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Ian Pinnell & Carl Gibbon
are the new 505 WORLD CHAMPIONS

A tough battle played better from the first race, that's how the British couple was awarded the 'gold of the world before the Americans Howard Hamlin and Andy Zinn and Germans Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner. Among the Italian teams to highlight was the good performance of the duo Enrico Ciferri and Gabriele Natali who reached 27th place.

by Martina Scalera
 

Ian Pinnell, Director of Pinnell & Bax, the UK�s favourite chandlery and sail makers to World Champions, has won his ultimate goal � the 505 World Championships!

Ian has won multiple world and national championship titles in everything from Enterprises to International 14s in the past, but never the 505 Worlds. Ian teamed up with Carl Gibbon 12 months ago to create their �world's winning team�.

Friday October 17
� After the four exciting days of Europeans, Palermo is once again the setting for the 505 World Championships which were held between 11 and 17 October in the Gulf of Mondello.

From the first opening round the English couple Ian Pinnell and Carl Gibbon took the lead in the competition, leaving behind the American team formed by Howard Hamlin and Andy Zinn and the German team formed by Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner.

The great English sailor, Ian Pinnell, with his 35 titles, including world, European and national championships, sailor of the year in 1991, runs to the top in the definitive ranking of this 505 world sailing championship with the organized by the Club Canottieri Roggero di Lauria. His bowman Carl Gibbon proved to be an excellent companion for the English champion who never won in the 505 class, and finished fourth at the 2007 World Championships with Steve Hunt.

It was an intense week full of surprises, but the biggest obstacle was the almost absent wind in the last days of competition which forced the judges to cancel the last two tests on 16 and 17 October. And it is precisely because of this weak and occasional wind that the new European champions, the Germans Jens Findel and Johannes Tellen, found themselves in seventeenth place in the final classification of the 505 world championships.

The same misfortune happened to the Italian teams that took part in the competition, in fact they too could not manage this somewhat uncertain time at best, thus finding themselves 123rd Maurizio and Sergio Ingoglia, 103rd Luca Maria Manzi and Alfred Annese, 102nd Marco Gallo and Roberto Loce, 97th for Palermo Marco Gambardella and Roberto Candela, bearer of the club hosting the World Cup, 80th for Marco Giraldi and Paolo Corbellimi, 69th place for Giovanbattista Bosio and Marco Superina, while the result of the couple was excellent Enrico Ciferri and Gabriele Natali, who took 27th place in the final standings.

This concludes the 505 World Sailing Championships which see the winner of the British couple Ian Pinnell and Carl Gibbon who won the title thanks to the placings of the previous six races, with 13 points. On second place were the Americans Howard Hamlin, 505 world champion in 1999, 17 points behind, and Andy Zinn. On third place the Germans Wolfgang Hunger, 505 world champion in 2001, 2003 and 2005, and Julien Kleiner with 40 points.

After almost 15 days of competitions, first the European championship and then the World championship of the 505 class, the 125 participating crews, coming from all over the world, leave for their homeland, leaving but in their hearts the memory of an exciting competition, of a perfect organization, thanks to the lauria circle, but above all the memory of our beautiful sea which made this experience absolutely unforgettable.

Martina Scalera