Three Hobie 16 were battling it out for the win in the Hobie 16 fleet. Team Schuitema and Boer finally achieved a decisive lead. A lead which they clearly did not have at the Gate at oudeschild as the picture shows. The gate is a little over halveway into the race.

Here in the picture the eventual numbers 1 and 3.

Number two was close by.

107054 hobie 16 Schuitema (NL) / Boer (NL) 3:27:41 overall place on handicap 137th
105540 hobie 16 Lange (NL) / Kelder (NL) 3:35:06 overall place on handicap 172th
694 hobie 16 Schaffer (NL) / Machielse (NL) 3:35:45 overall place on handicap 176th


Wouter

Here the leading H16 gets a good gust and speeds ahead.

Wanna know how slow the F18's are ?

Well here is the top 25 finishers (elapsed time, No handicaps)

tornado Vink (NL) / Laaf (NL) 2:37:19
M20 Larsen (NL) / Pols (NL) 2:37:28
hobie 18 tiger Bundock (AU) / Howden (AU) 2:40:01
hobie 18 tiger Booth (AU) / Dercksen (NL) 2:40:36
formule 20 Hollander (NL) / Mulder (NL) 2:41:45
tornado Northrop (UK) / Field (UK) 2:41:51
tornado Bouscholte (NL) / Wieren (NL) 2:43:02
formule 18 Colby (AU) / Camenisch (AU) 2:45:52
nacra F18 new Styles (UK) / Lynch (UK) 2:45:59
formule 20 Huntelman (NL) / Harskamp (NL) 2:47:52
formule 20 Salman (NL) / Guyt (NL) 2:49:56
tornado Ruiters (NL) / Ruiters (NL) 2:50:30
hobie 18 tiger Dam (NL) / Dam (NL) 2:51:35
formule 18 Kenbeek (NL) / Brouwer (NL) 2:51:37
formule 20 Flier (NL) / Kuyper (NL) 2:53:43
hobie 18 tiger Figueroa (PR) / Hernandez (PR) 2:54:41
formule 18 Larsen (NL) / Rijn (NL) 2:54:47
tornado Haas (NL) / Haas (NL) 2:54:49
tornado ongemeten Klootwijk (NL) / Smissaert (NL) 2:54:57
formule 18 Samama (NL) / Leeuwen (NL) 2:55:11
M20 Marström (SE) / Brown (NZ) 2:55:23
hunter 18 Cok (NL) / Vliet (NL) 2:55:31
formule 18 Demesmaeker (BE) / Thery (BE) 2:56:35
tornado Karsenbarg (NL) / Heemskerk (NL) 2:56:54
hobie 18 tiger Loos (NL) / Zeggeren (NL) 2:57:09


12 F18's in the top 25 on elapsed timw while guys like Gunnar Larsen, Figueroa-Hernandez, Goran Mastrom, Vink etc are sailing F20's, Tornado's and M20's.

Auwahhh! This is defiantely a win for the F18's.

In teh picture you can see the mix of F18's and F20 that was typical at the gate at oudeschild

In the picture you see a I-18 leading a Nacra F18 and Hobie Tiger which are ridden on the sterns by two I-20's.

Wouter

Wouter

THis boat eventually arrive at the finish as the third boat behind two Tornado's. The first Tornado was DSQ for starting early and therefor Gunnar and Xander are scored 2nd in the elapsed time listigns.

On handicap they still hung on to 9th place overall.

Wouter

As with common practice, one names the related crews last after the others.

I show the better pics that I have, although I had to reduce resolution to get them into the 100 kb size limit on this forum.

I hope you enjoyed this very private report on the Round Texel 2003 and I hobie I have done justice to all flavours of designs that are found out there.

I will now end with the Taipan 4.9 spi sailed by Geert and Raymond.

Till next year !

Wouter

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This Taipan crew did everything to get as far away from the camera as possible. On teh beach they were completely crowded in and at the gate they went really wide to avoid sailing into teh hole. It worked as planned but I had to use a 300 mm telelens and a 4 times digital zoom in the photoshop software to get at least something that is mildly nice to look at.

Man were you far away from the camera. So sorry guys, I did my best and I will send all the pictures I have to you.

But I hope to see a race report from you guys on the F16 forum.

Anyone who want high resolution pictures please e-mail me.

Wouter

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Do you know where the G-Force came out? Good to see one around.
pic on your #2 post
David Mosley
G-Force 21 #101

good lord - he's right behind I20s and F18s.

This Texel did not favour the upwind/downwind machines like Tornado and M20. The F18 shouldn't be that close!! The two F18 that was closest (2.5 minutes after the leading Tornado) where sailed by world class sailors (Bundock, Booth...)

Both Marstrom (M20) and Larsen (M20) had some minor problems that cost them some time.

The forecast said wind from West and I guess that there where no bigger parts of the race that was directly into the wind or? To performe with a Uni rigged boat you would need winds from the North, that makes round texel more of a upwind downwind race instead of a reaching race. That was the case when I sailed round texel with M18. Light wind from North and that was GREAT!

/hakan

Dear Wouter

You will be allways welcome to stay with us here Switzerland in and have a ride on my Ventilo!

Greetings from Switzerland, St. Gallen!

Indeed I had noticed the boat too but forgot ro mention in the post.

I don't really understand you question, can you rephrase it please.

Wouter

Yes, but his is a very succesful H16 sailor and there alot of F18 and F20's sailing around. And like always crew capability make so much more difference than a handicap number or even design ever does.

Nevertheless they were quite high in the fleet passing the gate. They sailed well.

Wouter

Where did this boat place? Can I view results somewhere?

Thanks Wouter,
David Mosley

Go to :

http://www.roundtexel.com/content/results2003.asp?ID_Page=640&ID_Group=1&ID_Language=2

Or e-mail me and I've give you teh excel sheet with listing on handicap time and elapsed time.

Wouter