118th Travemuende Woche - Day 6

Another day of perfect racing

Competitors enjoyed another day of almost perfect sailing on Thursday (26 July) at the 118th Travemuende Week in Northern Germany. The Euro Cups in the RS classes had four more races on the scoring boards that showed tough fight in the British dominated fleets. After winning the Tornado competition the day before, Christian and Helge Sach (Zarnekau, Germany) were also dominant in the Formula 18 catamaran class scoring three bullets. However, top item of the day was Svenja Puls (Luebeck Yacht Club, LYC) being the new World Champion in the Europe class.

Svenja Puls’ cheers resounded the long way from Workum, Netherlands to Travemuende, her home sailing area. The girl from the LYC, race organizer of the Travemuende Week, was so happy wining the World’s title. It was a great last day when the 22-year-old scored two bullets and won the Championship. “We are going to congratulate and celebrate Svenja personally on Saturday when she joins the sailing week,” said Claus Dieter Stolze, head of the Travemuende Week organizing team.

As exhausted as Puls was were most of the teams of the RS classes battled on course area Foxtrott. “We sailed two short and two long races,” reported race officer Thorsten Rocksien. “I am sure all sailors are pooped.” The decision in the RS 700 is still pretty exciting. Nigel Walbank is the overall leader two points ahead of tied Jon Heissig and Rob Chaplin. Christian Brandt from Hamburg, who has been placed fourth for a while, can probably catch up again and return to the fourth place two points behind Mark Pollington.

Helge Sach was pretty satisfied with his start in the Formula 18 class. Some hundred meters ahead of the runner-ups which mean some minutes in front he crossed the finish line with his brother Christian. “We love the variable conditions,“ said the crew. “I guess we are faster changing the trim.” There was no way for the chasers Justus Wolf/Susanne Hahn and Andreas John/Hans-Christoph Brumberg from Hamburg, Germany to catch up with the last year’s World Champions. “It was definitely our wind,” said Helge Sach. “It could be different tomorrow.”

Strong to stormy wind is predicted for Friday (27 July). “A trough is moving across the North during the night. In the morning we expect thunderstorms and heavy gusts up to force ten,” explained weather expert Meeno Schrader from Kiel, Germany.

Anyway the medium distance race for sea going yachts towards Groemitz on the other end of the Bay of Luebeck is scheduled for 10 h. The Eurocups of the five RS classes will finish. New at the starting lines are more than 50 Folkeboats. Another eleven classes continue their races at the 118th Travemuende Week.

Results after Day 6:

Championships

RS 800 Euro Cup
Results after eight races: 1st Peter Barton/Bonnie Moody (Great Britain) 7 points; 2nd Andy Cornah/Orwin Murray (Great Britain) 12; 3rd Graham Simmonds/Chris Doe (Great Britain) 17; 4th Andy Bryson (Great Britain) 21; 5th Andrew and Vicky Gould (Great Britain) 30; 6th Daniel and Jamie Hare (Great Britain) 32.

RS 700 Euro Cup
Results after eight races: 1st Nigel Walbank (Great Britain) 10 points; 2nd Jon Heissig (Great Britain) 12; 3rd Rob Chaplin (Great Britain) 12; 4th Mark Pollington (Great Britain) 27; 5th Christian Brandt (Hamburg, Germany) 29; 6th Ian Nolan (Great Britain) 32.

RS 600 Euro Cup
Results after eight races: 1st David Annan (Great Britain) 8 points; 2nd Andy Heissig (Great Britain) 9; 3rd Martin Fear (Great Britain) 19; 4th Tony Mitchell (Great Britain) 19; 5th John Archer (Great Britain) 36; 6th Richard Mayo (Great Britain) 43.

RS 400 Euro Cup
Results after eight races: 1st Ian and Sandy Johnson (Great Britain) 7 points; 2nd Giles and Heather Chipperfield (Great Britain) 17; 3rd Howard Farbrother/Louise Hosken (Great Britain) 21; 4th Bill and Lynda Handley (Great Britain) 25; 5th John Cooper/Becci Wigley (Great Britain) 28; 6th Richard Graham-Enock/Roland Walker (Great Britain) 30.

RS 200 Euro Cup
Results after eight races: 1st Ian Pickard/Lucy Matthews (Great Britain) 11 points; 2nd Nicholas Charles/Juliet Kingsnorth (Great Britain) 13; 3rd Trudie Fell/Peter Cruikshank (Great Britain) 14; 4th Peter Vincent/Liz Madam Teague (Great Britain) 23; 5th Andy Robertson/Chris Witty (Great Britain) 24; 6th Roy McCubbin/Kirsty McSeveney (Great Britain) 27.

