Toshiba 2006 OK Dinghy World Championship –Day one

by Robert Deaves on 13 Feb 2006 After the first two races of the Toshiba 2006 OK Dinghy World Championship on Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia, series leader, Andre Blasse (AUS) described the day as a ‘good day in the office’. A third and a first leaves him the joint overall leader with Jorgen Lindhartdtsen (DEN) who also scored a first and a third.

The practice race had been sailed on the Sunday with Roger Blasse (AUS) taking the win. In the evening the championship was opened by the Vice-Mayor of Lake Macquarie City, Senator Laurie Coglan.

The morning started with very light and shifty winds with the forecast of a southerly change coming in sometime during the morning. This hit with surprising suddenness as the wind increased to 30 knots in a matter of minutes, as if a fan had just been switched on.

When race one started, the wind had moderated to 20 knots with the fleet getting away cleanly first time. Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) started near the pin, tacked on the first shift and crossed the entire fleet.

He said, ‘I came right on a nice shift and it stayed so I just kept on going. I made a few tacks near the windward mark and rounded first. There was almost no-one down at the pin end so it was easy to start there.’ Following Jorgen round the top mark were Steve Wilson (AUS), Russell Wood (NZL) and Jesper Petersen (DEN) who had all hit the right hand corner hard.

Lindhartdsen sailed away to an impressive win, with Petersen moving up to third. Andrew Blasse (AUS) sailed a good last beat to take third place.

Race two was sailed in slightly less wind, but getting increasingly shifty. The pin end proved favoured with Jan Dietmar Dellas (GER) port tacking the fleet to lead comfortably around the windward mark followed by Andre Blasse and Lindhardtsen. Blasse moved past Dellas on the reaches with Lindhardtsen moving to second at the leeward mark. In the gradually lightening winds, Blasse extended his lead to win the race followed by Mark Williams (AUS) and then Lindhardtsen.

Speaking after the race Blasse commented. ‘It’s a bit different to last year’s first day when I scored two black flag DSQs! I sailed up the middle of the first beat, got a few shifts right and battled away with Jorgen. He’s incredibly hard to beat. He never gives up and tacks on every shift and that makes it really hard.’

Defending World Champion Nick Craig (GBR) has an average day scoring a 9th and a 7th. Penalty turns on the start of race two for infringing another boat left him mid-fleet, but he managed to move up to 7th by the finish. Two more races are scheduled for Tuesday.

Series Results [One Design ET] up to Race 7 (Drops = 1)
Place Ties Sail No Boat Name Skipper From Sers Score Race 7 Race 6 Race 5 Race 4 Race 3 Race 2 Race 1
1 AUS678 Itchy Syphincter R Blasse 15.0 [9.0] 5.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 4.0 2.0
2 NZL526 TBA R Wood 19.0 2.0 4.0 1.0 [12.0] 3.0 8.0 1.0
3 GBR2116 Turtle's Head N Craig 22.0 5.0 [8.0] 4.0 7.0 2.0 1.0 3.0
4 AUS719 The Great Escape A Blasse 25.0 4.0 1.0 6.0 2.0 5.0 [12.0] 7.0
5 NZL521 Unfinished Business M Perrow 29.0 3.0 2.0 10.0 8.0 [14.0] 2.0 4.0
6 NZL502 TBA K Purdie 40.0 6.0 12.0 [20.0] 5.0 9.0 3.0 5.0
7 DEN1348 NN J Lindhardtsen Master 41.0 [13.0] 10.0 3.0 4.0 8.0 5.0 11.0
8 NZL522 TBA G Wilcox Veteran 42.0 7.0 3.0 5.0 11.0 6.0 [79.0F] 10.0
9 AUS716 The Crack P Horne 43.0 [16.0] 6.0 9.0 3.0 7.0 10.0 8.0
10 1.0S AUS720 Epoxy Magic M Williams 58.0 1.0 9.0 17.0 15.0 [17.0] 7.0 9.0
11 NZL525 Sense and Cents S McDowell 58.0 [79.0C] 11.0 7.0 10.0 11.0 6.0 13.0
12 NZL504 TBA A Mannering Veteran 64.0 15.0 7.0 11.0 9.0 16.0 [16.0] 6.0
13 AUS722 Jesus built my Hotro P Foster 80.0 8.0 19.0 15.0 13.0 13.0 [28.0] 12.0
14 NZL523 TBA J Porebski Veteran 82.0 [23.0] 15.0 22.0 6.0 12.0 11.0 16.0
15 NZL472 Bliss A Deaves 85.0 [22.0] 18.0 13.0 16.0 4.0 13.0 21.0
16 8.0S GBR2081 TBA R Deaves 95.0 [79.0O] 13.0 8.0 20.0 19.0 18.0 17.0
17 DEN1340 TBA J Petersen Veteran 95.0 [30.0] 14.0 12.0 14.0 18.0 9.0 28.0
18 AUS676 So Long & Thanks T Davies 101.0 11.0 16.0 14.0 17.0 [38.0] 17.0 26.0
19 AUS703 San Jose M McQueen 116.0 18.0 25.0 18.0 22.0 [31.0] 19.0 14.0
20 SWE99 TBA H Elkjaer Veteran 129.0 [31.0] 26.0 30.0 26.0 15.0 14.0 18.0
21 NZL491 TBA M Bismark 130.5 14.0 17.0 25.0 18.0 23.5 33.0 [34.0]
22 NZL497 TBA T Pryce 135.0 20.0 21.0 36.0 28.0 [36.0] 15.0 15.0
23 AUS718 Rush P Burton Veteran 138.0 12.0 22.0 [34.0] 33.0 29.0 22.0 20.0
24 NZL481 Aurora D Hoogenboom Veteran 150.0 10.0 20.0 29.0 34.0 [48.0] 34.0 23.0
25 AUS666 TBA S Wilson 157.0 25.0 28.0 16.0 36.0 26.0 26.0 [79.0O]
26 AUS681 Footrot Flats M Gleeson 162.0 [79.0O] 24.0 23.0 39.0 27.0 30.0 19.0
27 AUS724 TBA R Howard 162.5 33.0 23.0 24.0 21.0 23.5 [79.0F] 38.0
28 NZL500 Bootleg P Rzepecky Veteran 165.0 35.0 27.0 26.0 [35.0] 20.0 27.0 30.0
29 AUS711 Free Radical N Gray Veteran 171.0 32.0 29.0 38.0 24.0 25.0 23.0 [40.0]
30 AUS610 Corsair T Burton Junior 173.0 17.0 38.0 28.0 27.0 30.0 [79.0F] 33.0
31 AUS668 Dinah Moe Humm P Wallace Veteran 176.0 [41.0] 33.0 31.0 23.0 37.0 20.0 32.0
32 AUS713 Myuna Bay Sport & Re P Lynch 179.0 26.0 30.0 37.0 29.0 21.0 [79.0F] 36.0
33 AUS704 Occasional Kudos B Chapman Veteran 182.0 19.0 40.0 [43.0] 25.0 39.0 32.0 27.0
34 NZL498 TBA D Hunt 190.0 21.0 35.0 40.0 [40.0] 34.0 31.0 29.0
35 AUS696 Beast of Burden J McAllister 194.0 37.0 31.0 21.0 [79.0C] 43.0 40.0 22.0
36 NZL518 Ya Dam Skippy G Pedersen 198.0 34.0 34.0 35.0 38.0 32.0 [79.0S] 25.0
37 AUS693 Pale Rider E O'Donnell 199.0 36.0 37.0 19.0 [79.0C] 35.0 41.0 31.0
38 GBR2117 TBA A Scoles 208.0 27.0 43.0 [52.0] 42.0 33.0 39.0 24.0
39 GBR2110 Gizmo J Fish 211.0 79.0F [79.0F] 27.0 19.0 28.0 21.0 37.0
40 AUS672 Joane's Bane D Ketteridge Veteran 215.0 24.0 39.0 41.0 43.0 [49.0] 25.0 43.0
41 AUS721 TBA J Barr 222.0 46.0 [46.0] 39.0 32.0 41.0 29.0 35.0
42 AUS708 Another Fashion Labe C Visick 224.0 [79.0O] 41.0 33.0 30.0 40.0 35.0 45.0
43 AUS628 Baker Street B Ashton Master 239.0 29.0 45.0 51.0 45.0 45.0 24.0 [79.0F]
44 GBR2100 Another Casual Affai D Ager 243.0 79.0C 50.0 32.0 31.0 10.0 [79.0F] 41.0
45 AUS7 Charter Boat P Richards 251.0 39.0 36.0 44.0 49.0 [53.0] 37.0 46.0
46 AUS641 Wet & Dry B Holly 258.0 42.0 32.0 46.0 37.0 22.0 79.0S [79.0F]
47 AUS692 Dining with the Devi B Tyler Master 264.0 51.0 44.0 47.0 47.0 [69.0] 36.0 39.0
48 AUS689 Gee Why G Yates Veteran 267.0 [79.0C] 49.0 49.0 41.0 44.0 42.0 42.0
49 AUS709 Big Girls Blouse P Yates Veteran 269.0 40.0 48.0 48.0 46.0 [50.0] 43.0 44.0
50 AUS694 OK WITH ME R Furneaux Veteran 285.0 28.0 47.0 45.0 44.0 42.0 79.0S [79.0F]
51 SWE2759 TBA P Olssen Veteran 291.0 38.0 42.0 42.0 79.0F 52.0 38.0 [79.0O]
52 AUS655 Panche D Coleman Master 311.0 [60.0] 53.0 50.0 55.0 51.0 50.0 52.0
53 AUS636 Mia A Stiel 318.0 [58.0] 55.0 54.0 57.0 56.0 48.0 48.0
54 AUS680 Return of the Jabba C McQueen 320.0 54.0 [79.0C] 61.0 54.0 55.0 47.0 49.0
55 AUS625 The Fox D Swales Master 326.0 55.0 56.0 62.0 53.0 [64.0] 49.0 51.0
56 AUS688 Celtic Pride P Robinson Veteran 329.0 47.0 79.0C [79.0F] 52.0 57.0 44.0 50.0
57 AUS695 The Wife J Hogan Junior 334.0 53.0 60.0 55.0 58.0 63.0 45.0 [79.0F]
58 POL24 TBA D Kras 337.0 44.0 52.0 65.0 51.0 46.0 79.0S [79.0S]
59 AUS715 Gilbert T Pearce Veteran 340.0 50.0 79.0F [79.0F] 59.0 59.0 46.0 47.0
60 AUS663 Endeavour A Maclean 342.0 57.0 59.0 59.0 62.0 [67.0] 52.0 53.0
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