Championnat du monde i14 en NZ

Bah disant qu'en abattant c'est quand même pas trés dur d'être approximativement à plat d'autant que ca n'a pas l'air d'être baston. Maintenant si tu regardes bien la photo, le premier peut volontairement ne pas abattre pour forcer les autres à rester loffé et les envoyer dans l'eau ou au delà de la layline.

Petits joueurs Bieker/Lavignoule!!! Se baquer deavnt un tanker....  :  

Petits joueurs Bieker/Lavignoule!!! Se baquer deavnt un tanker....  :  

Il finissent quant même 16ème !

Etrange c'est championnats ou pas mal de favoris se sont pris une ou plusieurs taules. Va fallori voir ce que ca donne au jeu des discard. Le premier de l'equipe d'angleterre vainqueur par équipe est 19ème...

Petits joueurs Bieker/Lavignoule!!! Se baquer deavnt un tanker....  :  

Mais non, c'est simplement que le Bieker 5 n'est pas équipé des freins, contrairement aux générations précédentes !
C'est donc le seul moyen qu'ils ont trouvé pour éviter le cargo !!! :-X

Fréd.

C'est donc le seul moyen qu'ils ont trouvé pour éviter le cargo !!! :-X

Et le pire, c'est que c'est peut-être vrai....

Salut tout le monde,

Bon, ca se passe pas terrible pour tout les deux... trois manches de baston avec le comite qui nous indique 14/16kts quand ya des pointes a 33kts...
Enfin bon, les Aussies naviguent tout de meme super bien dans la brise et ils sont plus prets que nous
Guillaume et Paul ont casse des trucs pour les 3 1eres regates et on juste participe a la 4eme manche en se debrouillant pas mal... Sauf pour le ship qui a traverse le parcour...
Sur les fotos, si les bateaux sont gites, c parceque c un bord de largue. On doit faire un triangle au 2eme tour et ca implique de serrer un peu le vent pour atteindre la bouee.
De notre cote, on a pas mal chie le depart en se cartonant le dinghy qui trainait derierre le comite et en faisant un refus de tribord juste apres le depart.... Et en allant a gauche quand ca passait a droite.... Mais on a pas mal ratrappe pour finir 9eme hier... Dommage pour les 3 manches precedentes...

Aujourd'hui, lay day, donc visite d'Auckland.

@+

Bnj et Guillaume

Salut les frangins !

Bon, c'est cool d'avoir des nouvelles fraîches, surtout quand elles donnent des explications sur le classement, que l'on suit ici vraiment de l'extérieur (et pour cause !). Du coup, ça donne carrément envie d'y être, même si ça donne aussi une petite idée de la marge de progression que l'on a devant nous avant de pouvoir simplement l'envisager !!!
En tout cas, bravo à vous deux et on croise les doigts pour que les soucis soient maintenant derrière vous et pour que vous montriez à tous ces Angles et ces Saxons ce que les petits Frenchies ont dans le ventre... :

Fréd.

PS : Je tire quand même mon chapeau à Lindsay IRWIN qui a semblé pas mal au-dessus du lot... jusqu'à hier !

Lavignoule 7ème et benji 17ème.

Bright sun and shifty winds mark Race 5 of the International 14 Worlds

After two general recalls caused by an entire fleet of over-eager sailors, Race 5 of the International 14 Worlds got under way in about 10 knot westerlies and bright sunny conditions. Seemingly within moments of the start gun there was a big shift to the left, and that trend was to continue for the whole race.

Playing the shifts – whether with luck or skill – was the way to come out on top today. First place winners James Fawcett and Dave Dobrijevic agreed that it was all very shifty and that patience was a virtue. “It’s about knowing your numbers and reading them and having faith,” said Fawcett, helm of GBR 1511 which is now in 3rd place overall. The boat was never in the lead until the last 20 feet of the race, but, Dobrijevic explained, “you’ve got to just keep nibbling away.”

Dan Slater and Nathan Handley, the New Zealand favourites in NZL 43, picked the far left end of the start line, shooting out and then tacking onto port almost immediately. They rounded the first top mark in fourth place, and though they lost a few places throughout the race, ended up about where they started by finishing 3rd. This strong performance has kept them in 5th place overall, even after the discards of the worst score allowed after Race 5.

Zach Berkowitz, the strong U.S. contender, had a great race, apparently ending up one place ahead of Slater, but was disappointed to find out at the end of the day that he had been ruled OCS. Berkowitz and crew Bordow in USA 1157 are currently holding 28th place, the top US boat.

