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| All photos online! |
2010-07-02 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): All 917 photos made by Dianthe Chirino are online now!
 Worlds 2010 on Picasa
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| Dave Thomas award |
2010-06-20 (Foxbox): This year the Dave Thomas Memorial award was given to Just van Aanholt
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| Photos! |
2010-06-19 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): Marianne has uploaded 2 new albums, one with group photos and some close-ups and one with sailing Sunfishes!
Sunfish participants
Sunfishes in action!
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| Jonathan Martinetti from Ecuador is the 2010 Sunfish worldchampion! |
2010-06-18 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): At the beginning of the last race today Jonathan Martinetti had a 5 point lead over David Mendelblatt. David won the race and Jonathan came in 6th! So equal in points. Jonathan scored 3 times a 1st place, Davis 2 times, so Jonathan Martinetti is the new worldchampion. Ard van Aanholt place 3, 5 point before brother Just (4th). 6 juniors in the top 10!
From: Andres Santana (ISCA)
Sent: vrijdag 18 juni 2010 16:50
Wow !!!
The Junior Jonathan Martinetti is the World Champion !!! fantastic !!
What a battle with Mendelblat !!!
Thank you very much to Circulo Velico Cala Civette & Punta Ala Resort team for a great job !!!
Kind regards,
Andres
Full results Sunfish Worlds 2010
 Last day's report from Ellen Burk
Suncoast woman first to cross finish line at Sunfish Worlds
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| Last racing day! |
2010-06-18 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): There's nothing decided yet, so an all important last day. It looks like a perfect day for the light weather specialists....
During the event photos are made by Dianthe Chirino. At the end of the Worlds, the photos will become avaiblable for free on DVD.
Windfinder - Italy North
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| Sunfish Worlds 2011: Curacao! |
2010-06-18 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): Next year the Sunfish Worlds and Junior Worlds will be held in Curacao.
Sunfish Worlds 2011 website
 Preliminary NOR Sunfish Worlds 2011
Preliminary NOR Sunfish Junior Worlds 2011
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| Sailing is a Family Tradition in Curacao |
2010-06-17 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): I found a nice (5 year old) article on All at Sea about Cor van Aanholt.
Sailing is a Family Tradition in Curacao
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| Sunfish Worlds 2010 daggerboard |
2010-06-17 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): After reading the questions on Sunfish Forum i requested Marianne to make some daggerboard photos, which she did. That daggerboard doesn't look "new" anymore!
Daggerboard photos
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| Some wednesday photos |
2010-06-17 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): Marianne Lenos has posted several wedsnesday photos on Picasa
Wednesday at Sunfish Worlds
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| Day 3 results |
2010-06-16 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): Today a top notch performance from The Boys from Curacao: Kevin van Otterdijk won race 7, Ard van Aanholt race 8 and Just van Aanholt race 9. There are now 4 Curacao sailors in the Top 10.
David Mendelblat sailed 3-2-3 today, which closed the gap to Jonathan Martinetti (4-5-4) till 5 points. Tomorrow is lay-day, on Friday there is 1 race to go.
On place 17-19 we see 3 Italians sailors, with 1 point difference.
Overall results after 9 races (now with points!)
Ellen Burks' wednesday report
Amigoe article (dutch)
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| Day 2 report |
2010-06-16 (Piet Bankersen (4009)): It was a very long day on the water. The morning started with no wind and rain; racing was postponed till 1130. Then the wind blew from shore, so we had to sail far away for the startline.
There was a changing wind (direction and force) so it was hard to make correct choices.
After the first race we had to wait long due to course problems for the race committee. We finally sailed 3 races; last start at 1715! We were back on the beach at 1900.
Bahama Journal article 2009
Ellen Burks' tuesday report
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| Jonathan Martinetti stronger in the lead |
2010-06-15 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): Three races today, which did not change the top-3:
- Jonathan Martinetti
- David Mendelblatt
- Connor Blouin
In persuit is the Van Aanholt family: place 4-6! The Curcacao equipe is performing exellent in these Italian waters: 5 sailors in the top-14.
BTW: The results of race 1 and 2 were corrected.
