Svenska 5O5 bulletinen hösten 1980 | ||||
VM årgång 1980 5O5-klassen är den enda klass i
världen som har seglat 25 VM i rad. Detta 25 års jubileum var förlagt
till England och närmare bestämt på Hayling Island under tiden 19-31
juli. England har varit 5O5-landet nummer ett, så man hade kanske lite
för stora förväntningar på seglingarna. Här låg nu båtar huller om buller, en
amerikan blev av med masten och den 3-faldige världsmästaren i Contender
tog pris i den snyggaste vurpan. Han seglade med spinnaker rakt in i
(under) en våg som gjorde så aktern reste sig så mycket att till och med
centerbordet syntes rakt akter ifrån innan båten välte. Jag och Kjell blev till sist 4:a,
Eklunds 5:a och Ebbe/Olle 10:a. De 3 andra svenska båtarna hamnade lite
längre ner i prislistan. Kalle/Janne hade lite svårt att komma överens.
Thomas/Gunnar blev 56:a. Anders/Stefan började enormt bra och slutade
kanske bättre än vad de hade hoppats på. Första kryssen på VM:et rundade
dessa herrar som 3:a, inte dåligt va?!
The 5O5 class is the only class in the world to have sailed 25 World Championships in a row. This 25th anniversary was placed in England and more specifically on Hayling Island during July 19-31. England has been the 5O5 country number one, so maybe we had a little too high expectations on the sailing and races. The qualifying was not completed a week before departure and this made the World Cup squad indefinitely into the final. Sweden had 5 boats that looked like this after the agony: Krister Bergström/Kjell Lidman, the brothers Staffan & Anders Eklund, Ebbe Rosén/Olle Wenrup, Karl-Erik Nilsson/Jan Calvert and Anders Malmström/Stefan Blidner. Anders and Stefan placed in front of both the brothers Bo & Jan Ferm and Thomas Widstrand/Gunnar Andersson during the Nordics in Helsinki to take the 5th place, but to Widstrand's great luck Sweden got another place in the week before departure. On Sunday, July 13, everyone except the Calvert family and the Nilsson family gathered at Tor Line for departure. Already here, the excitement was at its peak. Ebbe, Olle and Patrik Österman were missing. These three would visit the Calvert family in the morning. 5 minutes before departure, they had not arrived, but when the boat left the quay they were on board with their speeding fines. The time of the great migrations had now begun. Kjell Lidman with Lido Travel had gathered such a large group that even the reception on the boat had to call for help. Once in England the Swedish caravan ended up in the big city on the Thames. Now it's so that all 5O5 sailors are selfish, huge ones. So all took off in different directions. However, down in Hayling Island, the calm spread before the storm. How the people lived was a little different. Those who had the most fun were without doubt the people in the pigsty. Anders, Stefan, Gunnar, Olle, Ebbe, Arne and Patrik rented a flat upstairs in a house that must be likened to a pigsty. One advantage of the pigsty was the small serving hatch from the kitchen where most of the shows were shown, not least the end of some actors. Eklund was camping and the serious guys with children and wives had rented a bed and breakfast. Marie and I managed to stay with an English 5O5 crew some distance from Hayling. GIH had promised us a rubber motorboat to take with us to the Worlds. Everyone has heard the story of a man who had a piece of fabric that would become a coat but became a glove. This inflatable boat was not a buoy but a 5 meter long racing boat with a 40 horse power outboard engine including a trailer. With this would Patrik Österman and Arne Malm help us sailors but that was not the case. This damn boat was almost completely hopeless. The engine suffered from all the diseases an engine can have, not least sea sickness. Unfortunately, the boat was almost only a nuisance and during the practise before the World Cup we had no use of it at all. We trained anyway so it went well. The dullness also includes such a noble thing as Gunnar's hand. This got stuck in the lever to the shroud of their