JUNE 2003 / 2

NEWSINTERNATIONAL CLASS UNION

From the President From Dear Sailors ! Spring is traditionally a big period in , and a lot of important events are sailed At Easter time I spent a week in Palma. I was in a few weeks. In France, as warming, the national regatta took place in April in Les as usual impressed over how the topsailors Sables d’Olonnes, and more than 120 competitors competed in light and medium winds. can handle our litlle difficult sailed . Unfortunately, the Palma Trophy was in the same time and some of the best girls were It was very nice to meet old friends, and I missing. However, Anne Marteau realized a good performance by taking the second place was very happy to see a lot of new faces in right behind Mathieu Derand who showed an outstanding speed in medium wind. Anne the class. That is perfect for the future. In was using a new built by Erplast. This builder was making only Palma the IECU board spent a day together but is now interested by our class. Regarding the results he got in such a few months, he for a halfyear meeting. It was very positive should probably become one of the top makers soon ! After a few days of rest, the best for once to sit at the same table, and not girls went to Hyères and young sailors could learn a lot from the best Europe sailors only have e-mail contacts. Even if it has before going to the French Championship in La Grande Motte. Still light wind for this been a quiet period, we had no problems to event won by Blandine Rouille in front of Solène Brain who failed to win a third title. spend the whole day. Remember one thing: Anne Marteau confirmed her improvement by taking bronze medal. The next important DO NOT MIX SPORT AND POLITICS. event is of the famous “12 hours of CVT” (14-15 June). It consists in sailing the I am looking foreward to meet you at the largest number of laps in 12 hours. A lot of different classes are invited to this event Europeans and the Worlds. hold in a small lake. You can choose to sail alone or in team, in this case, the crew sailed in Good winds to you all. the same boat which let some time to enjoy party around the event and it may be the only regatta when you can overtake a at 3 o’clock in the morning. Antoine Préveaux Best regards. seems to be THE specialist of that event regarding he won the last two years, but I guess Jan Abrahamsen, IECU President he will meet some serious opponents this year...

For any information, visit our website: asso.ffv.europe (this is written without “www” !) Waiting for to see you. Sail development Have fun !! WB- has done a lot of research around Valérian Lebrun the Europe sail as part of their development work. In addition to the traditional on- water testing with 2 or 3 boats, both wind tunnel measurements and sophisticated computer simulation have been used, striving for faster shapes and more versatile sails. A digital video camera attached to the top of the is routinely used to record and analyze sail shape in all wind conditions.

Wind tunnel testing An accurate scale model of the Europe dinghy was created for the wind tunnel testing. Actually the hull used was that of a 470 with a modified , since the hull was there from earlier tests and its exact shape is not that important. Much care was given to the design of the mast and the sails, produced in 1:4 scale to fit in the University of Technology wind tunnel. The bending of the carbon mast, with sail groove and everything, was carefully engineered so that it was exactly the same as the real mast. In addition, its overall stiffness was adjusted so that the loading on the sailcloth would be similar to the real world sail when blown with a two times stronger wind than in reality. Thus we could use the same sailcloth as in the actual sails, Read more>>>

