We’re glad to see World Sailing’s World Cup Series has returned this week in Medemblik after a long period without regattas due to the pandemic restrictions The event in Netherlands became specially attractive to many of top sailors who are polishing their preparation for the Olympic Games starting in less than two months in Tokyo Gold medals at this World Cup event were for two non-Olympic representatives although great and well known sailors that will surely be fighting for a place on next Paris 2024 campaign Those were Marie Barrue from France on ILCA 6 and Lorenzo Chiavarini from England on ILCA 7 After five days of competition and 9 completed races Marie triumphed over strong Olympic candidates such as current Rio 2016 Gold medalist Marit Bouwmeester NED who returned after an injury and finished fourth overall Mari Erdi HUN and Agata Barwisnka POL accompanied the French sailor on podium who was Bronze on the 2020 Senior Europeans in Poland and Gold on the 2019 Senior Europeans in Portugal escorted on podium by Joel Rodriguez ESP and Filip Jurisic CRO “It feels fantastic,” commented Chiavarini on his win “I’m really happy with how this week has gone.” Full results here. Get the latest news from EurILCA in your inbox The International Finn Masters Committee is delighted to announce that the 2021 Finn World Masters will be held in Medemblik Following the cancellation of the 2020 Finn World Masters at Port Zelande and then the postponement of the 2021 Finn World Masters in Puntala the Dutch Finn class immediately began to work on finding a venue for 2021 to complete their commitment to host the Finn World Masters It will happen 13 years after the last time the Finn World Masters was held in Medemblik many Finn Masters will remember a week of amazing tropical weather The dates will be the traditional Masters week of 21-28 May Planning is already underway and more details will be published as soon as they become available said: “We are very happy that Finn Club Holland has stepped up and made this great offer in these uncertain times We know we can rely on their enthusiasm and the experience of the Royal Yacht Club Hollandia to put on another great event for us We have to wait longer to visit Puntala again but I also know that will be well worth the wait.” “We look forward to working with Finn Club Holland and Royal Yacht Club Hollandia over the coming year to plan what will now be our 50th Finn World Masters.” The 2020 Finn World Masters was supposed to be the 50th Anniversary event but all the celebrations have now been put back to 2021 “I am sure that Medemblik 2021 will be a great party and hope as many Finn Masters as possible from all over the world will be able to take part.” of course we are very sorry that we cannot go to Puntala in 2021 as many Dutch Finn sailors have really good memories of the Masters in 2011 But we understand the extreme difficulties our Italian friends are facing so we are happy to be able to take over from them.” Many of you will remember Medemblik as a great place to sail with often very nice conditions two Gold Cups and three European Championships were sailed in Medemblik And of course many of you competed in the yearly SPA-Delta Lloyd-Breitling-Medemblik regatta So many of you will feel at home in one of the best European sailing areas.” “The very experienced Royal Yacht Club Hollandia will be our host again So if the weather is like it was in 2008 and if the COVID-19 disaster is behind us we will have a fantastic FWM2021.” “Hope to see many of you next year in good health.” Finn Masters Website: finnworldmaster.com plus all the latest on yachting regattas and offshore adventures around the world 2017 Laser Radial Women’s and Men’s World Championships started today in Medemblik all three fleets (100 women and 63 men) could complete first 2 scheduled races on the Ijsselmeer Slovenian sailor Kim Pletikos SLO (3-2) started event on top with 5 points followed by Belgian Evi Van Acker BEL (4-3) and German Svenja Weger GER (8-2) with 7 and 10 points respectively Maité Carlier BEL (11-4) and Monika Mikkola FIN are also close in 5th to 8th places respectively Greek sailor Vasileia Karachaliou GRE (5-13) is ranked 11th overall and this were her thoughts after the races; “Today was very tricky but then suddenly after two thirds of the upwind I dropped from being in the top five down 15th with one shift the left always paid off and came in suddenly” in places 12 to 16 overall appear Marie Bolou FRA (14-7) Silvia Zennaro ITA (10-14) and Pauline Liebig GER (3-22) 2017 Laser Radial Women’s World Championship  – Full results. Brazilian sailor Andrey Godoy BRA (1-4)  is leading Men’s competition with 5 points closely