Round Texel 2017 : Heemskerk, Zanen & Houwing 1st , Flying M20

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Mischa Heemskerk aside being one of the top notch catsailors of all time,  is also such a great character & innovator. After several attempts to win the Texel Blue Ribbon with his custom modified Marstrom 20, Mischa finally grabbed the first place real & corrected time in this 2017 Round Texel Edition.

The detail is he won with 3 sailors onboard…! The M20 this time also featured a Decksweeper added to already custom equipped  TNZ J boards. Decksweeper for Foilers will become a defacto option, a design alternative super proven by now. On the floaters still in devel, Brewin got some good resutls at F18 Nats witht the Scorpion in January,  and check yet another Scorpion shot above  equipped with prototype sails by Mischa and sailed by Pieter Oskam & Tony Mels. Tony reports some excellent speed upwind and some time needed to adapt for crew for tacking and gybing.

The Decksweeper sail is key to note, as the F20FCS or the Vampire M20 were using it.
Heemskerk, Zanen & Houwing sailing the M20 winning Time was 2:57:29

2nd place for  Xander Pols & Stefan Dubbeldam on a Nacra F20FCS and third for William Sunnucks & Mark Self on the other heavily modified and custom equipped foiling Vampire M20.

4th overall real time / 2nd corrected and first F18 were Jolbert van Dijk & Frank de Waard, who after a tough capsize past week they managed to put the Nacra Infusion back together to finish only 6mins later than Sunnucks M20 foiler.

Simon Northrop & Sam Barker had a another good performance on their Infusion / Hyde Sails finishing 4th overall real time at 3:22:35. They also won the toplenzen Texel Dutch Open  with 5 bullets.  TDO Results here

Jolbert , Frank & Simon are on a mission for Denmark F18 Worlds 2017 –

On corrected Time Mischa first,  guess on the 3 crews handicap as F20FCS payed too much for ie, second for Jolbert & Frank on the Infusion F18 and third for Duijndam & Steenvoorden on a Hobie 16.

Round Texel 2017 Full results at registrations.roundtexel.com/finish

Round Texel On corrected time top were :

Position	Starting Number	Boot type	Spinnaker	Team	Finish Time	Corrected Time
1	286	M20 JPS	Yes	Eduard Zanen/Mischa Heemskerk	02:57:29	03:15:02
2	354	Nacra Infusion F18	Yes	Jolbert van Dijk/Frank de Waard	03:18:57	03:18:57
3	266	hobie 16	No	Rogier Duijndam/Sonja Steenvoorden	04:02:09	03:21:48
4	278	Nacra Infusion F18	Yes	Simon Northrop/Sam Barker	03:22:35	03:22:35
5	48	C2 F18	Yes	Vincent Huntelman/Cyril Calis	03:24:24	03:24:24

Round Texel Real Time Top 20:

Position	Starting Number	Boot type	Spinnaker	Team	Corrected Time	Finish Time
1	286	M20 JPS	Yes	Eduard Zanen/Mischa Heemskerk	03:15:02	02:57:29
30	34	nacra F20 Carbon FCS	Yes	Xander Pols/Stefan Dubbeldam	03:34:34	03:04:32
66	283	M20 Vampire	Yes	William D Sunnucks/Mark Self	03:46:21	03:12:24
2	354	nacra F18	Yes	Jolbert van Dijk/Frank de Waard	03:18:57	03:18:57
4	278	nacra F18	Yes	Simon Northrop/Sam Barker	03:22:35	03:22:35
87	43	nacra F20 carbon	Yes	Florian Steidle/Christopher Burkart	03:50:51	03:23:09
5	48	C2	Yes	Vincent Huntelman/Cyril Calis	03:24:24	03:24:24
7	147	C2	Yes	Hans van Dam/Marius van Dam	03:24:54	03:24:54
8	364	nacra F18	Yes	Wik Becker/Rob Becker	03:26:31	03:26:31
11	282	nacra 17 Olympic Class (2)	Yes	Bart Damen/Valerie Goudriaan	03:28:41	03:26:36
10	49	nacra infusion	Yes	Tjiddo Veenstra/Thomas de Jong	03:27:19	03:27:19
13	119	falcon F18	Yes	Andy Lutz/Raymond Schlatter	03:29:24	03:29:24
14	161	C2	Yes	Leon van Dalfsen/Abel Blaauw	03:29:39	03:29:39
15	192	nacra infusion	Yes	arjan baas/Tjalko Jansz	03:29:41	03:29:41
16	361	C2	Yes	babette den houting/jacob den houting	03:29:48	03:29:48
17	131	formule 18	Yes	Rik Duinmeijer/Corstiaan Alessie	03:29:59	03:29:59
18	200	formule 18	Yes	Pieter Oskam/Tony Mels	03:30:05	03:30:05
31	184	nacra 17 Olympic Class (2)	Yes	Gunnar Larsen/Lisa Larsen	03:34:36	03:30:18
6	157	Nacra F16 Double Handed Curved	Yes	Robin Mineur/Sander Mineur	03:24:37	03:30:45
19	20	nacra infusion	Yes	Eric de Haas/Niels de Haas	03:30:50	03:30:50