JUNE 2003 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION 1 — www.europeclass.org — >>> for both the horizontal and the radial Computer calculated wind design. So 12 m/s in the wind tunnel would speed on the leeward side of the sail, when the apparent represent very accurately 6 m/s on the sea, wind is 6 m/s (true wind when it comes to mast bend, sail loading and speed about 4 m/s). Max. sail shape. The sail shapes were recorded wind speeds are over 9 m/s. Higher speeds mean a with several cameras for all the 25 or so tests lower pressure, or suction performed with the radial and the horizontal on the leeward side of the sail in wind speed ranging from 6 to 25 m/s sail in simpler words air is (3 to 12,5 m/s in the real world). Forces and “pulling” the sail. moments on the model were measured. In addition several flow visualization tests with smoke were done. For the purpose of these tests, the sail was painted black to show the On the windward side the smoke better. The flow pattern was recorded flow is slowed down to WB-Sails uses digital video camera attached to the top of 2 m/s. Slow speed means with a video camera. the mast to record sail shape on the water. higher pressure, so air is “pushing” the sail on the Computer simulation digital wind tunnel. windward side. Computer simulation of the wind flow around sails has evolved quickly during the last few years. Sophisticated tools can give much more detailed information about what is happening around the sail than wind tunnel testing. However, wind tunnel testing Top view of the Europe with computer generated is essential in validating or qualibrating the streamlines around the flow software. In practice, the wind tunnel sail. This illustration shows tests are first replicated in the computer, and how complex the airflow around sails can be. For calculated driving forces and heeling forces accurate results, the hull are compared to those measured in the wind model should be included in the simulation, since the tunnel. Computer software parameters are flow over the hull influences that over the sails. Ideally then adjusted so that the results agree with the sailor should be modeled, too, but his/her influence on the flow over the sails is minimal: the sailor is almost measurements. Then we can run many more pure drag. simulations in the computer, testing different Smoke is used in the wind tunnel to visualize the flow. sails shapes and trim, with relatively good Here you can see the swirl forming in the top of a Europe sail. The sail has The sail has been painted black to show confidence that the results can be relied on. better. As an example, we ³filled² a lightly loaded area in the computer generated pressure map of the sail through adjusting the sail shape in its lower part. Sure enough this design change, when transferred to the real world, produced a faster sail in light and medium Another illustration of the complexity of sail flow. When airs when two boat testing. The change has leaving the leech of the sail the air is forced into a rolling since been permanently added to our design. motion, swirling into two large vortices in the top of the We now take routinely mastcam footage sail and under the . This is the “bad air” behind the boat familiar to anyone racing. These swirls consume of new designs, to record and analyze sails energy, bending the airflow around the sail itself and shapes in the “digital wind tunnel” provided reducing the lift. The leech vortices contribute up to 75% Smoke visualization of the flow, seen from above. by the computer. of the air drag of the boat, so no wonder much of the sail computer simulation work focuses on minimizing their effect. See the one-design section at www.wb-sails.fi for animations and video about Europe sail Mikko Brummer simulation. WB-Sails

The “bad air sector” seen from behind...

The radial sail in the wind tunnel in 25 m/s, corre- sponding to approximately 10 m/s true wind in the real world. Rows of tell tails are ...and overhead. If air used to monitor the flow. wasn`t invisible, we would see quite The horizontal lines are for a spectacle every time we the sails. recording sail shape from above with a video camera. The bend of the mast is realistic and you can see how the sail stretches and wrinkles under the loading. The shadow of the mast makes it appear larger in reality it is accurately scaled from the real mast, but solid carbon to make it stiff enough.

2 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 — www.europeclass.org — FROM FROM CZECH REPUBLIC The traditional opening of the sea- son “Palavska Regatta” is one of the most popular sport events in the Czech Republic. In South Moravia, about 30 km from Brno and 100 km from Vienna () the race was held from 9 to 11 May 2003. The Lake Nové Mlýny gave a hearty welcome to 46 competitors from Czech Republic, 8 from Austria, 1 from Slovakia. The wind conditions were not quite excellent but the weather was wonderful and sunny.

WOMEN RESULTS 1. CZE 27 Skotnicova Jana 2. AUT 106 Wagner Verena 3. CZE 111 Landkammerova Sarka 4. CZE 19 Fenclova Veronika 5. CZE 4 Landkammerova Jana

MEN RESULTS 1. CZE 11 Smesny Marek 2. CZE 17 Krejza Tomas 3. CZE 6 Novotny Vaclav 4. CZE 41 Kala Roman 5. CZE 21 Hama Martin

