Euro 2003 Warnemünde

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08 – 13 July

This Europeans was sailed from wednesday to sunday, as is was part of the Warnemünde Week.
Except one day, the Regatta was dominated by mid to strong winds and nice waves.

Wind, Waves, (Women) : WARNEMÜNDE!
Or the whole truth about the EC 2003…

by Bart Bomans

The first major championship for the OK class ‘new style’ saw the further carbonisation of the OK fleet: After Haltern and Madine, where carbonmast sailors had felt a bit guilty for bringing a new mast now about 50% of the fleet were sporting magic black sticks from all different builders.

Thomas (the President) had recovered from a poor result at Kiel Week to convincingly win Warnemunde Woche with his newly acquired WB sail. At least 6 months of hard work for developing and testing had gone into the hands of the concurrents in only 1 week!!

But let’s start with the beginning: Tuesday: Measurement!
51 boats were measured and declared as being OK-dinghies (sometimes after some work) in only one day! Cool. Most attention went to the new masts of course, although glueing a pencil on the top of a sail to turn it into an OK sail was also fun (thanks Charlie!)

Wednesday & race 1:
A steady force 4 was waiting us on course Alpha. Wind & waves for powersailors!
The new British secret weapon – Jim Hunt – seemed to work well in these conditions, showing very agressive & good upwind speed to take the gun in his first international race. Promising for GBR & frightening for the rest of us.

Thursday & races 2-3:
Force 4-5 on course Bravo this time, where there seemed to be a little less tide but even bigger waves. For me this was just ‘one of those days’. Finally getting over the initial nerves and scoring 2 bullets, just ahead of the great Dane.

Friday & race 4:
Strange day of racing. In an ever decreasing wind only 13 boats made the cruel time limit set by featherweight Juliane Hofmann. Even 5 of the final top 10 were made to blush. Some others (Jim, Neil & me) showed a lack of card reading ability when they wrongly rounded the wing mark of the adjacent course Charlie. Probably Juliane’s sudden performance jump had something to do with the Kiwi ‘input’ she had received before

Saturday & races 5-6:
Why are the 2 race-days always the windiest? When Jan-Dietmar shows up at the front at the first mark one does not need to say more Although the force 5-6 + huge waves did even wear him out during the 2nd race of the day.
Where sailors of all other classes had an early night after such intense efforts – some OK sailors got challenged to demonstrate their huge physical abilities and show off their impressive bodies in the basement of Hotel Neptun. This was where the third characteristic of Warnemünde was put to the forefront (+49177287… – wow; I didn’t know one could have piercings on that spot as well ).

Sunday & race 7:
We woke up to be confronted once again by the same monotonous weather pattern: Northwesterly winds, sunshine and blue skies.
First place was decided already, but 3 boats (Jim, Jørgen and Thomas) were going to fight it out for 2nd and 3rd.
After a very intense race where just like the days before downwind speed showed to be desicive Thomas got the silver medal and Jørgen the bronze. Jim had to settle for fourth, but has unmistakably made his intentions clear for next years Worlds in Parkstone – GBR.

 

