2014 Eastern Hemisphere Championship

August 10 - 13, 2014

DISTRICT: ISCYRA

HOST

Sailing Club Urnersee SCU    
Fohn Harbour
Brunnen Switzerland

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Regatta Chair : Lorenz Zimmermann
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Place Boat Skipper Crew Sail #: Fleet 1 2 3 4 Total
1 Chimera   Diego Negri   Sergio Lambertenghi   ITA 8491   VE   6.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 9
2 Thrylos   Emilios Papathanasiou   Antonis Tsotras   GRE 8434   GR   3.0 5.0 3.0 2.0 13
3 8455   George Szabo   Serge Pulfer   USA 8320   SDB   2.0 2.0 7.0 15.0 26
4 Lara   Hubert Merkelbach   Gerrit Bartel   GER 8450   UB   7.0 7.0 11.0 7.0 32
5 8447   Alessandro Pascolato   Henry Boening   BRA 8390   GuB   8.0 4.0 18.0 14.0 44
6 SWE 8446   Tom Lofstedt   Frithjof Kleen   SWE 8446   RS   10.0 14.0 16.0 4.0 44.0001
7 North Sails   Christoph Burger   Renato Marazzi   SUI 8274   TB   1.0 3.0 24.0 20.0 48
8 Virus   Kurt Scheidegger   Markus Scheidegger   SUI 7969   TB   5.0 17.0 20.0 9.0 51
9 NED 8263   Marc De Haas   Eric Veldhuizen   NED 8263   LO   4.0 8.0 29.0 11.0 52
10 GER 8298   Philipp Rotermund   Nils Hollweg   GER 8298   LUV   39.0 6.0 5.0 5.0 55
11 Arlecchino   Juerg Ryffel   Alexander Gouda   SUI 8476   Rap   13.0 9.0 19.0 16.0 57
12 Marmomar   Urs Hunkeler   Hanns-Peter Schaffner   SUI 7925   LUV   11.0 15.0 21.0 12.0 59
13 Starling III   Hans Stoeckli   Urs Spahr   SUI 8457   Rap   15.0 11.0 27.0 8.0 61
14 8470   Jean-Pascal Chatagny   Patrick Ducommun   SUI 7829   G   28.0 12.0 4.0 19.0 63
15 Leporella   Daniel Wyss   Guy Avellon   SUI 8329   ZU   22.0 23.0 15.0 13.0 73
16 SUI 8478   Juerg Wittich   Christian Trachsel   SUI 8478   Bod   19.0 21.0 31.0 10.0 81
17 Festina   Thomas Kohler   Bernhard Schaefer   GER 7727   AM   31.0 20.0 10.0 24.0 85
18 SUI 7912   Martin Ingold   Peter Neth   SUI 7912   TB   17.0 27.0 37.0 6.0 87
19 Squalo Bianco VII   Lorenz Zimmermann   Markus Koy   SUI 8482   LUV   26.0 28.0 8.0 25.0 87.0001
20 Nababbo IV   Guglielmo Danelon   Mattia Gazzetta   ITA 8350   FdiT   33.0 10.0 26.0 18.0 87.0002
21 Fram   Christoph Gautschi   Domink Schenk   SUI 8409   Bod   12.0 35.0 39.0 3.0 89
22 MON 8266   Andrea Orlando   Jean Gabriel Charton   MON 8266   MO   21.0 13.0 25.0 30.0 89.0001
23 7855   Ingvar Krook   Christoffer Lundgren   SWE 7978   AR   25.0 19.0 17.0 29.0 90
24 Gwaihier   Boris Kulpe   Ronald Roeseler   SUI 7947   TB   9.0 29.0 2.0 51.0 [DNC] 91
25 ITA 8114   Paolo Masserdotti   Davide Mugnaini   ITA 8114   Gar   35.0 16.0 9.0 34.0 94
26 More Time Off   Axel Hampe   Jonas Nissen   GER 8311   ZuW   16.0 25.0 35.0 22.0 98
27 AUT 8226   Josef Urban   Thomas Meindl   AUT 8226   TR   29.0 31.0 13.0 28.0

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Final results for four races sailed on August 11 and 12 at Brunnen, Switzerland. Racing cancelled on August 13 due to bad weather.

Report by Sailing-news.ch:
Today was day one of the Eastern Hemisphere Championship, according to the Starclass Championship Rules at the same level as a Continental Championship. 52 teams from 16 nations are on the starting list. Among the favorites are the former European Champion Diego Negri with Sergio Lambertenghi ITA, the past-World Champion George Szabo USA (with Serge Pulfer SUI), the European Champions Hubert Merkelbach/Gerrit Bartel GER as well as Papathanassiou/Tsotras GRE. Knowing the local pecularities, some of the Swiss teams might well be among the best.

The wind forecast is not very promising, as the fast changing bad weather seems to persit during the coming days.

By noon, just in time for the opening of racing on Lake Uri, the usual thermal breeze filled in off Brunnen, but on the Southern end of the Lake, the ‘Foehn’, the down-slope wind in the lee of the Alps, was already present exceeding 30 kn and blocked the wind, so that no racing was possible.

But despite the rainy weather killing the usual summer thermal breeze, the PRO Beat Heinz SUI succeeded to complete three races. The first heat was started in a rain front on the Gersau Basin direction West. After several leader changes, Christoph Burger/Renato Marazzi SUI finished first.

Later in the day on the back of the passing front, a light thermal wind of up to 10 kn filled in on Lake Uri, allowing to sail two races, both won by the favorites Diego Negri/Sergio Lambertenghi ITA. The Italians have taken the overall lead 3 points ahead of George Szabo USA/Serge Pulfer SUI and Papathanassiou/Tsotras GRE at equal points. With a slight gap follow Merkelbach/Bartel GER as 4th and Burger/Marazzi as 5th.

Sailing Areas The Urnersee is a lake on the boundaries of the alps with strong thermic winds similar to Lake Garda. Sunny weather generally produces a steady thermic north wind of 4-6 Beaufort, our preferred wind for racing.

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