F18, Texel Open 2016: Delnooz & van Leeuwen 1st

All images Round Texel. Like every year before the Roudn Texel, the Texel Open takes place in the usual course racing format. F18s race together in the same fleet with F16s, Nacra F20s and Sunnuck’s vampire M20. The FP fleet have abandoned the Texel stop for the more near local Emeraude Raid.

Elke Delnooz & Jeroen van Leeuwen have been racing together Nacra 17 past year, they also went to St Barts in F18 and together they won this 2016 TDO edition o nan infusion.
Second place for Oscar Zeekant & Karel Begemann (C2) and third for Xander Pols & Stefan Dubbeldam on F20 FCS. These are Texel handicap system scoring.

Annual visitors to Texel, and one of Arg top crews, Smith.-Heuser finished in 4th place (3rd for F18) on their preparation for coming F18 Europeans at Brest, which will a previous stop for their main goal this year which will be Argentina F18 Worlds 2016 to be held at Buenos Aires in October 28.

I commented yesterday that Mischa, Bundy & Carolijn have intentions to come and race with us, we’ll  see if we can arrange for them some boats along the container Nacra is preparing from its headquarters. Also those near Poland you can contact me or Jakub Kopylowicz from Exploder as a second container might be gathered.

Official 2016 F18 Worlds at f18worlds2016.org.ar/ , July 31st is the last day for early entry fee.

TDO 2016 Top ten below, full results at roundtexel.com/results-tdo-2016/

Pos bow boot zeilnummer stuurman bemanningslid Texel R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total Nett
1st 32 Nacra F18 NED 1912 Elke Delnooz Jeroen van Leeuwen 100 1 3 2.0 RDGb 4 3 -8 21 13
2nd 162 C2 F18 NED2 Oscar Zeekant Karel Begemann 100 4 2 3 1 (43.0 BFD) 4 57 14
3rd 22 F20 FCS 23 Xander Pols Stefan Dubbeldam 86 3 -9 1 9 1 3 26 17
4th 216 Nacra F18 1892 Cruz Gonzalez Smith Mariano Heuser 100 6 4 6 3 2 -10 31 21
5th 73 formule 18 NED8 Hans Breur Roel Everaars 100 9 11 5 (43.0 DNF) 5 7 80 37
6th 269 nacra F20 carbon Gbr99 Grant Piggott Sam Curtis 86 11 7 (43.0 OCS) 11 4 6 82 39
7th 120 formule 18 NED 1936 Wik Becker Rob Becker 100 5 6 -12 10 7 11 51 39
8th 284 C2 F18 NED 432 Willem Geyssen Nolty Geyssen 100 -16 14 7 2 16 5 60 44
9th 191 formule 18 NED 431 Steven Smit Sander van der Niet 100 14 -15 11 5 14 9 68 53
10th 42 nacra infusion NED109 Arjan Baas Tjalko Jansz 100 12 13 10 6 (43.0 BFD) 12 96 53