KZ & RV Hollandia, Medemblik, 7-9th April

Report: Jon Fish

24 OKs from 5 countries arrived at Royal Yacht Club Hollandia over the Easter weekend for their annual Spring Cup. They were treated to 8 great races over 3 days against a top quality international fleet. This combined with perfect race management and a couple of entertaing socials for just €50 made it an event to remember (again!). A couple of boats from new UK builders also made their debut, adding further interest to the event.

Day 1 was contested in a variable force 1-2. Darek Kras (Pol) and Janusz Stobinski (Pol) motored off in the first race, with Nick Craig heading the pack in third.
Race 2 saw Brits first to fifth at the first mark, and a 1,2,3 at the finish line. Jon Fish in his new Aardvark hull lead all the way until the final beat when Nick worked his way past with Terry Curtis taking third.

Nick took race 3 in similar fashion, this time overtaking Tomas Glas up the last beat with Terry grabbing 3rd from the chasing pack.

With appropriately large hangovers, the fleet set sail for Day 2 in a solid force 4 and sunshine. After an OCS on day 1, Karsten Hitz (Ger) showed impressive downhill pace to take all three races, with Nick and Terry chasing hard in second and third in all three.

Day 3 dawned with slightly less breeze (thankfully for many weary bodies). Nick just got in front of Jon at the first mark and lead to the end. Karsten passed Jon on the reach, but had to settle for second. After a good tussle, Jon just took third from Terry

Nick finished the event with another win in Race 8 pulling past Jon and Tomasz Gaj in his new Alex Scoles’ hull. Karsten again pulled through the fleet downhill to take second and second overall.

Results
Plc Name Sailno Pts R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8
1 GBR 2116 Nick Craig 10,0 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 1
2 GER 727 Karsten Hitz 17,0 5 ocs 5 1 1 1 2 2
3 GBR 2118 Terry Curtis 23,0 12 3 3 3 3 3 4 4
4 GBR 2110 Jonathan Fish 28,0 6 2 6 4 5 5 3 3
5 GER 731 Thomas Glas 37,0 4 ocs 2 5 6 7 6 7
6 GER 737 Thorsten Schmidt 52,0 16 19 12 6 4 4 5 5
7 POL 10 Janusz Stobinski 53,0 2 5 19 12 9 6 8 11
8 GER 666 Jan Hartmann 61,0 14 8 8 7 11 10 9 8
9 POL 1 Tomasz Gaj 70,0 13 20 22 8 7 9 7 6
10 DEN 1214 Man Jgen Holm 73,0 10 9 4 11 15 dnc 14 10
11 GBR 2107 Mike Edwards 73,0 7 14 13 10 10 dnc 10 9
12 POL 5 Darek Kras 78,0 1 11 20 15 13 11 13 14
13 GBR 2117 Alex Scoles 89,0 8 6 10 13 8 dnf 19 dnc
14 GBR 2100 Dan Ager 90,0 19 15 17 14 12 8 12 12
15 GER 607 Christian Heinze 98,0 11 4 7 9 17 dnf) dnf dnc
16 GER 576 Ralf Tietje 101,0 15 17 15 18 16 14 11 13
17 GER 688 Dirk Dame 102,0 17 10 18 16 14 12 15 dnc)
18 GBR 9999 Neil Goodhead 111,0 9 7 11 dnf) dnf dnc 17 17
19 BEL 214 Paul Verrijdt 112,0 18 13 9 19 18 dnc 20 15
20 GBR 2104 Deryck Lovegrove 112,0 21 12 16 17 20 13 16 18
21 GER 695 Erik Bork 126,0 20 18 21 20 19 15 18 16
22 GBR 2053 Alan Atkin 153,0 23 16 14 dnf) dnc dnc dnc dnc
23 BEL 220 Ronny Poelman 160,0 24 21 23 21 21 dnc) dnc dnc
24 GER 728 Karsten Kath 169,0 22 22 dnf) dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc