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As every year we are sailing with the May-Holidays in Riva del Garda, on the beautiful lake called ”Lake Garda” ( ”Gardameer”). Normally it’s the Europeans Championship for the Yngling, but this year it’s the Springcup for the Yngling. ”Lake Garda” is a well known place for sailors. The typical wind breeze of 4/5 beaufort which activate around 12/13 o’clock when it’s a sunny weather in the morning.

Wednesday was a typical ‘Lake Garda’ weather, we went on the water around 12 o’clock and the wind arrived at 12:30. A nice 4 beaufort was maybe a little to hard for us. We had too much power in our sails so we could’t sail the boat as flat as possible. The first race we had a bad start because we could’t sail over the startline so we had to turn and go behind everybody. During the first upwind we did a good job, but then the vang broke so the stand of sails was not correct and we lost a lot of places. The second race we made a bad decision downwind because we went to the wrong direction. Finally we sailed a 15th and 11th place. After the races we checked our trim of the mast and we changed it because it was not standing correctly.

Totally there are around the 30 boats taking part this year. Countries participating are Austria, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland with the Dutch being the great enthusiasts in this class.

More photos can be found here. https://picasaweb.google.com/102840694705033285759/YnglingOpenSpringTimeChampionship2012

Anne-Christianne and Robert-Jan are back in the Netherlands. It was a beautifull experience for them. In the future they will write every training or race a short report. Thanks for all the nice reaction which supported us very well . Michel is staying in Australia for 1 week longer.

Dutch crews first and second in International Yngling Worlds cliff hanger, By Peter Campbell

 Only three points today separated the first three boats at the end of a magnificent regatta on Sydney Harbour to decide the 2012 World Championship for the International Yngling one-design keelboat class, with victory going to defending champion, Maarten Jamin, from The Netherlands.

 

Close racing under spinnaker in the Yngling Worlds.  Photo by John Jeremy

Jamin, a dual world champion in the three-crew keelboat,  finished with 40 points,  two points clear of fellow countryman Tom Otte on 42 points,  with one point to third placegetter, Australian champion Michael Nash on 43 points. Nash had led the series going into the final race.

The demanding regatta comprised ten close and intensive races over four days in conditions that ranged from light and flukey easterly breezes to a full on north-easterly sea breeze on the final day.

Jamin and Nash went into the final day of competition equal on 30 points. In race nine, a second place to Nash and a fifth to Jamin put the Australian three points ahead going into the 10th nd final race this afternoon.

But Nash and his crew of Mel Nathan and Greg Hartnett crashed to an 11th in the decider, costing them the World Championship.  With only one discard race, Nash already had a 13th place and was forced to carry the 11th. 

In contrast,  Jamin, with Jaap Smolders and Menno Berens as crew,  maintained his consistency with another 5th place in the final race, sufficient to give them the 2012 World Championship by two points. 

Otte and his crew of Diederik Kuilers and Reinier Tromp made a determined bid for another World title, with a 3-2 result on the final day, beating Nash by one point for second place.

The final two races went to Australian Matt  Whitnall, lifting him to sixth overall. Fellow Australian Hamish Jarrett, who had been an early leader in the World championship, finished fourth overall,   while another Dutch competitor, Anne-Christianne Kentgens – Robert-Jan Kentgens and Michel Peulen, team Maas & Roer, placed fifth overall in an impressive series by the young sailors.