Huge changes in position were the rule of the day, with boats gaining or losing 15-20 places on each leg. According to a spectator, this made for exciting and dramatic viewing, with boats all over the course and leads changing regularly. One example was GBR 1514, with Paul Ravenhill and Caroline Gosford on board. They were 5th at the first mark, 5th at the second mark, and 51st at the finish. New Zealander Grant Bourke said he passed 30 boats on the first run. A big success was had by GBR 1506 which had previously had 3 “did not finishes” and one 44th. Sailed by Mark Upton-Brown and Nick Taylor, they came in at number 4 today.

When all was said and done, the boats that handled the shifts got the good results, and the top sailors have been consistent. Lindsay Irwin and Andrew Perry in AUS 631 have been excellent, now standing at only 6 points with two second places and two firsts. Brits Stevie Morrison, James Fawcett and Alister Richardson are next, with 14, 16 and 16; and Kiwi Dan Slater is hanging tough to stay in the top five.

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<b>Perfect conditions and OCS calls mark Race 6 of the International 14 Worlds</b>

With the sun shining brightly and the course set far away from any troublesome shore, the International 14s started off on Race 6 of the World Championships. The wind was blowing about 15-18 knots from the south for the start, and it gradually built to about 20 kts later in the afternoon.  It was glorious sailing, all the competitors agreed.  &#8220;It was a pretty glam day&#8217;s yachting,&#8221; summarized Damian Ash, now in 17th place with his helm Victor Brellisford (GBR 1517).  The breeze was stable and the seas were slight.

When it was over, the impressive team of Lindsay Irwin and Andrew Perry in AUS 631 had their third win in six races for an amazingly low total score of only 7 points.  Irwin started the race going left, but tacked and crossed the middle to join the boats who had gone right.  He came around the first mark in 4th, which he considered a good result for a conservative beat.  &#8220;After that,&#8221; said Lindsay, &#8220;it was just a case of racing the boat, and the boat is pretty quick in that kind of breeze.&#8221; 

One of the key moments of the race came at the start line.  Race Officer Kevin Wilson could see it all happening.  &#8220;They were all lined up for the start with 30 seconds to go, and no one had given any consideration to the tide, which was still flooding in,&#8221; said Wilson.  As the boats powered down the line they ran out of space, and the tide pushed them over early. 

Ten boats were ultimately called OCS, eight at the leeward end of the line.  Five of those boats were in the top 15 in the standings at the end of yesterday; three are ex-world champions (Zach Berkowitz, Grant Geddes and Kris Bundy), and one was Ross&#8217;s own son, Andrew Wilson, crewing for Alan Vickery in AUS 633. 

The day&#8217;s events left the top 6 placeholders as follows:  Irwin/Perry in AUS 631; Morrison/Rhodes in GBR 1513; Richardson/Barker in GBR 1516; Fawcett/Dobrijevic in GBR 1511; Devine/Jones in AUS 632; and local team Slater/Handley in NZL 43. 

After doing the math, it appears that one of the first four will win the event tomorrow.  But they can&#8217;t afford to be reckless.  Even with their strong lead, Irwin and Perry need to sail well.  If Morrison and Rhodes were to win tomorrow&#8217;s race, then Irwin would have to place 12th or better to win overall.  &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get around tomorrow and not do anything stupid,&#8221; said Irwin.

Race 7 will be held two hours earlier than the previous 6 contests, starting at 1300 hours local Auckland time.

Final Race of the International 14 World Championships brings a dramatic finish and an Australian win

It was all silence and anticipation on shore as the spectators waited to hear the first roundings at Mark 1 of the last race of the 2005 International 14 Worlds. And what they heard was a surprise: only one of the first five boats to round the upwind mark had been in the top ten places yesterday, and that was AUS 628 with Jason Beebe and Tim Berg. Of the four leading contenders to win the regatta, only RMW Marine&#8217;s GBR 1513 were in the first 20 to round the mark, coming around 9th. Regatta leaders Lindsay Irwin and Andrew Perry (AUS 631) rounded 32nd. Dramatic changes like this make for an exciting regatta.

As matters stood at the beginning of the race, Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes in GBR 1513 had 18 points overall, and Lindsay Irwin and Andrew Perry in AUS 631 had 7. But with Irwin&#8217;s big deficit at the first mark the question now was, could the Aussies climb up enough to be less than 12 boats behind Stevie Morrison and win the regatta.

