Sunfish World Championship

Rolex Miami OCR

zat, 21 jan 2012 12:00:00 +0100

The Miami OCR 2012 week will start on january 22. At the moment there are 81 competitors in the Laser category, and among them several Sunfish Worlds sailors: Ard van Aanholt, Francisco Renna, Lee Parkhill,Andrey Quintero Andrey, Enruique Jose Arathoon and Yanic Gentry (maybe i missed some more).

Ecuador Worlds postponed

don, 19 jan 2012 12:00:00 +0100

The Worlds in Ecuador had to be postponed because of high costs and new responsibilities (for ISCA) presented, but more importantly a lack of confidence in the type of support required to play through the planning of the event. LP is reevaluating the way they will market and supports events. Class president Paul-Jon Patin is negotiating a new agreement with LP. That could lead to a sponsored World Championship in Newport, Rhode Island with New LP boats (in Sept -early Oct).

PanAm Games: Matheus rules!

woe, 19 okt 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Sunfish worldchampion Matheus Dellagnello has won the PanAm Games 2011 Sunfish title with an impressive total of 9 wins out of 11 races (including the medal race).
Second place: Paul Foerster, third place: Francisco Renna.

2011 PanAm games (Guadalajara)

don, 13 okt 2011 12:00:00 +0100

During the 2011 PanAm games the sailing competiton is scheduled from 17 to 23 October. 140 athletes(24 men, 19 women and 97 mixed) will sail in Windsurf , Laser, Laser radial , J24, Snipe, Lighting, hopbie cat 16 and of course SUNFISH.

At the moment there is no competitor list online :-(

22 minutes Sunfish Worlds on YouTube

vri, 08 jul 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Versgeperst.com made a splendid (22 minutes!) movie of the past Worlds.

Sunfish Worlds 2011 movie

Prize giving ceremony Sunfish World Championship 2011

zon, 19 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

I made a small clip of the Prize giving ceremony! So everybody can see the new World Champion, Matheus Dellagnelo receive his Championship Trophy! It was a lovely ceremony and all Matheus South American friends cheered him on! And you know what happens to a World Champion after the prize giving ceremony!!

Watch the clip here Prize giving ceremony Sunfish World Championship 2011 on Youtube!

Back to normal...

zon, 19 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Many thanks to all participants, supporters, volunteers, sponsors and organizing team for making this 2011 Sunfish Worlds an unforgettable event!
I wish everybody a safe trip home.

Last minute before start of last race as viewed from Signal Boat

zat, 18 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Last minute before start of last race on Friday June 17 at the 2011 Sunfish Worlds in Curacao as viewed from the Signal Boat. All boats cleared.

YouTube

Download (allmost) all Flickr photos!

zat, 18 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

I like Flickr a lot but there is one functionality missing (AFAIK): downloading a complete set or collection with 1 simple mouseclick. I found a way to do that! Since there are almost 2000 hi-res photos the total size on disk is somewhere near 4Gb.... my solution is also reducing that dramatically... Use this link to download them all: Sunfish World 2011 Flickr collection

It is a 3.9 Mb "Rar" file. So you will need WinRar (safe and free) to unpack.

Brazilian Matheus Dellagnelo World Champion 2011!

zat, 18 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

In the waters of Curaçao, in front of the Lions Dive Hotel, the last races of the World Championship where sailed today. The ending of this Championship was incredibly exciting, where the Brazilian top sailor Matheus Dellagnelo could crown himself the new World Champion, after winning both morning races. He didn’t even need to sail the last race, because his steady series guaranteed him the title.

The first morning race had a difficult start. Heavy winds, high waves, and a general recall twice in a row, caused the necessary delay. Curaçao’s hope for a top 10 spot, Kevin van Otterdijk, unfortunately suffered material damage right before the start and therefore could not compete in the 9th race. This left him with a lot of penalty points , but luckily after requesting a redress, the jury compensated him by granting him the redress and giving him an average score of his previous races.

The race was initially dominated by the Argentinean Francisco (“Panchito”) Renna, but halfway through the race he was overtaken by Dellagnelo. The Brazilian set the tone, won the second race as well, resulting in the World title. The last race did not matter to the World title anymore. Alex Zimmerman marked the win in the last race, the other top sailors where in the front as well. In the final ranking, before mentioned Zimmerman, takes second place, followed by Renna. Best sailor from Curaçao is Ard van Aanholt with a 4th place overall. This is a very good result, because the quality of sailing should be highly estimated.

