2010 Hobie 16 Worlds in China

Just announced.

19th HOBIE CAT 16
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
WEIHAI, SHAN DONG

15th August-30th August 2010

Entries are now being taken for the 19th Hobie Cat 16 World Championships in Weihai, China.

Spectacular Grand Opening Ceremony
16th August 9:00–11:00 all sailors welcome
On Site Registration
The Registration Office will be open as follows:
Masters and Grand Masters
15th August 14:00-20:00
Women’s and Youth
19th August 09:00-16:00
Open: Qualifier
22nd August 09:00-16:00
Teams seeded for Semi-Finals
25th August 09:00-16:00

Schedule of 2010 Championship Races
16th- August Masters, Grand Masters racing
17th August Masters, Grand Masters racing
18th August Masters, Grand Masters racing
19th August Masters, Grand Masters finals

20th August Women's and Youth racing
21st August Women's and Youth racing
22nd August Women's and Youth racing

23rd August Open Qualifier
24th August Open Qualifier
25th August Open Qualifier

26th August Semi-Finals, 112 teams
27th August Semi-Finals
28thAugust Semi-Finals

29th August Finals, 56 teams
30th August Finals

http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2010/entrypage.html?

I'm leaving Thursday nite for the event. We start the build process right away, 60 new Hobie 16s to build before the 15 days of events start on the 15th.

Fair winds to the event, and wishing you safe travels and gastrointestinal fortitude.

Thanks for that and here's hoping for the strongest possible

Event site is: http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2010

Remember, over there "seafood" means it came from the water, not that it's fish. Ducks' feet fall into that category.

Barbequed chicken feet are crunchy.

Beware the tiny "spare ribs". They aren't pork, and they certainly aren't beef.

"Grrrrr, RUFF!"

Gross.

Any Yanks racing?

I only saw four on the entry list.
Hobie 16 Worlds Entries
This is an expen$ive event to attend.

Are we betting on the kids... Booth and Waterhouse?

Who are the favorites going in?

GO CHRIS!!! Bradshaw and Kathy Ward (Women). Chris has been sailing very well this year, she's fast and started training early in the season with Ken Hilk. Here they're fast too (Open).
(Note: Chris is a member of our fleet and we're proud to have her there!)

Taylor and Jason are both in with a chance.

I cant see Gav Colby being beaten tho.

60 boats framed in 3 days after waiting for almost a week for all the containers to get released. Wouldn't you know?... the one with tools was last and further delayed.

We have a blog running with daily updates, video and images: Hobie Worlds Blog

All with red tramps.......how chinese.

damn commies

60 boats on the beach. Racing starts tomorrow. Wow... China is going all out on this event. Its amazing.





Hobie China Worlds Blog

The mast rake looks excessive in that photo.

That's because the jibs aren't up. The jib halyard tension will stand the mast up some.

Still, they're not far off. World-class H16 racers like lots of rake.

Greg,

The H16 is raced w/ alot of mast-rake to "load up" the rudders since the boat has no daggerboards.

How do you set the mast-rake???? With the jib halyard.

When the mast is raised on a H16 the mast is "over raked" ... the main is hoisted and then the jib ... next the jib halyard is tensioned pulling the mast up-right reducing the mast-rake .... but usually set so that when the mainsheet is sheeted in tight, that the mainsheet stack is "block to block" ....

Totally different proceedure and set-up from your ol' P19 .... or that new F16 you have .....

I have watched many of the Div11 H16 racers use this proceedure .... when I'm rigging my TheMightyHobie18 next to them at Hobie Points Regattas.

Harry
TheMightyHobie18/P19MX

First race is in the bag:

Masters - Race 1
1 AUS R.Waterhouse/K.Waterhouse
2 RSA W.Edwards/L.Edwards
3 KOR P.Byeong Ki/Y.Hae Kwang
4 NZL H.Handley/P.Evrard
5 AUS B.Engwirda/W.News
6 AUS B.Tardrew/S.Turnbull
7 AUS A.Duchatel/E.Curtis
8 CHN C.Steilberg/J.Wong
9 BRA M.Dubeux/T.Jacobus
10 AUS B.Schahinger/C.Cartrwright

Opening ceremony and the crowds on the beach were UNREAL! There were thousands of people there for the opening and all of his was on full production TV broadcast live. Pretty wild. They really showed interest in the boats with lots of the crowd following down to the site and watching sailors rig. I have a bunch more images and some video on the blog.