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Place	#	Skipper	Crew	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	R 5	R 6	R 7	R 8	R 9	R 10	Total
1	355	Maarten Jamin	Jaap Smolders / Menno Berens	4	6	1	1	- 12	2	8	8	5	5	40
2	328	Tom Otte	Diederik Kuilers /Reinier Tromp	5	4	6	- 11	8	4	1	9	3	2	42
3	57	Michael Nash	Mel Nathan / Greg Hartnett	2	3	4	6	- 13	1	11	3	2	11	43
4	60	Hamish Jarrett	Federico Lauro / Alana Bracken	1	8	7	3	1	- 11	9	7	4	8	48
5	365	Anne-Christianne Kentgens	Robert-Jan Kentgens / Michel Peulen	3	12	2	- 21	2	6	6	10	6	10	57
6	53	Matt Whitnall	Robert Bishop / Michael Bishop	10	19	- 20	16	10	3	2	11	1	1	73
7	203	Mikkel Winston	Federik Loppenthin / Tobias Nittegaard	13	5	3	15	- 16	5	14	6	7	7	75
8	199	Lucas Lier	Hans-Christen Rosendahl / Konrad Floryan	8	2	12	13	15	14	13	1	- 44 ocs	6	84
9	54	Neville Wittey	Marcus Bourke / Jean-Claude Strong	9	7	27	9	23	- 44 bfd	3	2	12	3	95
10	345	J P van de Meeren	Alexander van Riet / Bob Winters	7	10	11	10	22	7	7	20	11	- 24	105
11	36	Mattias Dahlstrom	Jonas Munck af Rosenschold / Petter Klang	6	21	22	- 34	21	10	4	4	18	15	121
12	25	Adrian Nash	Sean Edminson / Max van Het Hooft	15	13	8	12	17	17	5	16	20	- 23	123
13	111	Jorgen Ring	Angus Larsen / Lars-Peter Rosendahl	- 28	1	9	18	3	19	25	24	16	9	124
14	59	Karyn Gojnich	John Gojnich / Helen Impey	- 21	18	10	2	9	20	12	19	21	13	124
15	333	Marjolein Hufen	Liesbeth Boersma / Irena Doets	14	- 44 ocs	18	5	24	13	10	14	8	18	124

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Place	#	Skipper	Crew	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	R 5	R 6	R 7	R 8	R 9	R 10	Total
1	355	Maarten Jamin	Jaap Smolders / Menno Berens	4	6	1	1	- 12	2	8	8			30
2	57	Michael Nash	Mel Nathan / Greg Hartnett	2	3	4	6	- 13	1	11	3			30
3	60	Hamish Jarrett	Federico Lauro / Alana Bracken	1	8	7	3	1	- 11	9	7			36
4	328	Tom Otte	Diederik Kuilers /Reinier Tromp	5	4	6	- 11	8	4	1	9			37
5	365	Anne-Christianne Kentgens	Robert-Jan Kentgens / Michel Peulen	3	12	2	- 21	2	6	6	10			41
6	203	Mikkel Winston	Federik Loppenthin / Tobias Nittegaard	13	5	3	15	- 16	5	14	6			61
7	199	Lucas Lier	Hans-Christen Rosendahl / Konrad Floryan	8	2	12	13	- 15	14	13	1			63
8	53	Matt Whitnall	Robert Bishop / C Bishop	10	19	- 20	16	10	3	2	11			71
9	345	J P van de Meeren	Alexander van Riet / Bob Winters	7	10	11	10	- 22	7	7	20			72
10	54	Neville Wittey	Marcus Bourke / Jean-Claude Strong	9	7	27	9	23	- 44 bfd	3	2			80
11	25	Adrian Nash	Sean Edminson / Max van Het Hooft	15	13	8	12	- 17	17	5	16			86
12	36	Mattias Dahlstrom	Jonas Munck af Rosenschold / Petter Klang	6	21	22	- 34	21	10	4	4			88
13	43	Jordon Reece	Alan Reece / Michael Reece	11	9	5	4	20	19	21	- 44 dnf			89
14	59	Karyn Gojnich	John Gojnich / Helen Impey	- 21	18	10	2	9	21	12	19			91
15	58	David Chapman	Marc Ryan / Louise Tillett	12	20	15	- 22	5	9	15	15			91

