At the end of 2nd lap
193 - This & Diemer,
192 - Jason & Lisa,
888 - Carolijn & Liz,
189 - Christa & Brett
700 - Silvia & Lara
666 - Gill & Kathleen
111 - Hans Klok
194 - Froukje & Bundy

Race 3 completed.... Vipers take top 6 places (Sorry - AHPC slant showing!!)
193 - This & Diemer
192 - Jason & Lisa
888 - Carolijn & Liz
189 - Christa & Brett
700 - Lara & Silvia
194 - Froukje & Bundy

This is a great start - 3 races, 3 different winners and 3 different combinations.
1st race - All girls team
2nd race - Mixed team
3rd race - All boys team

The next picture show ITA 111 to be an Aquaraptor.

http://www.formula16.net/content/view/102/1/lang,en/

So I guess ITA 1 is a Blade F16

ITA 1 Blade F16 riccardo ceriani & elia mazzucchi
ITA 111 Aquaraptor F16 federico farina & luca bertani


Paul Warren en Anne Powter own a Falcon F16 and I expect them to have brung that boat with them

FRA 515 of eric noyau is probably a Stealth F16 as they are basically the only boats with numbers in that range. There were a handful of Blades with 500 numbers but that soon changed to the 700 series. His boat with red and white sails is in the pictures and his hulls do appear to be Stealth like, however his boat is hidden from view mostly.

Wouter

Hellen,

When you see Geert, please tell him he is my hero !

What a spirit to just get out there and fill the ranks when he is sailing singlehanded with only his teeth to sheet the spinnaker.

As Pete says : He earns one big A+ for effort and spirit.

Wouter

Hey, if there is success to be celebrated then I for one am not asking for muted emotions !

Maybe I would have written "Viper CREWS take top 6 places" but that would be nitpicking I guess !

Congrats to the crews and indeed really nice to see such a nice mix of crew make-ups.

Again, many thanks to you and Greg for providing the updates. Rest assured that I'm checking in often during my small breaks !

Wouter

Sailors are back on the beach..... They are all sharing their war stories.

Bundy went swimming.... TWICE!!

So too, did a few of the others!!

Results after Day 1 (These should be available on the website shortly)

NED 193 VIPER this visser & diemer feenstra 3 2 2 = 7
AUS 192 VIPER jason waterhouse & lisa darmanin 6 1 1 = 8
BEL 888 VIPER caroljin brouwer & liz wardley 1 6 3 = 10
AUS 189 VIPER christa van helden & brett goodall 4 4 4 = 12
NED 194 VIPER froukje fenstra & darren bundock 2 5 6 = 13
ITA 700 VIPER silvia sicouri & lara sicouri 5 3 5 = 13
ITA 111 BLADE federico farina & luca bertani 10 7 7 = 24
GBR 8 VIPER chris sproat & jury rosanna 8 9 9 = 26
GBR 207 ? warren paul & anne powter 9 8 10 = 27
BEL 666 FALCON gill de bruyene & kathleen vandenbulcke 7 17 8 = 32
NED 111 AQUARAPTOR hans klok 17 11 11 = 39
ITA 1 ? riccardo ceriani & elia mazzucchi 17 10 17 = 44
GBR 555 STEALTH mark pressdee 11 17 17 = 45
NZL 202 FALCON daniel todd 12 17 17 = 46
FRA 515 ? eric noyau 17 17 17 = 51
NED 9 BLADE geert ruesink 17 17 17 = 51

Following on from the results, many of the "17's" were scored as the boats did not finish in the time limit. 15 minutes after 1st place.

This is being extended to 30 minutes for future races.

Wow, 15 minutes can be really tight if the wind lets up.

Report after the first day.
There was a light start of the day with not much wind and during the start the wind was still building and it was shown that you needed to know how it works here because Riccardo on the Blade went to the right and the rest of the fleet went to the left. The right was the way to go on the first beat and Riccardo was first at the mark. The Viper pro ‘s where following him and passed him during the downwind leg. In the mean time the wind was building and the single handers had no change at all anymore because the wind was increasing to 17/18 knots and there where spots where it reached the 20knts. It was a 2 hander wind and the same is expected today.
After the first race the Vipers where in front with Federico & Luca following close on the aquaRaptor but they missed the gate so they had a DNF.
The new aquaRaptor is performing well but you see that there is sailing time on the boats needed to get them quick. I personally found out that I did not sailed enough on the boat so far, there is increasing of the speed going thru the races yesterday and I am getting back the feeling. Let you know more about it later on.
In the 2nd and third race the wind was still around the 17 knts and the single handers where work very hard to keep the boats going and where fighting in the back of the field. The special attention needed to go to Geert because he did 2 races as the only real single hander. It was very impressive to see him going up wind with one hand and handle the wind and gusts and even more impressive to see him go with the spinnaker , the pulling up and bringing down with 1 arm is a difficult and I must say
GO GEERT GO.
The races for today are scheduled to start at 13.00 again with 3 races to go.
The classification after today ( with modification made after writing errors )
1. Visser/Feenstra 7 pnt
2. Waterrhouse/Darmanin 8 pnt
3. Brouwer/Wardley 10 pnt
4. Van Helden/Goodall 12 pnt
5. Feenstra/Bundock 13 pnt
6. Sicouri/Sicouri 13 pnt
7. De Bruyne/Vandenbulcke 25 pnt
8. Sproat/Jury 26 pnt
9. Warren/Powter 27 pnt
10. Farina/Bertani 31 pnt
11. Klok 33 pnt
12. Ceriani/Mazzucchi 45 pnt
13. Pressdee 45 pnt
14. Todd 46 pnt
15. Noyau 51 pnt
16. Ruesink 51 pnt
The finishing limit time is changed to 30 minutes instead of 15 minutes because the single handers had to much problems in getting on time at the finish.
There are made a lot of photo’s and there are probably a few at the websites and there will be more coming soon.


Ciao,
Hans

Good morning all.... And another great day here at Lago Como.

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Ok... I have bitten.

There has been reference of the "Viper Pros" on more than one report about these F16 Euros and I thought it was only fair to put my 2 bits in here.

Yes, there is Bundy, Carolijn and Brett who have a financial interest in these boats, but NO-ONE is being paid to sail a VIPER.....

2B Sailing, Fun in the Sun and AHPC are all committed to supporting youth sailors - Especially CATAMARAN SAILORS. With this in mind, boats were offered to youth teams - Two offers were accepted - Jason & Lisa from Australia, and Thijs & Diemer from Netherlands. (PS Taylor & Matt were also offered a boat but could not make it from US!)

As well as these teams, Bundy has taken to crewing with Froukje from the Netherlands, and wow, what an experience for this 17 year old.

Chris Sproat has also joined in the spirit and left Georgina at home and taken on a youth crew - Rosanna 18yrs. (Sorry Georgina, would have loved to meet you.)

Also, Silvia and Lara - They are sailing on a 2 year old boat... and yes, they are still very competitive. They had a few issues with their spinnaker yesterday, but this has hopefully been sorted so watch out for more GIRL POWER!!

Formula 16 website updated: F16 website


Blog updated:
http://bladef16.blogspot.com/2010/07/f16-europeans-day-1.html

It was a great day, we learned alot and we still have 4 days to go, yeah!

As the "Paparazzi" we are trying something new today. I am going out on the boat to take photos.

We will have a Blackberry out there and will be posting directly onto the AHPC_live Twitter.

This you will be able to read from AHPC website

Thanks Helen, looking forward to the photos.

Personally, I'm very glad to see the depth of talent on the Viper team. It's good for the class and good for the sport, imo.

Good luck all!

All for it if Bundy and the likes help develop and give the opportunity for young helms to participate in events like this, sponsorship of this form doesn't come cheap and promotion of this form can only help strengthen our class.

Good luck everyone, particularly the GB sailors.

Lots of activity today.... Jason & Lisa capsized 2 minutes before the last race started. Bundy capsized 2 minutes before the finish of the last race and went from 1st to about 7th!!!

Brett was hit and sank.... Not sure about the full story, but will get that to you shortly. They are still attempting to bring the Viper back to shore.

A number of protests are to be heard as one of the "gate" bouys was moved and there was some confusion re the rounding rule.

But the highlight for me was that Sylvia and Lara Sicouri are going SOOOO fast!!!! I think they got 2 seconds today... but still waiting to see the results. GO GIRL POWER!!!

Sorry I have not been able to get info out to you like yesterday.

Good job Helen, thanks again.

Wayne, I keep hoping Spithill, Smyth and some more of that F40 bunch will hop on a F16 Uni!

Go Geert Go!

PROVISIONAL RESULTS (Places with one drop):

NAT NO Boat total Nett
NED 193 VIPER this visser & diemer feenstra 3 2 2 2 4 1 = 14 , 10
AUS 192 VIPER jason waterhouse & lisa darmanin 6 1 1 6 1 7 = 22 , 15
ITA 700 VIPER silvia sicouri & lara sicouri 5 3 5 5 2 2 = 22 , 17
BEL 888 VIPER caroljin brouwer & liz wardley 1 6 3 4 6 OCS = 37 , 20
NED 194 VIPER froukje fenstra & darren bundock 2 5 6 1 OCS 8 = 39 , 22
AUS 189 VIPER christa van helden & brett goodall 4 4 4 3 10 DNF = 42 , 25
GBR 207 ? warren paul & anne powter 9 8 10 8 3 3 = 41 , 31
ITA 111 BLADE federico farina & luca bertani 10 7 7 7 9 6 = 46 , 36
BEL 666 FALCON gill de bruyene & kathleen vandenbulcke 7 17 8 10 7 4 = 53 , 36
GBR 8 VIPER chris sproat & jury rosanna 8 9 9 9 5 9 = 49 , 40
NED 111 AQUARAPTOR hans klok 10 12 11 11 11 10 = 65 , 53
ITA 1 ? riccardo ceriani & elia mazzucchi 17 11 17 RAF 8 5 = 58 , 58
GBR 555 STEALTH mark pressdee 11 17 17 14 13 11 = 83 , 66
NZL 202 FALCON daniel todd 12 17 17 13 12 17 = 88 , 71
FRA 515 ? eric noyau 17 17 17 12 17 17 = 97 , 80
NED 9 BLADE geert ruesink 17 17 17 15 14 17 = 97 , 80