Etchells Worlds – Up and down on Day 4

by RHKYC Media on 5 Nov 2015 2015 Etchells Worlds – The steak houses of Hong Kong were doing a brisk trade last night with Etchells sailors feeding up after yesterday’s post-race re-weigh and energy levels were clearly high as the fleet took to the water early this morning to check the breeze and recce the right and left of the likely course and check in with the Signal boat.

With everyone present and correct, PRO Kevin Wilson wasted no time in dropping anchor and setting a 1.8nm course at 065° with a 0.32nm start line. With eight to 12kts the fleet succeeded in starting cleanly and split evenly up the course on the first beat.

Marvin Beckmann sailed The Martian round the first windward mark at the head of the fleet and maintained his position through to the downwind gates, with Swedish Blue and and Phan on his tail, but with some big shifts at the windward end of the track, which necessitated the deployment of the change marks, the second beat belonged to Aretas who then led the fleet into the finish ahead of The Martian and Swedish Blue.

With a short break to allow the tail enders to re-organise themselves, Wilson once again sent the fleet off on two laps of a 1.8nm course, this time at 075°. An individual recall was signaled for Michael Haehnel’s Fuzzy Duck and Jeanne-Claude Strong’s Yandoo XX, with the fleet splitting right and left as before on the first beat.

At the windward mark, Scimitar was leading Gen XY and Aretas around the mark, with Aretas pulling up to second by the leeward gate, with Kiwi entry The Horn holding third position. On the second beat, the left paid big dividends, even as the breeze shifted right, with Magpie pulling up to fifth around the mark behind Aretas, Scimitar, The Horn and No Dramas.

Surfing into the finish, Aretas took their second gun of the day, 33 seconds ahead of Scimitar with The Horn in third place. Helm, Skip Dieball, was delighted with Aretas’ performance, saying “it’s a day that we always dream of … yesterday we weren’t connecting so we almost took a step back and said ‘let’s have a fun day and see what comes our way’.

'We didn’t have great starts, but we implemented our game plan which was to play the right side of the course a little bit harder … we didn’t go very far to the right, but we made huge gains – it was pretty cool! It’s so nice when it all comes together, when you got your homework and you do all the stuff you need to do.”

After “an up and down day” Steve Hunt from The Martian noted that “there’s great depth in the fleet – if you ever get a single digit finish you’re happy.”

Going forward, Wilson’s intentions are to run one long race on each of the remaining days of the Etchells World Championships and with six boats in the running for third place, 10 points behind Scimitar and nearly 20 behind Arteas after one discard, those two remaining races leave it all to play for.

