The Nordic Championship for Farr 40 finished the seven race event in Hankø today. Yesterdays verdict from the jury allowing compensation for sailors asking for redress was

overturned by the jury in a new meeting this morning. Had yesterday verdict been upheld, it would have opened for sailors to seek redress in other regattas on the basis of the

conditions during a race. Everybody agreed that the jury eventually came right and happily reverted to the original list of results. As it turned out, Wolfang Schaefer who went

Nobody could however touch Vincenzo Onorato who claimed to be rusty after managing his America´s Cup team from ashore. In an unusual performance in this class he won three out of seven races and finished every race in top ten position. Regardless of yesterdays calamities from he jury, the best team came though in the end. 

Todays race had to be postponed for an hour as Ken Legler and his race committee had to wait for the southerly to settle. As the fleet got under way it was blowing 4-6 knots, which increased slowly to 6-8 knots.Conventional wisdom said to go left to become pushed by current from river Glomma, but as experienced many times in this wind direction, it paid to go right toward Misingen Islands.  

As it turned out the Finnish «Siragusawa» rounded first at the windward mark and the experienced Finns managed to stay ahead all the way to the finish, ahead of «Nerone» and «Twins».

The regatta winner «Mascalzone Latino» scored another top ten position by finishing 5th, ahead of  Wolfgang Schaefer in seventh. Helmut Jahn was pushed outside a medal position by

At the price giving, class president James Richardson praised the event at Hanko, and in particular Eivind Astrup without whom, the fleet would probably not have travelled this far north.

The commodore of Royal Norwegian YC, Stig Herbern wished the class back at a later occasion. 

Mikkel Thommessen

Press Officer

For final results please click HERE.

Hanko - 09 July 2007 00:26