Nesselblatt 2011 – Tag 2 – 30. April 2011

Nesselblatt 2011 – Tag 1 – 29.April 2011

Zwischenergebnis nach 3 wettfahrten:

Nesselblatt 2011 – Tag 0

Nur noch 1 Tag bis zum 53. Int. Nesselblatt – 29.4./1.5. 2011

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Nur noch wenige Tage bis  zum Nesselblatt, der grössten deutschen Finn-Regatta auf dem Steinhuder Meer – SLSV

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Ausschreibung / Notice of Race

Online-Meldung – Meldeliste / Online-Entry – Entry-list (Neuer Link)

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29. April – 01. Mai 2011
Zeitplan / Schedule:

1. Wettfahrt / Race, 29. April,
Ankündigung / Warning signal 10:55 Uhr

Teilnehmer:

Gemeldet haben u.a. die Niederländischen Spitzensegler: Karel van Hellemond, Henk de Jager, Nanno Schuttrups, Cees Scheurwater

die polnischen Finnsegler Maciej Malag und  Artur Ponieczynski -

sowie  Weltmeister Thomas Schmid, Masters-Weltmeister Andre’ Budzien,  und die deutschen Top-Scorer Ulli Kurfeld, Philipe Fischer, Christoph Froh, Jürgen Eiermann, Lennart Luttkus.

Meldungen / Wassertemperatur:

10.04.2011 - 58 Meldungen
11.04.2011 – 62 Meldungen
12.04.2011 – 66 Meldungen
13.04.2011 – 67 Meldungen
14.04.2011 – 72 Meldungen
15.04.2011 – 76 Meldungen       Wassertemperatur 13,4 Grad
16.04.2011 – 77 Meldungen
17.04.2011 – 80 Meldungen       Wassertemperatur 14,5  Grad
18.04.2011 - 81 Meldungen        Wassertemperatur 15,3 Grad
19.04.2011 – 82 Meldungen
20.04.2011 – 83 Meldungen      Wassertemp. 17,3 Grad um 18.50 Wilhelmstein
21.04.2011 -  83 Meldungen
23.04.2011 -  84 Meldungen      Wassertemp. 18,9 Grad um 18:00 Uhr
27.04.2011 – 84 Meldungen – Wassertemp. 17,6 Grad um 18 Uhr
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90 oder mehr Meldungen dürfen es gerne werden

Meuse Finn Open Maas – 16./17. April 2011

Betreff: im Rückblende Finn Meuse

Erik Paol, chairman
Maastricht Dinghy Club “Waolenwiert”
c/o Geulderlei 4 (statuary address)
www.waolenwiert.nl

6243 NG GEULLE
Tel +31 (0)43 409 1118
Mob +31 (0)6 2502 7916

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Finn – Hyeres – Tag 5

Zwischenergebnis nach 10 Wettfahrten:

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GER 771

KURFELD  Jan (M1987)

GOLD

109.00

151.00

14 14.00

7 7.00

4 4.00

OCS 42.00

19 19.00

9 9.00

7 7.00

19 19.00

29 29.00

1 1.00

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34

GER 151

MILLER  Matthias (M1982)

GOLD

184.00

221.00

7 7.00

6 6.00

31 31.00

14 14.00

23 23.00

7 7.00

34 34.00

29 29.00

33 33.00

37 37.00

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Hyeres day five – in the bag for Ainslie