SPA REGATTA 2003 O’NEILL Rankings Medemblik - 5.21-25 Europe – Women’s Single Handed Dinghy 84 ladies in competition representing 27 Issue Date: 30 may 2003 countries: Pos Name Nation Previous Pos Points AUS, AUT, BEL, BLR, CAN, CHN, CRO, 1 1 4977 CZE, DEN, FIN, FRA, GBR, GER, IRL, 2 3 4907 JPN, LTU, MEX, NED, NOR, POL, POR, 3 2 4783 SLO, SUI, SWE, TUR, UKR and USA. 4 Maria COLEMAN IRELAND 4 4642 5 Signe LIVBJERG 10 4590 6 Petra NIEMANN 15 4546 1. FIN 7 Sari Multala 26 7 Trine Julie ABRAHAMSEN DENMARK 6 4536 2. GER 18 Wiebke Schroder 41 8 Lenka SMIDOVA CZECH REPUBLIC 7 4454 3. NOR 846 Siren Sundby 41 9 Doris WETZEL GERMANY 8 4416 4. DEN 3 Signe Livbjerg 42 10 9 4394 5. BLR 7 43 11 Christiane PETZKE GERMANY 11 4383 6. NED 11 Carolijn Brouwer 48 12 5 4382 7. CZE 5 Lenka Smidova 49 13 Ditte JUUL CHRISTENSEN DENMARK 12 4353 14 Min DEZILLIE 13 4224 8. GER 14 Christiane Petzke 50 15 Weronika GLINKIEWICZ POLAND 14 4161 9. IRL 1 Maria Coleman 55 16 Meg GAILLARD USA 16 4063 10.GER 34 Petra Nieman 57 17 Monika BRONICKA POLAND 17 4011 18 Tania ELIAS-CALLES 22 3894 19 Neus GARRIGA-TURON 18 3869 20 Manon BORSI FRANCE 21 3711 More results for ISAF Ranking list at: www.sailing.org/rankings

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2 JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION 3 — www.europeclass.org — Calendar Date Name/Club Entry Address GER 07.06. 2. WMA/EMA/JEMA Kieler ph. 04 31/850 23 09.06. Goldener Pfingsbusch Hindenburgufer 70 fax 04 31/839 39 24105 [email protected] www.kyc.de GER 11.06. Bayerische Jugendmeisterschaft Bayerischer Yachtclub ph. 081 51/32 38 13.06. Starnberger See Nepomukweg 4-6 fax 081 51/282 22 82151 Starnberg www.byc.de

SWE 13.06. Open Championship Stenungsunds Segelsallskap ph. +46 303 676 60 15.06. Stenungsund Box 98 fax +46 303 802 03 44422 Stenungsund [email protected] www.stss.nu

GER 14.06. Möhnesee-Pokal Reinhard Tuschen ph. 029 21/557 91 15.06. Möhnesee Mozartweg 6 fax 029 21/516 07 59505 Bad Sassendorf [email protected]

GER 14.06. Eckernförder Eichhörnchen Segel Club Eckernförde fax 043 51/874 49 15.06. Am Ort 2 24340 Eckernförde www.segelclub-eckernförde.de

POL 12.06. Gdynia Trophy Yacht Klub Polski Gdynia fax +48 620 1701 15.06. 81-345 Gdynia al. Zjednoczenia 9 www.pya.org.pl

SWE 12.06 Open Championship Stenungsunds Segelsallskap ph. +46 303 676 60 15.06. Stenungsund Box 98 fax +46 303 802 03 44422 Stenungsund [email protected] www.stss.nu

AUT 19.06. Östereich-Meisterschaft Angelika Jäger-Stark ph. +43 21 67 74 41 22.06. Neusiedlersee Neubaugasse 8 fax +43 66 43 83 31 75 BYC A-7121 Weiden/See [email protected] www.europeclass.at

DEN 18.06. Scandinavian Race Week (Ex-Spring-Cup) Danish Sailing Association ph. +45 43 262189 22.06. Rungstedt Idraettens Hus fax +45 43 262191 DK 2605 Broendby www.kdy.dk/SRW

GER 21.06. MEN Kieler Yacht Club ph. 04 31/850 23 24.06. Kieler Förde Hindenburgufer 70 fax 04 31/839 39 24105 Kiel [email protected] www.kyc.de

SWE 23.06. Open Youth Championship Svenska E-jolleförbundet ph. +46 21 12 02 04 27.06. Hudiksvall Fältmätargatan 7 721 35 Västerås [email protected] home.swipnet.se/e-jolle/

GER 25.06. Kiel Week WOMEN Kieler Yacht Club ph. 04 31/850 23 29.06 Kieler Förde Hindenburgufer 70 fax 04 31/839 39 24105 Kiel [email protected] www.kyc.de