Top 15 after 5 races

Place	#	Skipper	Crew	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	R 5	R 6	R 7	R 8	R 9	R 10	Total
1	60	Hamish Jarrett	Federico Lauro / Alana Bracken	1	- 8	7	3	1						12
2	355	Maarten Jamin	Jaap Smolders / Menno Berens	4	6	1	1	- 12						12
3	57	Michael Nash	Mel Nathan / Greg Harnett	2	3	4	6	- 13						15
4	365	Anne-Christianne Kentgens	Robert-Jan Kentgens / Michel Peulen	3	12	2	- 21	2						19
5	328	Tom Otte	Diederik Kuilers /Reinier Tromp	5	4	6	- 11	8						23
6	43	Jordon Reece	Alan Reece / Michael Reece	11	9	5	4	- 20						29
7	111	Jorgen Ring	Angus Larsen / Lars-Peter Rosendahl	- 28	1	9	18	3						31
8	199	Lucas Lier	Hans-Christen Rosendahl / Konrad Floryan	8	2	12	13	- 15						35
9	203	Mikkel Winston	Federik Loppenthin / Tobias Nittegaard	13	5	3	15	- 16						36
10	345	J P van de Meeren	Alexander van Riet / Bob Winters	7	10	11	10	- 22						38
11	59	Karyn Gojnich	John Gojnich / Helen Impey	- 21	18	10	2	9						39
12	202	Mille Brandt Jensen	Sarah Sander / Stine Nielsen	20	- 26	14	8	4						46
13	54	Neville Wittey	Marcus Bourke / Jean-Claude Strong	9	7	- 27	9	23						48
14	25	Adrian Nash	Sean Edminson / Max van Het Hooft	15	13	8	12	- 17						48
15	58	David Chapman	Marc Ryan / Louise Tillett	12	20	15	- 22	5						52

Sydney time: friday 0.20 ( dutch time: thursday 14.20): Just back from the marvelous captains diner, really excellent food and atmosphere!. Tomorrow we have a day rest and will visit Bondi Beach, and hopefully not be on television…

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Todays result 1st race: 21 – 2nd race: 2nd, CLICK FOR RESULTS: WK score day 2

Some photo’s from the organisation: click: 4Jan12

Jury report protest NED 355 versus NED 365: click: protest 355v365

Overall place after 2 days: 5th.

Maarten Jamin Ned 355 sailed a solid 1st and 12th place, 2nd overall, Hamish Jarrett AUS60 had a good day sailing a 3th and 1st place, overall 1st.

Today we sailed 2 races. The day started very strange, normally there is beautiful weather, a lot of sun and a lot of wind. This time there was no wind and no sun. The comitee wanted to sail 3 races but because of the windchanges, crossing ferries it did not happen. We sailed two races, started almost 7 times and sailed one bad race and one fantastic race. The first race was very difficult, if we take a look back we think it was because of a bad start, the wrong decisions and the tension of the mast. After we sailed the first race we did some training because we wanted to sail in the front of the field again! So we did we chaged the tension on our boat, trained some tacks and ate a lot:) (for a good concentration). We had a good start, together with Aus60 Hamish we sailed to the left side, we could almost touch the mountain. We made a tack and laid from the start till the finish second. With a matchrace in the second upwind we still finished almost one minut before number three Den111Jorgen Ring. So the day ended good, and we because we sailed 5 races we have a layday.

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Protested race 3, but no rule was broken and the protest was dismissed  (the Jury witnessed the incident fortunately), result and news today:

Race 1: 3th

Race 2: 12th ( too early start so had to go back  and start over again and had to  take a penalty ( 1 turn) as we overlooked a competitor), but had a good catch-up race.