At the beginning of the last beat Morrison was 3rd and Irwin was 18th, meaning Irwin needed to gain only 3 more places to win the Worlds. But the other pair of RMW sailors, Alister Richardson and Ian Barker in GBR 1516, sailed with Irwin out to the left hand side of the course during the final beat. Irwin finally got past them just before the finish line to take fourteenth for the race, which would not have been enough for the regatta win.

A subsequent protest by Irwin (AUS 631) against the tactics used by GBR 1516 was upheld by the International Jury. As a result AUS 631 was awarded redress which lifted him to tenth place in today&#8217;s race and gave him the World Championship.

The rest of the race was exciting as well. CAN 586&#8217;s Kris Bundy and Jamie Hanseler won the race, Morrison took second, and Beebe and Berg held on to their good position, taking third. USA 1150&#8217;s Ron Boehm and International 14 President Peter Mohler were happy with their 4th. &#8220;It was a great race for us,&#8221; said Mohler. It was a beautiful day with a steady breeze. We went right, got a 20 degree lift and had good boat speed which brought us around the first mark in first. It was excellent racing, really fun.&#8221;

James Fawcett, who took third overall for the regatta, also thought the racing was great today. Starting the week with broken gear put the pressure on, but their consistent results kept them in the running.

Auckland&#8217;s Dan Slater and Nathan Handley joined the top regatta placers, coming in fourth overall. They thought they were over the start line early and came back to start again, which put them behind from the beginning. Given that, their 16th place finish was excellent, and assured them of 4th place in the Worlds. &#8220;If anyone had told us at the beginning of this thing that we&#8217;d finish in the top 4, I&#8217;d have been pretty happy,&#8221; said Slater. AUS 632&#8217;s Brad Devine and Denis Jones rounded out the top five.

I14 President Mohler was delighted with the way the regatta turned out. &#8220;The club management was good, the race management was good, and we were lucky with the weather. You really couldn&#8217;t ask for more.&#8221;

The next International 14 Worlds will be held in Long Beach, California in 2006.

Benji ou Lavignoule si vous passez, avez vous une explication sur ce qui s'est réellement passé ?
Y a-il eu un jeu d'équipe entre les 2 bateaux du team RMW ? Etait-ce sur le dernier bord ?

Et puis racontez nous un peu tout ca.

Il y a beaucoup de commentaires sur le forum de Yachts and Yachting.

Difficile de savoir exactement ce qui s'est passé, mais voici le texte officiel du jury.

Sans doute qu'il sera difficile de savoir ce qui s'est réellement passé sur l'eau mais pour le jury c'est très clair... Gilles d'Adonnante.com me faisait d'ailleurs remarquer que les régles sur la suspicion de course par équipe avaient été modifiées dans la dernière version des règles.

... Bin c'est les putes de Bieker qui on gagner ... hehe. Non j'deconne, j'l'aime bien Irwin. J'm'en remet a l'avis des juges ... Y'a trop d'politic de toute facons, d'un cote t'as l'equipe Bieker et la production du BV, et de l'autre t'as les prostituers de Woofy et la production du B12. Du coup t'as un bias d'un cote ou de l'autre ... Donc la verite on la saura pas.
Bref ... D'mon cote ca a ete une regatte "interessante", avec plein de casse les premiers jours dans la baston. Regatte 4 et 5 j'me suis trouver hyper fort en tactic, avec tout qui marchais, sauf l'histoire du bateau bleu! pis y'a eut regatte 6 et 7 ou tout foirais. Regatte 7, ma femme est devant, impossible de la ratrapper, On etait vert avec Paul, finalement elle a desalle, ouf ... A pis si, y'a eut un match de box avec Paul pendant la regatte 1 ... J'crois qu'j'ai gagner, l'a jamais plus crier ...

Heu... Bill ! Il va falloir nous faire un compte rendu un peu meilleur que celui-là, surtout si tu veux passer sur Adonnante.com 
Plus sérieusement, si tu est des nôtres début juin à Pornic, on se trouvera bien quelques heures pour discuter de tout cela au calme. :
Bon retour à vous deux ! :-*

Fréd.

Auckland, Seoul, Tokyo et maintenant Kyoto ... et toujours incapable de pondre un resume du championat qui tient la route ... Bon Benji ... Tu nous la raconte cette histoire.
Merci a Cedric F pour les articles sur ado.com ... Err ... donc faut qu j dise qq chose de bien sur le 4000.
Bin eeeuuuu voili: ... le 4000 c est tres bien .... oufff ... voila c est fait.
Sans dec, merci Cedric.

Une photo du BV de Paul

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