Former multiple World Champions David Loring and P.J. Patin from the USA only took 5th and 11th place respectively, multiple World Champion Smith from Bermuda was 15th, World Champion 2010, Jonathan Martinelli from Ecuador was 17th, and former World Champion in 1980, Cor van Aanholt, 19th. The results for the Curaçao sailors was very satisfying: mentioned in 4th, Ard van Aanholt, Eugene Hendrikx in 9th, and Kevin van Otterdijk in 10th place. The World Championship was a huge challenge for sailors as well as organizers. Great heavy weather conditions and the extreme depths of the sea so close to the coastline (600-800m) make Curaçao a unique and perfect location to hold big sailing events.

Matheus Dellagnelo is the 2011 Sunfish Worldchampion!

vri, 17 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

With an impressive and consistent series [3-1-(OCS)-2-6-2-3-2-1-1-(DNC)] Matheus Dellagnelo from Brasil won the Sunfish Worlds 2011. He started this morning with a small lead before Alexander Zimmerman (Peru) and Francisco Renna (ARG), but after winning both morning heats he was allready the virtual winner.

Full results Sunfish Worlds 2011

Stories and photos will follow asap!
Category winners:

Junior: Ard van aanhol (Curacao, overall 4)
Apprentice: Matheus Dellagnelo (Brazil) (1)
Apprentice Master: David Mendelblat (USA) (8)
Master: Malcolm Smith (Bermuda)(15)
Grand Master:Richard van der Wal (Aruba)(48)
Great Grand Master: Dolf van der Giessen (Curacao) (57)

Photo request

vri, 17 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

If you visited the Flicker Sunfish Worlds collections you saw that we have photos from 2011-06, 2004, 1991, 1988, 1986-83, 1976 and 1971. Quite impressive allready, but far from complete! Do you have (old) Sunfish Worlds photos? Please share them with us.
Send me a mail.

Fly like a . . . Sunfish!

vri, 17 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Shahir Theodora from Bonaire demonstrates how you can dramatically reduce water resistance!

Caribbean Kids News: video

vri, 17 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Go see this video with interviews with Alexandra Siebels, Eugene Hendrikx and Kevin van Otterdijk (papiamentu/ dutch subtitles).

Lay Day?

vri, 17 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Yesterday’s Annabay Parade, that went by so smoothely, left the organizers a little present afterwards. There appears to have been some oil in the harbor, and when the sunfishes returned home they noticed this oil still sticking on their boats. At their own initiative ‘Team Holland’ assisted by Jurgen Schneider and our own photo lady Marianne Lenos, decided to clean all the boats so that the sailors would find their boats spic & span for their last day of racing on Friday. A big and welcome surprise to the local organizers, who now could continue working on the last deciding days in peace.

Possible revange for Matheus?

don, 16 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Our unique Compare results tool will show you the mutual results for 2 sailors. So you'll see that our current top 3 sailed in last years South American championship....won by Luis Olcese, 2nd place Alexander Zimmerman before Matheus Dellagnelo.
It will also tell you that some sailors know each other for years. Eg Alexander Zimmerman and Francisco Renna sailed both the 2003 OptiSur!

So can you find the 2 sailors that have the longest mutual result list?

Sunfish World Championship 2011 Annabaai Parade The Movie!

don, 16 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

A short clip of the Parade in the Annabaai today! almost 70 colorfull sunfish boats participated in the Parade! Visit this URL: Annabaai Parade on Youtube

Photos photos photos photos photos photos photos!

don, 16 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Please note that we constantly add new photos to our Flickr photo stream. We put them each in the correct set (per day) and try to tag them with sailnumbers.
I think we all agree that this website would be very dull without the splendid photos from Bea, Kurt and Marianne! Thank you very much!!

Annabaai Parade!

don, 16 jun 2011 12:00:00 +0100

Today the weathergods where favorable to our sailors yet again. The tradewinds that always make for spectacular sailing moments, were replaced this morning by a rainshower, after which you need to wait and see if the wind will return.
Remarkably enough the wind was already blowing quite well during the start, though not as strong as the last couple of days. The pure heavy wind specialists were in a disadvantage this time, making the fine techniques of Alexander Zimmerman in the morning race, and of 1980! World Champion, Cor van Aanholt in the afternoon race, stand out.
Directly after the afternoon race, the fleet sailed downwind to the Harbour, the Annabay. Only a few decided to return to the beach of the Lions Dive Hotel. Almost simultaneously with the 62 sunfishes, a large tanker arrived at the mouth of the harbor. The sight of this threatening 62 boats counting fleet was so impressive that the tanker chose the high road and fled into the harbor with it’s tail between his legs.
Just a little later the immense fleet of beautifully colored Sunfish sails entered the Annabay, giving a salute to hosting country Curacao. The pictures speak for themselves and will be treasured in everyone’s memory.
There were towboats at hand to give tired sailors a lift back to the hotel, but only 5 sailors took this opportunity, the rest of the 57 die-hard sailors chose to sail home in relatively smooth weather conditions.

Sunfish World Championship 2011 Annabaai Parade