J24 European Championship at the Royal Western Yacht Club

J24 European Championship at the Royal Western Yacht Club - Overall

by Robin Price 18 Aug 2016 20:34 BST 13-19 August 2016

J/24 Europeans at Plymouth day 4 © Robin Price / www.rpsphotos.co.uk

After battling with strong winds and a reasonable sea state for the first three days of the J24 European Championships in Plymouth, this morning, at the start of the final day's racing, the 37 boat fleet were greeted with different challenge, light winds.

The course for both races was in a tricky southerly varying in strength and direction. The smart tactic was to head out to starboard to catch the slightly stronger breeze and a lift off the Rame Headland.

In the first race of the day Nick McDonald, 'Cacoon', had to defend hard at the finish to fend off William Pollock in 'Flying Colours', who was able to keep clear on the run and overtake some six boats. But, was not able to beat McDonald to the line, only losing by a second, and closely followed by Andy Taylor in 'Phoenix'.

In the second and final race of the championships, the UK chairman of the class, David Cooper in 'Jawbeaker', finally showed his true potential by winning. He was followed over the line by Mike Mackie from Dartmouth in 'Jiggy' with Japanese 'Gekko' helmed by Tokuma Takesue in third place.

At the close of the 2016 European Championships, Plymouth, the winning boat was 'Phoenix' skippered by Andy Taylor. Second place went to Daniel Frost's 'JJOne' from Germany and in third place was the young Irish team of Cillian Dickson from Howth Yacht Club in 'Kilcullen' Winning skipper Andy Taylor, commented: "We've had a fantastic week's sailing, across all wind conditions. We were fortunate to go into the final day without a bad discard which gave us options. The GER JJone have been phenomenal all week, we knew they had the speed to escape from a poor start or tricky first beat and in final race put us in a boat on boat which was exciting, even as we crossed the line we didn't know if we had done enough.

"We've had a great team and got on, both on and off the water, brilliantly. Huge thanks to team Phoenix (Rob, Paul, Zoe and Izzy) for putting up with me as well as PRO David Lovegrove and his team for a brilliant regatta, hosted by the always excellent Royal Western Yacht Club and Plymouth J24 fleet."

J/24 Europeans at Plymouth day 4 - photo © Robin Price / www.rpsphotos.co.uk

A team worthy of note, 'Jool' helmed by Dirk Olyslagers, came over from Holland having only been together six weeks. After mastering the conditions on day one proved themselves by achieving five top ten results in the last six races. The team from Sweden, sailing a chartered boat 'Another Cacoon', was heard to say: "This is a fantastic location, as soon as you let us know when the next event is, we'll be back."

The main sponsor, Nick McDonald of Cacoon, said: "I'm delighted to have been a able to sponsor the Championships in my home port, and hearing comments like Dirk's above from visitors makes it all worthwhile.

J/24 Europeans at Plymouth day 4 - photo © Robin Price / www.rpsphotos.co.uk

All the competitors wanted to extend their special thanks to the organising team from the Plymouth fleet headed by Stig McDonald with Neil Dunkley, Helen Peat, David Cooper and Nick Triscott. Stig said: "Everyone has worked extremely hard over the past eighteen months to bring the event to Plymouth where we have a very active J24 class. The event couldn't have gone better, the weather has been perfect, the racing has been competitive and the après sail has been welcoming."