ESP 29.06. Open Week Club Maritimo San Antonio de la Playa ph. +34 971 745 076 03.07. (European Championship) Calle Virgilio, 27 fax +34 971 261 638 Ca’n Pastilla [email protected] 07610 Palma de Mallorca www.cmsap.com

ESP 04.07. European Championship Club Maritimo San Antonio de la Playa ph. +34 971 745 076 11.07. Palma de Mallorca Calle Virgilio, 27 fax +34 971 261 638 Ca’n Pastilla [email protected] 07610 Palma de Mallorca www.cmsap.com

DEN 25.07. Youth Europeans Kaløvig Yachtclub 02.08. Kaløvig. www.europeclass.dk www.kblsail.dk

ESP tbd Men’s Worlds & Open Week www.cadizworlds2003.com/ Cadiz

ESP 11.09. Women’s Worlds www.cadizworlds2003.com/ 18.09. Cadiz

4 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 — www.europeclass.org — INTERNATIONAL 2004 EUROPE CLASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Yacht Club - July 04-17 2004

IECU World Ranking List for Men 2003 Best 2 results + Worlds (x2) Régate de Noel Princesa Sofía Kiel WORLDS TOTAL Hyeres / FRA Mallorca / ESP GER Cadiz/ESP

1 SWE 60 SVENSSON Fredeik 2 1 - - 3 2 FRA 11 LEBRUN Valerian 1 13 - - 14 3 NOR 307 KARLSEN Joakim 6 9 - - 15 4 NOR 303 HUSER Alexander 14 4 - - 18 5 FRA 5577 BORSI Vincent 3 16 - - 19 6 GER 100 STADEL Riky 31 25 - - 56 7 SWE 44 Claeson, Oscar 71 2 - - 73 8 ESP 433 Salamé Domínguez, Joan 71 3 - - 74 9 FRA 5479 BOURDAIS Mathieu 4 71 - - 75 10 ITA 1130 MAGNAGHI Pietro 5 71 - - 76 11 NOR 889 Gundersen, Christopher 71 5 - - 76 12 DEN 55 Risor, Michael 71 6 - - 77 13 FRA 5480 BAIZEZ Brice 7 71 - - 78 14 ESP 436 Terrasa Pol, Francisco 71 7 - - 78 15 FRA 5568 TAINE Emmanuel 8 71 - - 79 16 ESP 384 Paris Gibert, Marc 71 8 - - 79 17 FRA 5518 GACHE Jean Christoph 9 71 - - 80 18 FRA 5530 DERAND Mathieu 10 71 - - 81 19 DEN 1598 Ebler, Mads 71 10 - - 81 20 FRA 5579 PREVEAUX Antoine 11 71 - - 82 Please check the complete list at IECU’s web site www.europeclass.org

Remember that the top 10 sailors in the IECU World Men’s Ranking list after Kiel 2003 will grant 1 place for their National Class Association to participate at the Men’s Worlds in CADIZ/ESP.

4 JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION 5 — www.europeclass.org — FROM SWEDEN The best sailors from Sweden and from the rest of the world will come to Stenungsund 12-15 June in 2003 to race in the Open Swedish Championships for the Olympic classes. These Championships will be the largest Swedish regatta during the year and 350 to 400 com- petitors are expected to take part. The regatta centre will be at Stenungsund. The racing will take place on four courses on the fiords of Hake and Askerö from Friday to Sunday.

All the Olympic and Paralympic classes are gathered for the first time to compete for the Swedish Championships. The Championships are open and international which means that regardless nationality the winner will be the Swedish Champion. Probably no swedish club is able to host such a big regatta and Stenungsund Yacht Club organizes this event together with the Yacht Club Boxvike SS, Getskärs SS, Hellevikstrands KSS, Ljungskile SS and Tjörns SS.

Classes The Olympic classes are 470 for men and women, , Europe dinghy, , , , , and Mistral. The Paralympic classes are and 2,4 mR. The Junior classes and 420 are also invited.