Race 3: 2nd

Result: 1- 5: 1:AUS57 – 2:NED355 – 3:NED328 – 4:AUS60 – 5:NED365 9th:NED345 25th: NED333

The 2012 Yngling World Championships have begun on Sydney Harbour today with three races being conducted in a fading north easterly breeze with the fleet managing to finish all scheduled races before the southerly buster hit the harbour as the fleet headed back to the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. With the turn of the new year only days before and finally the warm aussie summer heat settling in the 42 boat fleet representing Australia, Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden got through the opening day in great fashion with winners of last weeks Open Gold Cup, Michael Nash and crew on AUS 57 leading the international fleet after a very consistent day towards the front of the fleet. Defending World champions, Maartin Jamin and his team on NED 355 also made a strong start to their defence which included a win in the final race of the day. But with still four days of competition to go the championships is still wide open with a range of testing Sydney weather conditions expected to greet the fleet over the coming days.

The opening race of the day saw the strongest breeze with it, 8-12 knots from the NE provided ideal conditions for the yngling as Hamish Jarrett (AUS 60) firing his worlds campaign off in style with a quick start and nailing the first shift to extend to an early lead, from there AUS 60 left nothing to chance and quite surprisingly put a tight cover on their nearest rivals to hold their lead and win the opening race of the day. Michael Nash, the current Australian National Champion and winner of last weeks Gold Cup came home in second with the Youth Gold Cup winners from last week NED 365 taking third for a good start to their campaign. Race two saw again the same breeze which went a little lighter throughout the race. Jorgen Ring, one of the oldest skippers in the fleet and who has competed in every Yngling World Championships bar one showed his impressive skills he has learnt from all his world championships which included two pervious visits to Sydney by taking out race two, it was a great tussle between Ring and his fellow countrymen of Lucas Lier on DEN 199 who came a close second with finally an aussie flagged boat of Michael Nash take third.

Race three saw the fading NE give way to the E as tactical decision making was key to winning the race. So hard were the conditions it was never really known who lead the race the most as positions continued to change with the ever changing wind direction. In the end it was a close finish between the top 5 teams with all boats finishing bow to stern as current World Champions Maartin Jamin got his campaign back on track with a race win from Anne-Christianne Kentgens taking second, protest pending, followed in succession by DEN 203, AUS 57 and AUS 43.

After the three racing Michael Nash leads Maartin Jamin by 2 points with Tom Otte (NED 328) rounding out the podium, but the real question will come from the outcome of a protest in race three between NED 355 and NED 365 which could see NED 365 disqualified from race three as they currently sit fifth overall. (result Protest won by NED365). Racing continues tomorrow with three more races scheduled before a lay day Friday.

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A lot of wind, the day of the practice race. The organisation planned 2 practice starts and one full practice race. The 1st an 3th starts were very good, we had a lot of speed and came the 3th race as 5th at the upwind mark, we sailed from 5th to 3th downwind and Finished also third. Back in the harbour we had to clean the boat, clean our self, teamclothes on and then we had the opening and prizegiving of the Goldcup! We got a golden medal, gold cup and a big gold cup (pictures are coming soon, the medal picture is on the report from one day earlier). After the prizegiving we had dinner and went back home to family Kool who invited us to sleep there because they live close to the harbour.

Gold Medal NED 365 Australian Youth Gold Cup

International Yngling World Championship is being held in Sydney, Australia from 2nd to 8th January 2012. The regatta has got off to a great start with the combined Yngling Open Championship and Youth Gold Cup setting the pattern for spectacular one design racing on Sydney Harbour when the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron hosts the 2012 Worlds next week. The Yngling World Championship is the first of two world championships being hosted by the Squadron to mark their 150th anniversary, the second being the International Etchells in February. A fleet of 32 Ynglings contested the Open Championship and Youth Gold Cup series, sailing eight races over the past three days in excellent conditions on the Harbour. A fleet of 45 has entered for the Worlds.

