OK World Championships at Skælskør, Denmark

OK World Championships at Skælskør, Denmark - Overall

by Robert Deaves, OK Dinghy International Association 30 Jul 2005 20:36 BST

Craig is ‘over the moon’!

The final day of the 2005 OK Dinghy World Championships began with rain, no wind and a 2 hour postponement. It ended with Nick Craig (GBR) becoming the new OK Dinghy World Champion after seven previous serious campaingns and describing the struggle as “one of the hardest things I have ever tried to win.”

The sailors were held on shore for two hours while the rain battered doen and the wind failed to come. Even the frogs started to come indoors because outside was so wet. Finally at 11 am, the postponement Came down and the fleet was towed out to a glass like sea wondering what was going on.

However a breeze appeared and a course was set and race 8 commenced in barely enough wind to cross the start line. Nick Craig said afterwards, “It was shocker, they should have waited a bit longer. There was barely enough wind to sail with massive shifts from each side. Jonus Quist (SWE) sailed an excellent first beat though to win. I was doing OK until the wind dies and got buried in the middle. I rounded the top mark in about 20th. And caught up a few on the reaches. On the second beat I went right a bit caught a big shift and moved up to 3rd. Lost one on the final leg to finished 4th, but that was enough.” With not enough time to run two races, Nick Craig had finally won the OK Worlds, after many medals but no wins. He said, “This is awesome. I am over the moon, and really happy to have won it finally. It has been the hardest thing I have ever tried to win. It is very satisfying.”

