F18 Worlds 2017 @Vallensbaek: Day 1

Update: Good Day 1 video by Hartas Production .  +200 photos published from Day 1 , check selection andn link to full gallery here.

— 2017 Worlds @Vallensbaek started officially today. Winds around 6 -12 knots and three races completed for a really good initial day.
Still much to go but many of our candidates from yesterday delivered: Demesmaeker-Tas got 1,1,10 , Sach bros 1,16,2  .

On the crews we pointed out to look before the event on their experience but with little hours on brand new boat, sails and mast  Mitch Booth & his son Ruben finished 2,4,3  and  Paschalidis-Trigonis 3,3,5  for a really nice first day for both crews.

Heemsker-Dekker I have reports on them with technical issues with 8, DNF, 15. The DNF is a mast dropped I’ve been informed.  Northrop-Barther scored 5,6,8.

Our Arg crew also delivered with a slow 24th on the first race to close the day 2 & 4th. Showing the good level they always had.

The course needs some local knowledge on course side pressure changes as reported by the Arg crew.
Official results are divided by fleet, on the overall done by us and provisional we have locals Daniel & Nicolaj Bjørnholt leading the fleet with 7pts , followed by Mitch & Ruben Booth 9pts in second place. Third & Fourth overall tied in pts but Leff Dahl & Terese Anstman from Sweden finished 2,1,8  to secure a third place over  Paschalidis-Trigonis 3,3,5  for 11pts overall for these two crews.

Fifth place for Demesmaeker-Tas but the Belgians have 1,1,10  & 12pts overall.
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*Live updates
We know racing is On,  Demesmaeker scored a bullet followed by Booth in first race in light conditions. Second race with  12-15knots, but No formal info yet, as no tracking or live updates. Results will be published  at f18worlds2017.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Results.htm
We’ll be updating here as news and results are available.
Update: Another bullet for Demesmaeker in Race 2.
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Update: Below overall top 20 joint fleets done by us. Official results by Fleet at f18worlds2017.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Results.htm. Report later, photos when available.
+200 photos published from Day 1 , check selection andn link to full gallery here

Rank Flight Category Bow # Nat Sail Helm Crew Q1 Q2 Q3 Total Nett
1st Overall Green 48 DEN 596 Daniel Bjørnholt Nicolaj Bjørnholt 3 2 2 7 7
2st Overall Green 32 ESP 11 Mitch Booth Ruben Booth 2 4 3 9 9
3st Overall Red 122 SWE 2 Leff Dahl Terese Antsman 2 1 8 11 11
4st Overall Red 15 GRE 7 Paschalidis Iordanis Trigkonis Konstantinos 3 3 5 11 11
5st Overall Green 113 BEL 1 Demesmaeker Patrick Tas Gilles 1 1 10 12 12
6st Overall Red 129 BEL 111 Hendrickx Philip Olyslager Filip 4 12 1 17 17
7st Overall Green 136 GBR 51 Simon Northrop Sam Barher 5 6 8 19 19
8st Overall Red Master 89 GER 336 Helge Sach Christian Sach 1 16 2 19 19
9st Overall Green 99 ITA 8 Christian Vettori Maurizio Stella 12 3 5 20 20
10st Overall Red 31 GER 339 Sven Lindstädt Jesse Lindstädt 5 5 11 21 21
11st Overall Green Master 81 NED 1936 Wik Becker Rob Becker 7 10 6 23 23
12st Overall Green 125 NED 8 Hans Breur Cas van Oort 10 12 4 26 26
13st Overall Green 22 GER 9 Finn Heeg Tom Heinrich 9 5 14 28 28
14st Overall Green 75 GER 33 Manuel Wunderle Fabian Wunderle 4 24 1 29 29
15st Overall Red 63 ARG 1912 Cruz González Smith Mariano Heuser 25 2 4 31 31
16st Overall Red 39 DEN 18 Magnus Dahl Nicolajsen Jesper Vogelius 10 4 19 33 33
17st Overall Red 41 NED 4 Jolbert van Dijk Frank de Waard 12 15 7 34 34
18st Overall Green 128 GBR 508 William Sunnucks Freddie White 6 7 23 36 36
19st Overall Green 53 NED 77 Hans van Dam Marius van Dam 8 20 11 39 39