The outcome of the Open Championship as a lead-up to the Worlds was a triumph for Sydney fleet sailor Michael Nash, sailing Slam, who won the final race to clinch an overall victory with a net 18 points. The Australian champion’s scorecard for the series was a consistent 2-2-3-4-6-2-4-1, giving him a clear winning margin. An OCS in the final heat prevented current world champion Maarten Jamin, sailing Nynke from The Netherlands, any chance of beating Nash. The scorecard of Jamin, a dual world champion, was 8-6-2-2-7-3-2-OCS to finish with 30 points. Third place overall went to another dual world champion from The Netherlands, Tom Otte, sailing Meyke, who finished on 37 points, while an impressive fourth was the Dutch youth crew on Maas & Roer, skippered by Anne-Christianne Kengens who won two heats to finish on 39 points.

Next best of the Sydney fleet boats was Miss Pibb, skippered by Hamish Jarrett, who won the first race but slipped back to place fifth overall on 48 points.

Ynglings racing on Sydney Harbour in the lead up regatta to the world championships next week -  Peter Campbell   
A fleet of 45 boats, more than half of them from overseas, have entered for the 2012 International Yngling World Championship. Among the entrants are four past world champions and  former Olympic representatives in the three-crew keelboat class. Crews have arrived from Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden to race against 20 Australian crews, almost all racing out of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. The Netherlands has six crews competing, headed by Maarten Jamin and Tom Otte, while the Danish team of six boats includes Jorgen Ring, the 1978 World champion who has competed in every World title regatta since 1977. Australia’s Chris Harper has sailed in 25 worlds. Also in the strong Australian team is Neville Wittey, who won the 1996 and 2004 World championship and also represented Australia at the 2000 Olympic Games in the Soling class, and Karyn Gojnich, who sailed as a crew member in the Yngling women’s class at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, as well as in the 470 women’s class at the 1988 Olympics.

Tomorrow, January 2nd we will by sailing on the Tasman Sea on Eddie’s Yacht, hopefully we will see some whales, time to become jealous….

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click on the video below to see our party fireworks 2012!!

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YOUTH GOLD CUP: The last day of the Youth Gold Cup. We counted that when we had to finish one race before our Danisch concurrent and then we should win the regatta. It started very excited, we had a very bad start but the Danisch team had it too. We met each other on the upwind mark in the regatta were it became a neck on neck race. Just the last downwind leg we had more speed and we finished before them, so we had the Tittle in the pocket. So the last race we had to sail for the total classment for the open gold cup trophe. We started with a really bad start, rounded the mark as 20th boat. Made directly a gybe to the left side and had more wind, we saw just at the last moment that there was coming more wind from the right sight in the racingarea, so we decided at the last moment to take as the onlyest boat the right downwindmark, and it had a perfect result at the next upwind mark we came above on the 5th place. we hold our place the whole regatta and finished 4th the last race. In the whole competition we got the 4th price in the Open Gold Cup, and we in the Youth devicion we became Youth Gold Cup Champion!! The price-giving will be during the opening ceremonie of the World Championship which will start on January 2nd. After sailing we went with 2 other dutch teams to Chillybeach where we did some BBQ in a park/beach. Never done this before, they have fantastic big BBQ standing there and everybody can use them. The people are very friendly and they are always talking with each other. Ofcourse we had a very nice dinner and we saw some Possum’s (Big Squirrels) they are very funny to see, and they only let them see in the dark, they are not afraid for people and camara’s.

WE WON THE YOUTH GOLD CUP!!!,

4th place overall at the International Open Championship

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Overall result top 3 Youth Gold Cup:

1st: Anne-Christianne Kentgens- Robert-Jan Kentgens – Michel Peulen NED 365 Maas & Roer

2nd: Lucas Lier DEN 199 Otto

3th:  Marjolein Hufen NED 333

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Final Result top 10 International Open Championship:

1st: Michael Nash – AUS 57 Slam

2nd: Maarten Jamin – NED 355 Nynke

3th: Tom Otte – NED 328 Meyke

4th: Anne-Christianne – Robert-Jan – Michel – NED 365 Maas en Roer

5th: Hamish Jarrett – AUS 60 Miss Pibb

6th: Lucas Lier – DEN 199 Otto

7th: Marjolein Hufen – NED 333

8th: Mattias Dahlstrom – SWE 36 Vaggsang

9th: Marc Bichsel – SUI 455

10th: JP van de Meeren – NED 345 Brigit Badot

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HELLO EVERYBODY!!!!

