F18 Worlds 2018 @Sarasota YC: Day 2


Interview with Konstantinos Trigonis & Iordanis Paschalidis, European Champions and provisional leaders of 2018 F18 Worlds sailed in Sarasota.
Publicado por F18 en Martes, 16 de octubre de 2018



Video stream live by F18 Worlds Fb –
Photos by Ellinor Walters / Ellevated Creative. More pics at F18 Worlds 2018 fb
Paschalidis & Trigonis interview by Olivier Bovyn published on the F18 Class fb.

Robbie Daniel & Jill Nickerson from Red Gear Racing are also streaming some videos live, check their fb account.

More wind today at Sarasota, but the course continued to be quite tricky, just watch the interview made by Olivier Bovyn to Danny & Kostas, and I also have confirmation on this from the Arg crews. We saw Smith-Heuser leading some races or top 3 at top marks, but later lost positions on the shifts and lulls.
Still this affects all crews and the Greeks are doing the best job closing each regatta. Burvill & Puttman scored, 2,5 & 6 to a second overall.

The US favorite teams went for the hunt today and Easton-Burd are holding 3rd overall. Reiss & Whitehead climbed to 8th.

4th place for a crew we overlooked inspite of their recent excellent performances from the Europeans to the UK Nats a few weeks ago. Hans & Marius Van Dam are killing it like top notch Pros, yesterday in light winds and today also in double trap conditions.

Heemskerk & Dekker definitely a bit behind now in total pts and defeding the tilte is now a remote possiblity, but if we follow Danny Paschalidis comments, anything can happen, no one has a granted spot on this course.

Arg crews doing well, they need to close race better, speed is there. 3 Arg crews in the top 11 and the leaders recognize it too in their interview above.

Bovyn also reported at F18 Class fb on Manu Boulogne : “Big crash during Race 3, Boulogne-Marfaing being hit by one of the late competitors when running full speed downind, leading the fleet by 100+ meters…”

Updated Top ten overall provisional after 4  Races, Boulogne was awarded a 1st RDG and a 10th RDG after they were hit in race 3 while leading by a good distance as reported above b Olivier Bovyn.  Full results list here.

Pos Bow/Sail   Skipper  1   2   3   4  Total Boat
1   20 / GRE 7   Iordanis Paschalidis/ Konstantinos Trigonis   2   5   1   1   9   Scorpion / 1D DS
2   72 / AUS 526   Brett Burvill/ Max Puttman   1   2   5   6   14   Edge/Next Gen DS
3   9 / USA 11   Michael Easton/ Tripp Burd   10   9   3   2   24   C2 / Goodall Design DS
4   63 / NED 77   Hans Van Dam/ Marius Van Dam   3   3   15   4   25   C2 / Goodall Design DS
5   41 / ESP 1   Mitch Booth/ Ruben Booth   8   1   6   13   28   Scorpion / 1D DS
6   85 / FRA 901   Emmanuel Boulogne/ Marfaing Matthieu 14   6   1/rdg 10/rdg 31   Cirrus R2 / Northrop DS
7   25 / ARG 7   Pablo Völker/ Sergio Mehl   9   4   18   11   42T   Scorpion / 1D DS
8   74 / USA 17   Pete Melvin/ Ferdinand Van West   7   12   13   10   42T   infusion MK3 / Nacra DS
9   55 / USA 850   Taylor Reiss/ Matthew Whitehead   25   8   2   8   43   C2 / Goodall Design DS
10   10 /USA 1899   Charles Tomeo/ Dalton Tebo   15   21   12   5   53T   Infusion /  ?
11   27 / ARG 6   Hernan Salerno/ Andres Grimaldi   16   17   8   12   53T   C2 / Goodall Design DS
12   89 / ARG 11   Cruz Gonzalez Smith/ Mariano Heuser   30   7   10   7   54   Scorpion / 1D DS
13   57 / AUS 333   James Clark/ Brett Goodall   19   10   14   14   57   C2 / Goodall Design DS
14   50 / USA2002   Mark Brunsvold/ Matthew King   6   11   17   25   59   Infusion / Std Main
15   45 / NED 007   Mischa Heemskerk/ Stephan Dekker   13   13   19   31   76   Scorpion / Mischa Sails