Jim Hunt (GBR) sealed his second OK Dinghy World Championship title in Quiberon, France, after a very difficult final day for both organisers and competitors. He made sure of the win with a nervous 12th in the first race of the day, before ending the series in style by winning the final race. Jørgen Svendsen (DEN) had to settle for silver, while Charlie Cumbley (GBR) took the bronze.
Continue reading Jim Hunt seals second OK Dinghy world title after difficult final day in Quiberon
The penultimate day of the OK Dinghy World Championship in Quiberon threw the same challenges at the 105 sailors as the previous four days – shifty racing close under the windward shore, pin end line bias and a very tight battle for the top spots. Jim Hunt (GBR) extended his points gap at the top to 10, but Charlie Cumbley (GBR), in third, moves up to just one point behind Jørgen Svendsen (DEN), in second. The championship is heading for a very tight finish.
Race 7 got away under black flag with a pin end bias allowing those that end to tack and cross the fleet. First out was Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE) and Mats Caap (SWE). Caap led around the top mark, but Hansson-Mild took the lead offwind and led to the finish to find his sail number on the black board for a black flag starting penalty, along with five others. So Caap took the win, his first world championship race win for more than 20 years. Mark Jackson (AUS) took second and with Richard Burton (GBR) also BFD, Cumbley took third.
It took three attempts to get race 8 away as the pin end became even more favoured. Seven boats were sent home under the black flag before the fleet got away. Cumbley led to the top mark and then Hunt sailed past him down the first reach and led round the second top mark. Cumbley retook the lead on the run. Cumbley said, “There was a little left hand biased track up the last beat and so I just camped on Jim and that was it. It’s nice to win a race, just a shame he didn’t get any deeper scores; he was just one behind me each race – he’s quite hard to shake off.”
Cumbley picked up the best score of the day. He explained his strategy. “Win the pin, win the race. If you don’t do that then you won’t win. I said to myself at the beginning of the day to be a bit more aggressive and try and win the pin and win a race. Funnily enough if you win the pin you stand a pretty good chance of doing that. You start the length of the start line in front of the boats the other end.”
One of the sailors, said of the day, “Same as every day, it would be nice to be further offshore, and have a fair line. The pin end was a fist fight. On one of the general recalls there must have been six boats that had a crack at being the pin end boat and each time they bailed out. Everyone was having a go and ending up camped on the boat because you literally ended up pointing at it when you sheeted in. The race officer must be a boat builder needing some work.”
Hunt has put together an amazing series, discarding a fourth after eight races. He now just needs one more good race to secure his second OK Dinghy world title, after being the first British sailor to win the title back in 2004. Racing is scheduled to start at the earlier time of 12.00 on Friday to decide the 2016 OK Dinghy World Champion.
Results after 8 races
1 GBR 11 Jim HUNT 16
2 DEN 3 Jorgen SVENDSEN 26
3 GBR 1 Charlie CUMBLEY 27
4 SWE 2797 Mats CAAP 43
5 DEN 21 Bo PETERSEN 46
6 NZL 544 Greg WILCOX 48
7 DEN 6 Stefan MYRALF 67
8 GER 803 MARTIN v ZIMMERMANN 84
9 SWE 100 Thomas HANSSON-MILD 86
10 POL 14 Pawel PAWLACZYK 87
Jim Hunt (GBR) has maintained his lead after a very tricky day at the OK Dinghy World Championships in Quiberon, France, with the shifty, offshore winds mixing up the fleet on more than one occasion and leaving Hunt and Jørgen Svendsen (DEN) with a clear lead over the rest of the 105 boat fleet. Charlie Cumbley (GBR) drops one to third overall, with just four races left to sail.
Continue reading Jim Hunt and Jørgen Svendsen pull ahead at OK Dinghy Worlds in Quiberon
Jim Hunt (GBR) has taken the lead at the 2016 OK Dinghy World Championship after two more tricky and shifty races in Quiberon, France. He won the first race by a comfortable margin, before Charlie Cumbley (GBR) then overtook him in the second race to take the win. Hunt now leads by nine points from Cumbley, with Bo Petersen (DEN) in third. Continue reading British boys bounce back to control second day of Quiberon OK Dinghy Worlds
Jørgen Svendsen (DEN) and Bo Petersen (DEN) shared the spoils on the first day of the 2016 OK Dinghy World Championship in Quiberon, France after a glamour day on the water with unbroken sunshine and a building sea breeze that topped out at 16-18 knots. An impressive 105 OK Dinghies from 10 nations completed registration.
Continue reading Danes dominate glamour first day at OK Dinghy Worlds in Quiberon
The AGM will be held on Saturday 23rd at 18:00.
The place will be announced soon and also published at the door to the measurement.
At the 2016 worlds, OKDIA will try a new process of pre-event measurement.
This process was introduced with success in some other classes, especially the Olympic claseses. There will be no standard measurement process for all boats, instead sailors self-certificate their equipment.
At registration every competitor will get a set of numbered stickers and a form. Every competitor is free to use the measurement equipment available to check his own equipment. The competitor puts the numbered stickers on his equipment and fills the form accordingly, then returns any unused stickers and the form to the organizers. Measurement checks by the organizers can be done at any time, especially during the official measurement times, but also during the event.
The goal is to make the measurement process a lot faster for everyone. The class rules always prescribed that it’s the sole responsibility of the competitor that his boat complies with the rules, so this process is no change in responsibilities.
The following documents will be used for the worlds:
OKDIA Equipment_Inspection_Regulations
Contrôles avant les courses (regulations in french)
The Entry Form is published.
Enter the Worlds by filling the entry form.
After submitting the form, you will get a confirmation email.
Send your entry fee, together with all information your national OK association wants to have to your national OK association.
When you register at the Worlds, you will have to sign the entry form you sent, to declare that all information you gave is correct.
All race related documents are under ‘Documents’ in the menu.
The Notice of race is now final. You can download it as pdf here.