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5-0-5 Europeans, KIEL / 1979 ENGLISH REPORT | SWEDISH REPORT (Sv.505 Bulletinen) For the first time the 505 class has a Scandinavian European champion in the form of the Danish Bojsen-Moller brothers from Hellerup SC. Organised by the Kiel
Defending champions Peter Colclough and Phil Brown could only manage second place this time, probably through lack of practice caused by Peter's road accident earlier this year. Colclough and Brown were up against some of their toughest opposition from the Bojsen-Moller brothers who sail every day in the summer and twice or three times a week during the winter. Excellent boat handling and good speed gave them the ability to recover from an indifferent start or any other apparent setback to their relentless progress towards the championship. The pattern was set in the first race when Bojsen-Moller won from fellow Danes Jorgen Schonherr and Anders Kempe with Colclough and Brown third. This race was one of two sailed on the second day of the regatta as the first day had been spent at sea waiting around for a breeze that never came. The race was stopped at the end of the second beat as the wing mark had not been laid in time. Scandinavian boats took three of the first four places with Karl-Erik Nilsson and Jan Calvert coming fourth and David Pitman was fifth when the race was re-started. Neil and Paul Willmott completed a good showing for the British with sixth place, dropping down from second at the windward mark. The Force 3 increased for the second race of the day which gave the Swedish brothers Staffan and Anders Eklund their first win of the week. The Scandinavians revelled in the increased wind with Bojsen-Moller second, Colclough third, Swedes Thomas Widstrand and Per-Anders Hallberg fourth, Schonherr fifth, Krister and Martin Bergstrom sixth and the Willmotts ninth. Sailed on a grey, miserable day with rain and the wind around Force 2, the third race was won by the Swedish Bergstrom brothers who overtook the early race leaders Ebbe Rosen and Olle Wenrup on the third reach. Rosen's second place was the start of a consistent series of races, having failed to distinguish himself in the first two. Bojsen-Moller and Colclough were locked together all the way round with the Dane finally slipping away on the last beat. Eklund dropped to twelfth and the French had another good result with Georges Le Troquer and Eric Devaux fifth (ninth in the first race) and Jean-Francois and Pierre Fountaine ninth. Pitman was fourth at the first mark and class newcomer John Patterson finished an excellent tenth. The fourth day's racing had to be abandoned in the face of a thunderstorm. After the fleet had ridden out the thunder, lightning and high winds, there was no more wind left. Thursday started well with sun and wind and a Force 4 to 5 forecast. Unfortunately this never came and the race was sailed in failing winds with almost nothing at the end. It was an easy start to finish win for Bojsen-Moller in his favourite light winds. Rosen was second for the second time running. Unfortunately this race was Colclough's worst; having gone the wrong way on the first beat, he managed to pull through to eighth. The French Corronnier brothers took a surprising third place, Nilsson was fourth, Eklund fifth, Bergstrom sixth and Mike Lawton and Terry Lawton, the second British boat, fourteenth. The following day the fleet launched with very high winds and sailed out to the race area to find mountainous seas and increasing winds. The inadequate rescue facilities threatened to go home if the race was started so the fleet turned for home, many under spinnaker for a truly memorable reach home. This was the third blank day at sea. With two races scheduled for the last day, a hard day was ensured for everybody. And it turned out to be just that with good winds and sunshine. The wind increased to around 4 to 5 for the last race which was another win for heavy weather experts, the Eklunds. They never looked like being overtaken by second place man Rosen who pushed Bojsen-Moller down to third place. Schonherr was fourth ahead of Danish 470 Olympic sailor Lars Lonberg. Nilsson was seventh and Pitman tenth. Bergstrom unfortunately hit the guard boat and had a disqualification to add to his first race DNF; this pushed him down the overall list to 19, instead of a single figure result. Twenty-five-year-old Jorgen and his twenty-three-year-old brother Jacob Bojsen-Moller sailed a Rondar boat with an Alpha Minus mast reinforced with carbon fibre on which they set Elvstrom sails. They used a superbly finished home-made gybing centreboard and a home-made fixed rudder. The centreboard was very long and had a high aspect ratio.
