Berkeley Marine Cadet Europeans at Weymouth - Practice Race
by Steve Proffitt 26 Jul 2004 09:48 BST
Action from the practice race in the Berkley Marine Cadet Europeans at Weymouth © Polly Durant / polly@berkeleymarine.co.uk
One hundred and fifty six Cadets from ten countries are contesting the European Championships at Weymouth this week.
With the boats separated into four groups, with two groups sailing against each other on a trapezoid course, one race ten minutes ahead of the next, race reporting is going to be testing. Added to this, the groups rotating after each race and then the grouping re-aligned after each three races, the logistics are going to be interesting!
Sunday saw the practice race.
Both starts were away first time into a westerly force 4 gusting 5. Start 1 saw GBR 8997 ‘Executrix’ David/Katrina Brewer arrive at the windward mark first and reach to the outer loop to do one sausage before a reach and beat to the finish. Second was GBR 8420 ‘Tantrum’ Jodie/Stevie Green closely followed by NED 8437 ‘Dutch Devil’ Sven Oomens/Dafne Wijnbergh, BEL9453‘Scheetje’ Yannick Leferve/Morgan Good and HUN9326 Bala’zs Berliniski/Andra’s Sandor. By the second windward GBR 8420 led by 50seconds from BEL 9453 and GBR8997 and GBR8561 ‘Bad Influence’ Tom Makey/Jonathon Kimber. By the finish line GBR 8420 crossed the line 70 seconds ahead of BEL9453,GBR8561 and GBR 8997.
Start 2 saw GBR 8845 ‘Hot Rocks’ Matt Kimber/Christopher Brewer, followed by HUN 9450 ‘Yellow Submarine’ Tama’s Szamo’dy/Nagy Ga’bor, NED 8438 ‘Natural Balance’ Jan-Paul Van Der Meeren/Gabriela Ververs, GBR9034 ‘Forty Two’ Stephen Videlo/James Jopling and ESP8725 Carlos Villa Reus/Sebastian Feliv de Cabrera. They than run down to the leeward mark and beat back up again. HUN 9450 led onto the reach across followed by GBR9034. POL9131 Piotr Kasprzak/Eryk Firej were now third and POL9258 Piotr Patelka/Natalia Wierzbicka fourth. Up the final beat the leaders had caught the tail enders and after a few nervous moments GBR 9034 crossed first closely followed by HUN9450 and POL9131. Fourth was POL9461 Damian Rzepkowski/Mateusz Anuszkiewicz.