49er and 49er FX Europeans - Booming conditions for Day 3 + Video

by Andy Rice on 9 Jul 2015 Bigger breeze and two-metre Atlantic swell delivered some challenging conditions for day three of the 49er and 49er FX European Championships in Porto. Boats were leaping off waves with clear daylight showing between hull and water. Avoiding the dreaded pitchpole was one of the big goals on the downwind legs.

These were not the conditions that Victoria Jurczok and Anika Lorenz had been looking forward to. The lightweight German crew had revelled in the lighter breezes of the previous day, and Jurczok was hoping those conditions might have continued a little longer into the week. But maybe after today’s performance she will revise her view of big breeze, big wave competition. Two second places launch them into the overall lead of the 39-boat FX fleet.

Annemiek Bekkering was grinning after coming ashore today, partly out of relief at having survived a big day and escaped without a capsize. “It was a hard day, but fun too,” said the Dutch sailor who with crew Annette Duetz sits in second overall, three points behind the lead. “Quite relieved to have come through the day.” Maiken and Anne-Julie Schütt hold on to third place, helped by a victory in race eight. Their Danish team mates have closed the gap, with Jena Hansen and Katja Iversen in fourth, the reigning European Champions Ida-Marie Nielsen and Marie Olsen in fifth.

Today was the end of FX qualifying, and some big names sit on or around the 25-place cut-off. Winners of the Dutch Olympic trials, Nina Keijzer and Claire Blom, sit in 25th overall, and 2012 match racing Olympic Champion Tamara Echegoyen and 470 world champion Berta Betanzos are just outside the cut in 27th overall. With a flurry of protests this evening, some of these places could yet change the fortunes of some crews – for better or worse.

The men’s 49er racing started a day later, so it’s the end of day two of qualifying. Extending their overall lead are Portugal’s Jorge Lima and José Costa who racked up solid scores of seven, two, two in their qualifying fleet. They have moved to three points in front of the Poles, Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski, who now have the 2012 Olympic Champions breathing down their necks.

The video below shows Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen leaping off a wave just before they round the windward mark. These are the kind of conditions the Aussies love, although best scores of the day go to the boat just behind them, the 2008 Olympic Champions from Denmark. Jonas Warrer and Anders Thomsen scored two, one, two, placing the Danes within striking distance of the podium.

Thursday sees the FX fleet begin their Gold fleet finals, and it’s the end of qualifying for the 49er men. With a forecast of softer breeze, it will be a different challenge from today’s brutal contest.

2015 49er European Championship Overall Results:

