Nordic Snipe Championship at Vestfjordens Seilforening

by Bjørn Sundby 21 Sep 2009 07:50 BST 18-20 September 2009

The Nordic Snipe Championship was arranged for September 18-20 by fleet 195 Snarøya (Oslo), Norway together with the hosts Vestfjordens Seilforening. 6 Swedish boats turned out together with 27 Snipes from our local fleet and a few more from far away and near Oslo.

Friday evening saw one long race in fairly light, somewhat variable, wind.

On Saturday the start was delayed by 2 hours but, as if it was planned, at 1pm a good Southerly breeze of 12+ knots arrived. This strengthened as time went on to some 20 knots or more. 3 races were held and saw plenty of action with much planing, but only one team went swimming with the odd teams DNS or DNF. The old one of 80 (yours truly) was happy that there was not a 4th race on Saturday.

Sunday dawned with wonderful sunny skies, but the wind was gone. Clouds and rain arrived and after an hour waiting it was called a day.

The results? More or less as the writer expected; the Grødem brothers did it again followed by Ulrik Sandvig/Henrik Grythe and Birger Jansen/Lise Gehrken third.

Overall Results:

Pos	Nat	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1st	NOR	30186	Jostein Grødem	Asbjørn Grødem	Åsgårdstrand SF/Åsgårdstrand SF	1	-2	1	2	4
2nd	NOR	30498	Ulrik Sandvig	Henrik Grythe	Vestfjorden SF/Ullern SF	-20	1	2	3	6
3rd	NOR	30840	Birger Jansen	Lise Gehrken	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	2	3	-5	4	9
4th	NOR	30562	Geir Victor Svendsen	Marianne Kaperdal	Oslo SF/Vestfjorden SF	-7	7	4	1	12
5th	NOR	30069	Ola Nygard	Janett Krefting	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	3	4	7	-8	14
6th	SWE	3006	Lukas Örn	Axel Edwall	GSC/GSC	-32	6	3	5	14
7th	NOR	30312	Magnus Hedemark	Anette Melsom	Vestfjorden SF/Asker SF	-26	5	6	7	18
8th	NOR	30613	Mads Truelsen	Tina Kopseng	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	4	-13	12	6	22
9th	NOR	29650	Torstein Pedersen	Tom Christian Mortensen	Vestfjorden SF/Færder SF	6	-19	9	9	24
10th	SWE	30584	Ola Sjöstrand	Mats Gustafsson	MSS/MSS	-12	9	8	10	27
11th	SWE	30068	Per Edwall	Eli Berge	GSC/Vestfjorden SF	9	8	-18	13	30
12th	NOR	29428	Viktor Sinding-Larsen	Liv Sinding-Larsen	Bærum SF/Bærum SF	5	10	-27	16	31
13th	NOR	30394	Marius Selvig	Heidi Sandvig	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	-23	17	11	12	40
14th	NOR	13923	Jørn Haga	Anniken-Landre Bjerke	Stavanger SF/Stavanger SF	22	-27	10	11	43
15th	NOR	28922	Beate Kristiansen	Ane Brunvoll	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	-18	12	14	17	43
16th	NOR	30482	Petter Vegard Hansen	Tanya Ferner Heglund	Vestfjorden SF/KNS	-27	14	15	18	47
17th	NOR	30384	Harlad Walder	Christine Walder	Bærum SF/Bærum SF	14	18	16	(DNS)	48
18th	NOR	30813	Johan G. Mejlænder	Jannicke Knudsen	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	-34	11	25	15	51
19th	NOR	30087	Stein Jacobsen	Vibeke Blydt	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	17	21	13	-26	51
20th	NOR	30029	Siri Kamfjord	Benedicte Heide	Tønsberg SF/KNS	10	22	-23	22	54
21st	NOR	30559	Henning Balzer	Heinz Balzer	Stavanger SF/Stavanger SF	21	-32	20	14	55
22nd	NOR	29942	Fredrik Kaiser	Maria Kaiser	Tønsberg SF/Tønsberg SF	16	20	19	-29	55
23rd	NOR	29673	Halvor Poulsson	Edel Paulsson	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	13	-33	28	19	60
24th	SWE	29416	Lars Burman	Axel Burman	KSSS/KSSS	15	23	-29	24	62
25th	SWE	30560	Nicklas Torlegård	Beata Torlegård	KSSS/KSSS	8	15	(DNS)	DNS	64
26th	NOR	30503	Arild Figenschou	Kjell Sivertsen	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	28	-31	17	21	66
27th	NOR	30440	Ellen Høegh	Asta Stenhagen	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	19	25	-34	25	69
28th	NOR	29725	Kristine Schussler	Marita Christensen	Vestfjorden SF/Oslo SF	24	-29	26	20	70
29th	NOR	30354	Magnus Christiansen	Nina Skalleberg Christiansen	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	25	-26	22	23	70
30th	SWE	30637	Björn Sandberg	Linnea Petersson	Jollekappseglarna Västerås/Jollekappsegl	11	39	21	(DNS)	71
31st	NOR	29895	Clement Aanestad	Thale Thomseth	Stavanger SF/Stavanger SF	-31	16	30	27	73
32nd	NOR	30067	Gustavo Ribbe	Sofia Appelskog	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	-35	28	24	30	82
33rd	NOR	29368	Geir Hansen	Siri Hansen	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	29	-34	33	28	90
34th	NOR	30187	Bjørn Sundby	Dan-Ove Hafstad	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	33	30	-36	31	94
35th	NOR	3031	Steffen Skjønberg	Anette Damman	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	30	24	(DNS)	DNS	95
36th	NOR	30314	Arne Oftedal	Richard Mester	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	(DNS)	37	32	33	102
37th	NOR	30556	T. Thorgeir Harsem	Kari Lockert Lie	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	36	-38	35	32	103
38th	NOR	840	Nicolai Rasmussen	Joachim Rasmussen	Vestfjorden SF/KNS	37	36	31	(DNF)	104
39th	NOR	30481	Camilla Christensen	Tormod Haavi	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	(DNS)	35	37	DNS	113
40th	NOR	30558	Bjarne Brynnildsen	Grethe Edgard	Vestfjorden SF/Vestfjorden SF	38	40	38	(DNF)	116