Rod Waterhouse took another 1st today. William Edwards also took a first in this morning's races. They are on the water again after lunch for, an intended, 3 more back-to-back.

Sunny, 91 degrees and about 10 kts or a bit more.

5 Races Today.

Results are going up pretty quick now on the event site. We had printed results on the beach before all the boats had made it back. The rest of the event site is lagging. We have images in our blog ( http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com )and more on the http://www.hobieclass.com site

Worlds Results Page

There is a guy crewing, currently in third, who's name is "Worst News". Seriously? ;-)

Ken Hilk got it together after a rough first race and is putting on a good show for the USA! Go Ken!

there, that's better.
Watch for Chris and Kathy Ward in the Women's and Ken and Chris again in the Open.
USA...USA...USA

If you have to ask who "Worstie" is, you don't want to know. I think he is Keith Moon reincarnated.

However, I don't think he's dynamited a toilet - yet.

He usually crews for Aaron Worrall.

Worse News use to crew for Bad News I hear. Brad Wilson is Worse News.

Day 3 Morning blog is up.

I'm not so sure bout that, MB.

Must be something about Australia, it's like a witness protection program. Everyone seems to have a nickname, most seem to end in "ie".

Then there's the girl who's registered as Nicole Kidman...

Mike

Might be influenced by Bundy Rum. Frackin aussies call me Bluie, so there's the "ie" thing again.

Legend tells that Worst News is Bad news` brother, I seem to remember being told stories about Bad News & Worst News Hughes.. never been to a Hobie Worlds, but some who have will know. If I`m wrong about this, apologies. But the stories go back to the early 90`s, so they`ve been around a while.
Good to see William & Lucinda are doing ok, though they could go one place better.

We have a bunch of image galleries up... All linked to from the blog.

This one has a nice variety from the opening ceremony, beach action and on the water.

http://hobiecat.com.au/Hobie_China_Worlds_Aug19/

There is also a Twitter on mark roundings and finishes:

http://twitter.com/HobieWorlds

1st Rod Waterhouse Kerry Waterhouse AUS Master
2nd William Edwards Lucinda Edwards RSA Master
3rd Bob Engwirda Worst News AUS Master

1st Anthony Duchatel Evelyn Curtis AUS GrandMaster
2nd Harry Handley Peter Evrard NZL GrandMaster
3rd Bruce Tardrew Sarah Turnbull Aus GrandMaster

More Photos on the Photo Page!

http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/p/worlds-photos.html


Day 5... Womens and Juniors start today.

Dragoons?

This event is all Hobie 16s.

Fixed it for you.

Yep... as it should be.

The Worlds Hobie 16

Final day of Women and youth event. We got two races off this morning, but during lunch a front has come over and stopped the action. 12 races in the can, so we have a solid series. Seems the leaders of each are well ahead, so no racing required to determine a winner but, we are on hold for a few hours.



http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com

http://www.hobieworlds.com

Gotta love these things

Some nice photos now appearing on the hobieworlds.com and Hobie Factory blog sites. We are getting some on-the-water stuff from the local organizers. These two from New Caledonia... yeah, it's like this at the event.



http://www.hobieworlds.com

http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com

Three races today. Two in 12-15 kts... One in 25 kts this afternoon. Straight on-shore again, so launching was...interesting.

Way to go USA Team Bill Myrter. Ninth in the Grand Masters, and now moving up in the Open Quailifing round.
Old guys rule.
Caleb

Hey Matt,
Any Idea about how many spots there are for the next round?

They have not said, but I'm guessing plenty.

Seems really odd that wouldn't be decided in advance and placed into the NOR or SIs, of course I can't find either of those docs online. Were they really unsure of how many competitors they would get?

It's hard to fathom that wouldn't be decided at least before the boats hit the water to start the on-site qualifying, I must be missing something?

