F18 @Kiel Week 2015: Day 1, Helge & Christian Sach Lead
Image: Kiewl Week Media, Sach-Sach overall leaders after 2 races. – Yesterday I was consulted on the favorites for Kiel Week and next 2015 F18 Worlds to be held at the same venue in a few days. The contenders for Kiel I sent were those who performed today: Sach-Sach (1,2 – Infusion) and Gosche-Pegel (7,4 – Phantom) and Paschalidids-Dyrssen (dnc-1 – C2).
These crews above along Zeekant-Begemann, Larsen-van West , Easton-Burd, Mitch Booth , Mischa Heemskerk and the Youths teams from USA & France : Reiss-Whitehead & Robert-Riwan complete the contenders list for incoming Worlds on July 11st. Entry List for the Worlds available at 18worlds.kyc.de/index.php/entry/entry-list/
Update: Glenn Ashby will be back to set things straight! as last year racing with Brett Goodall they had a hull issue that left them out of the title race, Goodall Design news : at goodalldesign.com.au/Catamaran/index.php/about-us/news/95-c2-teams-set-to-make-a-spalsh
Light winds for the two races, but the stream was interesting to follows as we have lots of 5-6knots races in the Class, Pity not having the new F18 sailing in these conditions, Still waiting for pics to post info on the project.
F18 stream replay :
Forward 24mins to watch the replay of race 1 https://youtu.be/g7BeDL7Lfkc?t=24m38s
Second race at 2:27 , direct link at https://youtu.be/g7BeDL7Lfkc?t=2h27m31s
Top ten below, Overall Results Here
| Nr | Sail Number | Skipper | Club | R1 | R2 | T | N |
| 1 | GER 310 | Helge SACH | LYC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | DEN 18 | Magnus DAHL NICOLAISEN | Kaløvig | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
| 3 | GER 11 | Jörg GOSCHE | CKA | 7 | 4 | 11 | 11 |
| 4 | FIN 5 | Mikko RÄISÄNEN | HSK | 2 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| 5 | GER 117 | Frank WEIGELT | DTYC | 3 | 11 | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| 6 | USA 2727 | Stephen STROEBEL | Mission Bay Yacht Club | 8 | 6 | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| 7 | GER 276 | Robert SCHÜTZ | KEV | 13 | 5 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 8 | GER 278 | René SCHWALL | KYC | 11 | 7 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 9 | NOR 27 | Tim SANDBERG | kns | 9 | 9 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 10 | NOR 55 | Harald BLOM-BAKKE | KNS | 12 | 8 | 20.0 | 20.0 |
Very good media over there, AC/VOR, are you watching?