RS500 World Championships – Uproar on Day 3

by Heather Chipperfield on 6 Aug 2015 Day three brought some uproar to the RS500 World Championships. With finally some serious wind, everybody was woken from their light wind sleeps. Capsizes were all over the place and the windy conditions also had its effects on the leaderboard.

The light wind specialized Italians had their troubles and fell down while some Dutch and Swedish boats proofed to be specialists in “strong” (still just about 14 knots) conditions. The Brits Peter and Heather are still in the lead, but they saw competition getting closer with “meagre” results at the end of the day (four and eight).

In the silver fleet the competition is perhaps even tighter. There are lots of contenders for the silver fleet prize although the Dutch Marieke and Richard (our hosts from Aquavitesse) appear to be the strongest bet at this moment.

Tomorrow probably will be an entirely different day again with forecasts of relatively light winds. Our only hope against the Italians coming back is probably the British party tonight. They are bringing a two manned steeldrum band and lots of drinks, perhaps enough to upset the Italians and hand them a hangover on Wednesday.

Results RS500 - Gold

No	Sailno	Name	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	GBR 1015	Peter Barton, Heather Chipperfield	18,0	1	1	8	4	4	(9)
2	SWE 112	Malin Broberg, Johan Rook	22,0	8	5	1	1	(7)	7
3	GBR 659	Peter Curtis, James Curtis	28,0	2	8	4	2	12	(14)
4	SWE 111	Peter Bokmark, Martin Person	33,0	7	4	5	6	(25)	11
5	SWE 51	Martin Johansson, Axel Johansson	36,0	10	7	(10)	8	5	6
6	GBR 727	Jane Olive, Chris Tuckett	38,0	3	2	(17)	15	13	5
7	NED 819	Pim van Vugt, Lisa van Vugt	41,0	11	6	16	(22)	2	1
8	ESP 1089	Gerard Marin, Paul Batttle	41,0	13	3	2	(ret)	15	8
9	GBR 1054	Graeme Bristow, Izzy Bristow	44,0	5	9	(dnf)	5	22	3
10	ITA 944	Francesco Bozano, Andrea Dellepiane	50,0	6	25	14	(29)	3	2
11	ITA 950	Tommaso Gommellini, Rudolfo Rubina	52,0	4	12	15	(25)	17	4
12	NED 1003	Thomas Rot, Marloes Rot	53,0	12	13	7	3	18	(27)
13	NED 1066	Michiel Geerling, Hilde Geerling van Susante	55,0	16	11	3	11	14	(19)
14	NED 718	Max Groen, Bjorn Oude Avenhuis	58,0	9	10	11	12	16	(24)
15	NED 777	Marleen Blomsma, Jody de Jager	64,0	22	16	9	9	8	(20)
16	ITA 946	Luca Abergo, Stefano Costini	68,0	14	17	(ocs)	13	1	23
17	NED 894	Bruno Goris, Edith Kanters	69,0	15	15	18	(23)	11	10
18	NED 965	Willemijn van Susante, Nick van Alphen	76,0	20	22	6	10	(26)	18
19	NED 1038	Anneke Kikkert, Floris Stapel	81,0	26	(23)	23	14	6	12
20	NED 67	Johan van Veen, Viktor Haaksman	88,0	25	14	21	7	21	(22)
21	ITA 1032	Michele Oppizzi, Pietro Frazzica	92,0	18	28	(ocs)	24	9	13
22	FRA 940	Olivier Thomas, Paco Thomas	95,0	19	(26)	26	19	10	21
23	ITA 1031	Matteo Cara, Leonardo Pizzagalli	101,0	23	(29)	13	28	20	17
24	SWE 821	Stephan Fassberg, Johanna Fassberg	105,0	27	18	(ocs)	16	29	15
25	GBR 1069	Hugo Tucker, Tom Collino	105,0	21	19	19	18	(28)	28
26	NED 994	Jochem Slikboer, Anna Bertling	106,0	24	20	20	17	(27)	25
27	NED 1074	Robin Rijnhout, Maarten Berendschot	110,0	29	24	12	21	24	(26)
28	ITA 1035	Martina Gommellini, Beatrice Xodo	115,0	17	32	(dns)	31	19	16
29	ITA 892	Giulio Foggi, Adriana Campanella	127,0	32	21	25	20	(30)	29
30	GBR 1005	George Wilson, Laura Wilson	138,0	28	30	22	27	(31)	31
31	FRA 1039	David Jones, Sylvie Jones	138,0	31	31	27	26	23	(32)
32	NED 961	Giel Blokker, Corinne van Dalen	141,0	30	27	24	30	(32)	30