followed by Alfonso Fernandez ESP (5-3) and Daniil Krutskikh RUS (12-1) with 8 and 13 points respectively Axel Rahm SWE (3-22) and Nicolo Elena ITA (28-2) are 4th to 6th overall with 24 Marcin Rudawski POL (16-15) and Aleksandr Moliakov NED (13-19) are also among Top 10 with 31 and 32 units 2017 Laser Radial Men’s World Championship  – Full results. Championships continues tomorrow with two more races scheduled so stay tune won the 2016 A-Class Catamaran World Champion held June 20-24 at Medemblik Here class editor Gordon Upton provides a debrief of the event and the latest designs on display… This was Mischa’s second title following the 2012 win at Islamorada and being runner up last year to Glenn Ashby. With 7 straight bullets and a race to spare he beat a strong field including Olympian and Former Oracle AC team member Darren Bundock and former double World champion Stevie Brewin the event experienced all weather conditions other than snow The first scheduled day was blown off with 31 knot gusts Day three had a massive torrential downpour right on the first race start gun followed by a flat calm and then a 180 deg windshift All this made for challenging conditions and a true test of sailing With 118 boats from 17 countries competing the fleet was initially split in two randomly for the first two days but with a seeding of the top sailors to avoid them racing each other too early on in the tournament The group was then redistributed overnight onto fleets again However this had the side effect that some sailors could be lucky and be drawn in a fleet with as the weather was usually changeable throughout the day who was drawn to race all his races in the higher winds where he excels – his previous title was won in the beginnings of a hurricane Mischa’s fast powerful sailing style forced the speed from his new DNA F1 ‘A’ cat a boat that he had a major input into the design of as he accidentally overstood the top mark after a windshift before executing a perfect handbrake turn around it and foiling off in the opposite direction The battle for second between Bundy and Brewin was over after Stevie Brewin and broke a rudder on the last downwind of the penultimate race fixed it and got back in time to get his second bullet of his series sailing in his first ‘A’ Cat Worlds was always up at the front other than in the first race on the final day when a plastic bag on a rudder dropped him to 11th Polish sailor Jacek Noetzel was a close 4th The fastest woman sailor was Carolijn Brouwer She finished her first ‘A’ cat event happily in a superb 15th overall place on her Exploder Ad3 with its slightly reduced mast height that this certainly wouldn’t be her last race in the class which hopefully may become more popular with women as they realize that the boats can be customized to their own weight and sailing styles most of the foiling boats are now using the decksweeper sail The lower centre of effort really works well on a foiling boat that needs to be kept flatter This also gives them another gear when going uphill for the same reason The concentration of the smooth airflow under and over the trampoline has been noticeable too Twin skinned tramps with all the ropes sandwiched between mean the underside is now sealed to the hulls to create a tunnel hull effect which aids lift when foiling Sandro Caviezel’s Scheurer C7 even had an extended ‘empennage’ type wind extending back from the rear beam to the stern This was designed to further smooth the airflow it may make the boat a handful in a high wind going uphill The older design ‘Classic’ C or straight board boats proved to still score high places in the non-foiling winds below about 8 kts The new Holland Composites DNA F1 with its exquisite stealth fighter looks and semi solid tramp was fast in the hands of the right sailors the considerably cheaper Polish Exploder Ad3 is more customizable as regards adding control systems And it’s not much slower either – ask Bundy Tags: , , Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. 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All Rights Reserved.made by VSSL Agency and waste on highways in protest against the government’s nitrogen policy several highways and on- and off-ramps are closed on Thursday morning There were two accidents involving multiple cars between Groningen and Drachten overnight due to the waste dump Protesters set hay bales on fire on the A7 near Medemblik in Noord-Holland.  