Plc. Sailno Name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Tot Mast
1 BEL 44 Bart Bomans 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 6 C
2 SWE 2746 Thomas Hansson-Mild 2 4 3 12 3 4 2 18 C
3 DEN 1280 Jørgen Lindhartsen 4 2 2 DNF 6 2 3 19 C
4 GBR 2109 Jim Hunt 1 5 4 6 5 3 4 22 C
5 POL 14 Pawel Pawlaczyk 5 3 7 DNF 8 6 6 35 C
6 NZL 522 Greg Wilcox 7 8 5 7 7 DNC 5 39 C
7 GER 717 Oliver Gronholz 12 6 8 DNF 2 10 11 49 A
8 GBR 2101 Terry Curtis 6 10 10 DNF 9 8 8 51 C
9 DEN 1324 Jesper Petersen 8 7 6 DNF 17 7 9 54 C
10 SWE 99 Hans Elkjaer 13 13 12 2 12 9 10 58 C
11 GER 693 Martin von Zimmermann 10 9 9 10 14 16 28 68 C
12 GER 724 Jan-Dietmar Dellas 16 12 13 DNF 4 12 22 79 A
13 GBR 2045 Will Turner 21 16 23 9 10 11 18 85 C
14 DEN 1304 Christian Midtgaard 14 11 11 DNF DNC 5 7 100 C/A
15 GER 718 Peter Scheuerl 11 17 17 DNF 11 15 29 100 A
16 GER 632 Fabian Gronholz 18 22 16 DNF 16 20 13 105 A
17 GBR 2085 Gavin Waldron 19 26 15 DNF 13 13 20 106 C
18 GBR 2083 Andy Turner 23 18 20 13 DNC 21 19 114 C
19 GER 665 Peter Stephan 29 14 19 DNF 15 23 17 117 A
20 GER 449 Sönke Behrends 22 20 14 DNF 19 17 30 122 C
21 GER 670 Hinnerk Ries 9 24 28 DNF 21 26 16 124 A
22 GBR 2081 Robert Deaves 27 35 29 8 24 19 21 128 A
23 GER 539 Carsten Saß 25 23 26 DNF 18 14 24 130 A
24 GBR 2108 Neil Goodhead 28 28 33 4 23 25 35 141 A
25 DEN 1303 John Texas Petersen 24 25 18 DNF 28 22 26 143 A
26 POL 65 Janusz Stobinski 20 27 27 DNF 27 24 27 152 A
27 GBR 2007 Anthony Rich 35 38 35 11 29 28 31 169 A
28 DEN 1322 Ivan Boris Petersen 17 15 22 DNF DNC DNC 15 173 C
29 GER 624 Thomas Glas 15 21 24 DNF DNC DNC 12 176 A
30 SWE 2752 Ingemar Janson 36 36 32 DNF 25 27 32 188 C
31 GER 698 Karsten Kath 26 19 21 DNF DNC DNC 25 195 C
32 GBR 2067 Jonathan Fish 30 DNF DNC DNF 26 18 23 201 A
33 GER 725 Christian Hartmann 31 30 25 DNF DNC DNC 14 204 C
34 GER 695 Dirk Gericke 40 32 34 DSQ 20 DNC 33 211 A
35 GER 570 Christian Senst 34 34 36 DNF 22 DNC 34 212 A
36 SWE 2750 Jonas Lindahl 37 31 37 5 DNC DNC DNC 214 C
37 GER 694 Gunnar Specht 41 45 39 DNF 31 30 38 224 A
38 GER 640 Sven Marchot 50 44 42 DNF 32 29 41 238 A
39 GER 645 Arne Lindemann 32 DNF 38 DSQ 30 DNC 36 240 A
40 GER 699 Juliane Hofmann 42 DNF DNC 1 DNC DNC DNC 251 A
41 SWE 2756 Per Jaensson 38 29 30 DNF DNC DNC DNC 253 C
42 GER 621 André Hennings 33 33 31 DNF DNC DNC DNC 253 A
43 GER 651 Heinz Ridder 39 37 40 DNF DNC DNC 37 257 A
44 BEL 214 Paul Verrijdt 45 41 41 DNF DNC DNC 39 270 A
45 GER 630 Norbert Petrausch 49 42 43 DNF DNC DNC 40 278 A
46 DEN 1319 Peter West 44 39 DNC DNF DNC DNC DNC 291 A
47 GER 606 Katharina Pape 43 40 DNC DNF DNC DNC DNF 291 A
48 GER 607 Christian Heinze 46 43 DNC DNF DNC DNC DNC 297 A
49 DEN 1159 Michael Ostergard 47 46 DNC DNF DNC DNC DNC 301 A
50 GER 696 Jürgen Dieris 51 47 DNC DNF DNC DNC DNC 306 A
51 GER 710 Dieter Senst 48 DNF DNC DNF DNC DNC DNC 308 C