OK Dinghy Europeans at Medemblik, Holland

OK Dinghy Europeans at Medemblik, Holland - Day 1

by Robert Deaves, OKDIA 26 Jul 2010 19:35 BST 24-30 July 2010

OK Europeans at Medemblik day 1 © Norbert Petraucsh

Terry Curtis leads after solid day on IJsselmeer

The 2010 OK Dinghy European Championships started Monday at Medemblik, Netherlands with two great races in a solid 3-4 with a few rain storms passing over providing some interesting wind shifts. With two third places, Terry Curtis (GBR) leads from Tim Goodbody (IRL) and Antoni Pawloski (POL)

In the first race, Pawel Pawlaczyk (POL) led round the top mark from Antoni Pawlowski (POL) and Alistair Deaves (NZL). Deaves took the lead on the second reach and then Pawlaczyk picked up a yellow flag just at the leeward mark and capsized while doing turns. Pawlowski took the lead up the second beat as the wind increased with Bartosz Rakocy (POL) in second and Deaves in third. There were not many changes on the run except that Terry Curtis (GBR) and Greg Wilcox (NZL) caught up and they all rounded very close. On the final beat Pawlowski maintained his lead with Rakocy in second and Curtis climbing to third, with another Pole Marek Jarocki (POL) finding a big shift to place fourth just ahead of Deaves in fifth.

The wind increased for the second race with newcomer Tim Goodbody leading from start to finish. At the top mark he had a narrow lead over Christian Hedlund (DEN) and Robert Deaves (GBR). Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) rounded in fourth and was soon moved up to second place chasing Goodbody, getting close to him at the leeward mark. However Goodbody extended on the second beat and was never threatened again to take his first win in the class - after just five days sailing the boat.

Goodbody has good pedigree though, having sailing the Finn in the 2008 Olympics in Qingdao. He said of the class, "This is a great class to join. I really liked the boat first time I saw it and I am really enjoying the class. They are a great bunch of people. The competition is really good and everyone underestimates how good it is, especially for amateur sailors. It is far harder than any other non-Olympic class I have sailed. So it was great to win today."

Overall leader Curtis commented "It was surprisingly windy today, but nice to see the breeze come in and stay. I am pleased with my results, but I was quite lucky as I didn't have great starts and managed to pick my way through the fleet. They did a great job on the water today with two fantastic races and we're all looking forward to the rest of the week."

Racing continues until Friday 30 July.

Results after Day 1: (2 races)

Pos	Sail No	Helm	R1	R2	Pts
1	GBR 2118	Terry Curtis	3	3	6
2	IRL 10	Tim Goodbody	6	1	7
3	POL 31	Antoni Pawlowski	1	7	8
4	POL 14	Pawel Pawlaczyk	7	2	9
5	POL 19	Bartosz Rakocy	2	10	12
6	DEN 1364	Jørgen Lindhardtsen	8	4	12
7	NZL 522	Greg Wilcox	5	8	13
8	DEN 1361	Rene Joahnnsen	20	6	26
9	GBR 2138	Robert Deaves	14	12	26
10	DEN 1369	Bo Teglers	22	5	27
11	GER 693	Martin von Zimmermann	11	16	27
12	DEN 3	Jørgen Svendsen	15	13	28
13	DEN 1333	Stefan Myrälf	12	18	30
14	GER 747	Andreas Pich	9	22	31
15	POL 1	Tomasz Gaj	19	14	33
16	POL 58	Krzysztof Dabkowski	23	11	34
17	GER 680	Jan-Dietmar Dellas	26	9	35
18	GER 717	Oliver Gronholz	10	25	35
19	NZL 755	Alistair Deaves	4	35	39
20	GER 731	Thomas Glas	13	30	43
21	GER 750	Ralf Tietje	17	26	43
22	GBR 2085	Gavin Waldron	25	19	44
23	GER 621	André Hennings	18	27	45
24	POL 44	Radoslaw Drozdzik	24	23	47
25	GBR 2136	Jon Fish	35	15	50
26	GER 771	Ralf Mackmann	33	17	50
27	GER 665	Peter Stephan	31	21	52
28	SWE 99	Hans Elkjaer	28	24	52
29	NOR 467	Jens Makholm	21	34	55
30	GER 730	Joerg Rademacher	32	29	61
31	GER 688	Dirk Dame	37	28	65
32	GER 752	Arne Lindemann	30	36	66
33	GER 760	Andreas Deubel	27	42	69
34	POL 5	Darek Kras	36	33	69
35	BEL 220	Ronny Poelman	39	31	70
36	GER 765	Rainer Pospiech	29	44	73
37	SWE 2772	Ingemar Janson	38	37	75
38	DEN 1265	Malte Pedersen	45	32	77
39	GBR 2119	Martin Bower	34	43	77
40	DEN 1368	Christian Hedlund	16	dsq	78
41	GER 735	Dirk Gericke	40	40	80
42	POL 16	Marek Jarocki	dsq	20	82
43	GER 757	Falk Hagemann	44	38	82
44	GBR 2130	Deryck Lovegrove	41	41	82
45	GER 767	Juliane Hofmann	47	39	86
46	POL 24	Jakub Dworniczak	42	50	92
47	POL 40	Robert Swiecki	49	45	94
48	POL 424	Marek Bernat	48	48	96
49	BEL 214	Paul Verrijdt	51	47	98
50	GER 643	Jürgen Illers	46	54	100
51	NED 638	Robert Bancken	52	49	101
52	DEN 1277	Poul Christiansen	50	52	102
53	GER 756	Kay Nickelkoppe	43	dnf	105
54	GBR 2058	Mary Reddyhoff	54	51	105
55	GBR 2104	Paul Pike	53	53	106
56	GBR 2125	Neil Goodhead	dnf	46	108
57	GBR 2126	Adrian Walker	56	55	111
58	FRA 723	Chenuil Matthieu	55	dnc	117
59	GER 357	Ralf Gerbig	57	dnf	119
60	NED 555	Jan Siebe de Vries	58	dnf	120
61	GER 691	Torsten Albrecht	dnf	dnc	124