The A1 towards Apeldoorn is completely closed between Voorst and the Beekbergen junction and two lanes are closed in the other direction The closure will likely last until late afternoon The public works department struggled to find a contractor to clean up the asbestos-containing waste dumped there by farmers “We are working hard to clean the road but it is expected that the contractor will be busy with the work for quite some time We are now taking into account the end of the afternoon,” the Rijkswaterstaat spokesperson said.  The contractors initially hired to clean the road withdrew due to threats and intimidation The A7 is closed in both directions between Middenmeer and Abbekerk The same highway is also closed toward Heerenveen at the Oude Riet service area And three lanes of the A28 toward Hoogeveen are closed at the Lankhorst junction.  Farmers also blocked several on- and off-ramps On the A7 the Freschepalen on- and off-ramp are closed toward Heerenveen and the Freischepalen off-ramp toward Groningen the Markelo on-ramp toward Hengelo is closed.  This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Netherlands) – All fleets completed two races today at the Laser Radial World Championships in Medemblik Breeze on the IJsselmeer was a steady 12 knots creating a decent chop and more challenging conditions for the sailors Marit Bouwmeester (NED) found the stronger conditions to her liking and repositioned herself at the front Viktorija Andrulyte (LTU) and Bouwmeester were launched at the pin and Bouwmeester rounded in fourth behind Pia Kuhlmann (GER) and Evi Van Acker (BEL) and by the final downwind she had the fleet behind her Alison Young (GBR) had an outstanding performance as she rounded every mark in first sailing into a comfortable win ahead of Bouwmeester in second Bouwmeester began the Championship with a rough start sitting in 60th after Day 1 “Despite the difficult situations on the water today Marit managed to show a good and stable performance,” Marit’s coach “Our starting point for the remaining races stays the same: we can’t allow ourselves any more mistakes The new conditions unveiled different leaders in the white fleet today Race 5 took off with Manami Doi (JPN) ahead of the fleet after the first upwind with Weger following in fourth behind Silvia Zennaro (ITA) and Sarah Douglas (CAN) Doi placed second with an established distance from of the rest of the fleet Pernelle Michon (FRA) initially headed the fleet around the first mark with Douglas and Georgina Povall (GBR) close behind Weger evidently found these conditions favorable and Josefin Olsson (SWE) sailed into third Doi and Van Acker are tied for first place with 21 points as they have maintained top 10 finishes (each with one discard) over three days of racing in very different wind The key to consistency is “preparation for lots of different conditions and be prepared for everything,” Doi explained I hiked hard today and I do enjoy the waves in Medemblik.” A sailor who has also adjusted to these conditions is Weger with 22 points and only one point out of first the leaderboard changed with today’s conditions Eliot Merceron (SUI) used the wind and chop to his advantage as he lead the fleet around the course in Race 5 Maxime Mazard (FRA) and Nik Pletikos (SLO) followed Merceron to the finish Race 6 was claimed early on by Marcin Rudawski (POL) rounded in second and maintained his position to the finish Zac Littlewood (AUS) worked his way up to take third in the final race of the day Racing continues tomorrow with two more races scheduled Women’s preliminary results after 2 races: Sam King has left his best result to the final race of the Laser 4.7 world youth championships at Medemblik in The Netherlands finishing second in the Gold fleet’s 11th race and 25th overall The Tasmanian champion and Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania Off the Beach sailor also ended sixth overall in the Under 16 group in this contested by more than 260 talented teenage boys from around the world European sailors dominated top medal placings in the regatta which was sailed mostly in light breezes with the Australians at their best when the winds reached 15 knots King’s best placings were a second and a third and he finished in the top 15 in five races The huge fleet was divided into four fleets after qualifying races with fellow OTB sailor Josh Ragg finishing third overall in the Emerald fleet just one point behind the second placegetter Top-scoring Australian in the boy’s Gold fleet was West Australian Zac Littlewood who slipped back on the final day with a 33rd place to be 11th overall finished 18th overall with a last race 20th place Littlewood  also finished second overall in the under 16 group The championship went to Spain’s A Bethencourt Fuentes In the Silver fleet Ethan McAullay finished 40th overall WA’s Zoe Thomson won three of  her 11 races but with a 12th in the last race saw her remain at sixth overall