Australians lead International 14 World Championship

by Event Media on 13 Feb 2005 Sometime around midnight last night, a weather front moved across the top of New Zealand, replacing yesterday’s brash northerlies with gusty southwesterlies.

The difference was the waves. Yesterday the waves were steep and heart stopping, while today the mainland provided some shelter for the International 14 sailors.

Most of the 83-boat fleet lined up at the start, for a spectacular display of I14 technology. In 20-22 knots of breeze the start was clean, with nobody OCS.

Capsizes seemed to be the rule of the day, and winning meant staying upright and staying in one piece. At the first mark, Jason Beebe and Tim Berg led the pack in AUS 628, with Great Britain’s Chris Turner, New Zealand’s Dan Slater, and Australia’s Grant Geddes and Dan Wilsdon in AUS 626 in hot pursuit.

But it wasn’t to last, as one dramatic moment followed another. Jason Beebe crossed the bow of a car-carrying cargo ship and capsized – just far enough to leeward to avoid being crushed.

Two of the others also took spills, leaving Grant Geddes to take the lead.

AUS 626 managed to hold onto their position all the way around the track. The only boat close on their heels was AUS 633 with Alan Vickery and Andrew Wilson onboard. The latter team kept it together all the way to the last bottom mark, and then capsized. AUS 626 went on to win.

There were some big wind shifts in the race, which kept both the competitors and the committee boats on their toes. But at the end, Grant Geddes and Dan Wilsdon had a convincing win.

The 'stick to it' award has to go to Katie Nurton and Nigel Ash on GBR 1415, who never gave up even though they were half a leg behind the leaders, and took both last place and 44th. Way to go, or as they say in New Zealand 'good on ya!'.

International 14 Day One

Sailed: 1 Discards: 0


Rank Nat Sail No Helm Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Nett

1st AUS 626 Grant Geddes Dan Wilsdon 1 1

2nd AUS 631 Lindsay Irwin Andrew Perry 2 2

3rd GBR 1513 Stevie Morrison Ben Rhodes 3 3

4th NZL 43 Dan Slater Nathan Handley 4 4

5th USA 1157 Zach Berkowitz Steve Bordow 5 5

6th AUS 624 Dave Alexander Allan Blenkle 6 6

7th GBR 1516 Alister Richardson Ian Baker 7 7

8th AUS 628 Jason Beebe Tim Berg 8 8

9th AUS 633 Alan Vickery Andrew Wilson 9 9

10th AUS 632 Brad Devine Denis Jones 10 10

11th AUS 652 Ray Hancock Daryl Everett 11 11

12th AUS 602 Roger Blasse Andrew Gilligan 12 12

13th AUS 623 Mark Krstic Rob Oshlack 13 13

14th AUS 610 Robert Vickery Criss Vaughan 14 14

15th GBR 1496 Ian Pinnell Tim Hancock 15 15

16th GBR 1479 Andrew Penman Tim Bastow 16 16

17th CAN 585 Dick Parker David Cunningham 17 17

18th CAN 586 Kris Bundy Jamie Hanseler 18 18

19th CAN 590 Peter Hayward Norm Pavey 19 19

20th GBR 1503 Andrew Partington Ben Vernieres 20 20

21st GER 172 Bjorn Frasch Oliver Peter 21 21

22nd USA 1150 Ron Boehm Peter Mohler 22 22

23rd AUS 353 Stephen Edmunds Michael Woodroff 23 23

24th AUS 609 Stewart Vickery Tim Withal 24 24

25th AUS 621 Paul O'Malley Jones Carlos Steenland 25 25

26th GBR 1495 Charles Duchesne Will Boone 26 26

27th CAN 591 Fred Eaton Jason Lemieux 27 27

28th AUS 608 Warren Sare Rob Murdoch 28 28

29th USA 1117 Brad Ruetenik Todd Czarnecki 29 29

30th GBR 1463 Julian A Pearson Louise Hickey 30 30

31st CAN 592 Ian Teasdale John Vincze 31 31

32nd GBR 1456 Martin Pascal Robin Pascal 32 32

33rd AUS 10 Luke Devine Adam Green 33 33

34th GBR 1499 Matthew Larkin Geoff Larkin 34 34

35th GBR 1517 Victor Brellisford Damian Ash 35 35

36th AUS 635 Josh Mortensen Jake Mortensen 36 36

37th CAN 584 Dan Cunningham Rob Paterson 37 37

38th CAN 587 Andrew Yates Gordon Cook 38 38

39th USA 1137 Ted Rogers Tim Burks 39 39

40th GBR 1482 Chris lewns Simon Nearn 40 40

41st GBR 1464 Doug Walker Nick Martin 41 41

42nd NZL 45 Tony Smith Matthew Smith 42 42

43rd USA 1106 Andrew Bates Maureen Bates 43 43

44th GBR 1415 Katie Nurton Nigel Ash 44 44

45th GBR 1511 James Fawcett Dave Dobrijevic DNF 84

45th USA 1144 Alan Laflin Eric Arens DNF 84

45th AUS 630 Brec Mitton Russell Keal DNF 84

45th AUS 14 David Lugg Garry Goodall DNF 84

45th USA 1162 Paul Bieker Guillaume Vernaise DNS 84

45th AUS 347 Stuart Sloss Justin Walford DNF 84

45th GBR 1433 James Middleton-Stewart Alan Beeton DNS 84

45th AUS 627 Glenn Beebe Trevor Mon DNF 84

45th AUS 342 Sean Stevens Brian Long DNF 84

45th GBR 1445 David Spragg Scott Anderson DNF 84

45th AUS 1504 Grant Rollerson Dave Bramley DNF 84

45th GER 97 Lutz Scheulen Stephan Koch DNF 84

45th JPN 112 Kensuke Kita Takao Washino DNF 84

45th AUS 622 James McDonald Jason King DNS 84

45th GBR 1472 Rollo Pyper Rachel Cooper DNF 84

45th AUS 625 David Hayter Alan Pollitt DNF 84

45th USA 1114 Jack Salerno Reiko Tani DNF 84

45th GER 88 Peter Roocks Ole Klingner DNF 84

45th GBR 1484 Chris Turner Peter Bagwell DNF 84

45th JPN 106 Ryo Nishima Yasunobu Yanagisawa DNF 84

45th GBR 1514 Paul Ravenhill Caroline Gosford DNF 84

45th NZL 42 Phil Coveny Grant Hartley DNS 84

45th GBR 1506 Mark Upton-Brown Mike Pennock DNF 84

45th GBR 1426 Douglas Pattison Daniel Ayton DNF 84

45th NZL 41 Matt Balmer David Tucker DNS 84

45th NZL 35 Grant Bourke Luke Gower DNF 84

45th JPN 109 Yasutaka Uto Takehide Takase DNF 84

45th AUS 601 Graeme Everett Gary Sloss DNF 84

45th GBR 1476 Archie Massey George Nurton DNF 84

45th JPN 110 Takashi Shimozato Hiroshi Aoki DNF 84

45th Aus 636 Andrew Low Marcus Hamilton DNF 84

45th AUS 629 Rick De Jong Darren Upton DNF 84

45th NZL 36 Jack Price Peter Hunter DNS 84

45th USA 1153 Harold von Sydow Tom Pochereva DNF 84

45th AUS 400 Mat Low Derek Layfield DNF 84

45th NZL 39 Matt Nolan John Thorman DNF 84

45th GBR 1512 Jarrod Simpson Bunny Warren DNF 84

45th AUS 309 Philip Strong Jeffre Klemm DNF 84

45th NZL 40 Selby Howard Karl Banks DNF 84


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