Great wind at the 2007 APL Soling Europeans

by Event media on 3 Aug 2007 Two more windward / leeward races were sailed today Day 3, in Arendal, Norway for the APL Soling European Championship, both with winds from the South West of 16 to 20 knots and no less important, under nice temperatures and a clear sky at the end of the day.

Only 51 boats could start today and although NOR 130 with the only woman helming at the event will start tomorrow, another boat won’t be able to continue racing due to a severe hit at the bow.

And although the event has a new leader overall with the Edding team from Argentina (ARG 32) Gustavo Warbug, Maximo Smith and Miguel Lacour, the races bullets went to Marinepool team GER 300 of Roman Koch, Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann and the Slovenian team SLO 1 of Bostjan Antoncic, Gennadi Skrath and Sergey Pichuguin.

The 2007 will come to an end tomorrow Friday, with one more race and a prize giving ceremony together with a free dinner.

Top Ten results:

1 ARG 32 Gustavo Warburg Maximo Smith Miguel Lacour CNSI 25 3 3 13 1 7 2 5 4 13
2 GER 304 Thomas Maschkiwitz Christian Oehler Christoph Wossala VSaW CYC BYC 28 2 6 3 4 5 1 7 7 7
3 SLO 1 Bostjan Antoncic Sergej Pichugin Gennadi Strakh Y.C. Jadro Koper 32 9 4 2 18 6 6 4 1 18
4 ITA 198 Andreas Vincon Thomas Olbrich Peter Dörsch BYC 40 7 5 12 10 3 4 6 5 12
5 HUN 77 George Wossala Karoly Vezer Nemeth Peter BYC 53 6 OCS 9 2 9 16 2 9 53
6 NED 33 Rudy den Outer Leo Determan Ronald den Arend KralingscheZeilC 57 13 16 1 5 2 19 8 12 19
7 NED 25 Johan Offermans Bas Dusee Oliver Dusee KZC 70 8 7 8 9 20 14 10 14 20
8 GER 49 Holger Weichert Laurent Scheel Martin Setzkorn ROYC 72 5 1 15 17 23 12 12 10 23
9 NOR 128 Preben Asbjørnrød Richard Fikse Hans Jorgen Husum ASF 85 15 2 20 16 18 8 23 6 23
10 GER 300 Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann YCBG 86 1 OCS 21 7 1 DSQ 1 2 53

Day 2 with winds from South west increasing from 15 to 25 knots the 52 Soling fleet faced two windward leeward courses where the tack to the left was clearly favoured, probably due to the current.

Former world Champion Marinepool team with Koch, Koch, Borneman won the first race and the second but due an incident in the second race they end up with a DSQ. The regularity was shown by the team GER 304 and team Edding ARG 32, the first finishing fifth and first and the second team with a seventh and second, and these results point to them as the candidates to win the event, with only three more races to be raced.

For tomorrow the same forecast and two more races are scheduled. Hopefully all Solings are able to go out after their repairs.

The ISA is also hosting an ISA members meeting during the tomorrow’s after race dinner.

Complete Results at:
www.soling.com/results/ShowResults.asp?ID=392