Resultat Svenska 505 Landslaget
VM, CORK/Irland -82English
Kjell Lidman, Anders Eklund, Per Anders Hallberg, Claes Gustavsson, Stefan Eriksson, Petter Nilsson, Olle Wenrup, Staffan Eklund, Krister Bergström, Joakim Peterson (coach), Ebbe Rosén. Saknas på bilden: Kalle Nilsson, Anders Avén, Per Oskarsson, Lars Edström
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505 Worlds – Cork 1982
505 Worlds Report – Cork 1982 Seventy-three 505s from 15 countries took part in one of the windiest of recent world championships sailed off Cork harbour. The event was most ably and amicably hosted by the Royal Cork YC and sponsored by Cleanaway. It was the third time that the club had staged the 505 worlds and French veteran Marcel Buffet had the distinction of being the only competitor to sail in all three events. He won in Cork way back in 1959 which was his first of two consecutive worlds championships. The recent American dominance of 505 racing was maintained by Gary Knapp and Cam Lewis having a comfortable win from Britons Peter Colclough and Harold Barnes in second place and fellow Americans Steve Benjamin and Tucker Edmundson in third. The strong winds and big seas placed a high premium on seamanship and sound equipment and these factors brought the Scandinavians to the fore with three Swedish and one Danish boat in the top 10. Lawrie Smith and Mark Simpson won the pre-worlds series with three wins and this looked encouraging for British boats. The series was sailed in light to moderate winds but come the championship proper the weather changed and a typical forecast was wind west to north-west Force 4 to 5 gusting 6 in the showers. The first and last races had the lightest winds of Force 3 plus. Peter Kyne and Robbie Robertson made a good start by leading the first race only to lose their lead by going too high on the second reach. Knapp and Lewis, sailing the same boat that Bixby and Lewis won in San Francisco last year, went straight to take a lead that they never lost in the race. Perhaps the most remarkable performance of the race, even the championship, was that of Sweden's Krister Bergstrom and Per Anders Hallberg who had only 10 boats behind them at the first mark. By sailing the right side of the beat and getting the shifts right they had only five boats in front at the end of the second beat. They finished fifth with Howard Hamlin and Jon Andron second, Benjamin and Edmundson third, Smith and Simpson fourth, Kyne and Robertson sixth and Colclough and Barnes back in thirteenth place. For race two the wind went round to the east, blowing a good Force 5 with enormous rolling seas. It was to provide the most exiting sailing of the week with fantastic spinnaker reaches with competitors nearly leaving the water surfing down the waves. Knapp and Lewis's speed to windward was most impressive and they recorded their second win. Heavy rain reduced visibility and by the end of the race the wind was up to Force 6. Denmark's Jorgen Schonherr and Anders Kaempe executed a flawless gybe at the wing mark and were rewarded with second place ahead of Colclough and Barnes, Sweden's Karl-Erik Nilsson and Anders Aven and Neal Fowler and Mark Lindsay (USA) were fifth ahead of Benjamin and Edmundson. Hamlin and Andron unfortunately capsized and broke their tiller in what was the first of a number of mishaps that eventually put them completely out of contention for the title. With the race area at least an hour's sail from the club and conditions difficult to predict, sail and equipment selection was difficult for all competitors. This meant that people had to play safe, particulary as all support boats were banned on the course area; and on a number of days conditions by the club were the opposite of those out at sea. The ban by support boats (hotly opposed by Swedes who were the only ones with a support crew) put a premium on mast/sail combinations that performed well in all winds. The wind for race three was from the south-west, about 20 knots with plenty of gusts and shifts. There were plenty of capsizes including Benjamin and Colclough who had a quick dip near the end of the first beat. Neal Harrison and Nick Paterson from Australia overtook Knapp and Lewis on the penultimate beat by getting the shifts right. Up the last beat they covered the second-place Swedes Staffan and Anders Eklund and the Americans. Hamlin and Andron went out to sea, the unfavoured side for all the previous beats of the race, to take the winning gun ahead of Harrison, Eklund, Knapp and Fowler. Colclough came in sixth but Benjamin could only manage seventeenth after his swim and consistentely getting the beats wrong. The wind went back to the west for race four and was still strong. Schonherr and Kaempe sailed fast upwind but were beaten round the windward mark by Benjamin and Edmundson who were just starting to show some real speed in their Parker boat. Benjamin led all the way with Danes second. Dave White and Terry Lawton were the leading British boat for the firsts triangle and were overtaken by Knapp and Lewis on the first reach as they moved into third place. An inshore course paid off on most of the beats and there were a number of helpful shifts near the windward mark. Colclough moved through the top of the fleet to finish a consistent fourth. White eventually finished thirteenth. It was a first class race with good waves and interesting