Beneteau 25/Platu 25
Results after four races: 1st Kai Mares (Daenischenhagen, Germany) 9 points; 2nd Sonja Berger (Berlin, Germany) 18; 3rd Martin Gnass (Hamburg, Germany) 23; 4th Niklas Ganssauge (Hamburg, Germany) 24; 5th Reinhard Huebner (Berlin, Germany) 26; 6th Ingo Lochmann (Berlin, Germany) 30.

Olympic class

49er
Results after four races: 1st Florian Kemper/Michael Krause (Kiel, Germany) 4 points; 2nd Tobias Maduro Nørbo/Bo Schülein (Denmark) 13; 3rd Julian Ramm/Niels Siemsen (Kiel, Germany) 20; 4th Oliver Lewin/Michel Münker (Kiel, Germany) 22; 5th Paul Niklas and Maui Jepsen (Heikendorf, Germany) 25; 6th Martin Gernhardt/Heiko Thölmann (Plön, Germany) 32.

International classes

Formula 18
Results after three races: 1st Helge and Christian Sach (Zarnekau, Germany) 3 points; 2nd Justus Wolf/Susanne Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) 8; 3rd Andreas John/Hans-Christoph Brumberg (Hamburg, Germany) 10; 4th Sven Lindstaedt/Christian Rocholl (Norderstedt, Germany) 13; 5th Jens Peters/Merle Baars (Hamburg, Germany) 21; 6th Eckart Kaphengst/Jens Piepke (Soeren, Germany) 25.

Melges 24
Results after four races: 1st Markus Scheel (Luebeck, Germany) 13 points; 2nd Hendrik Witzmann (Munich, Germany) 14; 3rd Juergen Waschek (Hamburg, Germany) 14; 4th Peter Goeckel (Greifenberg, Germany) 16; 5th Schwall/Bendig/Welken (Hamburg, Germany) 18; 6th Jan Schmidt (Schleswig, Germany) 18.

A-Cat
Results after four races: 1st Donald Beike (Luebeck, Germany) 6 points; 2nd Joerg Horn (Hamburg, Germany) 7; 3rd Thilo Keller (Berlin, Germany) 12; 4th Nils Bunkenburg (Surendorf, Germany) 15; 5th Ingmar Warnicke (Pansdorf, Germany) 15; 6th Joerg Gosche (Bremen, Germany) 20.

505
Results after three races: 1st Norbert Dasenbrook/Sven Meier (Duesseldorf, Germany) 3 points; 2nd Christian Niefert/Thomas Weber (Hamburg, Germany) 8; 3rd Martin Kittsteiner/Oliver Dr.Stieglitz (Hamburg, Germany) 12; 4th Jan Stoelken/Matthias Bruehl (Hamburg, Germany) 17; 5th Sven Doemges/Andreas Happich (Guxhagen, Germany) 19; 6th Jan Sell/Wiebke Gewinn (Hamburg, Germany) 21.

Skiff Open
Results after four races: 1st Peter Ullmann (Oldenburg, Germany) 6 points; 2nd Tobias Kunz (Hamburg, Germany) 8; 3rd Eckhardt Pagel (Buchholz, Germany) 10; 4th Dieter Siegmand (Einbeck, Germany) 18.

Int. 14
Results after two races: 1st Peter Roocks/Ole Klingner (Luebeck, Germany) 3 points; 2nd Stephan Heim/Christian Stock (Germering, Germany) 4; 3rd Carmen Bernitt/Olli Holste (Kiel, Germany) 6; 4th Bettina Möller/Jens Kulenkampff (Kiel, Germany) 7; 5th Kai Kahm/Claudius Lindner (Hamburg, Germany) 14; 6th Juliana Troch/Moritz Wiskemann (Luebeck, Germany) 15.

FD
Results after three races: 1st Gerd and Jens Walter (Guetersloh, Germany) 6 points; 2nd Christian Schaefer/Fabian Schweigel (Erlangen, Germany) 7; 3rd Michael Haupt/Wolfgang Hoeft (Garbsen, Germany) 8; 4th Felix Holz/Wolfgang Rosteck (Dortmund, Germany) 13; 5th Oliver Gutsch/Stefan Duenwald (Frankfurt, Germany) 14; 6th Bernd Schreiber/Kay Schaefers (Berlin, Germany) 24.

29er
Results after four races: 1st Nonika Oikonomopoulou/Stelios Noutsos (Greece) 5 points; 2nd Christopher Horsch/Agi Ellerbroek (Hamburg, Germany) 7; 3rd Rico Hasler/Mark Griesmaier (Switzerland) 13; 4th Kevin Lee Barche/Philipp Ströh (Luebeck, Germany) 21; 5th Marvin Gallinger/Marcel Ambrasas (Berlin, Germany) 22; 6th Maurice Pantel/Henrik Matthiesen (Winnemark, Germany) 22.