact us
.
View our Privacy Policy.
[ Go Home]
[ Banner Advertising Specification]
[Bot Archive ]
Customised news feeds -Marine Industry companies, Clubs and Associations have their own customised version of our news feed on their website.
Look_here_to_see_examples
|
CLD
| | |
