2005 Star World Championship - Overall

by Iain Percy / Steve Mitchell 19 Feb 2005 09:46 GMT

ROHART/RAMBEAU CHAMPIONS AS SKANDIA TAKE FINAL RACE

The Star World Championship was decided today with the French Olympic Bronze medal team of Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau taking overall victory from the Brazilian legends, and Olympic Gold medalists Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira. This was Rohart & Rambeau’s second world championship win, the first one being in Cadiz in 2003.

The final race was expected to be a match race between Rohart and Grael, but they chose to both sail the first beat apart and see where how they fared. First around the top in the 10 knot breeze was Dutch Volvo skipper Heiner/Breuseker with Rohart/Rambeau second and Domingos/Santos of Portugal third. We rounded fourth just in front of USA legends Reynolds/Trinter. The first downwind saw us get a clear lane and some good waves to pass the front three to lead at the bottom, with Rohart 2nd, Heiner 3rd and Grael into 4th. Grael had to win, with Rohart outside the top 2 to win overall, and we needed to win with Grael 7th or lower to come second. Our only hope was that Rohart sailed Grael down the fleet, that was not to be. We led for the rest of the race with Rohart’s amazing speed a constant worry, but he had his eyes back on Grael and his goal was to keep him in third. We took the gun for the race; our second in as many days, but the cheers and horns went to the French as they crossed the line, a deserved win and a popular one on the dock for the laid back pair from Nice. Loof/Ekstrom (SWE) made a big comeback in the race to go from 23rd at the top mark to 4th at the finish to take 4th overall. Presti/Saliou (FRA) rounded up the top five overall with a 10th in the race.

So the Gold Stars take the top 4 places overall, Lillia boats take the top 3 places, and 6 out of the top 10, sail wise Quantum win, with Halsey second and North third, and Emetti masts taking the top 10 overall. Olympic medalists took 8 of the top 10 places overall, proof that there is no such thing as a weak Star Worlds.

A great championship was organized by the Club Nautico Olivos, with 6 races in perfect Star winds, with sunshine and great hospitality. Next year the Worlds are in San Francisco, the good thing about the Star class is the quality of the venues.

For us, a good result, our fourth medal at the World Championships in 4 years, the first time anyone has done this in the 83 years of the Star Class, but disappointed at what could have been had we not broken our mast in race 1 when in 4th place, or hitting a mark in race 4 while in 5th place... if only.