Yet another victory for Ben Ainslie (GBR) is now assured after three more races for the Finns at the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres.
Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) hangs onto second place and Zach Railey (USA) moves up to third, but the minor medals are still wide open going into Friday’s medal race.
If Ben Ainslie needs to send a message to the British Olympic team selectors, then this week he has been crystal clear. Six race wins out of 10 races and counting no worse than a fourth, he has taken the week with a day to spare.
After a 1, 4, 3 today, Ainslie now has an unassailable lead of 29 points going into tomorrow’s final medal race. Ainslie took the first race from Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) and Thomas Le Breton (FRA) in 5-8 knots. Third placed Giles Scott (GBR) picked up a second yellow flag and had to retire from the race, while another top 10 contender Gasper Vincec (SLO) picked up a black flag.
The second race, breaking a four win run for Ainslie, went to his training partner Mark Andrews (GBR) from Vasilij Zbogar (SLO) and Zach Railey (USA).
But a fourth place for Ainslie yet again extended his lead at the top. A second yellow flag of the day for Giles Scott (GBR) effectively removed all his chances of a podium finish.
It was starting to look like those who dared to talk to your reporter this week were plagued by bad results, and following input from Jan Kurfeld (GER) yesterday, it was happening again after he posted a 19, 29 in the first two races. But he bounced back hard with a well deserved race victory in the final race of the series for him to end up 15th overall, and again meeting his own goals, just five points from the medal race. He was followed over the line by Le Breton and Ainslie.
After his worst races so far with a 12, 19 in the earlier races today, Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) concluded the day with a fourth in the final race to move back up to second overall, just three points ahead of Railey, who posted a 12th in the final race, after earlier scoring a 4, 3. In the silver fleet, the first race went to the winner’s of Wednesday’s only race, Aleksey Selivanov (RUS) from Jakub Dumara (POL) and Marko Kolic (ITA). A fourth for Luke Lawrence kept him in the overall lead. The next race went to his team mate Caleb Paine (USA) from Kolic and Akif Muslubus (TUR). Lawrence placed fifth to extend the points gap on Kolic in second. In the final silver fleet race, Paine finished second to Tauras Rymonis (LTU) and ahead of Selivanov. A sixth for Lawrence was enough to give him the silver fleet win by 17 points from Dimitriy Tereshkin (RUS) and Selivanov.
Ainslie said, “It’s been a good week. I was happy with the results in the breeze on day one and managed to build a good series from there. For the medal race, “I’ll try to have a good race and hopefully learn some more about the medal race as we don’t race them that often compared with standard races. It’s nice to win with a day to spare – it takes the pressure off the medal race.
In second place going into the medal race, Postma said, “Apart from the first day of nice breeze, the rest of the week has been really light and shifty, which makes sailing here really hard. So far for me the racing has been good. The training has paid off and after the break last year I have got my mojo back. Ben is sailing really fast and what an inspiration. He and his team put up such a high professional level in all areas and deserves a lot of respect.”
Railey said, “We had a little more breeze today but it remained shifty and patchy making it difficult racing. I feel good about my scores. I had some comebacks to keep myself in the running for the podium which was nice. Tomorrow the points are very close and I will have to see how the race unfolds.”
Fourth placed Kljakovic Gaspic can still get the silver after the medal race. He said, “Today was tricky, light and shifty but interesting to sail.
It was easy to make mistakes and collect more points that you expect. In total I am happy with my performance. The fleet is strong and it is great fun to sail with these guys. I am looking forward to the next events.” For the medal race, “Just let it go and sail – it feels good that I am in the fight for the podium.”
While most of the medal race sailors are regular front runners, 20 year old Filippo Baldassari (ITA) in 10th is sailing his first medal race. This has been his best ever result and with Hyeres being part of the Italian Olympics trials process, he has done himself no harm there either.
The gold medal is already deservedly Ainslie’s. The fight for silver is between Postma, Railey and Kljakovic Gaspic, while Daniel Birgmark (SWE) and Thomas Le Breton (FRA) can also get bronze, but they need to win the race to stand a chance.
The medal races in Hyeres start from 10 am on Friday with live tracking through the event website.

