Top 3 of Autumn Cup, Bandol 2024

Charly Cumbley wins Autumn Cup, held in Bandol, Côte d’Azur just before the European Championship in Palma.

The Autumn Cup was perfectly timed being 3 days before the start of the Europeans in Palma with a Ferry going from close by Toulon directly to Mallorca.

4 former World Champions where attending with three of them making up the podium in the end.

The first day saw westerly 5-8 knots, relatively stable in direction and strength with a right corner bias. Hardly a cloud in the sky and nice warm weather.

The second day was predicted to have more wind but ended up with 4h postponement ashore with the usual banter in the sun. Them two races in SE winds, starting in 8kn dropping to 4kn by the end of the first race but picking up to 10kn in the second. Light but lovely conditions for late October.

Day three saw considerably more wind from the East. Starting in about 15 to 18 kn and for the second race it picked up to 22 kn. The first two races were up and down course in the next bay from Bandol (Sanary). The left was favoured in both races. By the end of the second race the race committee was challenged with a slipping anchor, after over 1 hour the RC decided to go back to the Bandol Bay and have another race there. This time a triangle course; it was extremely shifty because of cliffs to windward. It was the first time during the regatta that a triangle course was used. In the evening the official regatta dinner was held in the club, starting with finger food followed by Ragou and potatoes then a cheese platter and some apple pie – a food just how you would expect at a big french family fest, good quality and good taste. And of course always accompanied by enough rosé and red wine from the region.

A big thank you should go to the different sponsors, including Greg Wilcox and Fabian Rossbacher who paid for enough free beer for all during the event, the tab was always open for everyone to pour a beer. Also there were enough sponsored prizes for all competitors to get a prize.

Results Autumn Cup 2024
Rgs Ident Concurrents Club / Pays c.1 c.2 c.3 c.4 c.5 c.6 c.7 c.8 P tot P -1
1 GBR   6 Charlie Cumbley TCYC/HISC 3 9 1 1 1 3 1 2 21 12
2 SWE  100 Thomas Hansson-Mild UMEA SSS 9 17 2 3 5 1 2 1 40 23
3 AUS   1 Roger Blasse BLACK ROCK YC 4 5 4 7 7 2 3 5 37 30
4 GBR  2261 Ben Flower  PAIGNTON SC 11 4 3 9 4 6 4 4 45 34
5 POL   14 Pawel Pawlaczyk  JKW POZNAN 8 7 7 14 6 5 10 3 60 46
6 FRA   8 Timothe Petetin S N BANDOL 6 2 16 13 12 7 11 99.0 76 60
7 GBR   69 Terry Curtis  CASTEL COVE SC 2 8 12 5 13 11 15 13 79 64
8 AUS   5 Brent Williams  ADELAIDE SC 17 10 5 12 10 13 12 7 86 69
9 GBR   33 Tom Lonsdale  WOSC 23 11 10 8 9 12 9 10 92 69
10 GBR   87 Paul Childs  HISC 19 12 24 18 2 8 5 6 94 70
11 SWE   58 Tomas Franzen  WBS 5 6 8 6 14 18 14 19 90 71
12 NZL   15 Greg Wilcox  BERND 18 20 9 2 8 10 8 DNC 117 75
13 DEN  1565 Johansen Mogens  SOLRVD STRAND 10 1 6 4 20 19 DNC 17 119 77
14 GER  852 Michael Nissen  DTYC 7 14 18 11 16 9 6 16 97 79
15 GER   32 Fabian Rossbacher  SCV 30 16 17 17 3 14 7 12 116 86
16 DEN  1577 Jørgen Holm  EV 13 3 15 15 21 15 20 DNC 144 102
17 GER   5 Ralf Tietje  SVG 24 27 13 10 22 26 16 8 146 119
18 THA  444 Morten Jakobsen  ROYAL VARUNA YC 33 13 14 25 11 23 22 14 155 122
19 GER   78 Stefan Haage  WYCFN 12 21 22 29 23 16 19 20 162 133
20 FRA  150 Pierre Arrighi S N BANDOL 1 24 31 21 25 27 17 DNC 188 146
21 GBR   91 Ian Hopwood  BASSENTHWAITE DSQ 15 BFD 24 17 25 13 15 193 151
22 GER   81 Jan-Dietmar Dellas  SAIL-LOLLIPOP REGATTA SC 25 39 29 27 15 22 24 11 192 153
23 GER   8 Ronald Foest  DEUTSCHER REGATTA SC 32 19 30 16 27 24 18 24 190 158
24 GER  618 Peter Scheuerl  BERND 26 22 26 19 24 21 21 DNC 201 159
25 NED  690 Sybren Hornstra  ZZ 22 18 19 26 30 31 25 22 193 162
26 FRA  1842 Laurent Petetin S N BANDOL 35 32 21 28 29 17 23 21 206 171
27 AUS   8 Mark Jackson  BLACK ROCK YC 31 31 11 UFD 18 4 DNF DNC 221 179
28 FRA  794 Didier Soulie  V LACANAU GUYENNE 27 35 35 23 28 28 29 25 230 195
29 AUS   7 Glenn Williams  ASC 21 30 32 33 19 20 DNF DNC 239 197
30 GER   66 Christian Kirchner  SWCV 16 26 27 20 DNF DNF 26 DNC 241 199
31 GBR   18 Derych Lovegrove  ANGLETERRE 39 36 25 36 26 30 28 18 238 199
32 FRA  1709 Patrice Rovere  Y C ILE DE FRANCE 29 28 36 37 36 33 27 23 249 212
33 FRA  1823 Jean louis Petetin  S N BANDOL 15 23 20 UFD 32 DNF DNC DNC 258 216
34 DEN   55 Henrick Sogren  S.A.S. 14 34 33 30 DSQj 29 DNF DNC 266 224
35 FRA   64 Frederic Lamarque  V LACANAU GUYENNE 20 25 23 38 35 DNF DNF DNC 267 225
36 GER   89 Lutz Pickenhahn S.C.V. 36 40 34 35 31 34 30 26 266 226
37 FRA   17 Henri Berenger  S N DE SANARY 28 29 28 34 33 32 DNF DNF 268 226
38 FRA  1835 Xavier Beckius  S N BANDOL 34 37 38 31 34 35 DNF DNC 293 251
39 SWE  2927 Pelle Weimenhog  WBS 37 38 37 22 DNC DNC DNC DNC 302 260
40 FRA  1843 Jean Yves Geoffroy V LACANAU GUYENNE 38 33 39 32 DNF DNF DNF DNC 310 268
GBR  2279 Matt Howard  HISC/SBSC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 336 294