Racing Snippets - X-35 Worlds, X-41 Europeans, 505 Europeans

by 505's - Herman Hell/Sail-World.com on 26 Jun 2009
Currently underway at Kiel Week are the X-35 World Championship, the X-41 European Championship and the 505 European Championship.

X-35 World Championship

Italy's Alessandro Solerio leads from Albert Kooijman (NED) and Kimmo Vähätalo (FIN).

Results: http://results.regatta-info.de/result_details.php?results=2009-06-25_X%2035%20World%20Championship_Wettfahrt_5_Extra.xml

X-41 European Championship

Sven Erik Horsch (GER) leads by two points over Thomas Føyen (NOR), with Thomas Brügge (GER) third.

Horsch has excellent results to date; 1, (3), 2, 1, 2.

Results: http://results.regatta-info.de/result_details.php?results=2009-06-25_X%2041%20European%20Championship_Wettfahrt_5_Extra.xml
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505 European Championship

The German pairing of Dr. Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner (Kiel) stay on track for the title of the SAP European Championship in the 505 class embedded in Kieler Woche after the second day of racing. Tough the team could not repeat the successes of yesterday (when they won both races) they sailed consistently in the top ranks.

The other 13 international classes also stayed close to their race schedule when they commenced racing in Kiel today in moderate easterly winds.

Alltough second placed in the fleet of the 505s racing the europeans the danish brothers Jacob and Jörgen Bojsen-Möller’s chances of taking the title are growing slim. The reason being that because of personal reasons the danes have to skip friday’s races altogether. Automatically now everyone focusses on the teams following in the rankings. First in line in this respect are World Champions of 2007, Jan Saugmann and Morten Ramsbaek from danmark. But young Meike Schomäker (24) is listed shortly after them on place four. Since one and a half months now she is sailing with Holger Jess from Eckernförde who is also a past World Champion. And also the top german team of Jens Findel and Johannes Tellen (Kiel) again are in the game after they collected two bullets in two of today’s races.

But the windy conditions forecast for tomorrow worry favourite Dr. Wolfgfang Hunger. The clewring of their heavy weather jib looks somewhat dodgy. „We must keep an eye on it' he says.

In most other classes sailing in Kiel Week german sailors are rather in the hunt for top positions. Only the catamaran sailors in both the Formula 18 and Hobie 16 have been top from the beginning. So the german team of Andreas John and Sten Höpfner are leading the fleet in the Formula 18 catamarans as do multiple european champion Detlef Mohr and Karen Wichard who won both races. In the Formula 18s highly experienced favourites and past World Champions Helge and Christian Sach capsized twice and so handled the top spot to John/Höpfner. Sailors from Germany also hold top positions in the the J-24, OK-Dinghy and H-boat classes. Report by Herman Hell


Results: http://www.kieler-woche.de/eng/livecenter/505.php