F18 Worlds 2014 @Ireland: Day 4, Larsen-van West regain Lead
Image: Jasper van Staveren. With Two discards now in play and after 12 races, Gunnar Larsen & Fer van West are leading by 4 pts over Reiss-Whitehead who were leading up to the 11th.
Light weather racing today, in contrast of yesterday’s 20knots.
Gunnar scored today 5,9 and a bullet by miles that gave him and Fer the lead overall, responding to the Youth attack. The US talented kids 3,4 and a 13th (worst results so far) that ended as their second discard.
Ashby & Goodall return to race and 8,1,6. Yesterady they had to repair the port hull and missed 4 races, that in the end it could be too much loss and one of the reasons the As have 2 races per day.
I think to keep it fair in the F18 for all levels and ages a maximum of 3 x days should be Ok.
After the two leaders, the French fleet is pressing for podium places lead by current Nat Champs Bontempts-Amiot, Carnac Long Distance winners, Lagraviere-Jarlegan and followed by 3 Junior skippers : Tim Mourniac, Robert Solune & Lois Berrehar.
BEL Patrick Demesmaeker and ARG Rodger are currently 7th & 9th respectively and the top ten closes with the sixth FRA flag with Emeric Dary & David Fanoulliere.
– N17 Europeans with another day of no racing.. check posts below.
– Daily Pics by Jasper later. Official website https://2014.f18worlds.com
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– Full Results at https://2014.f18worlds.com/results-practice-race.html
| R | Bow | Helm | CrewName | SailNo | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | Tot | Nett |
| 1st | 17 | Gunnar Larsen | Ferdinand van West | NED 17 | 1.0 | (16.0) | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | (ocs) | 5.0 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 112.0 | 38.0 |
| 2nd | 14 | Taylor Reiss | Matthew Whitehead | USA357 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 9.0 | (10.0) | 5.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | (13.0) | 65.0 | 42.0 |
| 3rd | 45 | Gurvan Bontemps | Benjamin Amiot | 56836 | (16.0) | (21.0) | 5.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 86.0 | 49.0 |
| 4th | 33 | Morgan La Graviere | Armaud Jarlegan | FRA 124 | (bfd) | 5.0 | 20.0 | 17.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | (21.0) | 8.0 | 157.0 | 78.0 |
| 5th | 28 | Tim Mourniac | Jean Christophe Mourniac | FRA 2222 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 16.0 | 3.0 | (31.0) | 13.0 | (32.0) | 13.0 | 9.0 | 13.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 144.0 | 81.0 |
| 6th | 44 | Robert Solune | Riwan Perron | FRA 2217 | (39.0) | 10.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 15.0 | (36.0) | 164.0 | 89.0 |
| 7th | 48 | Patrick Demesmaeker | Klaas Victor | BEL 1 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 12.0 | (24.0) | 7.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 14.0 | (23.0) | 18.0 | 14.0 | 143.0 | 96.0 |
| 8th | 42 | Lois Berrehar | Hugo le Pomellec | FRA 88 | 5.0 | 14.0 | 25.0 | 2.0 | 16.0 | (bfd) | 7.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | (32.0) | 15.0 | 190.0 | 100.0 |
| 9th | 19 | Ian Rodger | Pablo Volker | ARG 666 | 15.0 | 9.0 | (26.0) | 4.0 | 9.0 | (bfd) | 16.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 191.0 | 107.0 |
| 10th | 29 | Emeric Dary | David Fanouillere | FRA 719 | 13.0 | 18.0 | 22.0 | (27.0) | 19.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | (26.0) | 2.0 | 161.0 | 108.0 |
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