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Soling Worlds - Light winds for day 1

by Soling Assoc on 20 Oct 2006
Soling Worlds 2006 SW
Thirtyseven teams sailed out of the SSA this wednesday for the first two races of the 2006 Soling World Championship being held in Annapolis, the sailing capital of the USA.

Light winds and summer temperatures with a shine day just allowed one race
with a second one that had to be abandoned.

The Canadian GUL Hans Fogh, Roger Cheers and Goron Devries with all the
experience a good start, being in the right places for the shifts finished first.

The six leg windward / leeward with a small reach after the downwind mark that included a gate that a few teams leading the race like Team T-Systems HUN 77 Wossala, Vezer and Nemeth or CAN 1 Abbott, Davis, Abbott didn´t rounded properly and had to come back into the one.

The German ES Plastic team (GER 267) with Alex Holl, Norbert Helligegel and Thomas Olbrich finished second after sailing a nice race and showing all the experience aquired in the former DDR Soling training camps.

UFO team from Netherlands NED 25 Johan Offermans, Peter Mosch, Bas Dusee finished third. The best US team finshing the race today was from Connecticut USA 831 Peter Gallowey, Paul Steinborn, Greg Anthony who managed to finshed in front of local legend USA 841 Stuart Walker, Doug Loup and Bruce Empey.

Tomorrow three races are scheduled but weather looks like will be the same, with light winds and maybe increasing to the afternoon.

Overall results afte day 1:

1 CAN 230 Hans Fogh Roger Cheer Gordon Devries E.Y.C. 1 pts
2 GER 267 Alexander Holl Norbert Hellriegel Thomas Olbrich YCN 2
3 NED 25 Johan Offermans Bas Dusee Peter Mosch KZC 3
4 USA 831 Peter Galloway Paul Steinborn Greg Anthony Noroton Yacht Cl 4
5 USA 842 Stuart Walker Doug Loup Bruce Empey SSA 5
6 NOR 128 Preben Asbjørnrød Richard Fikse Christensen Bernt Ole ASF/SSF 6
7 USA 840 Jim Medley Jamie Stewart Chris Roberts * 7
8 USA 798 Thomas Davies Jr. Andrew Dize Kai Skvarla SSA 8
9 GER 300 Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann YCBG 9
10 USA 846 Steve Dolan Jon Bailey Jack Freysinger Milwaukee 10
11 ARG 36 Pablo Despontin Pablo Noceti Ezequiel F Sasso CNSI 11
12 CAN 198 Larry Votary Howard Moscrop Peter Aker L.S.C 12
13 USA 799 Henry Thomas Kiara Caldwell Sean Harr Severn Sailing A 13
14 USA 834 John Standiford Adam Goldstein Chris Foscue SSA 14
15 USA 807 Jerome (Joe) Hoeksema Matias Collins Rose Hoeksema Chicago Yacht Cl 15
16 SLO 1 Bostjan Antoncic Gennadi Strakh Perovic Zeljko J.K.Jadro Koper 17
17 USA 788 Jeff Connolly Joe Hidalgo Andrew Berg Severn Sailing 18
18 USA 824 David Crysdale Jake Gerlach Roland Van Hazel MYC 19
19 ARG 30 Martin Busch Santiago Nottebohm Maximo Feldtmann CNSI 20
20 USA 845 Jorgen Johnsson Augi Hernandez Martin Johnssony SSYC 21
21 GBR 169 Derek Priestley Tom Price Gary Adams B&F Y.C. 22
22 BRA 26 Nelson Ilha Felipe Ilha Gustavo Ilha Veleiros do Sul 24
23 USA 843 Stephen Bobo Jerome Mathieu Emily Gentheimer SSYC 25
24 ARG 37 Gustavo Warburg Hernan Celedoni Miguel Lacour CNSI 26
25 CAN 211 David Wolff Josh Hynes Mark Sereda Toronto 27
26 USA 818 John Kennedy Salvador Aguinaga Jr Brendan Kennedy SSYC 28
27 USA 835 Howard Vickery Gary Greenwood Jim Knowles SSA & NYC 29
28 GBR 161 Hamish Loudon Joseph Copak Mark Sudicky LYC / I.H.YC 30
29 CAN 227 Tom Mitchell Dave Richards Robin Earle Etobicoke Yacht 31
30 USA 832 Charles Q. Kamps Toby Kamps Kasniunas Vytas MYC 32
31 USA 828 Joseph Van Gieson Victor Gorokhov Chris Roberts Severn Sailing 33
32 USA 697 Joseph Shipley John Gierke James Shipley SSYC 34
33 ISV1 John Morgan Nadia Dubyk Kathy Morgan st Croix 35
34 NOR 130 Tina Mikland Eric Brown Angus Phillips Tonsberg S. 36
35 HUN 77 George Wossala Nemeth Peter Karoly Vezer BYC 39
36 CAN 1 Bill Abbott Paul Davis Joanne Abbott SYC 39
37 CAN 225 Peter Hall Phillip Karrigan Jay Deakin RSLYC 39
38 USA 780 Brian White Ty Krester Ed Trombley VYC 39

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