boat when they had capsized after a rudder breakage. Gunnar visited the hospital and got a sailing ban for a week, which meant he could not participate in the first Pre-worlds series. "It needs a Rondar to win the Parker Pot." These words that are really advertising and thus would not be allowed to stand here fell out of the tongue by Olle when he and Ebbe received the first prize of the Pre-worlds, which was called "Parker Pot". Eklund finished 3rd and Kjell and I were 6th. All three of us managed to win one race each of the four that were completed. The other three swedish boats were not included in all races. This Worlds was like sailing any race. I mean then on land. Bad social events, a crook regatta dinner and there was no pomp and stand around the races. Now for the sailing. The first two races was completed without any problems. Race number three was completed but late on Saturday evening this race was declared invalid due to errors in the starting procedure. This race would now be sailed on Thursday. This was quite unfortunate because we had a backup day on Sunday. This had dire consequences for our successful couple Nilsson/Calvert. The race on Monday was completed without any problems. On Tuesday everyone was at sea waiting for wind in the fog. When the wind came later in the afternoon, the fog did not lighten, so the Race Officer sent us home. It blew pretty well then and it was countercurrent into the inlet. The waves here was extremely short and high. Through this canal, everyone had to sail to make it back to the launching, of course, with mixed success. Boats were now bursting with noise, an American got rid of the mast and the 3-time world champion in the Contender took the prize in the nicest capsize. He sailed with spinnaker straight into (under) a wave that made the stern rise so much that even the centerboard appeared straight aft before the boat overturned. The winner of the Worlds was Steve Benjamin and Tucker Edmundson from USA. Steve has won two Worlds in Fireball and the US Olympic competition in 470 this year. It does not need to be mentioned that he is a sailing professional. They sailed in a Lindsay boat without a spinaker chute. Two car travellers to trim the mainsail (like in the 470) and a whole lot of trim ropes. What was most interesting were the two adjustable tracks where the shrouds were attached. This seemed to work well, on the downwind he eased the traveller car position and thus the mast moved forward, on the beat he pulled them back as much as conditions required. He had at least two mainsails that he used during the Worlds on a clearly different rigged Proctor D mast. Shroud and trapeze wires were attached at the same level as the jib/forestay. His speed was not remarkable on the beat but had a tremendous speed on the downwind. It can be mentioned that all the best were faster than we Scandinavians on the downwind. Peter Colclough finished 3rd overall and was really human. He dropped the rudder in one race and capsized in another. Peter had as usual Musto, Proctor D and a Parker boat. But what you could see was no standard stuff. Hamlin from San Francisco came in 2nd with his own built boat that looked like a copy of a Kyrwood. Kjell and I eventually became 4th, Eklund's 5th and Ebbe/Olle 10th. The other 3 Swedish boats ended up a bit further down in the resultlist. Kalle/Janne had a little trouble getting along. Thomas/Gunnar finished 56th. Anders/Stefan started tremendously well and ended up better than they had hoped. On the first beat in race one at the Worlds these gentlemen rounded as 3rd, not bad huh ?! The journey home was quite hectic. The racing was completed on Thursday and the ferry left home on Friday afternoon. Once in the boat and in the bar this Friday night, there was a great party with us five-oh-five sailors. I have never been as generous as this evening. Everyone invited everyone and some became really messy. Well at 4am on Saturday, August 2 we arrived to the quay in Gothenburg after about 20 days in England. 1980 world champions Tucker Edmundson and Steve Benjamin. Steve's the little one.
