Hungarian Sailors take the lead after day 2 of Flying Dutchman Worlds

by Sail-World.com on 7 Jan 2009
Hungarian sailors Szabolcs Majthenyi and Andras Domokos have taken a one point lead over Australian’s Norman Rydge and Richard Scarr at the Flying Dutchman Worlds. Leading Kiwi’s Paul Scoffin and Pavel Ruzicka retain their third placing after day two.

Races 3 and 4 were completed in 4 to 8 knots of oscillating North Easterly breeze.

Race 3 – Australian’s Norman Rydge and Richard Scarr led round the first triangle and were passed at the second top mark by New Zealand's Hideo Tayama and Angus Reid closely followed by another Kiwi pair, Paul Scoffin and Pavel Ruzicka in third. Following the flat off and beat to finish these placings remained the same with Tayama and Reid taking the bullet.

IFDCO President Alberto Barenghi and crew Pieter Zandstra finished with a stylish fourth.

Race 4 and Hungarian sailors Szabolcs Majthenyi and Andras Domokos demonstrated exceptional skills in light and shifting breezes to bounce back from a tenth in race 3 to convincingly lead for the entire race.

Kiwi sailors Andrew Mckee and Matt Bismark sailed strongly to take second and Australia's Norman Rydge and Richard Scarr were third finishing off a great day for them.

Overall placing's see Hungarian sailors Majthenyi and Domokos take a 1 point lead over Australian’s Rydge and Scarr second and with Kiwi’s Paul Scoffin and Pavel Ruzicka in third after four races completed.

Australian Richard Scarr commented this afternoon to Sail-World

‘Today was very light, with 30 degree shifts. It was just 5 to 7 knot with choppy short waves, with pressure coming from both sides of the course. Pressure was king. Down wind sailing hot angles was paying, but getting deep when you could on the waves was important. Tomorrow will be the telling day.’

International Flying Dutchman Class - Open World Championships, Provisional Results

1st HUN 70 Szabolcs Majthenyi Andras Domokos 7 1 10 1 19 19 pts
2nd AUS 37 Norman Rydge Richard Scarr 11 4 2 3 20 20 pts
3rd NZL 145 Paul Scoffin Pavel Ruzicka 4 6 3 11 24 24 pts
4th AUS 33 Ian McCrossin James Cook 1 14 6 4 25 25 pts
5th USA 36 Lin Robson Ian Gregg 9 3 5 8 25 25 pts
6th NZL 111 Andrew McKee Matthew Bismark 15 2 11 2 30 30 pts
7th NZL 110 Hideo Tayama Angus Reid 10 16 1 5 32 32 pts
8th ITA 7 Alberto Barenghi Pieter Zandstra 12 10 4 10 36 36 pts
9th NED 5 Fred Schaaf Casper Schaaf 17 7 8 6 38 38 pts
10th ESP 81 Martinez Francisco Guijarro Vicente 5 8 12 20 45 45 pts
11th GER 113 Kilian Konig Johannes Brack 13 11 16 9 49 49 pts
12th NED 26 Enno Kramer Ard Geelkerken 14 9 13 13 49 49 pts
13th NED 122 Erika Geelkerken Harald Berning 6 15 14 18 53 53 pts
14th ESP 6 Gines Romero Alvaro Moreno 3 5 45 DSQ 7 60 60 pts
15th ESP 9 Dolores Sanchez-Herrero Javier Higuera 19 18 9 14 60 60 pts
16th ESP 91 Marco Sevila Schachermaier Roberto Sevila 2 17 18 27 64 64 pts
17th USA 251 Tim Sayles Russell Miller 22 20 21 12 75 75 pts
18th NED 18 Frank Nooijen Marc Van der Pol 16 19 24 24 83 83 pts
19th GER 13 Hans-Albert Konig Heinz Bollweg 25 13 32 22 92 92 pts
20th AUS 1 Alister McCowan Andrew McCowan 20 30 23 19 92 92 pts
21st NZL 107 Alisdair Daines David Gibb 24 22 20 26 92 92 pts
22nd NED 341 Toos Zandstra Durk Zandstra 27 29 7 30 93 93 pts
23rd USA 3 Paul Hemker Bruce Barrett 8 39 31 15 93 93 pts
24th NZL 118 Paul Francis Simon Mander 29 27 22 17 95 95 pts
25th HUN 13 Andras Suli David Papp 45 OCS 12 26 16 99 99 pts
26th NED 348 Thijs Rutten Theo Rutten 23 31 27 21 102 102 pts
27th USA 87 Jim Algert David Hislop 18 28 36 25 107 107 pts
28th NED 33 Tanja Heijink Nettie Van der Valk 37 25 19 29 110 110 pts
29th GER 86 Tobias Frank Simone Frank 45 OCS 21 17 28 111 111 pts
30th AUS 361 Edward Cox Peter Bevis 28 23 25 35 111 111 pts
31st NED 4 Mark Brouwer Paul Van der Pol 38 36 15 23 112 112 pts
32nd AUS 332 Matthew Mitchell Michael Nolan 30 26 28 32 116 116 pts
33rd GBR 382 Peter Doran Richard Phillips 26 32 33 34 125 125 pts
34th GBR 386 Tony Lyall Alex Rogers 36 33 29 33 131 131 pts
35th POL 133 Pawel Swiderski Marcin Zawistowski 21 41 35 36 133 133 pts
36th NZL 131 Joseph Bailey Peter Bailey 32 24 39 39 134 134 pts
37th NZL 106 Mark Berry Charles Ainsworth 39 34 34 31 138 138 pts
38th NZL 112 Edward Markey Chris Decke 31 35 37 41 144 144 pts
39th ROU 100 Mihai Butucaru Dragos Blaga 35 40 30 40 145 145 pts
40th NZL 11 Christine Headey Gun Caundle 33 38 40 38 149 149 pts
41st NZL 1 Ollie Steiner John Hoogerbrug 34 42 38 37 151 151 pts
42nd NZL 72 John Bailey Jeroen Bronstring 41 37 41 42 161 161 pts
43rd AUS 358 Kelly Ryan Matthew Moore 42 44 42 43 171 171 pts
44th AUS 327 John Maguire Noel Whitaker 40 43 45 DNF 45 DNS 173 173 pts

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