I have been able to lay my hands on the missing photographs and I can now give you the complete passing of the first 15 boats at the gate at Noordwijk. This leg from the start to the gate a Noordwijk was an upwind beat that took the lead group roughly an hour to complete. (Start was at 12:22:00 give or take a few seconds)


-1st- 13:20:19 John de Vries and Maarten Hoek (boat type = John the Vries Special)
-2nd- 13:22:49 Gerard Loos and Pieter van Ruitenburg (Volvo Extreme 20)
-3rd- 13:25:54 Peter Snijders, mr. Broekmeulen (Nacra 20)
-4th- 13:27:04 Harold Elfring, Paul v.d. Pauw Kraan (Nacra 20)
-5th- 13:27:52 Mathijn Elhorst, Peter Schouten (Tiger F18; at finish 1st F18 overall)
-6th- 13:29:40 Hans Klok, solo (Blade F16)
-7th- 13:29:46 Greg Goodall, Frank van Marle (Viper F16)
-8th- 13:30:00 Maarten Gaarden, Jan Hoogstra (Nacra F18; at finish 3rd F18 overall)
-9th- 13:30:10 Piet Dijke, Peter van Siepel (Nacra 20)
-10th- 13:30:21 Jaxon Deelman, Margot Berkman (Infusion F18; at finish 5th F18 overall)
-11th- 13:30:40 Matt McDonald, Bart Hoek (Blade F16)
-12th- 13:30:44 Marcus Towell, solo (Aussie Blade F16)
-13th- 13:32:12 Andre Leegwater, Mariska Smit (Tiger F18; at finish 9th F18 overall)
-14th- 13:32:25 Frank Boom, Phill Brander (Blade F16)
-15th- 13:32:41 Gill de Bruyne, Kathleen VandenBulcke (Blade F16)


From now on it gets difficult. Multiple boats start rounding the gate together and I can't read all the sailnumbers properly. See I'll sufficice to name the remaining F16's and a few important F18's (meaning high ranking finishers)

13:33:16 Charley Dorsman, Johan Dorsman (Nacra F18; at finish 4th F18 overall)
13:34:32 Jan van Ek, Petro Stalman (Tiger F18; at finish 2rd F18 overall)
13:34:38 Bas Kuilman, H. Morelisse (Tiger F18; at finish 8th F18 overall)
13:35:10 Paul Warren, Ann Powter (Blade F16)
13:38:21 Geert Ruesink, Karin Weeda (Blade F16)
13:39:32 Wouter Hijink, solo (Taipan F16)
13:39:34 John Alani, Paul Alani (Stealth F16)


Most interesting fact is that the heaviest F16 of them all is also the second F16 through the gate after 67 minutes of upwind beating (1 hour 7 minutes). The F16 who was first through the gate, the lightest F16 measured, was only leading him by 6 seconds. Even more remarkable is the fact that one was sailing 2-up and the other 1-up.

Exactly 1 minute later another Blade F16, this time 2-up, goes through gate. Then another 1-up F16, the Aussie Blade, follows suit only 4 seconds later. Fast forward 1 min and 43 secs and an 2-up Blade F16 rounds the gate only 16 seconds ahead of another 2-up Blade F16. Weight difference between these boats, as in "combined boat and crew weight" ? No less then 30 kg as Frank and Phill were sailing heavy at 160 kg.

This leaves only 1 more Blade F16, a Stealth F16 and a Taipan F16 to beat for the gate. The Stealth and the Taipan round the gate together some 9 min 44 sec behind the the very first of the F16's with the remaining Blade F16 leading them by 4 min and 24 seconds.

Basically all F16's round the gate within 10 minutes of eachother after spending (on average) 72 minutes of pure upwind beating in a nasty chop. The leading six F16's do so within 3 minutes of eachother (twice 1-ups and four 2-ups).

And notice the mix of boats in the top 15 :

6 F16's
4 F18's
3 Nacra 20's
1 Volvo Extreme 20
1 John the Vries Special (Reg White 20 footer)

And all that on ELAPSED TIME !

On corrected time (Texel ratings) all boats in the top 12 listing are in a furious fight for first place, only seconds are seperating them.