conditions. Another notable achievment was that of Hamlin and Andron who capsized with their spinnaker up before the race and broke their spreader. Having already a retirement they had to effect a repair. This they did by capsizing their boat and lashing a screwdriver to the broken spreader and the mast. Although lying second to fellow Americans Knapp and Lewis, the latter lent them a paddle with a thin aluminium shaft which they tied to the ends of the spreaders and the front of the mast to keep the tips forward. Their efforts were successful as they finished the race in eighth place, including overtaking a number of competitors on the last beat including a bemused Lawrie Smith! A 35 knot rain squall enlivened the fifth race as well as wrecking a number of competitors' hopes of a high overall place. The wind was in the same direction as the previous day but at the end of the second beat a vicious squall flattened a large part of the fleet. The leaders were just going down the run with spinnakers set and Benjamin – who had worked out a useful lead from Knapp – Hamlin and Schonherr all lost their masts, Benjamin's and Schonherr's being $2,000 Kevlar and carbon fibre Waterat masts. The disaster put Benjamin and Hamlin out of the running, Hamlin now having to count a retirement. Even though two of the three Waterat masts broke, Benjamin's was let down by his rod rigging that snapped (as did Ossie Stewart's on Benjamin's old boat Grace) and Schonherr's where he had a scheave box for the spinnaker pole uphaul. Bergstrom finished second which put him in third place overall, just behind third place finisher Colclough. Knapp and Lewis's win was enough to give them the title, Knapp for the first time and Lewis a second 505 championship to add to his two Finn Gold Cup wins. Even though the title was decided, the wind still had not had enough. Just as the sixth and final race started the wind piped up even more. The race was abandoned with a full Force 7 across the course at the end of the first beat before any competitors could try to sail the first reach. Fortunately the amount of damage was not as bad as the fifth race but poor Bergstrom and Hallberg met with a string of disasters, starting with a broken jib sheet, that put them out of the re-sail of the race with a badly damaged boat. It also put them out of contention for second overall. The re-sail on the last day of the championship was perhaps the most interesting race of the week. The forecast was for a Force 4 to 5 with 6 in gusts from the north-west. The tide played a part in the race for the first time as the course was set closer inshore with a number of sailors hitting the windward mark two and three times because of a strong ebb stream. Benjamin was the early leader only to be overtaken on the wind by Neal Fowler and Mark Lindsay who were going very quickly. Unfortunately for them their strut bent and Benjamin took back the lead to score his second win of the week. Schonherr, like Benjamin, now using a Proctor mast (Fowler replaced his broken Proctor from race five with a Z-Spar) came home third to give him fourth place overall, ahead of Colclough, the Eklunds, Harrison and John Patterson and Phil Brown who had a good race to finish seventh. 5-0-5 Worlds, 13-20 August 1982, Royal Cork Yacht Club Final results after 6 races (Top 17) ►
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Scanned Results List
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# | Nat | Boat# | Helm | Crew | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | SUM |
1 | USA | 7093 | Gary Knapp | Cam Lewis | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | DNS | 13.7 |
2 | GBR | 7327 | Peter Colclough | Harold Barnes | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 39.1 |
3 | USA | 7454 | Steve Benjamin | Tucker Edmundson | 3 | 6 | 17 | 1 | RTD | 1 | 40.4 |
4 | DEN | 7455 | Jorgen Schonherr | Anders Kaempe | 11 | 2 | 10 | 2 | RTD | 3 | 44.7 |
5 | SWE | 7453 | Krister Bergstrom | Per Anders Hallberg | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | DNS | 50.7 |
6 | USA | 7100 | Neal Fowler | Mark Lindsay | 20 | 5 | 5 | 9 | RTD | 2 | 64.0 |
7 | AUS | 7018 | Neil Harrison | Nick Paterson | 25 | RTD | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 68.7 |
8 | SWE | 7145 | Staffan Eklund | Anders Eklund | 16 | 10 | 3 | 10 | RTD | 5 | 69.7 |
9 | SWE | 7351 | Kalle Nilsson | Anders Aven | 10 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 71.0 |
10 | GBR | 7452 | Lawrie Smith | Mark Simpson | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 11 | DNS | 74.0 |
11 | SWE | 7296 | Ebbe Rosen | Olle Wenrup | 8 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 74.0 |
12 | USA | 7092 | John Pulverman | Duncan Skinner | 7 | RTD | 16 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 82.0 |
13 | USA | 7346 | Macy Nelson | John Fry | 32 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 84.0 |
14 | GBR | 7383 | Neil Wilmott | Paul Wilmott | 33 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 13 | 87.0 |
15 | GBR | 7435 | John Patterson | Philip Brown | 22 | 14 | 54 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 108.0 |
16 | GBR | 6933 | Ossie Stewart | Ray Selling | 16 | 13 | 14 | 17 | RTD | 22 | 112.0 |
17 | USA | 7152 | Howard Hamlin | Jon Andron | 2 | RTD | 1 | 8 | RTD | 16 | 119.0 |
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