What a beautiful day! like every morning the sun waked us up, the birds were singing like monkeys and there was lot of wind. It looked like a fantastic day an it became. Arrived at the harbour we made the yngling race-ready. here under a report of the organisation.

Consistency the key on Day 2 of the Yngling Open Championship & Gold Cup.

It was a picture perfect day on Sydney harbour on day two of the Yngling Open Championships & Youth Gold Cup, both lead up events to the Yngling World Championships 2012 starting at the beginning of January. After a blowy start to the regatta yesterday, the breeze still coming from the south was around 13-17knots. Consistency is always the key to winning regattas and today Michael Nash and his team on AUS 57 showed that, after sitting in second place overnight, the current Australian national championships took the lead of the regatta by 9points after day two and another three races which didn’t come without surprise and action. Overnight leaders, the current European champions on NED 328 were OCS in race one and with the black flag raised for the start they were disqualified from the opening race. The young dutch team Kentgens-Peulen on NED 365 who currently lead the Gold Cup tangled with current Yngling World Champions Maartin Jamin on NED 355 for the lead in race one. It came down to the wire with the young dutch team taking their first win of the regatta with NED 355 in second and AUS 60 in 3rd. Race two saw the first clean start of the event. The three lap course from Athol bay across to Rushcutters bay allowed many passing lanes especially with the Manly to Circular Quay ferry splitting the fleet at every crossing. It was again Anne-Christianne and Robert-Jan Kentgens and Michel Peulen sailing NED 365 which outclassed the fleet to win their consecutive race with another young team from Denmark coming in second with AUS 60 taking another third to move into the lead of the regatta whilst overnight leaders Ned 328 could only manage a 10th and world champions NED 355 taking 7th. But still with one race to go for the day it was going to come down to who had the most consistent day. Another surprise came in race six when 2004 Yngling World Champion Nev Whittey won the race ahead of Michael Nash on AUS 57 and current world champions finishing 3rd, but a shocking race for race four and five winners NED 365 saw them finish 18th, regatta leaders to that point AUS 60 finishing 15th and overnight leaders NED 328 taking another 10th. By the end of the day AUS 57 took the overall regatta lead with a 9 point lead over world champions NED 355 in second and AUS 60 still sitting in third. Team Kentgens-Peulen NED 365 moved up to 4th whilst overnight leaders NED 328 dropping back to sixth. In the Youth Gold Cup NED 365 still holds the overall lead with DEN 199 staying in second with NED 333 moving into third. With only one day of racing to go and two races left in the series the regatta is still far from over and with bragging rights heading into next years World Championships as top prize everyone will be eager to win.

The sailing was so fantastic today, beautiful weather the whole day and there were a lot of ferries, the first race we became 1st. Second race we came 5th at the upwind mark. Downwind we had a lot of speed we took the right sight and had a privat windblow, we went so fast that we had to make an important decision because there was coming a ferrie. (we have to give them space) We were the only boat of all the boats who could pass the ferrie, the other sailors had tho move and sail around it. So our distance with the second boat became bigger, we hold our place and won the race.

After sailing we got invited for a BBQ we had a very nice dinner.

The results today were quite fantastic:

Race 4:  1st

Race 5:  1st

Race 6: 18th

Results so far:

International Open Championship: 5 – 8 – 7 – 1 – 1- 18, total 4th with 2 more races to go tomorrow.

Youth Gold Cup:  1 – 1- 2 – 1 – 1 – 4, total 1st , leading with 10 points and 3 ahead on number 2, DEN 199 Lucas Lier, followed by NED 333 marjolein Hufen.

