Round Texel 2019: Hans & Marius Van Dam / C2 F18 win Texel overall, Kyle Stoneham & Josh O’Brien / M20 Vampire first in small cats.
All images courtesy of Tony Mels / F18 Class NL. More at F18 Class NL fb. Great informative shots from Tony to illustrate the results for this 2019 Texel Edition. Official web , roundtexel.com/ , with not many photos, not a single one on the F18 winners.
Texel Correted Time/Rating
In corrected time, another win for an F18 platform at the Texel. This time for Hans & Marius Van Dam sailing a Goodall Design C2 / Goodall DS. The Van Dams have been performing at maximum level last seasons, pretty close to podium at Sarasota 2019 Worlds and they conitnue to show their form towards coming F18 Worlds to be held next week at Costa Brava. We hope to see father & son fighting for the 2019 title.
Texel Elapsed Time
For us an M20 Vampire has won the Texel elapsed time this year , gabbing the blue ribbon on a M32 might be a good run but nothing we can compare against. Kyle Stoneham & Josh O’Brien M20 Vampire finished seconds ahead of a standard Nacra F20 (curved foils, small winglets but not the full FCS foiling version). The M20 Vampire camp reports groundings for both M20s and that they were leading to regain beachcat lead at the finish line as seen in sequence above taken by Tony Mels.
This might be the first major win for the M20 Vampire, we’ve been following the project since day 1 and the platforms always seemed to struggle vs the FPs or Nacra F20s in the long distances races like Carnac or past Texels too.
The Vampire M20 has always been a fast platform but it was hard for them to put that in to actual regatta wins. The project continued its development and now also features a Decksweeper mainsail by Grant Piggot Sails. Well deserved reward for the British team behind this project, like William Sunnucks and builder Graham Eales. The Vampire is one of the pioneers to use T foils & flaps for foiling beachcats, also they have set a path for latest devels as the new TF35 foiler which will replace the floating D35 features a similar T Foil / Flaps 3Pt Foiling System.
Check our interview & tech papers on the M20 Vampire here. We’ll need to make an update as that one is from 2015. More comments of the Texel and pics of the grounded foils at M20 Vampire project fb
Considering the M20 Vampire development still a really good race for the Nacra F20 crew sailing against them and a couple of Nacra F20 FCS, edit: checking closely corrected time results they have a penalty assigned.
The first Nacra F20 FCS was Albert Steenman finishing around 1 minute behind the M20 Vampire. Thijs Visser sailed a DNA F1x A-Cat to a 16th place in elapsed time. Check below for the elapsed time results.
Mischa’s foiling M20 also participated but we don’t see it at the final results, we’ll seek for more info on what happened to them.
Official results Roundtexel.com
Top 30 Elapsed Time:
| NR. | Bow# | Zeilnummer | Team | Boot type | Rating | Real | Corrected | Position Corrected |
| 33 | TR < 107 | GBR 2 | Kyle STONEHAM | M20 Vampire | 82 | 03:33:30 | 04:20:21 | 42.5 |
| 59 | TR < 107 | GBR 54 | John TUCKWELL | Nacra Carbon 20 | 89 | 03:33:45 | 04:00:10 | 69.0 |
| 75 | TR < 107 | NED93 | Albert STEENMAN | Nacra 20 FCS PRO | 86 | 03:34:47 | 04:09:44 | 81.0 |
| 19 | TR < 107 | NED 23 | Xander POLS | Nacra 20 FCS PRO | 86 | 03:38:24 | 04:13:57 | 25.5 |
| 67 | TR < 107 | 124 | Eric de HAAS | Nacra F20 Carbon | 89 | 03:39:18 | 04:06:24 | 76.0 |
| 22 | TR < 107 | 175 | Yvan BOURGNON | Nacra F20 Carbon | 86 | 03:39:43 | 04:15:29 | 29.0 |
| 1 | TR < 107 | NED 77 | Hans van DAM | Formula 18 | 100 | 03:52:54 | 03:52:54 | 1.0 |
| 46 | TR < 107 | 2020 | Bob HENSEN | Nacra F20 Carbon | 89 | 03:59:19 | 04:28:53 | 55.0 |
| 3 | TR < 107 | GBR 521 | Grant PIGGOTT | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:00:47 | 04:00:47 | 5.0 |
| 4 | TR < 107 | NED 432 | Jacob den HOUTING | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:03:22 | 04:03:22 | 6.0 |
| 5 | TR < 107 | NED 8 | Gunnar LARSEN | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 04:05:11 | 04:05:11 | 7.0 |
| 57 | TR < 107 | 1101 | Robin MINEUR | Formula 16 | 105 | 04:05:19 | 03:53:38 | 68.0 |
