Round Texel 2019: Hans & Marius Van Dam / C2 F18 win Texel overall, Kyle Stoneham & Josh O’Brien / M20 Vampire first in small cats.

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All images courtesy of Tony Mels / F18 Class NL. More at F18 Class NL fb. Great informative shots from Tony to illustrate the results for this 2019 Texel Edition. Official web , roundtexel.com/ , with not many photos, not a single one on the F18 winners.

Texel Correted Time/Rating

In corrected time, another win for an F18 platform at the Texel. This time for Hans & Marius Van Dam sailing a Goodall Design C2 / Goodall DS. The Van Dams have been performing at maximum level last seasons, pretty close to podium at Sarasota 2019 Worlds and they conitnue to show their form towards coming F18 Worlds to be held next week at Costa Brava. We hope to see father & son fighting for the 2019 title.

Texel Elapsed Time

For us an M20 Vampire has won the Texel elapsed time this year , gabbing the blue ribbon on a M32 might be a good run but nothing we can compare against. Kyle Stoneham & Josh O’Brien M20 Vampire finished seconds ahead of a standard Nacra F20 (curved foils, small winglets but not the full FCS foiling version). The M20 Vampire camp reports groundings for both M20s and that they were leading to regain beachcat lead at the finish line as seen in sequence above taken by Tony Mels.

This might be the first major win for the M20 Vampire, we’ve been following the project since day 1 and the platforms always seemed to struggle vs the FPs or Nacra F20s in the long distances races like Carnac or past Texels too.

The Vampire M20 has always been a fast platform but it was hard for them to put that in to actual regatta wins. The project continued its development and now also features a Decksweeper mainsail by Grant Piggot Sails. Well deserved reward for the British team behind this project, like William Sunnucks and builder Graham Eales. The Vampire is one of the pioneers to use T foils & flaps for foiling beachcats, also they have set a path for latest devels as the new TF35 foiler which will replace the floating D35 features a similar T Foil / Flaps 3Pt Foiling System.

Check our interview & tech papers on the M20 Vampire here. We’ll need to make an update as that one is from 2015. More comments of the Texel and pics of the grounded foils at M20 Vampire project fb

Considering the M20 Vampire development still a really good race for the Nacra F20 crew sailing against them and a couple of Nacra F20 FCS, edit: checking closely corrected time results they have a penalty assigned.

The first Nacra F20 FCS was Albert Steenman finishing around 1 minute behind the M20 Vampire. Thijs Visser sailed a DNA F1x A-Cat to a 16th place in elapsed time. Check below for the elapsed time results.

Mischa’s foiling M20 also participated but we don’t see it at the final results, we’ll seek for more info on what happened to them.

Official results Roundtexel.com

Top 30 Elapsed Time:

NR.	Bow#	Zeilnummer	Team	Boot type	Rating	Real	Corrected	Position Corrected
33	TR < 107	GBR 2	Kyle STONEHAM	M20 Vampire	82	03:33:30	04:20:21	42.5
59	TR < 107	GBR 54	John TUCKWELL	Nacra Carbon 20	89	03:33:45	04:00:10	69.0
75	TR < 107	NED93	Albert STEENMAN	Nacra 20 FCS PRO	86	03:34:47	04:09:44	81.0
19	TR < 107	NED 23	Xander POLS	Nacra 20 FCS PRO	86	03:38:24	04:13:57	25.5
67	TR < 107	124	Eric de HAAS	Nacra F20 Carbon	89	03:39:18	04:06:24	76.0
22	TR < 107	175	Yvan BOURGNON	Nacra F20 Carbon	86	03:39:43	04:15:29	29.0
1	TR < 107	NED 77	Hans van DAM	Formula 18	100	03:52:54	03:52:54	1.0
46	TR < 107	2020	Bob HENSEN	Nacra F20 Carbon	89	03:59:19	04:28:53	55.0
3	TR < 107	GBR 521	Grant PIGGOTT	Formula 18	100	04:00:47	04:00:47	5.0
4	TR < 107	NED 432	Jacob den HOUTING	Formula 18	100	04:03:22	04:03:22	6.0
5	TR < 107	NED 8	Gunnar LARSEN	Nacra Infusion	100	04:05:11	04:05:11	7.0
57	TR < 107	1101	Robin MINEUR	Formula 16	105	04:05:19	03:53:38	68.0
26	TR < 107	NED 18	Jorden VEENMAN	Formula 18	100	04:05:54	04:05:54	33.0
6	TR < 107	NED 1929	Remco KENBEEK	Nacra Infusion	100	04:06:22	04:06:22	9.0
7	TR < 107	ESP 3	Gerard LOOS	Formula 18	100	04:06:54	04:06:54	11.0
70	TR < 107	NED 44	Rik DUINMEIJER	Formula 18	100	04:07:05	04:07:05	78.0
8	TR < 107	NED 1975	Paul SCHOLTEN	Nacra Infusion	100	04:08:10	04:08:10	13.0
9	TR < 107	NED 1x	Jan SCHRAMA	Tornado	100	04:08:38	04:08:38	14.0
10	TR < 107	NED 88	Sanne WIELENGA	Formula 18	100	04:09:45	04:09:45	16.0
17	TR < 107	NED 17	Bart DAMEN	Nacra 17	99	04:09:46	04:12:17	23.0
11	TR < 107	NED 789x	Wik BECKER	Formula 18	100	04:09:51	04:09:51	17.0
33	TR < 107	10	Pierre MEERMANS	nacra inter 20	96	04:09:57	04:20:21	42.5
12	TR < 107	NED 1851	Cees van den BOS	Formula 18	100	04:10:17	04:10:17	18.0
14	TR < 107	5	Philip LABOUCHERE	Formula 18	100	04:10:55	04:10:55	20.0
91	TR < 107	GER 5	Sünko SCHRÖDER	nacra f20	89	04:10:55	04:41:55	97.0
15	TR < 107	NED 112	Leon van DALFSEN	Formula 18	100	04:11:19	04:11:19	21.0
16	TR < 107	NED 207	Thijs VISSER	A-cat	100	04:11:49	04:11:49	22.0
2	TR < 107	NED 216	Teuntje van ES	Formula 16	105	04:12:16	04:00:15	4.0
18	TR < 107	5 NED	Peter VINK	Nacra Infusion	100	04:12:43	04:12:43	24.0

Top 20 Corrected Time

NR.	Bow#	Zeilnummer	Team	Boot type	YS	T
1	TR < 107	NED 77	Hans van DAM	Formula 18	100	1.0
2	TR < 107	NED 216	Teuntje van ES	Formula 16	105	4.0
3	TR < 107	GBR 521	Grant PIGGOTT	Formula 18	100	5.0
4	TR < 107	NED 432	Jacob den HOUTING	Formula 18	100	6.0
5	TR < 107	175	Yvan BOURGNON	f20	90	7.0
6	TR < 107	NED 8	Gunnar LARSEN	Nacra Infusion	100	8.0
7	TR < 107	NED 1929	Remco KENBEEK	Nacra Infusion	100	10.0
8	TR < 107	ESP 3	Gerard LOOS	Formula 18	100	12.0
9	TR < 107	NED 1975	Paul SCHOLTEN	Nacra Infusion	100	14.0
10	TR < 107	NED 88	Sanne WIELENGA	Formula 18	100	16.0
11	TR < 107	NED 789x	Wik BECKER	Formula 18	100	17.0
12	TR < 107	NED 1851	Cees van den BOS	Formula 18	100	18.0
13	TR < 107	NED 789	Geert RUESINK	Formula 16	104	19.0
14	TR < 107	5	Philip LABOUCHERE	Formula 18	100	20.0
15	TR < 107	NED 112	Leon van DALFSEN	Formula 18	100	21.0
16	TR < 107	NED 207	Thijs VISSER	A-cat	100	22.0
17	TR < 107	NED 17	Bart DAMEN	Nacra 17	99	23.0
18	TR < 107	NED 23	Xander POLS	nacra 20 FCS- pro	86	24.5
19	TR < 107	1828x	Jelmer WIJMA	Formula 18	100	26.0
20	TR < 107	NL 1558	Rolph SPAAS	Nacra Infusion	100	27.0