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Boat Name	Helm	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	Points
1	GBR 4242	Phoenix	Andy Taylor	Parkstone	3	5	3	9	3	8	7	5	3	11	3	(34/SCP10%)	60
2	GER 5475	JJone	Daniel Frost	JSC	8	2	(OCS)	7	6	3	1	1	4	3	7	29	71
3	JPN 5449	Gekko	Tokuma Takesue	Japan Sailing Federation	5	8	7	6	1	4	14	2	10%	17	‑29	3	80
4	IRL680	Kilcullen	Cillian Dickson	Howth	16	7	1	11	4	6	12	13	‑23	1	11	12	94
5	GER 5467	Vitesse	Manfred Konig	HSC	2	3	12	‑26	14	9	13	10	10%	5	4	17	94
6	GER 5386	Tinto	Till Pomarius	Svaoe	15	9	6	8	10	11	10	17	2	2	10%	‑20	99
7	GBR 4269	Cacoon	Nick McDonald	RWYC	9	1	2	20	7	20	16	14	6	(OCS)	1	6	102
8	GER 5316	Hungriger Wolf	Maz Augustin	Svaoe	7	12	8	10%	5	5	6	9	16	15	17	‑22	108
9	FRA 4934	Jaguar	Aorelian Garcia	YCCA	13	15	9	19	9	2	8	20%	‑30	16	10	5	125
10	GER 5381	Sullberg	Stefan Karsunke	Blankeneser	1	13	(OCS)	5	2	1	2	10%	5	DSQ	33	19	126
11	GER 5330	Luv	Tom Stryi	Svaoe	11	4	10	1	18	16	15	18	8	4	‑32	21	126
12	GBR 4206	Jam Too	Austen Davies	Bude	6	‑27	10%	3	16	7	4	10%	25	6	12	27	138
13	NED 36	Jool	Dirk Olyslagers	WV De Maaskant	‑26	30%	14	21	11	10%	3	4	10	7	19	8	141
14	GBR 4245	Unity Lets	Matt Conyers	RWYC	18	6	24	2	15	19	11	8	14	18	22	‑26	157
15	GBR 4266	Flying Colours	William Pollock	Parkstone	14	(36/SCP10%)	13	18	21	10%	5	10%	10%	9	2	13	171
16	GBR 4270	Jolly Roger	Roger Morris	Parkstone	4	10%	22	20%	8	14	18	16	20	13	16	‑25	178
17	GBR 4271	Jawbreaker	David Cooper	Saltash	17	18	21	15	13	17	(30/SCP10%)	21	17	12	30	1	182
18	SWE 982	Another Cacoon	Martin Frid	MSS	12	11	5	24	19	12	19	25	15	20	‑35	24	186
19	GER 5269	Pfau	Lars Haager	Asvik	19	16	19	12	‑26	24	17	7	12	22	20	18	186
20	GBR 4213	Hijinks	Mark Lewers	RWYC	24	(DSQ)	25	13	20	13	23	24	28	14	8	9	201
21	GBR 4260	Jeli	Stig McDonald	RWYC	10	10	16	16	27	‑32	20	22	10%	10	18	28	202
22	GBR 4241	Jineration X	Steve Wassell	TMSC	21	22	(OCS)	22	23	21	24	11	11	10%	6	14	205
23	ITA 371	J OC	Fabio Apollonio	STDV	25	17	27	10	22	27	‑29	28	26	8	14	4	208
24	GER 5313	Juelssand	Ann‑kathrin Frank	Svaoe	20	21	11	20%	10%	10	9	33	18	(OCS)	37	7	221
25	GBR 4268	Jiggy	Mike Mackie	Royal Dart	31	10%	29	23	25	25	‑34	26	13	25	15	2	243
26	GER 5266		Lynn Wolgast	Muhlenberger	29	23	17	31	12	28	32	15	7	33	‑36	23	250
27	GER 1185	Glen	Janne Schleifer	Blankeneser Segel	22	‑31	18	29	24	29	22	29	29	24	24	16	266
28	GBR 4100	Midnight Express	Samuel Marshall	Saltash	23	20	23	32	(38/SCP30%)	30	35	30	31	21	13	10	268
29	GBR 4251	Italian Job	John Gorman	RYA	28	29	10%	25	29	22	21	31	33	29	(38/SCP10%)	11	277
30	GBR 4035	Jiffy	David Moore	Saltash	32	24	28	14	‑33	26	27	27	10%	19	27	32	279
31	GBR 4254	JuJu	Quinton Hall	East Dorset	30	33	26	30	36	(38/SCP30%)	30	36	32	27	9	15	304
32	GBR 4153	Jam	Ben Maddaford	Saltash	35	34	30	36	35	(38/SCP30%)	25	6	22	31	21	33	308
33	GBR 4026	Just the Tonic	Chris Randall	Saltash	‑36	26	33	34	28	23	36	32	24	30	23	35	324
34	GBR 4103	JoJo	James Torr	Saltash	27	30	31	35	30	31	31	35	‑37	34	26	34	344
35	GBR 779	XP Rigging	Jacob Bennett	Parkstone	‑37	35	34	33	32	35	37	23	35	23	25	36	348
36	IRL 4115	Johnny Bravo	Alex Shackleton	Howth	34	28	32	‑37	31	36	28	37	34	32	10%	31	355
37	FRA 4032	J'adore	Erwan Richard	Loguivy Canot	33	(OCS)	10%	28	34	37	10%	34	36	28	31	37	359