Shockwave F18 warming up

by Editor · Published April 5, 2009 · Updated May 24, 2019

Too much talk about the Wildcat right now, justified though, but we’ll have a 2nd brand new F18 at Belguim Worlds this year. The Loday/White Shockwave.
Watch out for them, hope they can get a good team of boats so we can verify the performance of the (till now) ‘underground’ F18.
My prediction is that the Shockwave will surprise many at the Worlds.

UK Worlds qualifying results at Datchet Cat Open:
1st Rob Wilson & Ed Barney (Shockwave/ North Sails)
2nd Hugh Styles & Greg Windle (Nacra/ Performance Sails)
3rd Sam Newton & Ben Newton (Tiger/ North Sails)

North Sails UK

Position	Helm	Crew	Sail #	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Net	Total
1st	Rob Wilson	Edward Barney	002	3	2	9	1	1	1	17	8
2nd	Hugh Styles	Greg Windle	1111	1	1	2	4	16	2	26	10
3rd	Sam Newton	Ben Newton	462	13	6	7	2	3	7	38	25
4th	James Power	Gillian Power	016	19	9	5	3	4	5	45	26
5th	Simon Northrop	Robyn Ford	15	6	11	3	11	8	4	43	32
6th	William Sunnucks	Simon Farren	747	2	8	13	8	15	3	49	34
7th	Grant Piggott	A Sinclair	876	15	4	12	6	7	6	50	35
8th	Jonathan Worthington	Seb Greber	47	4	12	6	9	5	19	55	36
9th	Chris Field	Oli Egan	11	5	10	1	14	13	9	52	38
10th	Stuart Gummer	Ellen Forshaw	9	9	15	4	5	12	11	56	41
11th	David White	Jon Sweet	794	16	7	14	10	2	10	59	43
12th	Tim Neal	Bob Fry	120	7	3	17	15	10	8	60	43
13th	Dave Bartlett	Mark Robinson	4	8	13	15	7	6	14	63	48
14th	John Payne	Mathew Hunt	844	11	16	11	13	8	12	71	55
15th	Adam Piggott	Luke Butler	7	10	5	8	19	19	19	80	61
16th	John Tuckwell	Tom Walker	1551	12	17	16	12	11	13	81	64
17th	James Oleary	Tom Oleary	539	14	18	19	16	14	15	96	77
18th	Nathaniel Ward	N Scheldecker	215	19	14	10	19	19	19	100	81