The website http://www.ossm2003.org will be updated daily during the event with news and information. Results and photographs will also be available there. Per Gustafsson FROM AUSTRALIA The Australian sailing season has just finished so we are off to the Northern Hemisphere regattas. Australia will reciprocate with a large number of regattas over November-January for Europe Class sailors who would like to “migrate south for winter”. Details in 2003 September E-News.

In the meantime, here are a few tips that may assist with your Europe Class Association web-sites. 1. A simple way to get a free listing in a number of the top search engines (including Google), is to submit your site to the Dmoz Directory. http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Boating/Sailing/Associations/One Design Associations/Dinghies/ The volunteer editor for this category happens to be the webmaster for the Australian Europe Class! 2. A nice addition to your site is a favicon (favourite icon) that helps you locate your site in your list of favourites. Try bookmarking www.europeaus.org and see how it looks when you look in your favourites next time you open your browser. For more details e-mail [email protected] . 3. If your site is a non-English site, you might consider having some English pages. Most search engines work on English text.

Good luck to all sailors for the European and Worlds.

Tony Walsh from the Australian International Europe Class Association

The participation to the regattas has been the traditional activity still exists with the FROM large (great number of sailors) even if they Olympic one. It looks inevitable getting to 2 were engaged in other regattas and that they separate activities, one Olympic and another The selection for the National Team is com- had to organise their time as the majority of traditional one for girls and boys. pleted. Our team will represent Italy in all the sailors are students in colleges or univer- But this in the future will turn to a profes- the 2003 regattas, continental and world sities. sionalism which is not in the spirit of our ones. boat and practice of our sport, boat and The selection for the European For the Class sport activities, it is important sport should be at the disposition of every- Championships in Palma de Mallorca is the to have in mind the young sailors conditions, body and young sailors, and for the person following: otherwise the preparation of the youngest who wants to developp an agonistic activity Ladies sailors (our future champions) may suffer remaining a pure amateur. , Angela Mastalli, Fabiola of it. Magnaghi, Rebecca Rettori, Daniela It is necessary to consider the reality of the Claudio Morana Colombo, , Francesca elaboration of the international calendar ASSEUROPA President Komatar and Sveva Carraro. which finally conditions the organisation of Men each National Federations. Riccardo Piseddu, Alessandro Durante, Very few adaptability and margin are left Pietro Magnaghi, Stefano Menoni, Marco to the Class National Associations to elabo- Baruzzi, Stefano Severgnini, Tommaso rate a serene program of the sailing sport Pelosini and Francesco Zugna. development, specially for the Europe Class The selection has been done on the basis of which has the Women Olympic status, but 32 races sailed in 6 regattas: Lecco, Marsala, they want and desire to develop and organ- Pesaro, Torbole, Monfalcone and Pescara. ise the program with uniformity doing that