Overall Results: 1st 6886 (Jorgen Bojsen-Moller, Denmark), Rondar, Alpha, Elvstrom other British
placings: 11th 6840 (D.Pitman); 12th 6846 6846 (N. Wilmott);
EUROPAMÄSTERSKAPET I KIEL 3-11/8 -79
-english report Några av dom värsta konkurrenterna var inte med på Kieler
Woche men kom till EM. Regerande mästarna Colclough/Brown (England) hade missat
VM tidigare i år p.g.a. en trafikolycka men kom till Kiel med en ny specialbyggd
Parker. VM-fyran Schönherr/Kaempe (Danmark) och Bröderna Fountaine (Frankrike)
var tillsammans med Tysklands OS-guldmedaljör i FD Jörg Diesch andra svåra
konkurrenter. Tredje seglingen blev en hård kamp mellan Bergströms och Ebbe/Olle. På slören lyckades Bergström segla förbi och höll ledningen hela seglingen. Bakom dom var det hårt om tredje och fjärde platsen mellan Bojsen-Möller och Colclough. Colclough ledde hundra meter från målet då Bojsen-Möller lade in ett ryck, seglade ifrån Engelsmannen och kom trea i mål. På onsdagen startade fjärde seglingen i en svag bris. Efter att ha seglat halva banan kom ett åskmoln och fullkomligt dränkte hela fältet. Seglingen avbröts och vinden kom aldrig tillbaka så fältet fick bogseras in till hamnen. Torsdag morgon var det sol och ganska frisk vind, upplagt för en jämn och fin segling. När fältet kommit iväg började vinden mojna på vissa ställen och seglingen.blev otroligt buskig. På sista kryssen blåste det mycket lätt och fältet var ganska utspritt. Bojsen-Möller vann före Ebbe/Olle, Kalle/Janne kom fyra, Eklunds femma och Bergströms sexa. Fredagens segling fick ställas in p.g.a. för hård vind. Fältet seglade ut till banan men vågorna var alltför besvärliga och seglingsnämnden vågade inte skicka iväg fältet. Nu hade bara fyra seglingar genomförts på sex dagar och man
beslöt att genomföra två seglingar sista dagen. Ställningen var mycket jämn i
toppen förutom Bojsen-Möller som ledde överlägset med tre poäng. Det blev en fin
dag med sol och frisk vind. Första seglingen visade Bojsen-Möller att de är
Europas bästa genom att vinna. Colclough kom tvåa, Schönherr trea, Eklunds fyra,
Ebbe/Olle, femma, Widstrand sexa och Bergström sjua. Bojsen-Möller var nu klara
Europamästare men platserna efter var helt öppna. När sista starten gick hade
vinden ökat till ca. 10 m/sek. Alla svenskar hängde med bra och vid första
rundningen ledde Eklunds med Ebbe/Olle tätt efter. Seglingen blev ganska jobbig
i den friska vinden och efter två timmar gick Eklunds i mål först efter en hård
duell med Ebbe/Olle banan runt. Plac/Båtnr/Besättning
Placering/delsegl. Poäng Båttillv/
Segel/Mast 19. Bröd Bergström DNF, 6, 1, 6, 7, DSQ 115p 20. Nilsson/Stenberg 30, 32, 27, 11, 20, 12 130p 21. Bröd Ferm 7, 34, 29, 21, 21, DN 142p 29. Eriksson/Jackobsson 10, 37, 30, 25, 38, DNF 170p 35. Bröd Hellgren 29,DNF, 31, 36, 35, 31 192p 46. Malmström/Blidner 41, 47, 36, DNF,46, 41 241p 59. Knute/Andersson 59, 35, 67, 60, 45, DNF 296P 61. Arne Malm/Linderson 54, 55, 55, 59, 58, 44 296P |
YC, the event was sailed from the Olympic centre at Schilksee between August 3rd and 11th. The championship was attended by 69 competitors from eight
countries.
