| Report day 1
Wind 3-7 m/sec NW. Sunny +10o C and very good sailing conditions. 3 races.
Report day 2
Wind approx 5 m/sec NE. Sunny + 12o and excellent sailing conditions. The wind has during
the day increased to approx. 10 m/sec and it has become more cloudy. 2 races (total 5).
We had 5 races as planned. Krister
Bergstrom and Johan Barne won in convincing style and were in a class for themselves. Olle
Wenrup and I was lucky to be second, just one point before Tom Bojland and Phillip
Christiani on 3rd place. Two teams came all the way from Finland and we had one German
team, 8619 (Ahrbom/Chris Nicholson's boat from Townsville) plus 6 boats from Denmark and
another 5 from Sweden. We missed Jan Saugmann/Torben Ramsbaek but I guess they were nice
guys taking care of their families instead. One danish team broke their mast in a capsize
after the racing on Saturday and with no spare mast around they had to go home with no
sailing on Sunday. We have a couple of new teams in Sweden and at least one of them will
buy a better 505 for next year. The weather and wind was perfect and the event was
succesful I think.
We look forward to more races in Malmoe
before the worlds in 2003 and we will try to run them a bit later next year (in hope to
see more germans...). The GUL Regatta is held every year on tradition early in May but
we'd like to have a Nordic or Swedish/Danish Championship there if possible. On Friday,
the day before the racing, a few teams were out practising together. Olle and I also had a
Fireball team trying out sailing our 505 while we were sailing their very old Fireball. We
also had a chance to sail under the Oresund Bridge which was a really nice experiance.
Johan Arvedson had ordered danish beer
which he kindly offered to everyone after the racing. The prizes were also very good. The
first 3 boats got GUL Course digital/analogue watches to both helm and crew!
Click
here to see complete racing results for 505 and other classes.
Regards,
Ebbe Rosen
SWE 8232
Svenska 505 Förbundet
STORT GRATTIS till KRISTER
BERGSTRÖM och JOHAN BARNE som på ett överlägset sätt tvålade till oss övriga!! Det
blev en mycket bra kappsegling med kanonfint segelväder.
Ett stort tack för ett
mycket professionellt genomfört arrangemang. Alla 505 seglare tyckte att Malmö/MSS
kommer att bli en mycket bra plats för VM 2003!
DS.
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