Race report sailors follows asap.

Sydney harbour produced a fantastic start to the Yngling Open Championships & Gold Cup – the lead up events to the 2012 Yngling World Championships starting at the beginning of January with the foreign contingent taking the early lead in both the open and youth events. Although it was an overcast day the southerly pressure system which hit the Rolex Sydney to Hobart fleet overnight blew throughout the day peaking at 19 knots during the opening race. Under PRO Rib Ridley, the race committee finally managed to get the first race under way after two general recalls. On the third start the fleet got away with the Australians leading the way with Hamish Jarrett (AUS 60) taking out race one from Michael Nash (AUS 57) and Adrian Nash (AUS 25) taking third place ahead of Tom Otte (NED 328). Race Two saw the fleet settle off the start line with only one general recall. Tom Otte (NED 328) and Michael Nash (AUS 57) took the early lead from Jordan Reece (AUS 43) for the first lap of the course, in the end Tom Otte (NED 328) took out race two ahead of Michael Nash (AUS 57) with Hamish Jarrett (AUS 60) and Jordan Reece (AUS 43) rounding out the top four. Race three saw again two general recalls after a huge bias towards the pin. Again Tom Otte (NED 328) who are the current European champions showed the rest of the fleet their stern over the three lap course to take their second consecutive victory ahead of Maarten Jamin (NED 355) who are the current World Champions, a consistent Michael Nash (AUS 57) took third with Hamish Jarrett (AUS 60) finishing fourth.

In the Youth Gold Cup division it was the young team lead by Anne-Christianne Kentgens (NED 365) which dominated the racing. The Dutch team won all three races in the youth division with Christoffer Kyllebaek (DEN 132) currently second with Nick Howe (AUS 7) third. Overall Tom Otte (NED 328) lead by one point from Michael Nash (AUS 57) with Hamish Jarrett (AUS 60) a further point behind in third. The current and defending World Champions lead by Maarten Jamin (NED 355) sit in fourth with the young dutch team on NED 365 who lead the Gold Cup amazingly sit in fifth with Jordan Reece (AUS 43) in sixth after day one. Three races are scheduled for tomorrow kicking off at 12:25pm with two further planned for the final day of the regatta on the 29th. This Open Championships and Gold Cup are the warm up regatta to the 2012 Yngling World Championships which are being hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron from the 3rd to 8th January. Results 1st day: 5 – 8 – 7, 5th overall, and 1st Youth Gold Cup.

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Beatiful weather, a lot of sun and a lot of suncreme. Our day started like this. Eddie and his dad drove us to the harbour where we had to measure the boat and sails. (there are special minimums for the weight of the boats and maximums for the sizes of the sails.) after we measured the boat we got invited by an aussie to have a look at the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race with the swedisch ynglingteam and some volunteers. (one of worlds biggest regatta.) there were a lot of support boats who wanted the best place in the Sydney habour to have a look at all that big sailingboats which participate the Sydney Hobart race. It was so spectacular and busy on the water that the water was turning around in all directions. (the aussies say that when it’s busy on the water it looks like a washmachine.) When all the boats started and were out of the Sydny harbour, the skipper showed us some sightseeing, houses even big as normal houses in the Netherlands staying next to the water for 22miljoen dollars. And the nature is so beatiful. Sydney harbour is the biggest nature harbour, so the nature made it. We also saw the Harbour bridge, Opera house and the Sydney zoo from the water. When we came back at our harbour we measured the sails cleaned the boat and did the finish in touch for the races. When we finished everything we went back to our house. We didn’t know that Sydney has so many mountans. After 5 km walking up and down the hills and sometime we took the wrong direction. So we went home eated the lAst food we had “spagetti”. (the shops are closed the first and second christmassday) we wrote the report and went to bed. Good night everyone and tomorrow we will have our first races. (picures are coming so soon as possible if we have wifi.

