All four of the US sailors (on three boats) will be racing in Gold Fleet!
Boats are leaving the beach! Early start today - winds are 8-15, water's flat.
5 from AUS.. but who's counting <img src="<>/cool.gif" alt="cool" title="cool" height="15" width="15" />
Oh crap. Never gonna shut him up now. Fortunately I am out of the country the next time he is in my neck of the woods.
6 if your count Macca or Macpherson. For some reason is registered as NED1 which is very unAustralian.
I'm on the beach today to check things out here in Knokke, a lot of boats from both fleets are calling it a day and have returned to the beach.
There is a lot of wind with big 30kt gusts.
At some point in their lives everybody sees the light. We can't hold that against Macca can we ?
One more down and only a few more to go ! <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />
Wouter
Warren Ginnea is the aust nacra dealer and he is down as NED too... WTF is up with that???
Gashby just took another win.. mischa went down the mine shaft... ouch. still 11th after a capsize is damn ipressive
I'd assume charter boats with local sail numbers.
Ok place your bets who has won, by my caculations Rob Wilson has won on consistency
I have Mischa
Following NOR , they´ve only can discard 1 from qualifying.
If they can discard worst of all 9, Mischa still won
I make it that there are no discards today so its
heemskerk 39points
wilson 41points
deKoning 42points
beeson had a dnf so dropped right down
Yes, have that too
Wilson-Lynch , the dark horses almost clinch it.
And Mischa was about time, good for him if confirmed.
Re the
AUS
vs
NED
issue:
Probably the Belgian organizers. Everybody they hate is automatically labeled
NED
. >{;-)>
Damn, I thought that my team had got through the week without too much £££££££££. Broken mast in the last race!
Last I heard is that Mischa is 16 (no typo), Coen is 1, and Wilson is 2
uuuu hope not
Then he has an ocs or bfd
Last 3 races he was 1 - 24 (after capsize) - 1
I think that's Adam keeping his dad's cashflow going Paul...
It had better bloody not be! or fat boy gets his boat back!
Its hard to tell from the pic... did they actually tag that buoy and bring the stick down?
Confirmed - Mischa OCS because he didn't have a watch. Finished the event in 16th.
Looks like he had already lost the event in race 8. 126 total points - 88 for bfd = 38. Even if he got a 1 in the last race he would finish with 39 points. His 1 would put the rest of the fleet back one point because he beat them, but the winners still tie with 38.
damn, it's over! this sucks.
good job that we can't read his lips from this angle
I'm sure the discussion was polite and lively, cause that's how F18 sailors roll.
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Pupon?
...
but of course!
What was the final result of race 5? Was it really over the time limit, or was that an erroneous report?
Mike
The prizegiving just finished, lots of champagne flying around.
Event is now officialy over.
In a tie I thought the final race decided on who wins, but this isn't the case. What is the rule that is used?
A8.1 If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at
the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded
scores shall be used.
A8.2 If a tie still remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties
shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be
used even if some of them are excluded scores.