Results RS500 - Silver

No	Sailno	Name	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	NED 1088	Richard Rot, Marieke Gijzel	42,0	33	1	2	2	4	(8)
2	SWE 22	Henrik Sillen, Ralf Lobel	46,0	34	(10)	5	4	1	2
3	NED 607	Martijn Jessurun, Folkert-Jan Oosterkamp	57,0	36	6	3	8	(9)	4
4	NED 708	Freek Rutten, Rep Boonstra	63,0	38	5	1	1	18	(21)
5	NED 540	Jan van den Brink, David van Veen	65,0	47	2	4	3	(12)	9
6	NED 1076	Lukas van de Broek, Florine de Haan	67,0	35	15	6	(16)	6	5
7	NED 638	Erik van der Linden, Anna Biesheuvel	69,0	41	7	11	7	3	(19)
8	NED 1087	Marije Willemsen, Lonneke van Es	81,0	42	11	17	(dnf)	5	6
9	NED 1028	Sander de Jong, Ralf Broer	82,0	46	8	(15)	10	11	7
10	NED 18	Mark den Heijer, Marco Haas	92,0	49	4	(dns)	11	10	18
11	NED 864	Jasper Mellema, Robert Mellema	94,0	54	3	8	5	(31)	24
12	NED 837	Wampie Driessen, Niek van der Kooy	99,0	56	9	12	6	(24)	16
13	NED 629	Thymen Ottenhof, Baruch Kiestra	99,0	45	(19)	10	19	14	11
14	NED 1058	Martin Wolters, Niels Dieleman	100,0	48	14	13	12	13	(15)
15	FRA 748	Anna Zmura, Keith Sykes	102,0	37	(22)	22	13	20	10
16	FRA 980	Alexandre Emanuel, Guilhem Magnoud	105,0	44	23	7	(dns)	19	12
17	NED 763	Anne Johan Buis, Femke Jaarsma	109,0	40	(dns)	dns	dns	2	1
18	FRA 915	Fabrice Colaert, Laurent Malghem	110,0	51	13	14	9	(27)	23
19	GBR 1073	Henry Russell, Matthew Russell	118,0	39	12	(dns)	dns	17	17
20	FRA 928	Mathilde Boudrique, Compain	118,0	43	20	19	(dns)	23	13
21	NED 719	Marnix Tissing, Okke Tissing	127,0	55	21	9	14	28	(30)
22	CZE 17	Anna Milerova, Klara Houskova	129,0	52	(dnf)	dnf	dns	8	3
23	NED 890	Sascha van den Wall Bake, Lisette Hemelaar	130,0	50	26	(dnf)	dns	7	14
24	BEL 935	Olivier Beyls, Steve Jolley	133,0	58	18	16	20	21	(29)
25	NED 670	Fleur Leijs, Marieke Reitsma	135,0	59	25	21	15	15	(25)
26	FRA 563	Eric Gdalia, Perrine Gdalia	136,0	53	(24)	23	18	22	20
27	GBR 565	Will Pook, Alex Cole	144,0	61	16	20	(dns)	16	31
28	NED 733	Frank Ottenhof, Rob Jessurun	148,0	60	(28)	18	17	25	28
29	ESP 1019	Toni Roldan, Laia Roldan	158,0	57	17	(dnf)	dns	29	22
30	NED 1075	Enno de Haan, Iris Prummel	175,0	62	27	(dnf)	dnc	26	27
31	NED 654	Julius de Koning, Thijmen Michiels	185,0	63	(dnf)	dnf	dns	30	26
32	ITA 580	Robert Mazgaj, Petr JenAek	195,0	64	(dnf)	dns	dns	32	32