Quelle: finnclass.org

Finn – Hyeres 2011 – Tag 4

Zwischenergebnis nach 7 Wettfahrten:

13

GER771

KURFELD  Jan (M1987)

GOLD

60.00

102.00

14 14.00

7 7.00

4 4.00

OCS 42.00

19 19.00

9 9.00

7 7.00

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GER151

MILLER  Matthias (M1982)

GOLD

88.00

122.00

7 7.00

6 6.00

31 31.00

14 14.00

23 23.00

7 7.00

34 34.00

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Mit Platzierungen in den Top-Ten ist vor allem Jan gut für die entscheidenden Regatten im Juni  (Olympia-Qualifikation)  gerüstet. 

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Hyeres day four – fifth race win for Ainslie

On day four of the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres, Ben Ainslie (GBR) took the only race win to extend his lead at the top to 13 points from Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) and 15 from Giles Scott (GBR).
Today the fleet was split into gold and silver heats for the first time, so competition in the gold fleet was especially fierce. Only one race was completed. In the gold fleet race Ben Ainslie (GBR) crossed ahead to win his fifth race of the week, with Zach Railey (USA) continuing his good form with another second place and Giles Scott (GBR) making a small recovery in the overall results with a third place. Two of the top performers of yesterday Deniss Karpak (EST) and Ed Wright (GBR) did not fare so well, finishing well down in the 20s. Karpak said, “A clear view of the course and
faith made yesterday’s wins possible…today I was unlucky…and got a yellow flag.”
Fourth place went to the top French sailor so far this week, Thomas Le Breton (FRA) while Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) consolidated his second place overall with a fifth place race finish. So far Postma is the only sailor apart from Ainslie to maintain single digit scoreline, and is sailing his best regatta for many years.
In sixth place is Daniel Birgmark (SWE) – who finished fourth in the last Olympics in China – after scoring a ninth today. After a tough trials with the other Swedish sailors in Palma, he is having a much easier ride in Hyeres with little competition from Johan Tillander (SWE) and Bjorn Allansson (SWE). Does this take the pressure off him? He replied, “I like tough competition.”
On his performance so far. “I am trying to sail in the middle and take the shifts. My upwind speed was OK, much better then in Palma in similar winds and that helps of course to get better results. The key is to use the windshifts and find the good pressure, so normal racing. It is fun racing, but I hope the winds are not too light.”
In the silver fleet race, Aleksiy Selniakov (RUS) won from the world Junior Champion Luke Lawrence (USA) and Tomasz Kosmicki (POL).
After an up and down first day, the 2008 Olympic Silver medalist Zach Railey has climbed the board each day and now sits poised in fourth overall. He said, “We have been having some really long days here in Hyeres waiting on the wind to come in and get the races off. We have completed three difficult races over the last two days. The racing has been hard to predict and I have felt good about my choices of where to go on the course. We are
still not 100% up to speed but we are making adjustments and learning a lot about what steps we need to take.”
On the last day of the gold fleet finals, “Most everyone is now holding a large score for their drops so the pressure is on to perform each and every race.
One of those sailors just outside the top 10 is Jan Kurfeld (GER) who has put together a reasonably good series to sit in 13th place, just seven points outside the top 10. However, “I am not really thinking of the medal race. Like in Palma I will try to be top 20 overall, that’s my minimum goal. Therefore my aim is to finish the races tomorrow as good as possible.”
On today’s racing he said, “Today the conditions were quite tough. We had light winds with a maximum of seven knots, average of five knots and less.
The wind did not shift much, but it was difficult to race and of course tricky in the light winds and it was pretty hard to keep the boat going fast.”
The race committee will try to sail three races on Thursday – the final day of fleet racing – starting at 10 am, and with a forecast of 8 – 12 knots it should be better racing. As usual the points around the medal race cut are very tight and with three races possible anything can happen.

Quelle: finnclass.org

Star – Hyeres 2011 – Tag 4

22

GER 414

POLGAR  Johannes (M1977) KOY  Markus (M1974)

110.00

139.00

20 20.00

16 16.00

25 25.00

14 14.00

7 7.00

28 28.00

29 29.00

Mit Interesse beobachte ich die Ergebnisse des Ex-Tornado-Seglers Johannes Polgar, der ja das Finn als Katastrophenboot bezeichnet hat und nun abgeschlagen Platz 22 des nur 37 Boote  umfassenden Starfeldes belegt. Anscheinend ist der auf Speed ausgelegte  Tornado keine gute Schule für die Starklasse.

