F18 Raid Worlds 2022, Stockholm Archipelago: Day 4

by Editor · Published August 21, 2022 · Updated August 21, 2022

Breezy day at the Stockholm Archipelago. Only one leg could be completed today due to high winds for the 2022 F18 Raid Worlds.

Report below sent by KSSS Royal Swedish Yacht Club media.

Scandinavia with plenty of Catracing action today, check Sail GP Live Replay here

F18 Rad Worlds Top Ten, complete results after 7 races at stockholmarchipelagoraid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Resultat-race-12-3-4-5-6-7.html

Pos	Nat	Sail	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Tot	Nett
1st	BEL	1	Patrick Demesmaeker	Olivier Gagliani	34	-26	34	34	34	32	34	228	202
2nd	SWE	111	Jakob Lundqvist	Rasmus Rosengren	32	34	-31	33	32	34	31	227	196
3rd	AUS	0	Brett Burvill	Bailey Skewes	33	32	33	32	-15	22	27	194	179
4th	NED	15	Ad Noordzij	Maarten Noordzij	29	29	28	31	-25	33	29	204	179
5th	SWE	1	Lars Linder	Erik Brunnberg	31	31	30	29	27	-25	30	203	178
6th	SWE	7	Fredrik Karlsson	Niklas Nordblom	30	33	15	(0.0 DNS)	33	29	33	173	173
7th	SWE	1337	Max Linder	Casper Nordenram	-21	24	29	30	28	30	24	186	165
8th	NED	222	Wik Becker	Rob Becker	26	-15	32	28	20	31	26	178	163
9th	SWE	77	Nilas Bredberg	Leff Dahl	27	30	-7	26	18	16	32	156	149
10th	THA	21	Florent Herson	Alexander Frefel	28	23	26	20	31	20	-14	162	148

F18 Raid Worlds 2022, Day 4: …And action!

On the Saturday we were treated with true action sailing. The expected hard and gusty breeze did really kick in and send the racers off in a smoking down wind start. We saw speeds in the 20 knot range and knowing that any minor mistake would cause a crash made the sailors fully focused. After the down wind leg came a short upwind and after that a long hard beam reach in about 20 knots of wind with gusts at 28. You could see expressions of utter joy shifting to fear and back again in the faces of the sailors.

It is very tight in the top, but the Swedish team Lundqvist,Rosengren took the lead early and the Belgians Demesmaeker, Gagliani wre further down the line, but have during the race showed a unique capacity to work their way up in the field. Despite the hard and gusty wind there was no severe breakage or incidents. Actually it was more dramatic during the night when a squall hit the harbour at Fejan.
A F18 catamaran that was moored by one of the safety RIBs was lofted by the almost 50 knots wind and tipped over and pulled the RIB with it, and both landed upside down on the quay. Miraculously none of the boats were damaged and and they could serve in the race on Saturday.

Back to the race. On the way towards the finish at Nässlingen was another screaming beam reach and when team Lunqvist, Rosengren suffered a minor technical problem,
which caused a capsize and Demesmaeker, Gagliani and two other teams could pass. The Australians Burvill, Skewes did also make decents race and the top three before the last day of racing now looks like this: