Press release: Day 2 - SAP 505 World Championships
Starting late launches Hunger into the lead
Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner have moved into the lead of the SAP 505 World Championships after dominating today’s race on day 2 in Aarhus, Denmark.
RSA Worlds after 5 races
Worlds results after 5 races, day one looked crazy and exciting with 25knots, day 2 seemed less and day 3 was light.
Worlds Day 1 - Press Release
Press release: Day 1 - SAP 505 World Championships, Aarhus, Denmark, 24 July to 5 August
Hamlin & Zinn survive a destructive day in Denmark
Pre Worlds Report By Ferdinand
29 July,
The Pre Worlds ended yesterday with some interesting changes in the final results. The Funke Brothers moved up to position number 14 (they managed to get a 7th position in race 6). Rudolph and I moved up to 17. Plattner/Alerie moved up to 20. Klaas/Von Grünewaldt to 21 (they managed an excellent 5th position in race 5). Holm/Buhrmann moved up to 28th and the Ham father/son team ended in position 34 (Alexander Ham is the helmsman, he is only 16 years old)!
505 Pre Worlds
Wow the boys are doing us proud! Check out these results, hope to get a report from denmark soon on winds etc etc.
505 Pre Worlds RSA Results
Our lads are warming up for the worlds, some nice results so far. 72 Boats in total.
Denmark Worlds - Boats loaded
The 5 South African teams competing in the 2010 505 Worlds in Aarhus, Denmark loaded their boats into the container on the 7th June 2010.
You can see pictures from the container packing exercise in the gallery. Just once again wanted to thank Peter for all the effort in arranging the container and shipping, a massive task. I also think we should get him to sing Madonna, "Like a Virgin" at the worlds with his nice little reflector vest ;-) See the photo!
With the boats shipped sailing training will be difficult, but concentrated fitness training will continue in the winter months, while everyone else is watching the Soccer World Cup over June-July.
5 boats were loaded and the container should return with 3 second hand boats destined for Durban, Cape Town and Knysna, to further grow the fleets there.
505 BP Trophy Results - Freestate Champs
Good wind! Disappointing turnout!
The Freestate Championships/505 BP Trophy held this last weekend (8-9th May) at Aeolians was an ideal opportunity to get in some last minute racing before the cold claws of winter take their hold.
Unfortunately the turnout was rather poor in all three classes but the teams who attended used the good wind and had some very exciting and close racing. There were only 4 505 teams there, 7 Oppies and 2 Dabbies!
Alexander and Warwick Ham showed that the results of their training was starting to pay off and dominated the event, while Rudolph and Ferdinand Holm tried as hard as they could, in Albrechts second boat (Ramkat), to keep up the pressure but finished a close second. Albrecht and Willem Buhrmann were given one bullet when, on the last reach of the last race in steadily building breeze, the two front boats took each other on in a duel over who would take down their spinnakers last!
May 2010 - Newsletter
In this issue:
1. BP Trophy - This weekend, 8-9th May 2010, Aeolians
2. WC Champs, Saldanha report on website
3. 2010 Worlds teams make final preparations for Denmark
4. Pictures available of chartered Freemantle boats to be imported.
Western Cape Championships 2010 - Race Report
The SAS Western Cape Dinghy Championships was held in Saldanha over the long weekend 24th – 27th April 2010. Usually this regatta takes place over the Easter Weekend, but this year due to logistical issues the regatta had to be postponed by about three weeks. Not only did this affect the turnout of the upcountry boats but it also meant the weather was noticeably cooler than previous years. The 505 fleet was also significantly smaller this year ( 7 boats) due to the Duffin Trophy regatta, a promotional regatta held in PE over the Easter weekend, in preparation for the South African Worlds bid presentation to be given in Denmark later this year. The Gauteng fleet which normally supports the WC Champs in large numbers by travelling “en masse” down to Saldanha, had used up their reserves of leave and money to support the PE regatta and only three Gauteng boats made their way down to Saldanha. The Cape 505 fleet was also smaller than last year with David and Dale Rae celebrating an addition to the family and Paul Willcox having lent his boat to the Robinsons and not being able to sail.
Due to the public holiday being on a Tuesday this year the long weekend allowed 4 days of sailing. The weather reports promised building wind over the four days with 16-24 knots predicted for Tuesday, the last day of sailing. A varied fleet of some 256 boats were entered for the regatta and this included more than 60 Catamarans of all shapes and sizes as well as a very strong fleet of 21 Dabbies and 40 Oppies and about 20 420’s, plus a number of Sonnets, Lasers and various other boats. The organisers did a sterling job of arranging the regatta and thankfully put the 505 fleet in with the dinghies instead of with the Cats.
