ISAF Youth Worlds 2014, SL16: Flament-Dorange 1st
The work done by the French sailing Federation keeps bringing them results. In Ireland they put at least 4 youths helms in the top 10. Now Louis FLament & Charles Dorange win the 2014 ISAF World Championships on the SL16.Mitch Booth sons, Jordi & Fernando in second place and Brazilians Kim Vidal & Anotonio Lopez 3rd. US F16/F18 rising star Ravi Parent with Nicholas Schultz in 4th.
F16 World Champ, Henry Demesmaeker ends 12th overall with Emile Vanholsbeke, showing the level of the other youth crews.
No much pics available from ISAF, they publish 2 per class per day…. Official website isafyouthworlds.com/home.php
| R | Cty | Helm Name | Crew Name | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | Total | Nett |
| 1st | FRA | Louis Flament | Charles Dorange | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | (ocs) | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 30 |
| 2nd | ESP | Jordi Booth Ferrando | Ruben Booth Ferrando | 3 | -8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 50 | 42 |
| 3rd | BRA | Kim Vidal | Antonio Lopes | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | (ocs) | 7 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 79 | 62 |
| 4th | USA | Ravi Parent | Nicholas Schultz | 5 | 5 | 4 | -12 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 79 | 67 |
| 5th | NZL | Micah Wilkinson | Jack Rogers | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 8 | -14 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 91 | 77 |
| 6th | HUN | Flora Virag | Balazs Gecse | -11 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 91 | 80 |
| 7th | CYP | Onisiphoros Neophytou | Nikolas Protopapas | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -13 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 101 | 88 |
| 8th | AUS | Michelle Bursa | Chelsea Haynes | 8 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 2 | -12 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 101 | 89 |
| 9th | SIN | Ryan Teo | Joshua Matthew Lim | 14 | 13 | -15 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 108 | 93 |
| 10th | RSA | Brandon Wijtenburg | Todd Fisher | -13 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 8,5rdg | 9 | 109.5 | 96.5 |
| 11th | GBR | Oliver Greber | Jessica Eales | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | -14 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 120 | 106 |
| 12th | BEL | Henri Demesmaeker | Emile Vanholsbeke | 9 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 5 | (ocs) | 8 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 129 | 112 |
| 13th | ITA | Gianluigi Ugolini | Giulio Zizzari | 6 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 9 | (dsq) | 134 | 117 |
| 14th | POR | Vasco Rocha | Salvador Taveira | 12 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 14 | (ret) | 5 | 147 | 130 |
| 15th | DEN | Martin Holm Schwensen | Peter Mehr | (dnf) | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 184 | 167 |
| 16th | ARU | Cees Van Asselt | Sil Grijpma | 15 | -16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 200 | 184 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16