Rank	2014	Nat	SailNo	Helm Name	Crew Name	Penalties	Total	Nett	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
	Worlds Rank
1	5	POR	5	Jorge Lima	José Costa		21	14	2	6	1	1	-7	2	2
2	17	POL	42	Lukasz	Pawel		29	17	1	2	4	2	3	5	-12
				Przybytek	Kolodzinski
3	3	AUS	3	Nathan	Iain Jensen		33	18	3	-15	2	3	2	4	4
				Outteridge
4	2	DEN	2	Jonas warrer	Anders Thomsen		35	19	2	11	-16	1	2	1	2
5	6	GBR	6	John Pink	Stuart Bithell		36	21	-15	2	2	2	1	10	4
6	1	NZL	1	Peter Burling	Blair Tuke		50	22	4	6	(UFD	2	1	3	6
											[28.0])
7		GBR	33	Dylan	Alain Sign		37	28	-9	5	1	9	4	6	3
				Fletcher­
				Scott
8	13	FRA	13	Julien d'Ortoli	NoÈ		41	28	5	5	2	-13	4	5	7
					Delpech
9	34	GER	59	Justus Schmidt	Max		43	30	6	1	1	7	-13	7	8
					Boehme
10	29	POL	52	Tomasz	Jacek Nowak		43	31	1	-12	8	3	10	4	5
				Januszewski
11	35	ESP	46	Federico	Arturo		43	32	-11	8	6	6	1	8	3
				Alonso	Alonso
				Tellechea	Tellechea
12		ITA	187	Uberto	Gianmarco Togni		49	34	2	3	4	5	8	-15	12
				Crivelli
				Visconti
13	38	ARG	133	Yago Lange	Klaus Lange		46	34	-12	3	3	12	9	4	3
14	12	ITA	96	Stefano Cherin	Andrea Tesei		46	34	4	3	8	-12	6	7	6
15		CRO	87	Pavle Kostov	Petar Cupac		52	38	3	12	-14	4	3	12	4
16	18	GBR	25	James Peters	Fynn Sterritt		52	39	9	12	3	-13	7	7	1
17	7	AUS	7	David Gilmour	Rhys Mara		63	41	10	1	-22	5	5	5	15
18	8	IRL	8	Ryan Seaton	Matt		57	41	-16	4	12	11	2	3	9
					McGovern
19	33	SWE	500	Victor	Victor		54	42	5	6	5	10	11	-12	5
				Bergstrom	Vasternas
20	23	ITA	26	Ruggero Tita	Giacomo		59	43	-16	9	13	3	5	8	5
					Cavalli
21	16	NZL	34	Marcus Hansen	Josh		68	47	17	-21	12	12	4	1	1
					Porebski
22		GER	12	Erik Heil	Thomas		64	48	8	9	15	13	-16	1	2
					Ploessel
23	22	ITA	22	Giuseppe	Pietro		67	48	11	9	7	9	3	9	-19
				Angilella	Zucchetti
24		ITA	23	Jacopo Plazzi	Umberto Molineris		72	50	-22	13	11	4	9	2	11
25	44	USA	808	Thomas Barrows	Joseph Morris		70	51	7	8	6	-19	8	13	9
26		BRA	300	Dante Bianchi	Thomas Low­beer		72	56	12	13	11	-16	5	8	7
27	45	POL	107	Przemek	Jacek		78	57	1	2	15	16	-21	17	6
				Filipowicz	Piasecki
28		CHI	700	Benjamin	Christobal		80	61	3	15	18	7	-19	10	8
				Grez Ahrens	Grez
29	43	RUS	281	Pavel	Pavel		85	66	15	5	16	4	15	-19	11
				Kalinchev	Karachov
30		GER	115	Tim Fischer	Fabian Graf		89	68	5	4	12	17	17	-21	13
31		FRA	144	KÈvin Fischer	Marc Chapon		96	68	6	23	13	5	11	10	(UFD
															[28.0])
32		FRA	18	Gabriel Skoczek	Sébastien		89	68	7	-21	5	20	9	9	18
					Scotto Di
					Fasano
33	37	ESP	900	Diego Botin	Iago Lopez Marra		93	69	21	4	-24	9	10	16	9
34		SUI	111	SÈbastien Schneiter	Lucien Cujean		86	70	13	-16	15	6	14	12	10
35	32	SWE	21	Fritiof	Niclas During		92	71	14	11	13	19	12	2	-21
				Hedstrom
36		ESP	161	Carlos Robles	Daniel		99	71	10	14	10	(UFD	10	14	13
					Canovas							[28.0])
					Colon
37		FRA	655	Erwan Fischer	Julien Thibault		94	72	21	8	14	7	11	11	-22
38	42	AUS	400	Joel Turner	Lewis Brake		92	73	14	-19	18	15	7	18	1
39	31	JPN	81	Yukio Makino	Kenji		92	74	17	-18	9	15	17	6	10
					Takahashi
40	10	ESP	32	Carlos Paz	Anton Paz Blanco		102	74	13	11	8	19	12	11	(RET
															[28.0])
