| No
wind and no races off Neustadt
August
22, 2007
 It
was the calm after the storm that didn't allow
any race at the Rolex Baltic Week in Neustadt
on Wednesday (22 August). The sailors vainly waited
ashore until 15.30 h local time for any more wind.
But when a thunderstorm approached, race officer
Walter Mielke cancelled all starts having been
planed for the sixth racing day. For the final
day of the European Championship of the international
Melges 24 class on Thursday (23 August), the starting
time is rescheduled earlier to 10 h local time.
The Farr 40 regatta of the Rolex Baltic Week already
finished on Sunday (19 August) with the US yacht
"Barking Mad" owned by Jim Richardson
winning.
"We had a committee vessel out on the Bay
of Neustadt the whole day observing the development
of the conditions to be able to set a fair course
right away in
 case
the wind would have been improved," said
Mielke. "But the breeze was unsettled and
the average wind speed was not more than three
knots." The reason for the calm: The depression
which caused the strong wind and spectacular racing
the day before disappeared quickly. "And
when the depression was gone, only weak pressure
gradients remained. And a sea breeze couldn't
built because the overcast sky," explained
the weather expert from "Wetterwelt"
in Kiel , Meeno Schrader.
Provisional ranking of the Rolex Baltic
Week
Melges 24 European Championship after six races
(one discard):
- 1st
"Blu Moon" ( Flavio Favini , Switzerland
) 14 points
- 2nd "Airis" ( Sandro
Montefusco , Italy ) 20.8
- 3rd "Uka Uka" (
Lorenzo Bressani , Italy ) 25
- 4th "Alina - Helly Hansen"
( Luca Valerio , Italy ) 35
- 5th "Euro-Voiles"
(Denis Infante, France) 42
- 6th
"Marseille big ship Quantum"
( Maxime Paul , France ) 52
...
- 22. "MACS" (Dietrich
Scheder-Bieschin, Germany ) 104
Corinthian class (one discard):
- 1st "Lenny" ( Toenu
Toeniste , Estonia ) 13 points
- 2nd "Gullisara"
(Mario Ziliani, Italy ) 18
- 3rd
"Sonnenkoenig" ( Hendrik Witzmann
, Switzerland ) 24
...
- 11th "No Woman No Cry"
(Albert Batzill, Germany ) 50
Final results of the Rolex Baltic Week
Farr 40 regatta (from Sunday, 18 August)
- 1st "Barking Mad"
(Jim Richardson, USA) 33 points
- 2nd " Kokomo " (Lang
Walker, Australia ) 46
- 3rd "Siragusawa"
(Olli-Pekka Lumijaervi, Finland ) 48
- 4th "Opus One" (Wolfgang
Stolz, Germany ) 54
- 5th "Ichi Ban" (Matt
Allen, Australia ) 58
- 6th "Struntje light"
(Wolfgang Schaefer, Germany ) 60
- 7th "Fiamma" (Alessandro
Barnaba, Italy ) 60.8
- 8th "Groovederci"
(John Demourkas, USA ) 63
- 9th "Backbone" (Thomas
Kjær, Denmark ) 68
- 10th "Sputnik" (Ivan
Wheen, Australia ) 75
- 11th "Monkey Class"
(Ole van der Heide , United Kingdom ) 79.5
- 12th "Flash Gordon 5"
(Helmut Jahn, USA ) 81.5
- 13th "Baloo 110"
(Jens Erik Høst, Denmark ) 91
Final results of the Farr 40 European
Circuit after five regattas:
- 1st "Barking Mad"
(Jim Richardson, USA) 155 points
- 2nd " Kokomo " (Lang
Walker, Australia ) 162
- 3rd "Opus One" (Wolfgang
Stolz, Germany ) 225
- 4th "Siragusawa"
(Olli-Pekka Lumijaervi, Finland ) 237
- 5th "Struntje light"
(Wolfgang Schaefer, Germany ) 240
The Rolex Baltic Week is the one and only regatta
in Germany which enjoys the support of Rolex.
The worldwide calendar of the Rolex regattas comprises
famous yachting events such as the just finished
Rolex Fastnet Race in England, the Maxi Yacht
Rolex Cup held at the beginning of September in
Porto Cervo (Italy), the Rolex Middle Sea Race
at the end of October in Malta and the Rolex Sydney
Hobart Yacht Race starting on Boxing Day in Sydney,
Australia.
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