The 505 World Ranking List...

Johan Arvedson e-mailed me this ranking, with the following note...

"... I got this interesting ranking board from Germany, I believe it originally comes from England, I havent seen it on the American site ..."
Top 8 ranking of competitors
 having participated in the past 3 World Championships

Helmsmen

Nat.

 -95 -96 -97 Tot.
1. Howard Hamlin USA 12 2 3 17
2. Ebbe Ros�n SWE 3 13 2 18
3. Krister Bergstr�m SWE 2 16 5 23
4. Mark Upton-Brown GBR 21 8 1 30
5. Kalle Nilsson SWE 6 14 16 36
6. Ali Meller 1 CAN/USA 15 27 7 49
7. Paul Towers GBR 28 1 26 55
8. Ian Barker GBR 44 3 9 56
 

Crew

  
1. Olle Wenrup SWE 3 13 2 18
2. Mike Martin USA 12 5 3 20
3. Johan Arvedson SWE 6 15 12 33
4. Bill Masterman GBR 1 7 45 53
5. Mike Mills USA 9 27 18 54
6. Dan Johnson GBR 28 1 26 55
7. Phillip Christiani DEN 26 25 17 68
8. Darren Nicholson AUS 52 4 31 87

Nation Ranking (total points of top 3 boats in past 3 World Championships)

Nation

 -95 -96 -97 Total
1. GREAT BRITAIN 12 (2) 11 (1) 24 (3) 47
2. SWEDEN 11 (1) 42 (4) 23 (2) 76
3. USA/CANADA 26 (3) 34 (3) 18 (1) 78
4. DENMARK 46 (4) 70 (5) 27 (4) 143
5. AUSTRALIA 70 (6) 19 (2) 99 (6) 188
6. GERMANY 69 (5) 148 (6) 33 (5) 250

Notes:

1. Further evidence that the first requirement for success is to show up.

Ali Meller