Tornado World Championships - Rolling waves enter the Bay

by Andrew Dowley on 4 Oct 2013

2013 Tornado World Championship day 3 Martina Barnetova

At the Tornado World Championships on Wednesday evening, a number of competitors travelled across the island of Ibiza to the Blue Marlin Beach Club, a main sponsor of the Tornado World Championships. A lovely exclusive beach club in a beautiful location with fantastic food and atmosphere - highly recommended to anyone who visits Ibiza.

With Wednesday as a lay day, the sailors were raring to go on Thursday morning. The weather had changed overnight with the sun hiding behind the clouds and the wind blowing a steady force 3-4 from the East. The change in wind direction bought large rolling waves into the bay and the race course, with the wave height around a maximum of 2.5m.

2013 Tornado World Championship day 3 © Martina Barnetova

The brisk easterly and lumpy sea was challenging for most, but the front runners including the Greek team of Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis followed by Italian and German teams had pulled away from the main fleet by the end of the first downwind leg. By the end of the race the fleet was spread across the course with several crews retiring from the race. Iordanis and Konstantinos held onto the top spot for race 5 putting them out in front in the championships by 10 points.

At the end of the first race, the race committee took the decision to abandon the second race due to poor conditions and the number of boats returned to shore with damage.

2013 Tornado World Championship day 3 © Martina Barnetova

With five races completed, there’s still plenty to play for going into Friday with only one discard counting so far.

Tonight the sailors will enjoy a BBQ night hosted by the club. Tomorrow there are another two races scheduled and the club may decide to bring the race missed today back into Friday’s agenda.

