Fireball Worlds at Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa Overall

by Event Press 23 Mar 2002 08:36 GMT

With 30 knots blowing from the north, a very nervous fleet left the harbour for the final days racing at the Fireball worlds Tampa. By the time the fleet had reached the starting area, the wind had dropped to an oscillating 10 knots.

The fleet got away first time and it was the boats that played the middle left who arrived first at the windward mark. First were the Moser brothers, followed by Ian Pinnell and Vince Horey in third place. Pinnell passed the Mosers down wind and then Horey passed both on the next beat. Only for it all to turn around at the windward mark with Pinnell back in the lead, now followed by Richard Estaugh and the Mosers third.

The race officer decided to shorten the course at the bottom of the run as the gradient breeze was being killed of by the sea breeze. Thus the boats that went to the right on the run made the biggest gains, one of which being Estaugh, who just pipped Pinnell to win. Dave Wade came third and the Moser Brothers just beat Horey.

The fleet then waited for an hour whilst the race officer tried to set a course whilst the wind oscillated between the sea and the gradient breeze. After an hour it became apparent that a fair course could not be set and further racing was abandoned for the championship.

This left Pinnell and Scott as new World Champions with a three point lead over Richard Estaugh.

Overall Results: (9 races, 2 discards)

Pos	Nat	Sail No	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Pts
1	GBR	14790	Ian Pinnell	David Scott	3	-20	14	1	2	3	1	-61	2	37.4
2	GBR	14785	Richard Estaugh	Simon Potts	4	-13	1	4	4	4	6	-25	1	43.7
3	SUI	14540	Erich Moser	Reudi Moser	1	1	-18	-17	6	6	4	4	4	47.4
4	GBR	14766	David Wade	Richard Wagstaff	7	6	-15	10	3	1	2	-29	3	55.1
5	GBR	14770	Vince Horey	Jon Mildred	8	-28	6	2	1	8	5	-61	5	62.7
6	GBR	14780	Kevin Hope	Robert Gardner	5	-23	8	3	11	7	3	-15	13	84.4
7	GBR	14783	Paul Cullen	Gavin Tilson	10	5	-23	15	5	10	16	2	-19	98
8	AUS	14782	Robin Inns	Mark Ingerson	-16	15	11	-16	8	2	8	11	7	99
9	GBR	14779	Tim Rush	Simon Hextall	2	14	-61	-25	17	11	7	13	6	106.7
10	SUI	14718	Venhoda Kurt	Sonja Zaugg	13	3	4	14	-28	22	-30	17	11	120.7
11	AUS	14747	Ben Schulz	Phil Bowley	-24	-30	16	11	7	5	10	10	21	121
12	AUS	14786	John Heywood	Joel Coultas	-22	12	9	7	13	14	9	18	-26	124
13	GBR	14629	Angus Hemmings	Steve Chesney	12	11	-61	-27	9	13	12	19%	8	126
14	GBR	14777	Philip Popple	Doug Shore	6	19	3	13	18	-26	15	-21	15	127.4
15	CAN	14767	Stephanie Marler	Tom Egli	-30	9	10	-26	15	15	17	9	20	137
16	GBR	14789	Penny Gibbs	Ian Gibbs	15	-26	-61	19	20	12	14	6	12	139.7
17	FRA	14631	Franck Juin	Jean-Francois Nouel	19	24	2	5	-29	9	22	-61	29	146