6 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 — www.europeclass.org — TAKE NOTE IX TROFEO S.A.R. EYE 2003 in KBL - DENMARK OLYMPIC PRINCESA SOFIA http://www.kblsail.dk/regatta/EYE03/index 4.12/18.2003 - CMSAP CAN PASTILLA st.html Notice of Race and entryform are SAILING WEEK - PALMA DE MALLORCA available at the homepage Men Results: 5-9 April 2003 Two groups, gold and silver, and a total of 70 sailors representing 11 countries: AUT, CZE, DEN, ESP, FIN, FRA, GER, ITA, 5-9 April 2003 SEMAINE OLYMPIQUE NOR, POR and SWE. 1. SWE 6 Fredrik Svensson 16 FRANÇAISE 2003 1. Shen Xiaoying CHN 2. SWE 44 Oscar Claeson 36 Hyères - 4.24/5.3.2003 2. Lenka Smidova CZE 3. ESP 433 joan Salamé Dominguez 38 107 ladies sailed the 2003 Semaine 3. Lu Chun Feng CHN 4. NOR 303 Aleksander F. Huser 40 Olympique Française edition with a large 4. Carolijn Brouwer NED 5. NOR 889 Christopher Gundersen 53 representation of 31 countries: AUS, AUT, 5. Tania Elias-Calles MEX 6. DEN 55 Michael Risor 55 BEL, BLR, BRA, CAN, CHN, CRO, CZE, 6. Sarah Macky NZL 7. ESP 436 Francisco Terrasa Pol 60 DEN, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, GER, GRE, 7. Solene Brain FRA 8. ESP 384 Marc Paris Gilbert 68 ITA, IRL, JPN, MEX, NED, NOR, NZL, 8. Serena Amato ARG 9. NOR 307 Joakim Karlsen 70 POL, POR, RUS, SLO, SUI, SWE, TUR 9. Neus Garriga-Turon ESP 10. DEN 1598Mads Ebler 71 and USA. 10. Sophie de Turckheim FRA 1. NOR 846 Siren Sundby 37,00 Women results: 2. FIN 7 Sari Multala 38,00 34 ladies entered this competition and Two groups, gold and silver, represent- 3. NZL 115 Sarah Macky 59,00 represented 15 countries: ing 25 countries: ARG, AUS, BEL, CAN, 4. DEN 4 Ditte Juul 70,00 ARG, BLR, CHN, CZE, ESP, GBR, GRE, CZE, DEN, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, GER, 5. DEN 11 Trine Abrahamsen 75,00 FRA, MEX, NED, NZL, POL, POR, SWE GRE, IRL, JPN, MEX, NED, NOR, NZL, 6. FRA 3 Manon Borsi 79,00 and USA. POL, POR, RUS, SUI, SWE, TUR and 7. ITA 1 Larissa Nevierov 79,00 USA. 8. GER 4 Doris Wetzel 81,00 9. DEN 3 Signe Livbjerg 87,00 FROM NEW ZEALAND 1. FIN 7 Sari Multala 33 10. IRL 1 Maria Coleman 92,00 2. NED 11 Carolijn Brouwer 36 NZ OLYMPICSAIL 2003 3. NOR 846 Siren Sundby 40 4. DEN 3 Signe Livbjerg 44 Olympicsail was the final regatta of the 5. GER 34 Petra Niemann 47 FROM THE Yachting NZ Ranking Series 2003. 6. CZE 5 Lenka Smidova 65 It was the trials for the Pre- 7. NZL 115 Sarah Macky 71 NETHERLANDS Olympic Test Event and the 2003 World 8. BEL 1 Min Dezillie 72 Championships in Cadiz. 9. MEX 200 Tania Elias Calles 74 2003 OPEN DUTCH CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN The regatta was held over four days and was 10. USA 112 Meg Gaillard 91 Workum - 17-18 May held in a variety of conditions. The Europe Men and women competed in the same Class had nine sailors all from NZ, includ- fleet.. There were 36 competitors (men + ing two youth sailors, and Jane women). Macky. Sarah Macky won comfortably, 2003 CALENDER Final Results: Sharon Ferris, on a break from her Yingling campaign showed her class to finish second EVENTS - International Regattas 1. NED 729 Jorrit Karreman overall, Kate O’Brien was third. 2. NED 7 Joost van Lingen Many old faces were back in a lot of the This is an invitation to our International 3. NED 703 Pieter de Boer Olympic Classes post the America’s Cup. regattas: 4. NED 746 Martijn van den Driest Craig Monk in the Finn, Sharon Ferris in the Europe, Aaron Macintosh in the Tornado, 9-11.05 PALAVASKA REGATTA For women it was a class event, prizes Rod Dawson and Rohan Lord in the Laser. - Nové Mlýny-Pavlov were given to: Final Results 12-15.06 INTERNATIONAL 1. GBR 374 Nicky Muller CHAMPIONSHIP OF 2. NED 16 Maike Landman 1. Sarah Macky 9 CZECH REPUBLIC 3. NED 736 Birna van Riemsdijk 2. Sharon Ferris 18 - Nové Mlýny-Pavlov 4. JPN 1 Haiko Sato 3. Kate O’Brien 29 - information 4. Sara Winther 36 [email protected] Birna van Riemsdijk 5. Robyn Prentice 45 4-7.09 International Regatta “110 years of yachting in Czech Republic” - Lipno- Cerna v Posumavi - www.yachting.cz/csj/