Overall results after 6 races
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| Ellen Burks' day 1 |
2010-06-15 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): Ellen Burks published a day-1 report on the website of the Texas Sunfish Racing Circuit:
"Today started out with very little wind (yippee). The wind was shifting quite a bit, so the committee postponed until around noon. Then 3 fairly quick races. Two were double hotdogs finishing downwind, and the last one was a 5 leg humdinger with the wind building the whole race. When I got back to shore, Margi was waiting with my dolly. Thanks to the best dolly mama ever!"
 Monday in Italy
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| Results after 3 races |
2010-06-14 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): After 3 races, Jonathan Martinetti (Junior Worldchampion 2009) from Ecuador is leading:
No Numero Nome Punti 1 2 3
1 4025 JONATHAN DAVID MARTINETTI 4,0 2 1 1
2 4036 DAVID MENDELBLATT 10,0 3 2 5
3 4038 CONNER BLOUIN 14,0 1 4 9
4 4008 PAUL-JON PATIN 20,0 10 7 3
5 4018 KEVIN VAN OTTERDIJK 22,0 5 5 12
6 4017 ARD VAN AANHOLT 24,0 6 16 2
7 4019 JUST VAN AANHOLT 24,0 11 9 4
8 4011 JOSE VICENTE GUTIERREZ 37,0 16 3 18
9 4021 SCOTT GREENBAUM 42,0 14 18 10
10 4004 CHRISTOPHER FRIEND 45,0 8 26 11
Overall results after 3 races
Jonathan Martinetti about day 1 (spanish)
Punta Ala Camping report day 1 (Italian)
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| Practise race |
2010-06-13 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): 5 Bft wind today at the Punta Ala beach: high waves!
The was a 'general recall' at the start of the practiserace, but nobody the complete field sailed to to windward buoy. Due to the stormy conditions many sailers went back home. All Dutch sailor managed oke through the beach waves.
Tomorrow the "Mondiale Sunfish" will start. 3 races are scheduled. If the wind is the same as today, it will be a rough ride.
Picasa album
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| Daggerboard issue |
2010-06-12 (Gerard - Foxbox- Vos): Friday afternoon the Dutch participants went to the Sunfish Worlds checkin point in order to start preparing their boats. After unpacking the containers it became clear: the delivered daggerboards are to big!
Brent from Laserperformance finally made 1 daggerboard oke. It took him a long time, so the work on the remainder daggerboards was outsourced to an Italian company.
Friday evening the boats were assigned to the participants, so preparing could start. Saturday afternoon this work was finished, but the fixed daggerboards came at 6pm.
Sunday afternoon at 1:30 pm the practicerace will start.
Picasa album
Blog Vela (Italian)
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| Container unload pictures |
2010-06-11 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): There is a Facebook photoalbum from Laserperformance
with 9 photos of the unloading of the Sunfish containers.
Umloading Sunfish containers
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| Worlds 2010 NOR amended |
2010-05-10 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): The Sunfish Worlds NOR has been amended to reduce the maximum number of boats to 50, taking into consideration the number of entries received by the registration deadline and the extremely high costs of shipping. This number was given by Laser Performance as the maximum quantity after eliminating one container. We urge all interested sailors to send their entries as soon as possible before we run out of boats.
NOR amended
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| Eduardo Cordero is the 2010 Midwinter Champion |
2010-03-16 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): Sarasota, FL, USA- Defending midwinter champion and eight time world champion Eduardo Cordero (VEN) dominated the 2010 Midwinter Championship. In route to victory, Cordero won 6 out of the 7 races in the series. David Mendelblatt (USA) closed out the regatta strongly, with second places in the final two races, to narrowly beat his fellow countrymen Greg Gust. There were 78 competitors.
 Full results [XLS]
Sunfishclass.org article
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| Eduardo Cordero in Italy |
2010-03-14 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): Eduardo Cordero (no introduction needed) gave 2 clinics to Italian sailors. On his Starboardpassage website you can 3 pages with pictures from that trip, including many of Punta Ala.
Corduro Italy trip photo's
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| Sailing Squadron hosts Championship |
2010-03-13 (Gerard -Foxbox- Vos): For many of the world-class Sunfish sailors competing this weekend, the Midwinter Championship is a stepping stone for the 2010 Sunfish World Championship to be held at the Punta Ala Camping Resort in Tuscany, Italy, June 12-19.
Heraldtribune.com article
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