| 26 | TR < 107 | NED 18 | Jorden VEENMAN | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:05:54 | 04:05:54 | 33.0 |
| 6 | TR < 107 | NED 1929 | Remco KENBEEK | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 04:06:22 | 04:06:22 | 9.0 |
| 7 | TR < 107 | ESP 3 | Gerard LOOS | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:06:54 | 04:06:54 | 11.0 |
| 70 | TR < 107 | NED 44 | Rik DUINMEIJER | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:07:05 | 04:07:05 | 78.0 |
| 8 | TR < 107 | NED 1975 | Paul SCHOLTEN | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 04:08:10 | 04:08:10 | 13.0 |
| 9 | TR < 107 | NED 1x | Jan SCHRAMA | Tornado | 100 | 04:08:38 | 04:08:38 | 14.0 |
| 10 | TR < 107 | NED 88 | Sanne WIELENGA | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:09:45 | 04:09:45 | 16.0 |
| 17 | TR < 107 | NED 17 | Bart DAMEN | Nacra 17 | 99 | 04:09:46 | 04:12:17 | 23.0 |
| 11 | TR < 107 | NED 789x | Wik BECKER | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:09:51 | 04:09:51 | 17.0 |
| 33 | TR < 107 | 10 | Pierre MEERMANS | nacra inter 20 | 96 | 04:09:57 | 04:20:21 | 42.5 |
| 12 | TR < 107 | NED 1851 | Cees van den BOS | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:10:17 | 04:10:17 | 18.0 |
| 14 | TR < 107 | 5 | Philip LABOUCHERE | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:10:55 | 04:10:55 | 20.0 |
| 91 | TR < 107 | GER 5 | Sünko SCHRÖDER | nacra f20 | 89 | 04:10:55 | 04:41:55 | 97.0 |
| 15 | TR < 107 | NED 112 | Leon van DALFSEN | Formula 18 | 100 | 04:11:19 | 04:11:19 | 21.0 |
| 16 | TR < 107 | NED 207 | Thijs VISSER | A-cat | 100 | 04:11:49 | 04:11:49 | 22.0 |
| 2 | TR < 107 | NED 216 | Teuntje van ES | Formula 16 | 105 | 04:12:16 | 04:00:15 | 4.0 |
| 18 | TR < 107 | 5 NED | Peter VINK | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 04:12:43 | 04:12:43 | 24.0 |
Top 20 Corrected Time
| NR. | Bow# | Zeilnummer | Team | Boot type | YS | T |
| 1 | TR < 107 | NED 77 | Hans van DAM | Formula 18 | 100 | 1.0 |
| 2 | TR < 107 | NED 216 | Teuntje van ES | Formula 16 | 105 | 4.0 |
| 3 | TR < 107 | GBR 521 | Grant PIGGOTT | Formula 18 | 100 | 5.0 |
| 4 | TR < 107 | NED 432 | Jacob den HOUTING | Formula 18 | 100 | 6.0 |
| 5 | TR < 107 | 175 | Yvan BOURGNON | f20 | 90 | 7.0 |
| 6 | TR < 107 | NED 8 | Gunnar LARSEN | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 8.0 |
| 7 | TR < 107 | NED 1929 | Remco KENBEEK | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 10.0 |
| 8 | TR < 107 | ESP 3 | Gerard LOOS | Formula 18 | 100 | 12.0 |
| 9 | TR < 107 | NED 1975 | Paul SCHOLTEN | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 14.0 |
| 10 | TR < 107 | NED 88 | Sanne WIELENGA | Formula 18 | 100 | 16.0 |
| 11 | TR < 107 | NED 789x | Wik BECKER | Formula 18 | 100 | 17.0 |
| 12 | TR < 107 | NED 1851 | Cees van den BOS | Formula 18 | 100 | 18.0 |
| 13 | TR < 107 | NED 789 | Geert RUESINK | Formula 16 | 104 | 19.0 |
| 14 | TR < 107 | 5 | Philip LABOUCHERE | Formula 18 | 100 | 20.0 |
| 15 | TR < 107 | NED 112 | Leon van DALFSEN | Formula 18 | 100 | 21.0 |
| 16 | TR < 107 | NED 207 | Thijs VISSER | A-cat | 100 | 22.0 |
| 17 | TR < 107 | NED 17 | Bart DAMEN | Nacra 17 | 99 | 23.0 |
| 18 | TR < 107 | NED 23 | Xander POLS | nacra 20 FCS- pro | 86 | 24.5 |
| 19 | TR < 107 | 1828x | Jelmer WIJMA | Formula 18 | 100 | 26.0 |
| 20 | TR < 107 | NL 1558 | Rolph SPAAS | Nacra Infusion | 100 | 27.0 |
Was Gunnar on infusion MKIII? It seems we have not heard much on this new boat does it perform vs mkii a snow latest c2 epoxy platforms? What is status on scorpion convertible?
Hi David. We don’t know which version Gunnar sailed. But the MK3 was already used at Sarasota by some crews like Melvin & van West. Scorpion convertible is still on hold on Jakub’s other works, production is already epoxy though.
I heard Sarasota conditions were not a good test due to wind conditions. I suppose we wait for worlds to see how new f18 developments impact the fleet or more likely top sailors getting top results regardless of platform choice (well balanced). What is your view how current platforms rank in performance?
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