After flying 12 hours from bejing to Sydney we arrived at Sydney airport. An other team rented a car so we could drive to the harbour. We arrived there at 8 o’clock in the morging (Sydney time) we took a look at our boat and decided to put her out the cover. After we had done that it was time to have a look at our new home for two weeks “the sea hall scout”. It’s was just a big room with a little kitchen. Bloody hell wat a mess was it insite. But before we went insite our panthouse Eddie came to us and took us with him home. A beatifull house near by the beach. They had invited us for christmass diner. The whole family came to their house to celebrate fist christmassday, they were so kind and friendly. They gave each other presents and we got too (zink, australian suncreme). After that we walked around the beach we arrived back at the house we got a lovely christmass dinner, before we started eating we did bombom trekking, and we all got crown. We ate turcky and a lot more. After dinner we went to the beach to have a firt time first day christmass dive, why? because it can. In Australia the weather the warm and a lot of sun. After swimming we got a delicius plumpudding with old coins in it. We had to eat carefull and we putted them all in a pan. Just for joke and because it’s a tradition. Then we went home and started cleaning all the mess we did 4 hours about the kitchen. So imagen it by yourself how it was. Now it’s totally cleaned.

Yesterday we left in The Netherlands from our parental home. After saying goodbey to everone we took the car to Dusseldorf. For us the third time travelling by plane because normally we travel by car, so we were very excited.
We travelled with Maarten Jamin (Ned355) and flied with China airlines. We had to fly 10 hours to bejing, at the begin of the flied we got some foot beefrice which was good to eat. It was dark the whole travel, we looked some films and listened to the stewardess, (not very heareble because of her Chinese accent) and all the time she said fishman and fishman which sounded very funny. (we think it means in Chinese Ladies and Gentlemen.) After 9 hours travelling we we got breakfast. After breakfast the pilot wanted to show us something more about Bejing. Therefore he started flying unstable and made half circels so we could see the city. The places wich we could see were very dry and the buildings were very high. At the airport we made some pictures of the plane and went into de airportbuilding. here we went to a Chinese Restaurant were we stayed and relax. Now we are going to check in for the flight to Sydney.
Greats to everybody and a happy christmas holiday.
Now its 16:31 Chinese Time.

Hello Everybody!!!!

Today is the big day, we are going to Australia. We want to thank everybody for the nice words/mails etc.. we are leaving our hometown now. About a few days we will start blogging and informing you all about weather/sailing/training and offcourse the results.

We also want to thank the Study Dental Hygiene for the dental brushes and the toothpaste.!!!!!!!!!!

enjoy our blogging and we hope you like it!!!

Sportive Regards,

Anne-Christianne Kentgens, Robert-Jan Kentgens, Michel Peulen

Hello Everyone,

Nice that you are following us to Sydney. Our boat ”Yngling Ned 365” arrived monday in Australia. We are going on Friday and will spend the Christmas days in the plane. Anne-Christianne and Robert-Jan will fly with Air China from Dusseldorf, They will have a 4 our stop in Beijing and Michel is going to fly with another company. All three sailors arrive at the 25th of December between 7:30 till 13:00 O’clock. From the 25th of December we are going to write everything about our trips, preparation and about the regatta’s in Sydney. So keep an eye on this blog!!!! We hope you will enjoy it.

27/28/29 December we will participate the Youth Gold Cup and from 2 till 8 January we will participate the Open World Championship Yngling

We will thank our sponsors for helping us to get everything ready for enjoying and participating the Youth Gold Cup and the Open World Championship

- Maas & Roer, Maersk Line, BMW Nationaal Jeugdzeilplan

We are teamkentgens-peulen, 3 ynglingsailors with the ultimate goal to become European Youth Champion and World Champion in the Yngling. In the future we want to gain more good prestations in the Yngling and also in other classes. On this website we will introduce ourselves and try to inform you about all the results and things we we are doing to get our goal.

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