Mike

People drop out at the last minute - or just never show up to registration.

It's always been a shifting number, back to the days of provided boat Nationals.

In fact, the event / rotation formal is virtually identical to the way provided boat Nationals were done.

They even named "alternate qualifiers" at the first cut party in case someone dropped out for whatever reason.

Also, if they have a "reduction in boats" (rare, but it does happen), they can adjust the number of qualifiers.

Usually they put a minimum number of qualifiers in the NOR. It's just math.

Yeah, I knew it was fuzzy based on entries. And we all know that if you are at the bottom of the pile, you get chucked if boats start to become unsailable. Alternates totally make sense as well.

I am still surprised it would be THAT much of an unknown going into the qualifier (actually, by the morning of Day 1 of qualifying, this should be totally clear, barring boat breakage).

Mike

You've been hanging out with those New England judges too much. Lighten up, Francis.

We never knew who was going to make the first cut - they'd announce the results at the party, starting with first place and working down. The suspense was impressive.

Only when they got to the actual last person qualified would they say, "And the last team to qualify for the round-robin is . . . "

huh, huh...hee ehee...he called you francis.

I said "They have not said"... not that they do not know. I am not in the inner circle on that one... plus what Bounds said, They like to make it have some suspense.

Rain and no wind today. Wet.

Two sets of round robin (6 races total) makes 4 races for each team completed for the Semi... off to the cut party now!

http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2010/results/open-semi-finals_overall.html

http://www.hobieworlds.com

http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/

Hi Matt,
thanks for all the updates. Why is it that there is no little official news and no updated pics?
Enjoy.

Fritz
Germany

News, photos, instant results (before they hit the beach) are all appearing on hobieworlds.com

The local event site is not being updated by the local guys, so we and the IHCA are doing it on our own.

http://www.hobieworlds.com

http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/

Final day... not looking like much wind at the moment, but it's early. Jerome LeGal is looking good to win.

http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2010/results/open-finals_overall.html

Fixed it for you...

Actually, you're right. I've spent more time doing high-level non-Hobie events (than Hobie events) over the past few years. While these guys wouldn't get it, I do understand your logic (know your event), and it sounds like fun!

Mike

1 Jerome Le Gal / Enrick Obert FRA
2 Gavin Colby / Sasha Marks AUS
3 Darren Smith / Jasmine Hill AUS
4 William Edwards / Lucinda Edwards RSA
5 Aaron Worrall / Worst News AUS

http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2010/results/open-finals_overall.html



A few more photos here
http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/p/worlds-photos.html

Hey Matt,

Outstanding job with this, as always. FWIW, whenever I mention things like live mark roundings on the web, supplied-boat worlds, etc. to other major sailing organizations, they tell me it can't be done...

BTW, is that DSQ correct for Jerome? What was that about?

Mike

Could easily have been a rule 69 issue I heard.

Port starboard downwind with Rod Waterhouse. Rod hailed a foul... then protested when Jerome refused to 360 I take it. Jerome used a "witness" in the hearing that was later determined to be false... no where near the incident. The re-opened protest ended with a DSQ for Jerome. Could have cost him the championship. He still was pissy about the whole thing and nearly caused a riot at the award dinner.

Yikes, sorry I asked. Should have been a 69 (certainly Rule 2). I didn't know that stuff was still going on (the "witness" thing I've heard from prior worlds).

Why do the trophies look like Emmy awards?

Thanks again for all the great coeverage!

Mike

That's just one of the awards they received. All participants got a big glass plate mounted on a stand at the cut party. Winners got medals, the Emmy looking things, plaques and some other stuff I don't even remember.

Does not sound like Legal was a real popular winner.Always makes things a little sour when you win but lose the respect of your fellow competitors. Like the Quote from Paul Elvstrom,"if by winning yop lose the respect of the competition then you really did not win".Not exactly sure that was his exact words but same idea.

Ok, tell the story...........

Any videos being produced for this current H16 worlds? Would be great to see it...

I would imagine the class will make one available. The organizers had one finished at the completion of the event and provided copies.

Well... that was quick. The Class Association has already posted the event video online.

www.hobieworlds.com