41		BEL	777	Yannick Lefebvre	Tom		94	75	-19	16	9	11	16	16	7
					Pelsmaekers
42		FRA	221	Lucas Rual	Clement Pequin		104	76	4	(UFD	9	8	26	15	14
										[28.0])
43	46	FRA	14	Mathieu Frei	Yann		97	77	14	1	-20	15	15	16	16
					Rocherieux
44		POL	174	Dominik Buksak	Grzegorz Go?dzik		100	77	15	15	7	18	16	6	-23
45	20	ITA	44	Luca Dubbini	Roberto Dubbini		109	82	19	19	6	-27	13	17	8
46		ESP	800	Victor Payá	Enrique		105	82	18	10	11	-23	13	15	15
					Ortiz Rapalo
47		IND	316	Ganapathy Kelapanda	Varun Thakkar		111	83	23	7	3	8	22	(UFD	20
														[28.0])
48	36	GBR	600	Rory Hunter	Neil Hunter		111	83	11	19	19	(UFD	6	9	19
												[28.0])
49		IVB	284	Alec	Christopher Brockbank		112	84	7	18	25	1	14	19	(DNC
				Anderson											[28.0])
50	30	BRA	332	Marco Grael	Gabriel		116	88	18	7	4	17	14	(DNF	DNF
					Borges									[28.0])	[28.0]
51	28	USA	17	Frederick Strammer	Michael Kuschner		112	88	6	17	19	-24	18	11	17
52		GBR	360	Jack Hawkins	Christopher		112	88	23	20	-24	14	8	13	10
					Thomas
53		USA	510	David	Dan Morris		117	89	25	(DNC	21	17	6	3	17
				Liebenberg						[28.0])
54		SWE	131	Gustav Petterson	Marcus Anjemark		111	89	19	10	14	-22	18	14	14
55		RUS	636	Yan Chekh	Ivan Zotov		113	90	12	14	10	14	-23	23	17
56		USA	124	Judge Ryan	Hans Henken		116	93	13	16	17	6	-23	20	21
57		GBR	118	Chris Taylor	Samuel Batten		115	93	10	13	-22	20	12	22	16
58		BEL	314	Levi Slap	Max Slap		121	96	-25	23	10	11	20	18	14
59		RUS	125	Konstantin Nosov	Alexander Gaydaenko		119	97	8	17	17	-22	19	21	15
60		ARG	97	Mario Segers	Federico		117	97	18	14	18	10	18	19	-20
					Villambrosa
61		GER	220	Nils	Jan Frigge		126	99	-27	10	21	21	15	14	18
				Carstensen
62	26	AUS	20	William Phillips	James		128	104	22	-24	20	10	21	18	13
					Wierzbowski
63		FRA	755	Simon Bertheau	Yann Jauvin		135	109	22	7	-26	22	19	20	19
64		FRA	855	Emile Amoros	Brewal Nael		137	110	26	-27	23	8	20	13	20
65		GER	810	Kim Holste	Yannick Holste		134	110	-24	20	16	21	17	24	12
66	40	CAN	905	David Mori	Justin Barnes		136	111	20	22	20	18	-25	20	11
67		GER	202	Jakob	Andreas Spranger		141	113	(UFD	18	21	14	20	22	18
				Meggendorfer					[28.0])
68		GBR	618	Tom Methven	Will Alloway		147	119	(DNC	20	24	16	22	21	16
									[28.0])
69		OMA	145	Musab Al Hadi	Hashim Al Rashidi		149	121	20	21	7	24	23	26	(DNF
															[28.0])
70		CAN	311	John	Arthur		151	123	17	24	26	18	21	17	(DNC
				Ferguson	Ferguson										[28.0])
71		ESP	683	Marti Llena	Borja		154	126	9	23	23	25	(DNC	23	23
					Carracedo								[28.0])
72		POR	36	Rodolfo Pires	Gonçalo Pires		155	127	(DNC	25	5	24	24	25	24
									[28.0])
73		USA	126	Zack	Riley Gibbs		155	127	8	25	25	23	25	(DNC	21
				Downing										[28.0])
74		USA	150	Andrew Mollerus	Matthew		161	133	23	17	22	20	(UFD	DNF	23
					Mollerus								[28.0])	[28.0]
75		CZE	368	Lukas Cejnar	Matyas Cejnar		160	134	20	22	19	-26	25	24	24
76		RSA	105	Graeme	Andrew Tarboton		161	135	21	22	25	23	-26	22	22
				Willcox
77		FRA	180	Hugo	Virgil Aubriot		163	136	16	24	-27	26	22	23	25
				Fedrigucci
78		AUS	160	Sam Gilmour	Cameron Seagreen		163	137	24	-26	17	25	24	25	22