18	CAN	14768	Robert Levy	Mike Nalecz	9	16	-22	21	10	16	18	-25	16	148
19	SUI	14724	Adrian Huber	Brigitte Mauchle	11	4	5	9	-32	30	20	31%	-61	149
20	GBR	14524	Neville Herbert	Steve Penfeld	25	8	17	12	21	-61	-61	61q	32	151
21	JPN	14751	Hiroshi Kato	Tsuyoshi Tobata	14	21	7	22	27	25	-61	-61	10	168
22	SUI	14539	Markus Hofstetter	Nelly Krieg	17	18	12	18	-34	21	25	15	-61	168
23	AUS	14722	Peter Inns	John Weigand	23	-34	20	23	12	28	13	12	-31	173
24	FRA	14398	Jenny Baines	Malcolm Green	18	22	21	-38	19	20	-24	14	23	179
25	CZE	14696	Jaroslav Verner	Pavel Winkler	21	31	-61	6	23	19	19	20	-33	180.7
26	GBR	14622	David Mason	Colin Parke	26	-33	13	20	24	23	-27	16	25	189
27	CAN	14568	Grant Lamont	Robert Thompson	20	27	32	-61	16	18	11	-61	28	194
28	GBR	14778	Jeremy Davy	Thomas Hall	-61	2	-61	8	14	61q	23	44%	9	198
29	CAN	14647	Eric Owston	Toby Bryant	31	-37	19	28	22	17	26	-35	14	199
30	USA	11451	Patrick Crump	Ned Goss	-29	7	26	-29	26	27	29	28	17	202
31	CAN	14769	Joseph Jospe	Peter Kelly	28	10	-61	24	-33	24	31	31	22	212
32	IRL	14676	Louis Smythe	Andrew Wright	32	-42	-61	31	25	29	21	27	18	225
33	GBR	14579	Elaine Tudor	Warren Tudor	27	17	-61	32	31	33	33	-35	24	239
34	SUI	14752	Maja Suter	Stephan Zust	-34	-39	31	30	30	31	28	24	30	246
35	JPN	14517	Takahashi Natsuki	Katayama Satosji	33	29	30	35	-43	35	35	22	-39	261
36	CAN	14727	Geoffrey Huggett	Colin Huggett	-39	25	25	-41	36	32	36	32	35	263
37	GER	14189	Christoph Troetschler	Anna Troetschler	-44	35	29	33	-61	34	37	26	34	270
38	GBR	14612	Eugene Jordan	Mary Jordan	35	38	-61	36	41	36	41	-61	27	296
39	CAN	14711	James Cox	Simon Pearson	37	-41	36	-40	37	40	34	30	40	296
40	CAN	11136	Alan Spurdle	Christan Dechamplain	42	-45	24	-48	38	39	38	38	38	299
41	GBR	14470	Ray Newman	Charles Higgins	40	36	28	39	-61	37	39	-61	41	302
42	USA	12842	Duncan Schaefer	Geoffrey Schaefer	38	49	27	34	35	42	40	-51	-61	307
43	CAN	14480	Roy Tichkowsky	Darrel Sonnenberg	-47	32	37	42	39	41	42	34	-61	309
44	JPN	13823	Gary Van Tassel II	Kumagai Sadahiro	41	-44	35	37	40	38	43	-49	37	313
45	SLO	14731	Domen Kansky	Miha Slekovec	43	52	38	44	-61	-61	32	29	36	316
46	USA	14490	Bill Miller	Jeff Miller	45	48	34	43	-61	43	-61	36	42	333
47	USA	13281	Peter Wirth	Tate Chamberlain	49	40	33	-50	42	44	44	40	-61	334
48	GBR	14387	Wendy Wood	Helen Olsen	36	51	39	45	-61	-61	61d	61d	43	378
49	USA	13451	Franz Stone	James Nunn	48	57	-61	49	-61	46	48	33	61d	384
50	CAN	11499	Jeremy Kennedy	Heath Muscavituh	53	46	41	52	-61	45	46	-61	61d	386
51	USA	8362	Mark Miller	Thomas Johnson	-61	55	-61	46	61d	61d	45	41	44	395
52	USA	14558	Alan Boeve	Tim Elfenbein	46	47	42	47	-61	-61	61d	61d	61d	407
53	USA	14717	Michael Reid	Lainey White	50	56	44	55	-61	-61	47	61d	61d	416
54	CAN	12362	Antica Locker	Doug Corner	54	43	40	57	-61	-61	61d	61d	61d	419
55	CAN	11882	Zane Murdoch	Joel Lancaster	55	50	43	51	-61	-61	61d	61d	61d	424