TORNADO OPEN & MIXED WORLD CHAMPINSHIP
TROFEO ENDESA

28/09/2013 - 05/10/2013

CLASIFICACION GENERAL

Clase : TORNADO

Descartes : 1

Pos	Nº.Vela	Patrón	Tripulación	Federación	Categoría	1	2	3	4	5	Puntos
1	GRE-7	IORDANIS PASCHALIDIS	KONSTANTINOS TRIGONIS	GREECE	OPEN	1	2	1	1	1	4
2	GER-1	ROLAND GAEBLER	NAHID GAEBLER	GERMANY	MIXED	5	3	3	4	4	14
3	AUS-328	BRETT BURVILL	FARIS AZNAN	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	4	6	2	3	7	15
4	CZE-686	DAVID KRIZEK	ZDENEK ADAM	CZECH REPUBLIC	OPEN	3	8	4	5	6	18
5	GER-2	MAKUS BETZ	NIKOLAS BETZ	GERMANY	OPEN	6	4	6	6	5	21
6	SUI-232	JEAN-MARC CUANILLON	GUDRUN KOLB	SWITZERLAND	MIXED	11	5	8	10	8	31
7	GER-100	JOSEF GUNKEL	DAVID GUNKEL	GERMANY	OPEN	7	7	5	17	13	32
8	AUS-325	ALLAN GAMBLE	KIM NICHOLAS	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	8	9	7	14	10	34
9	GRE-11	NIKOLAOS MAUROS	ALEXANDROS TAGAROPOULOS	GREECE	OPEN	2	1	31 DNC	31 DNC	2	36
10	FRA-294	JEAN CARON	THOMAS JULES	FRANCE	OPEN	31 DNC	11	13	9	15	48
11	GER-69	DIETER MAURER	KATRIN OLDENBURG	GERMANY	MIXED	10	13	9	20	18	50
12	AUT-372	MICHAEL SCHÖNLEITNER	PHILIPP RAKUSCHAN	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	16	14	11	9	50
13	GRE-77	MARIA TSAOUSIDOU	MICHAEL PAPADOPOULOS	GREECE	MIXED	12	31 DNC	10	12	16	50
14	AUS-326	PAUL RAYMOND	STEPHEN HERMANSON	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	9	17	31 DNF	15	11	52
15	AUS-8	PAUL PETERSON	PHIL PETERSON	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	19	31 DNC	15	7	12	53
16	ESP-211	JÜRGEN JENTSCH	SARAH STEIMER KLEES	SPAIN	MIXED	17	20	12	16	14	59
17	AUT-377	MANFRED SCHÖNLEITNER	GEORG HIRSCH-STRONSTORFF	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	15	11	8	31 DNC	65
18	ITA-8	MATTEO FERRAGLIA	LORENZO BIANCHINI	ITALY	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 OCS	2	3	67
19	GBR-415	MICHAELA DOWLEY	ANDREW DOWLEY	GREAT BRITAIN	MIXED	14	18	31 DNF	13	31 DNF	76
20	GBR-424	LEE HARRISON	PAUL HARRISON	GREAT BRITAIN	OPEN	18	21	18	21	19	76
21	AUS-226	STEFAN BERNSDORF	CHRISTINE MYERS	AUSTRALIA	MIXED	15	22	21	23	31 DNC	81
22	GER-4	WILFRIED JODORF	STEFAN LIPPERT	GERMANY	OPEN	31 DNC	14	19	22	31 DNC	86
23	CZE-62	ZDENEK PAVLIS	MICHAELA PAVLISOVA	CZECH REPUBLIC	MIXED	31 DNC	12	22	24	31 DNF	89
24	GER-947	WILHELM GUGGENMOS	ALEXANDER MAIER	GERMANY	OPEN	16	23	20	31 DNC	31 DNF	90
25	ESP-11	VICENTE AMENGUAL RIBAS	NEUS TORRES RAMIS	SPAIN	MIXED	20	19	31 DNC	31 DNC	20	90
26	AUT-379	DOMINIK KOPP	FLORIAN KOPP	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	10	31 DNF	19	31 DNC	91
27	GER-44	INGO GEBHARDT	CLAUS LUGER	GERMANY	OPEN	13	31 DNC	16	31 DNC	31 DNC	91
28	GBR-431	STEVE CLYNN	TOM DUCKMANTON	GREAT BRITAIN	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	17	18	31 DNC	97
29	GER-99	KLAUS ROCHOLL	SVEN RAUSCH	GERMANY	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 DNF	31 DNC	17	110
30	ESP-19	PHILIPPE DUPIEREUX	MANUEL SCIARRA	SPAIN	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 OCS	31 DNC	31 DNC	124

TORNADO OPEN & MIXED WORLD CHAMPINSHIP
TROFEO ENDESA

28/09/2013 - 05/10/2013

CLASIFICACION GENERAL

Clase : TORNADO MIXED

Descartes : 1

Pos	Nº.Vela	Patrón	Tripulación	Categoría	1	2	3	4	5	Puntos
1	GER-1	ROLAND GAEBLER	NAHID GAEBLER	MIXED	1	1	1	1	1	4
2	SUI-232	JEAN-MARC CUANILLON	GUDRUN KOLB	MIXED	3	2	2	2	2	8
3	GER-69	DIETER MAURER	KATRIN OLDENBURG	MIXED	2	4	3	6	5	14
4	GRE-77	MARIA TSAOUSIDOU	MICHAEL PAPADOPOULOS	MIXED	4	10 DNC	4	3	4	15
5	ESP-211	JÜRGEN JENTSCH	SARAH STEIMER KLEES	MIXED	7	7	5	5	3	20
6	GBR-415	MICHAELA DOWLEY	ANDREW DOWLEY	MIXED	5	5	10 DNC	4	10 DNC	24
7	AUS-226	STEFAN BERNSDORF	CHRISTINE MYERS	MIXED	6	8	6	7	10 DNC	27
8	CZE-62	ZDENEK PAVLIS	MICHAELA PAVLISOVA	MIXED	10 DNC	3	7	8	10 DNC	28
9	ESP-11	VICENTE AMENGUAL RIBAS	NEUS TORRES RAMIS	MIXED	8	6	10 DNC	10 DNC	6	30