Rank	Yacht Name	Skipper	CrewName	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Total	Nett
First	Aretas	Skip Dieball	Jon McClean / Jeff Eiber	2.0	3.0	6.0	5.0	(13.0)	1.0	1.0			31.0	18.0
Second	SCIMITAR	Steve Benjamin	George Peet / Luke Lawrence / Meihan Cheung	1.0	5.0	(11.0)	3.0	11.0	5.0	2.0			38.0	27.0
Third	1375	Argyle Campbell	Michael Menninger / Nick Martin / Victor Diaz de Leon	9.0	(19.0)	1.0	4.0	7.0	6.0	10.0			56.0	37.0
Fourth	PHAN	Jeremy Thorp	Stuart Childerley / Mark Andrews	6.0	8.0	2.0	(23.0)	5.0	4.0	12.0			60.0	37.0
Fifth	Swedish Blue	Ante Razmilovic	Stuart Flinn / Chris Larson	7.0	(12.0)	5.0	7.0	6.0	3.0	9.0			49.0	37.0
Sixth	The Martian	Marvin Beckmann	Steve Hunt / Danielle Septembre / Stephanie Roble	5.0	2.0	10.0	12.0	8.0	2.0	(16.0)			55.0	39.0
Seventh	Magpie	Graeme Taylor	Grant Simmer / Steve Jarvin	10.0	(15.0)	3.0	15.0	1.0	8.0	5.0			57.0	42.0
Eighth	Gen XY	Matthew Chew	Brian Donovan / Ashley Deeks / Alex Gough	4.0	(23.0)	4.0	8.0	2.0	11.0	14.0			66.0	43.0
Ninth	The HORN	Dirk Kneulman	Anatole Masfen / Andrew Wills	12.0	9.0	15.0	10.0	4.0	(24.0)	3.0			77.0	53.0
10th	Baby Doll	Noel Drennan	Richard Allanson / Michael O'Brien	16.0	(39.0)	7.0	9.0	3.0	9.0	11.0			94.0	55.0
11th	Racer X 2	Mark Thornburrow	Mike Huang / Malcolm Page / Simon Cooke	(21.0)	1.0	13.0	6.0	17.0	12.0	7.0			77.0	56.0
12th	1364	Frank van Kempen	Gregory Kearns / Nicole Arnulphy / Akira Sakai	(25.0)	4.0	21.0	2.0	18.0	19.0	6.0			95.0	70.0
13th	No Dramas	Seamus McHugh	Andy Beadsworth / Simon Fry	20.0	18.0	(24.0)	14.0	16.0	10.0	4.0			106.0	82.0
14th	Jezebel	Peter Backe	Anthony Day / Wade Morgan	3.0	17.0	9.0	20.0	(29.0)	7.0	29.0			114.0	85.0
15th	Tango	Chris Hampton	Andrew Palfrey / Barney Walker	(29.0)	10.0	8.0	19.0	23.0	16.0	15.0			120.0	91.0
16th	Wanchai Belle	Jamie McWilliam	Patrick Pender / Gareth Flannigan	19.0	7.0	20.0	(26.0)	26.0	15.0	21.0			134.0	108.0
17th	Land Rat	John Warlow	Mick Patrick / Will Thompson	14.0	24.0	27.0	(37.0)	20.0	21.0	8.0			151.0	114.0
18th	Freelance	Laurence Mead	David Mead / James Polson	15.0	16.0	(31.0)	13.0	19.0	25.0	26.0			145.0	114.0
19th	Strait Dealer	David Franks	Graham Sunderland / Amy Prime / Richard Mason	24.0	13.0	14.0	(41.0)	36.0	14.0	17.0			159.0	118.0
20th	Tiburon	Mark Watson III	Andreas Josenhans / Chris Busch	23.0	14.0	(44.0 UFD)	22.0	9.0	33.0	18.0			163.0	119.0
21st	DreamOn	Greg Farrell	James Badenach / Nagisa Sakai / Nick Berhens	11.0	(34.0)	22.0	24.0	22.0 RDGa	18.0	23.0			154.0	120.0
22nd	YANDOO XX	Jeanne-Claude Strong	Neville Witty / Tiana Witty / Marcus Burke	(35.0)	26.0	16.0	1.0	27.0	34.0	19.0			158.0	123.0
23rd	Kirribilli	Doug Flynn	Alex Flynn / Seve jarvin	(33.0)	33.0	30.0	18.0	10.0	13.0	22.0			159.0	126.0
24th	Matatu Dubh	Richard Burrows	James Downer / Samantha Burrows	22.0	11.0	28.0	11.0	(44.0 RET)	29.0	27.0			172.0	128.0
25th	Highlander	Martin Webster	Keith Swinton / Nick Davis / Chris Smith	(39.0)	20.0	29.0	25.0	14.0	22.0	24.0			173.0	134.0
26th	The Boat	Jake Gunther	John Collingwood / Stuart Skeggs	17.0	6.0	(44.0 DSQ)	34.0	15.0	20.0	44.0 DSQ			180.0	136.0
27th	Jukes of Hazzard	Brendon Jukes	Brian Jukes / Nigel Jones / Stuart Bloom	(38.0)	29.0	19.0	31.0	12.0	26.0	20.0			175.0	137.0
28th	AUS 1292	Shane Guanaria	Matthew Ramaley / Tom Barker	13.0	21.0	(44.0 UFD)	36.0	33.0	23.0	13.0			183.0	139.0
29th	African Queen	Jan Muysken	David Bedford / Mark Lees	8.0	22.0	17.0	(42.0)	28.0	28.0	40.0			185.0	143.0
30th	The Battler	Mark Jukes	Michael Coates / Mark Gorman	26.0	31.0	12.0	17.0	31.0	27.0	(36.0)			180.0	144.0
31st	Free Advice	Robert Hanna	Ben Lamb / Jake Newman	18.0	28.0	23.0	29.0	25.0	(37.0)	28.0			188.0	151.0
32nd	Easy Tiger	Marty Kaye	Simon Watson / Matt Norton	34.0	32.0	18.0	(35.0)	30.0	17.0	25.0			191.0	156.0
33rd	Chelsea Lady	Bill Steele	Roly Lennox King / Tim Patton	32.0	25.0	26.0	16.0	32.0	(42.0)	35.0			208.0	166.0
34th	Stampede	Rob Goddard	Ashley Goddard / Nigel Wakefiled	27.0	(35.0)	25.0	28.0	21.0	35.0	33.0			204.0	169.0
35th	China White	Nicholas Stagg	Kim Ridge / Tim Thubron	(43.0)	30.0	33.0	21.0	22.0	39.0	31.0			219.0	176.0
36th	Reprobate	Denis Martinet	Mark Parker / Peter Austin	31.0	(44.0 UFD)	32.0	27.0	34.0	30.0	30.0			228.0	184.0
37th	The Answer is...	Willem Van Walt Meijer	Charlie Manzone / Marco Pocci / Christina Cully	(41.0)	27.0	35.0	39.0	24.0	32.0	37.0			235.0	194.0
38th	Incoming	Ian Fleming	Simon Wood / Ris Wood / Flora Winter	(40.0)	36.0	36.0	30.0	37.0	31.0	32.0			242.0	202.0
39th	Fuzzy Duck	Michael Haehnel	Daniel Watson / Michael Johnson	28.0	37.0	34.0	33.0	(44.0 DSQ)	36.0	39.0			251.0	207.0
40th	Mind The Bumps	Mark Whitehead	Alastair MacAulay / Jaap Kalverkamp	30.0	(44.0 DNF)	44.0 DNC	32.0	38.0	38.0	38.0			264.0	220.0
41st	Grand V	Gordon Hinds	Stephen Ingate / Peter de Kantzow	37.0	40.0	38.0	(43.0)	39.0	40.0	34.0			271.0	228.0
42nd	Diva Deux	Mark Yeadon	Steph Bailey / David Robins	36.0	38.0	37.0	40.0	(41.0)	41.0	41.0			274.0	233.0
43rd	Are We There Yet	Thomas Cheung	Mark Dowding / Vincent Wee / Pedro Manzano	42.0	41.0	39.0	38.0	40.0	(43.0)	42.0			285.0	242.0