Overall Results:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Sail No	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1	Xavier Rohart	Pascal Rambeau	FRA 8107	6	1	3	2	2	2	10
2	Torben Grael	Marcelo Ferreira	BRA 8210	1	6	8	1	4	3	15
3	Iain Percy	Steve Mitchell	GBR 8144	53.0 [DNF]	2	2	13	1	1	19
4	Fredrik Loof	Anders Ekstrom	SWE 8191	2	4	6	6	7	4	22
5	Philippe Presti	Jean Phillipe Saliou	FRA 7879	5	9	4	3	6	10	27
6	Robert Scheidt	Bruno Prada	BRA 8127	10	8	1	5	13	7	31
7	Roy Heiner	Alex Breuseker	NED 8170	3	7	10	53.0 [OCS]	8	6	34
8	Afonso Domingos	Bernardo Santos	POR 8145	14	5	9	9	3	11	37
9	Mark Reynolds	Phil Trinter	USA 8129	7	3	11	16	16	5	42
10	Iain Murray	Andrew Palfrey	AUS 7836	8	12	5	8	21	12	45
11	George Szabo	Brian Fatih	USA 7995	9	11	13	17	9	8	50
12	Francesco Bruni	GUIDO ANTAR VIGNA	ITA 8180	12	10	14	12	5	14	53
13	Julio Labandeira	Valentin Thompson	ARG 7213	17	53.0 [DNF]	17	4	19	9	66
14	Luca Modena	Sergio Lambertenghi	ITA 8031	18	17	7	14	10	18	66.0001
15	Eric Doyle	Brian Sharp	USA 8163	13	16	12	15	15	13	68
16	Maurice O'Connell	Ed Peel	IRL 8028	11	14	18	22	12	16	71
17	Roberto Bermudez	Manrique Domingo	ESP 7581	16	23	16	10	14	31	79
18	Max Treacy	Anthony Shanks	IRL 8158	4	15	29	18	20	53.0 [DNS]	86
19	Alberto Zanetti	Mariano Lucca	ARG 8169	20	13	53.0 [DNF]	19	17	21	90
20	Lars Grael	Marco Lagoa	BRA 8046	15	28	15	20	18	24	92
21	Larry Whipple	Mark Strube	USA 8215	19	18	20	28	23	17	97
22	Guillermo Altadill	David Vera	ESP 8098	21	22	21	21	53.0 [OCS]	15	100
23	Peter Ficker	Marcelo Jordao	BRA 8109	28	27	28	7	11	28	101
24	Juan Kouyoumdjian	Juan Pablo Engelhard	ARG 8070	22	21	22	24	22	23	110
25	Bill Allen	Brad Lichter	USA 7986	24	26	19	26	31	19	114
26	Fabian Mac Gowan	Federico Calegari	ARG 7907	53.0 [DNF]	24	23	11	35	27	120
27	Brian Cramer	Iain Greensmith	CAN 8143	26	19	24	53.0 [DNF]	25	29	123
28	Alessandro Pascolato	Ronald Seifert	BRA 8117	25	30	33	23	24	30	132
29	Marcelo Fuchs	Fabio Kraiczyk	BRA 7871	27	29	35	30	29	20	135
30	Mahesh Ramchandran	Nitin Mongia	IND 7901	23	20	37	53.0 [DNF]	30	32	142
31	Guillermo Calegari	Nicolas Rosas	ARG 7226	53.0 [DNF]	35	36	27	32	25	155
32	Eduardo Farre	Santiago Sharpin	ARG 7700	32	33	26	39	27	53.0 [DNC]	157
33	Alejandro Chometowski	Hernan Celedoni	ARG 7316	31	25	25	25	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [DNF]	159
34	Andre Mirsky	Marco Aurelio Sa Ribeiro	BRA 7774	33	37	39	32	26	34	162
35	Hubert Rauch	Sergey Horetski	GER 8016	35	36	32	37	34	26	163
36	Antonio Tamburini	Albino Fravezzi	ITA 8183	29	43	30	36	36	35	166
37	Lucio Boggi	Andrea Tarabella	ITA 7237	36	31	31	34	40	37	169
38	Pablo Gianelli	Jorge Caviglia	ARG 7534	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [OCS]	27	31	39	22	172
39	Jorge Perez	Enrique De La Torre	ARG 7909	34	34	38	33	43	38	177
40	Peter Erzberger	Hans Jurg Saner	SUI 7717	53.0 [DNF]	39	40	29	38	33	179
41	Claude Bonanni	Richard Burgess	USA 8122	38	32	41	38	33	53.0 [DNC]	182
42	ALEJANDRO CHERRO	Ariel Simonet	ARG 6924	53.0 [DNF]	38	42	41	41	36	198
43	Mike Milner	Matthew Johnston	CAN 7899	30	53.0 [DNF]	43	53.0 [OCS]	28	53.0 [DNF]	207
44	Luis Bustelo	Jualian Gazari Barroso	ARG 8008	37	42	45	42	46	43	209
45	Juan Jose Percossi	Juan Pablo Percossi	ARG 8211	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [DNC]	34	35	37	53.0 [DNS]	212
46	Tomas Hornos	Hector Longarella	USA 7650	53.0 [DNF]	41	46	43	42	40	212
47	Herman Weiler	Steffen Rutz	GER 7946	40	44	47	40	47	42	213
48	Martin Costa	Federico Mera	ARG 6926	53.0 [DNC]	40	48	44	44	41	217
49	Eduardo Soraide	Corrado Cristaldini	ARG 7736	39	53.0 [DNF]	44	53.0 [DNC]	45	39	220
50	Vicente Gimeno	Jorge Zuazola	CHI 7106	53.0 [DNC]	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [DNC]	45	48	44	243
51	Tomoya Hotta	Takashi Hotta	JPN 7517	41	45	53.0 [RAF]	53.0 [DNC]	53.0 [DNC]	53.0 [DNC]	245
52	Guillermo J Calegari	Patricio Homps	ARG 5235	53.0 [DNC]	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [DNF]	53.0 [DNF]	49	53.0 [DNC]	261