Finn – Hyeres 2011 – Tag 3

Bitte das Ergebnis zum Vergrössern anklicken !

Finn Zwischenergebnis nach 6 Wettfahrten – 1 Streicher

Pieter Jan Postma – Rang 2

Jan Kurfeld – Rang 17

Florian Raudaschl – Rang 19

Matthias Miller – Rang 20

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Schöner Zweikampf der beiden deutschen Teilnehmer auf  höchstem Niveau

Tuesday 26th April 2011

The objective of the day to finish the programme before the final stage has been reached! Sailing started late due to a summery weather, more appropriate for lazing in the shade than sailing a regatta! The chances to conclude the qualifications looked grim but finally by 8PM the last boats came back to the dock after a long day of wait and sail.

In the Finn, Ben Ainslie is back at the front after a perfect day and two bullets.

“It was a really tricky day – the wind was all over the place and there were lots of place changes in all of the races, but I was happy to get through with two good races in the end considering everything that went on, so it was a good day.”

Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) is continuing with regular results to take second overall. Ed Wright climbs on the podium. Young Estonian Deniss Karpak wins both races in his group and get to seventh overall.

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Hyeres day three – Ainslie climbs to the top

A second-double-win day for Ben Ainslie (GBR) on day three of the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres has given him a useful points margin at the top of the fleet while Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) has moved up to second place and World Champion Ed Wright (GBR) has climbed to third. Both the other race wins were taken by Deniss Karpak (EST).
The forecast for the day was not great with variable and very light winds forecast for the morning, rising to a meagre seven knots in the afternoon.
After a long and hot delay to wait for the breeze to arrive, by 13.30, 8-12 knots was in place and the fleet was sent afloat. The Finn heats finally started at just after 15.00 with race five of the 11 race series and the sailors did not get ashore until the evening.
In race five, in the blue fleet Ben Ainslie (GBR) won from Ivan Kljakovoc Gaspic (CRO and Ed Wright (GBR) while in the yellow fleet Deniss Karpak (EST) won from Filippo Baldassari (ITA) and Li Zhen (CHN).
Ainslie and Karpak did it again in race six, each taking their second bullet of the day. Ainslie was followed over the finish by Zach Railey (USA) and Daniel Birgmark (SWE), while behind Karpak were Eduard Skornyakov (RUS) and Jonas Høgh Christensen (DEN), neither of whom has had a particularly good week so far.

Ainslie commented on the conditions, “The conditions were very tough with the wind swinging a lot and big place changes. My day kind of hinged around trying to keep with the leaders and looking for an opportunity. Fortunately they came. Hopefully we will get some more breeze for the rest of the week and some good racing to test everyone.”
Railey added, “It was really hard day today. The wind was shifty but also there were big pressure differences and if you picked it wrong you were in trouble. The racing is very close so it is possible to gain and lose places all the time.”

“I’m looking forward to getting into the Gold Final and testing myself against all the guys at once. It should be an exciting few days to see who makes the final top 10 as lots of guys have the chance with four races to go.”
Nicknamed ‘Le Chef’, Daniel Dahon formerly coached French Finn stars Philippe Presti and Xavier Rohart for many years before continuing with Rohart in the Star. At 70, he is as enthusiastic as ever and jumped at the chance to come to Hyères to coach 23 years old Matt Coutts (NZL). Dahon said, “I stopped coaching for the French team after Beijing – too old they told me. I have been away from the sailing circuit for two years and now am very happy to be back. Ten days ago I was contacted by Russell Coutts’ secretary asking me if I was available to coach Matt Coutts. He is a
really nice guy, a student. I knew he came from the Laser but wasn’t sure about his level in the Finn.”