For the start of race 9, a strong wind arrived for for once the sailors could stetch their legs in the force 4-5. Jon Fish rounded the top mark in first and would have done well apart from a spash down the run which dropped him to 20th. On the second beat Roger Blasse (AUS) and Mark Perrow (NZL) had banged right and found a good shift and more wind to take the lead and win the race in the fantastic sailing conditions.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Pts
1	GBR 2116	Nick Craig	1	3	3	1	2	2	5	4	(dnc)	21
2	SWE 2762	Jonas Quist	4	(bfd)	1	2	8	3	6	1	7	32
3	NZL 522	Greg Wilcox	-16	1	8	12	1	1	15	6	5	49
4	AUS 678	Roger Blasse	3	6	6	11	3	10	14	-27	1	54
5	DEN 1280	Jørgen Lindhardtsen	7	18	12	3	-43	6	2	11	3	62
6	DEN 1335	Mogens Johansen	5	4	15	10	-34	7	1	19	9	70
7	DEN 1302	Ulf Brandt	8	12	25	8	5	-30	4	8	16	86
8	NZL 525	Steve McDowell	2	17	18	-23	6	4	9	21	12	89
9	GER 693	Martin Von Zimmermann	15	8	9	5	16	12	(ocs)	2	29	96
10	DEN 1344	Peter Wibro	19	-25	22	9	11	8	3	16	11	99
11	SWE 2741	Thomas Hansson-Mild	14	15	11	19	20	-29	18	3	13	113
12	NZL 472	Alistair Deaves	28	11	27	-35	9	5	17	5	19	121
13	GER 717	Oliver Gronholz	-24	23	2	17	22	13	19	9	17	122
14	POL 14	Pawel Pawlaczyk	12	5	19	21	-32	15	28	13	14	127
15	GER 672	Gunter Arndt	22	(bfd)	14	28	21	11	13	15	6	130
16	NZL 521	Mark Perrow	10	16	-44	16	10	25	31	38	2	148
17	SWE 99	Hans Elkjaer	11	27	21	4	25	-42	32	20	18	158
18	GER 690	Sönke Behrens	(bfd)	2	37	34	12	27	30	10	8	160
19	DEN 1345	Frank Hansen	6	19	16	24	37	-41	8	35	21	166
20	GBR 2110	Jon Fish	9	22	17	(dsq)	7	ocs	10	14	23	167
21	DEN 1340	Jesper Petersen	39	10	4	31	-52	22	23	29	10	168
22	DEN 1330	Troels Lykke	35	7	33	14	14	31	12	28	(dnc)	174
23	NZL 518	Grant Pedersen	44	28	30	6	28	14	26	17	(dsq)	193
24	SWE 2750	Jonas Lindahl	29	20	26	15	13	39	33	22	(dnc)
25	GBR 2081	Robert Deaves	34	35	35	25	17	20	7	-52	25	198
26	AUS 719	Andre Blasse	(bfd)	bfd	7	18	15	23	36	34	4	202
27	NZL 515	Mike Wilde	41	-52	23	20	26	16	44	7	27	204
28	GER 624	Thomas Glas	25	34	20	7	33	24	-55	40	31	214
29	NZL 508	Wayne Avery	49	26	5	39	18	28	-60	12	38	215
30	GBR 2082	John Ball	26	14	38	-55	19	35	25	23	44	224
31	DEN 1304	Christian Midtgård	17	29	39	27	49	19	-52	32	15	227
32	GER 424	Rainer Rehbehn	30	44	41	38	23	17	16	-46	20	229
33	POL 16	Marek Jarocki	48	32	29	29	-53	18	22	24	32	234
34	NZL 490	Trent Pryce	36	24	50	33	4	21	47	-51	26	241
35	GER 710	Christian Senst	(bfd)	9	43	45	30	36	21	26	33	243
36	POL 61	Janusz Stobinski	20	42	51	30	-57	39	24	25	22
37	DEN 1324	Claus Deichgräber	40	39	42	13	36	37	11	37	(dnc)	255
38	DEN 1265	Bo Teglers	13	(bfd)	10	43	50	9	58	50	40	273
39	DEN 1322	Ivan Pedersen	21	41	13	22	58	33	46	39	(dnc)	273
40	POL 127	Jakob Kania	45	40	24	-48	24	34	27	45	34	273
41	SWE 2752	Ingemar Janson	32	45	28	32	-48	48	20	33	45	283
42	GBR 2021	Alex Scoles	31	13	59	36	27	(dnf)	35	44	42	287
43	AUS 723	Paul Richards	33	21	36	41	44	47	40	36	-48	298
44	GER 688	Dirk Dame	50	33	40	46	-56	32	37	31	36	305
45	GER 726	Jörg Sylvester	27	30	45	52	31	-57	39	47	39	310
46	GER 720	Daniel Gröschl	46	51	34	49	41	43	-57	18	35	317
47	GER 707	Thorsten Schmidt	18	55	31	26	38	50	42	(dnf)	dnc	325
48	GER 632	Fabian Gronholz	23	48	47	-56	54	46	29	55	24	326
49	GBR 2085	Gavin Waldron	37	49	-52	37	42	51	34	43	43	336
50	GER 695	Dirk Gericke	43	47	48	47	-51	45	41	30	41	342
51	GER 607	Christian Heinze	42	31	32	44	45	44	43	(dnc)	dnc	346
52	AUS 706	Peter Nielsen	52	37	55	51	29	-59	59	41	46
53	NZL 498	Darren Hunt	38	53	-61	53	59	49	45	48	30	375
54	NZL 500	Philip Rzepecky	(bfd)	56	60	40	60	26	51	56	28	377
55	DEN 1317	Henrik Søgren	53	(dsq)	46	42	35	38	48	dnf	dnc	392
56	GER 665	Peter Stephan	54	38	49	50	46	55	38	(dnc)	dnc	395
57	DEN 1212	Jan Larsen	47	46	53	54	47	54	54	42	(dnc)	397
58	POL 24	Darek Kras	56	54	57	58	39	52	-61	49	37	402
59	SWE 2746	Olle Heimersson	55	43	54	57	-62	56	50	53	47	415
60	BEL 604	Mark Geboes	(bfd)	50	58	61	40	60	49	54	dnc	437
61	BEL 214	Paul Verrijdt	(dsq)	36	55	59	55	53	56	dnc	dnc
62	SWE 2721	Bertil Eliasson	51	57	62	60	61	58	53	(dnc)	dnc	467
63	DEN 1303	John Skjoldby	(dnc)	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	520
63	GBR 2087	Juliane Burnham	(dnc)	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	520