Notes on the 2002 European Championship

It's a great shame there were not more boats for this great event - the sailing in the last few days in particular was fantastic. ...

Simon J Lake
GBR8705
UK 505 Committee

I was able to get a bit of attention for the event by the Italian press.
I enclose the article in Italian, I am sure you can understand the content.

Marco Giraldi

Europeo 505
A cura di Redazione Fare Vela - Michele Tognozzi
05/08/2002

Riva del Garda- Gli svedesi Krister Bergstrom e Thomas Moss sono i nuovi campioni europei della classe 505, al termine del Campionato continentale organizzato dalla Fraglia Vela di Riva del Garda. Al secondo posto i tedeschi Martine e Rainer George. Terzi gli inglesi Payne/Masterman. Il 505 � una splendida deriva ad alte prestazioni, che costituisce la primogenitrice dei moderni skiff. Ottima la sua diffusione nei paesi anglosassoni e scandinavi, scarsa in Italia.

/Riva del Garda - The Swedes Krister Bergstrom and Thomas Moss are the new European champions in the 505 class. The Championship was organized by the Fraglia Vela of Riva del Garda. In second place were the Germans Martin and Rainer George. Third overall are the British Simon Payne/Bill Mastermann. The 505 is a splendid high-performance racing dingy. Excellent spread in the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries, however poor in Italy./

what the teams used: 
Bergstr�m/Moss       Rondar,  Cumulus, Rebell
G�rge/G�rge          Rondar (my old one from 97/98), Super-Spars M2, Bojsen-M�ller
Payne/Masterman      Rondar,  M2, Ullmans+Bojsen-M.Spi
Pinnell/Hunt         Rondar,  Cumulus, P&B
Boehm/Roos           Mader,   D, Latsch
Scutcher, Diebitsch  Rondar,  Antares, P&B
K�chlin/Priegann     Rondar,  M2, BM
Kellner/Stammer      Kyrwood, M2, BM
Howarth /Grant       Rondar,  Cumulus, P&B  
Niediek/Heising      Kyrwood, D, own
Filimonow/St�ckmann  Rondar,  D, P&B

from Holger Jess

The European Championships top five results: 
1. Kister Bergstr�m / Thomas Moss, Sweden
2. Martin Goerge / Rainer Goerge, Germany
3. Simon Payne Bill Masterman, Great Britain
4. Ian Pinnell / Steve Hunt, Great Britain
5. Stefan Boehm / Gerald Roos, Germany
Sorry about no more details but I have lost my result list.
I hope this will soon be available on www.fragliavelariva.it

Now a short report:

There were only fourty-five 505s on the startline, and not so many boats as expected. We had one week of wonderful sailing in 24 degrees water and 35 degrees air temperature. On the first day we had one race with 10 growing up to 20 knots wind. Krister Bergstroms forestay broke in this race when he was in the lead after the first lap, so he had to retire. On the following two days we had three nice races with about 15 knots of wind. After the layday we had two very hard races with maximum wind under the cliff over 35-40 knots. On the last day it was very windy again.

Krister and Thomas sailed very good with the places DNF 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, DNF.

Goerges had a safe second place overall. The following boats were very close.
We had races only in the afternoon, and so we had big parties every night.

Now I will not terrorize You any longer with my bad english. A detailed report will come from Ian Pinnell. But everybody who wasn't at the europeans missed the best event of the year.

See You,

Wolfgang Stueckl
GER 8633


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