2015 49erFX European Championship Overall Results:

Rank	2014	Nat		SailNo	Helm Name	Crew Name	Age Group	Penalties	Total	Nett	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
	Worlds Rank
1	5	GER		55	Victoria Jurczok	Anika Lorenz			28	19	1	2	-9	5	5	1	1	2	2
2	4	NED		4	Annemiek Bekkering	Annette Duetz			36	22	2	3	1	1	-14	1	7	3	4
3	10	DEN		10	Maiken­	Anne­Julie Schütt			36	25	3	4	2	4	-11	4	3	1	4
					Foght
					Schütt
4	6	DEN		71	Jena Hansen	Katja			53	32	1	2	10	2	4	8	4	(DNF	1
						Salskov­												[21.0])
						Iversen
5	2	DEN		2	Ida­Marie	Marie­	U23		46	33	3	10	1	1	9	3	-13	5	1
					Baad	Thusgaard
					Nielsen	Olsen
6	3	ITA		3	Giulia Conti	Francesca Clapcich			49	36	10	7	-13	2	4	2	1	4	6
7	9	SWE		9	Lisa Ericson	Hanna			50	39	2	1	8	4	1	5	-11	7	11
						Klinga
8	17	FRA		13	Sarah Steyaert	Aude Compan			61	44	6	8	2	7	8	9	-17	1	3
9	12	NZL		16	Alexandra Maloney	Molly Meech	U23		59	44	4	1	3	3	11	11	-15	4	7
10	25	NOR		26	Helene Naess	Marie			67	52	4	5	5	3	-15	10	4	6	15
						Rønningen
11	16	GER		77	Leonie Meyer	ElenaChristine			65	53	9	8	8	6	-12	3	3	8	8
						Stoffers
12		NOR		888	Ragna Agerup	Maia Agerup	U23		69	58	6	10	7	5	10	6	-11	3	11
13	34	NZL		484	Erica Dawson	Ellie	U23		74	60	8	11	-14	6	9	4	5	10	7
						Copeland
14	20	FIN		17	Sinem Kurtbay	Silja			75	60	5	6	-15	8	7	14	8	7	5
						Kanerva
15	39	FRA		97	Lili Sebesi	Julie			87	66	20	5	5	15	3	7	2	9	(DSQ
						Bossard													[21.0])
16	28	FIN		101	Noora Ruskola	Camilla	U23		83	68	7	4	7	10	12	10	-15	10	8
						Cedercreutz
17		USA		224	Emily	Elizabeth Barry			91	70	13	13	12	7	2	5	7	11	(DNF
					Dellenbaugh														[21.0])
18	23	AUT		24	Laura	Elsa Lovrek	U23		87	71	5	9	6	-16	1	9	14	14	13
					Schöfegger
19		SIN		284	KimberlyMin Lim	Cecilia Low			93	72	7	6	11	10	3	17	2	16	(DNC
																			[21.0])
20		GER		369	Ann­Kristin	Pia­Sophie Wedemeyer	U23		94	73	9	3	10	9	7	11	10	(RET	14
					Wedemeyer													[21.0])
21	15	GER		161	Tina Lutz	Susann Beucke			92	74	-18	18	4	12	13	8	12	2	5
22	31			33	Griselda	Sara Tan			92	76	14	12	-16	11	2	6	9	13	9
					Khng
		SIN
23	38	EST		372	Kätlin	Anna­Maria Sepp	U23		94	79	14	11	4	9	-15	12	5	14	10
					Tammiste
24	11	AUS		14	Haylee	Caitlin Elks			101	80	16	9	11	14	6	(UFD	9	9	6
					Outteridge											[21.0])
25	13	NED		15	Nina Keijzer	Claire Blom			100	81	12	12	17	-19	17	2	12	6	3
26		ITA		143	Maria Raggio	Paola			101	84	8	16	13	-17	5	13	6	11	12
						Bergamaschi
27	8	ESP		23	Tamara	Berta			114	93	16	7	19	13	14	(UFD	17	5	2
					Echegoyen	Betanzos										[21.0])
						Moro
28		AUT		208	Anna	Eva­Maria Schimak			113	94	11	16	3	-19	6	18	19	12	9
					Luschan
29	30	CAN		514	Arielle	Heather Myatt			116	95	12	13	6	16	8	(UFD	18	8	14
					Morgan											[21.0])
30	24	IRL		997	Andrea Brewster	Saskia Tidey			125	107	-18	14	16	11	10	16	13	15	12
31		MAS		789	RufinaHong­Mui	Connie Tsen			134	113	11	19	9	12	18	7	16	(DNS	DNC
					Tan													[21.0])	[21.0]
32	50	GER		810	Jule Goerge	Lotta Goerge			134	113	15	15	20	14	19	(UFD	8	12	10
																[21.0])
33		CRO		112	Enia	Marina Dujmovic			137	116	17	18	15	8	16	15	6	(RET	DNC
					Nincevic													[21.0])	[21.0]
34		JPN		808	Saki	Sayoko Harada			138	117	(UFD	15	17	17	17	12	10	16	13
					Matsunae						[21.0])
35	45	JPN		611	Chika Hatae	Hiroka Itakura			139	119	10	17	14	-20	16	19	14	13	16
36		IND		171	Varsha Gautham	Aishwarya Chezhiyan	U23		142	121	13	14	12	13	13	14	DNE	(RET	DNC
																	[21.0]	[21.0])	[21.0]
37		ITA		878	Giulia Genesio	Francesca Volpi	U23		152	132	19	-20	18	18	18	13	16	15	15
38		POL		258	Madeleine	Nadia			159	138	15	17	18	15	19	15	18	(DNC	DNS
					Zielinska	Zielinska												[21.0])	[21.0]
39		SVK		574	Dominika Vadurova	Simona Borosova	U23		170	149	17	19	19	18	20	16	19	(RET	DNF
																		[21.0])	[21.0]