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F-18 Worlds have started with 8 Australians attending and a big fleet of Capricorns from Europe and Oz.
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the dutch do organise the best events its got to be said!
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lifes to short to sail slow boats!
RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
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Tornado_ALIVE ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Nov 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 611 |
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Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby have successfully defended their Formula 18 World Championship. Hobie Tiger takes first and second places at World Championship.
The 2005 Formula 18 World Championships were hosted by Hoek van Holland yacht club north of Rotterdam, Holland 160 Formula 18's competed from the period of 9-15 July for the prestigious World Tittle. The battle of the 10 different manufactors was clearly dominated by the Hobie Tiger taking the four of the first five overall placings. Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby got off to a fantastic start to the qualifying series winning five of the six qualifying heats and only discarding a 5th position to lead after the first two days. Bundock and Ashby were able to finish within the top 10 for the remainder of the series except for one race in shifty ligth conditions which saw the pair finish 35th. However, due to there other consistant results they were able to discard this 35th position in the final series. Bundock and Ashby went on to win the series with a score card of 5,1,1,1,1,1,6,2,35,1,5,11 to beat Mitch Booth and Herbert Derkson by 10 points. The vetran Sach Brothers finished in 3rd position ahead of Jean Christoph Mourniac and Frank Cituea. Bundock said "it is extremely pleasing to defend our tittle however the level of competition is increasing year by year.". Bundock now heads to Greece to compete in a blind and disable charity Marathon on Tornado’s before The tornado Europeans in August.
World Championship list- Bundock: 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 Olympic Tornado World Champion 2002 ISAF Multihull World Champion 2005, 2004 Formula 18 World Champion Ashby: 1996, 2002, 2004 A-Class World Champion 2005, 2004 Formula 18 World Champion Further information call Darren Bundock on +49 177 603 8084. www.darrenbundock.comSponsored by: Marinepool, FSE Robline, Volvo Car, Ronstan, Hobie Cat. Supported by: Yachting Australia, Australian Institute of Sport, NSWIS, Australian Olympic Committee & Verein Segler Haus Wannsee. |
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1 AUS 69 Bundock, Darren, Ashby, Glenn, - Hobie. 2 NED 111 Booth, Mitch, Dercksen, Herbert, - Hobie. 3 GER 123 Sach, Helge, Sach, Christian, - Capricorn. 4 FRA 1907 Mourniac, Jean-Christophe, Citeau, Franck, - Hobie. 5 NED 1 Kenbeek, Remco, Brouwer, Paul, - Capricorn. 6 GBR 921 Walsh, Andy, Barney, Ed, - Hobie 7 NED 76 Meulen, van der,Reindert-Jan,Knol,Carina, - Capricorn. 8 NED 7 Heemskerk, Mischa, Boer, de, Sander, - Hobie. 9 FRA 808 Boulogne, Emmanuel, Boulogne, Vincent, - Cirrus. 10 AUS 33 Van Kerckhof, Daniel, Cook, Michael, - Capricorn. |
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