The US West Coast mounted the strongest challenge to the winners with Jon Andron (left) and Howard Hamlin sailing their own boat into second place.
Pos. Sail No. Helm / Crew Points 1 US 6933 Steve Benjamin / Tucker Edmundson 17 2 US 7152 Jon Andron / Howard Hamlin 21 3 K 7189 Peter Colclough / Harold Barnes 26.7 4 S 6718 Krister Bergström / Kjell Lidman 34.7 5 S 7145 Staffan Eklund / Anders Eklund 42.7 6 KA 7020 Terry Kyrwood / Reg Crick 44.4 7 K 7004 Eddie Owen / Andy Gray 48.7 8 US 6992 Jeff Miller / Tom Poore 55.7 9 K 7089 Peter White /Andrew Gilmore 55.7 10 S 7033 Ebbe Rosen / Olle Wenrup 56.7 11 K 7146 Phil Milanes/ John Davis 57.7 12 US 7059 Dennis Surtees/ Jay Kuncl 71 13 D 7143 Jørgen Schønherr / Anders Kaempe 74 14 KH 7186 Gees Nater / John Best 95 15 K 7170 Mike Hattemore / Mike Payne 95 16 F 6572 Francis Doerenbecher / Gay Bottlaender 98 17 US 7068 Bruce Ayres / Don Ayres 100 18 K 7010 David Pitman / David Henshall 101 19 US 7096 Tony Wattson / Phil Ramming 102 20 F 6822 Jerome Langlois / Philip Serane 110 21 G 7159 Stefan Waskonig / Ralph Zecher 113 22 US 6496 John Pulvermann / Duncan Skinner 124 23 G 7005 Matthias Dietz / Waldemar Strohmayer 126 24 K 6961 David White / John Labbett 127 25 K 7182 Paul Willmott / Neil Willmott 127 26 F 6620 Francois Fischer / Claude Phillips 130 27 D 6791 Lars Lønberg / Lars Kier 130 28 K 7187 Michael Lawton / Terry Lawton 133 29 US 7091 Derek Campbell / Wade Cressman 139 30 US 6988 Jim Wondolleck / Bruce Hellman 142 31 Z 7028 Urs Scherrer / Reto Walser 142 32 KA 7017 Bob Jones / Geoff Lange 144 33 F 6589 Marcel Buffet / J.P. De Beaumont 146 34 K 6980 Neil Thomas / Mike Moor 149 35 K 6518 David Revill / Nigel Brackenbury 153 36 G 6398 Alexander Hagen / Ludwig Groeneveld 158 37 G 7085 Stefan Kurys-Romer / Peter Forster 158 38 KH 7180 Eric Lockeyer / Tim Hammick 165 39 Z 6471 Lucien Keller / Georges Gay-Pierre 166 40 F 7122 Bernard Oudard / Denis Oudard 166 41 K 6688 David Treloar / Nigel Treloar 168 42 F 6963 Serge Gobir / Christian Lippi 168 43 S 7166 Anders Malmström / Stefan Blidner 171 44 K 6851 Julian Hereward / John Langley 176 45 K 7077 Peter Bainbridge / Jamie Campbell 180 46 IR 7013 Wicliff McCready / R.Swainston 183 47 K 7106 David Clark / Richard Bartholomew 183 48 K 6853 Bill Goodacre / Nigel Squirrell 187 49 Z 7078 Christain Ruedi / Ruedi Mathis 188 50 D 6795 Michael Staal / Erik Lund 189 51 D 7140 Henrik Anderson / Søren Anderson 195 52 S 6621 Karl Erik Nilsson / Jan Calvert 196 53 KC 6910 S.D. Lewis Stephen / Peters 200 54 K 7109 Richard Lord / B. Arell 200 55 F 7053 Sylvain Pellissier / Eric Levrat 205 56 S 6829 Thomas Widstrand / Gunnar Andersson 206 57 F 7121 Remi Tristan / Gwenola Tristan 206 58 F 6913 Yves Pottier / Jean Nadaud 210 59 SA 6641 Peter Cardwell / Roger Warner 211 60 F 6179 Marc Conan / Eric Conan 218 61 F 5969 Michel Dorae / Phillip Correard 230 62 F 7172 Gilbert Vinches / Phillippe Rinaldi 230 63 K 6844 Ricky Willows / John Maddocks 242 64 L 7049 Stefan Winquist / Per Strömman 243 65 K 6544 Graham Thomas / Ken Norris 251 66 F 6732 J.P. Cordonnier / Alain Cordonnier 252 67 SA 5625 Rob Wilcox / Ditmar Hellman 253 68 G 6505 Ewald Bizoska / Hanno Barth 261 69 Z 6576 Marc Collomb / Yvan de Rham 268 70 KA 6706 Alan Bessell / John Tunney 268 71 B 6437 Marc Stockbroekx / Herman Stockbroekx 269 72 F 6811 E. de Cayeux / Y. Bezot 269 73 Z 6947 Urs Laudbli / Christoph Spalti 274 74 Z 7118 Pierre Baldenweg / Francois Baldenweg 275 75 K 6952 Derek Farrant / Bev Moss 275 76 G 6940 Ulrich Novak / F. Uhlemann 287 77 F 6600 Jacques Raguet / Samuel Thomas 290 78 SA 6712 Leo Ehlers / L. Ehlers Snr. 296 79 G 6930 Brigitte Preuss / Rolf Bertenrath 297 80 L 6133 Aarne Kuusi / Paul Evominen 300 81 SA 6686 Harry Elbers / Martin Knopp 312 82 K 7007 Ian Henry / Mike Henry 330 83 K 6789 Martin Forster (East Africa) / Nick Keeling 351 84 D 6525 Jørgen Vestbo / Søren Børre 353 85 L 6803 Jarmo Tiilikka / Lasse Karhiln 362 |
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