With best regards. Joseph Machovsky Czech Europe Class Association

Photo by Tony Walsh

6 JUNE 2003 JUNE 2003 INTERNATIONAL EUROPE CLASS UNION 7 — www.europeclass.org — WinnerBoats Europe Class Results 2003 � World Champion 2002 - Women’s fleet. � World Champion 2002 - Men’s fleet. � European Champion 2002 - Women’s fleet. � European Champion 2002 - Men’s fleet. WINNER � 18 sailors on Top 20 in the ISAF World Ranking List 8/5/2003 Many unbeatable results, World Champion consecutively 93/94/95/96/97/98/99/00/01

Winner. WORLD CHAMPION 2002 - CAN Sail 2003 – Melbourne - AUS On the ladie's fleet. Sara Blanck (AUS) is the 1. Lenka Smidova CZE WINNER World Champion 2002 with a Winner. 2. Carolijn Brouwer NED WINNER 9 of Top 10 used a Winner. ( 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 3. Sarah Blank AUS WINNER 10) 89 % of Gold Fleet used a Winner! 1. Sara Blanck AUS WINNER 2. Siren Sundby NOR Sail Auckland 2003 – Auckland - NZL 3. Petra Niemann GER WINNER 1. Carolijn Brouwer NED WINNER 4. Sari Multala FIN WINNER 2. Sarah Macky NZL WINNER 5. Lenka Smidova CZE WINNER 3. Jo Dikkenberg AUS WINNER On the men's fleet. Soren Johnsen (DEN) is the World Champion 2002 with a Winner. Rolex Miami OCR 2003 – Miami - USA 1. Soren Johnsen DEN WINNER 1. Lenka Smidova CZE WINNER 2. Gerard Marí ESP WINNER 2. Meg Gaillard USA WINNER 3. Pablo Arandia ESP WINNER 3. Georgia Chimona GRE WINNER

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 2002 - BEL Eurolymp 2003 – Athens Week - GRE On the ladie's fleet. Sari Multala (FIN) is the 1. Sari Multala FIN WINNER European Champion 2002 with a Winner, 2. Trine Abrahamsen DEN WINNER she won 7 out of 10 races! 3. Manon Borsi FRA WINNER 9 of Top 10 uses Winner. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10. 1. Sari Multala FIN WINNER Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week 2003 – -ESP 2. Trine Abrahamsen DEN WINNER 1. Shen Xiaoying CHN WINNER 3. Sarah Macky NZL WINNER 2. Lenka Smidova CZE WINNER 4. Siren Sundby NOR 3. Lu Chunfeng CHN WINNER 5. Christiane Petzke GER WINNER On the men's fleet. Soren Johnsen (DEN) is Princess Sofia Trophy 2003 – Mallorca – ESP the European Champion 2002 with a Winner. MEN’S FLEET 1. Soren Johnsen DEN WINNER 1. Fredrik Svenson SWE WINNER 2. Patrick Johansson SWE 2. Oscar Claeson SWE 3. Oscar Claeson SWE 3. Joan Salamé ESP WINNER

Eurolymp 2002 Christmas – Palamos - ESP Princess Sofia Trophy 2003 – Mallorca – ESP 1. Petra Niemann GER WINNER WOMEN’S FLEET 2. Neus Garriga ESP WINNER 1. Sari Multala FIN WINNER 3. Christiane Petzke GER WINNER 2. Carolijn Brouwer NED WINNER 3. Siren Sundby NOR WINNER Régatte de Noel 2002 MEN - Hyeres - FRA 1. Valerian Lebrun FRA Eurolymp 2003– SOF – Hyeres - FRA 2. Fredrik Svensson SWE WINNER 1. Siren Sundby NOR WINNER 3. Vincent Borsi FRA WINNER 2. Sari Multala FIN WINNER 3. Sarah Macky NZL WINNER Régatte de Noel 2002 WOMEN - Hyeres - FRA 1. Doris Wetzel GER WINNER Eurolymp 2003 – SPA REGATTA – NED 2. Blandine Rouille FRA WINNER 1. Sari Multala FIN WINNER 3. Manon Borsi FRA WINNER 2. Wiebke Schroder GER WINNER 3. Siren Sundby NOR WINNER

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