“I asked him what he expected from me and he told me, “You give me all you can.” I saw him sail yesterday for the first time. He has a good level, but lacks experience. He started in the Finn last year and has never had a coach. He seems to be smart and has a good build for the Finn.”
After the first day on the water the coach gave his first advice. “He needs to work on his steering downwind. Upwind he is fine. We talked about tactics and how to deal with the weather, his opponents. We have started to observe his rig and sails. It is interesting to start with a young motivated guy who wants to learn and progress.” After six races Coutts is lying in 28th place after an 11th and a 30th today.
On Wednesday and Thursday the boats will now be split into gold and silver fleets, before the medal race for the top 10 on Friday.

Quelle: finnclass.org

Finn – Hyeres 2011 – Tag 2

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Jan Kurfeld  in der dritten Wettfahrt auf Platz 4 vor Ben Ainslie, Platz 7 !

Leider hat Jan beim Start der 4. Wettfahrt zuviel riskiert, d.h. ein OCS eingefangen und liegt nun – ohne Berücksichtigung eines Streichers -  auf Platz 33

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Mathias Miller ist mit einem 31. Platz in WF 3 vorübergehend auf den Rang 26 abgerutscht, konnte sich in WF 4  mit einem 14. Platz bis auf  Rang 24 verbessern.

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http://sof.ffvoile.net/results/finn.htm

Hyeres day two – double win for Dan Slater

Day two of the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres brought much lighter winds and race wins for Dan Slater (NZL), Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) and Giles Scott (GBR). After four races Scott holds a one point lead over Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Postma.
With winds of 3-10 knots and 30 degree shifts, day two in Hyeres was a tricky day, though in general most of the same names appeared at the front. In the third race Dan Slater (NZL) and Pieter Jan Postma (NED) picked up race wins in their fleets, while Tapio Nirkko (FIN) and Ioanis Mitakis (GRE) got second places and Matt Coutts (NZL) and Deniss Karpak (EST) got thirds.
Karpak said, “Today was a great day in Hyeres. We had a light sea breeze with tricky shifts. I was lucky all the time, and did well in both races.” He placed eighth in race four to sit in 16th overnight. There was some extra drama in race three though, “There was a change of mark in the first race today, and the new mark is always white (the normal colour is yellow) but Ed Wright, Andrew Mills and Timo Hagoort went to wrong mark.” They were disqualified. Meanwhile both the joint leaders Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Giles Scott (GBR) received a yellow flag in race three and
both finished seventh. Ainsie had actually rounded the first mark in the mid 20s but recovered to seventh by the finish, depsite the penalty.
For race four, Slater won his second race of the day while Giles Scott (GBR) won his third of the week to take the overall lead. Second place getters were Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Michele Paoletti (ITA) while the third places went to Thomas Le Breton (FRAO and Zach Railey (USA).
Slater commented, “It was very light today, about 6-9 knots and I was lucky to get off the line well. In the first race Ed was leading and then sailed the wrong course which handed me the lead and I went on to win. In the second race Ed, Ben and I were in front for the whole race with the lead changing a few times in the shifty conditions. It was all quite close today and the margins were were only 10-15 seconds.”
Third in the first race was the leading Finnish sailor, Tapio Nirkko, who is sailing his new boat this week. He said, “The conditions were pretty good in the first race today, almost 10 knots. I got big lines working and I was quite happy with my speed around the course today though my new boat feels different to my old one. It is taking a bit too much attention at the moment but I’ll get used to it. The racing is challenging but fun when absolutely all the top guys are here. You can a little bit sense some kind of extra tension in those guys whose having trials going on, but mostly the
feeling in the fleet is good, as usual.”
There is one more day of the blue/yellow fleet split before the all important gold and silver split on Wednesday and Thursday. The medal race for the top 10 is on Friday 29th April.

Quelle: finnclass.org