4th to 10th February 2012 - 1st Pattaya International Multihull Festival
by Chris Dando

60 multihulls entered the first running of the Pattaya International Multihull Festival at Varuna. With sailors from many countries, and a wide range of experience from relative beginners to several World Champions, it was a great line up that really emphasised the 'Festival' atmosphere during the week. The format of the week with a combination of windward-leeward courses, medium distance races, and a long distance race day gave a variety of sailing for all.

The first 3 days included a RVYC club championship event within the overall week. Within the Yellow Division, this was hotley contested by Alex Skaria and Peter Herning in their F20 against Morton Jakobsen and Florent Herson in their Nacra Infusion F18. Despite a spirited challenge from Morton, Alex just managed to hand on by one point to take the honours, with Morton second followed by Saranya Mackinson and Roch Giacinti in their Infusion. In the Yellow Division the battle was on between the Dart sailed by Gareth Owen and Bobby Friefel, the Nacra 16 Square sailed by Jan Holldorff, and the Hobie 16 of Gary Baguley and Araya Peampibul. The lighter conditions were against the Dart which excells in strong winds, however Gareth managed to pull out all the stops to win, with Jan and Gary close on points just behind in second and third respectively.

Overall the White Division featured a battle royal between the Viper F16's and the F20's with the F18's hotly following. Congratulations to Caroljn Brouwer and Brett Goodall who sailed a great week to win in their Viper, often ahead of most of the F18's over the water let alone on handicap! Thailand dominated the overall results in the Yellow Division with Khun Damronsak Yongtim and Khun Kitsada Yongtim finishing first in their Hobie 16, followed by their fellow team from YRAT Khun Teerapong and Khun Whatcharpong also in a Hobie 16. The top RVYC sailors were Gareth Owen and Bobby Friefel in their Dart 18 in third place. Gareth's excuse was that there was not enough wind for the Dart but could it really have been a few too many pies consumed by the helm?.......

Some of the best racing of the week was on the Wednesday when the winds picked up and everyone could manage to stretch their legs on the trapeze. The sight of the fleet rounding the mark just off Varuna was spectacular! The wind Gods on Friday also played their part to complete a very successful week by allowing racing to get away at the earlier start time of 10:00. All boats were packed away in the containers the same afternoon allowing all to join a very lively prizegiving and party on Friday night!

 

White Division Club Championship

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 NacraF20 22 Alex Skaria, Peter Herning 8.0 (5) 1 1 2 1 3
2 NacraInfusio 1488 Morton Jacobsen, Florent Herson 9.0 1 2 2 (3) 2 2
3 NacraInfusio 1473 Saranya Mackinson, Roch Giacinti 12.0 2 (4) 4 1 4 1
4 NacraInfusio 1275 Stefaan De Voss, Apple Asawanwatanaporn 26.0 4 9 5 (dns) 3 5
5 NacraInfusio 1112 Les Nyerges, Till Ahnert 27.0 6 5 3 6 7 (dns)
6 NacraInfusio 1522 John Higham, Wandee Vongpim 31.0 3 3 (dnf) 4 5 dns
7 HobieWildcat 310 Andy Wells, Caroline Wells 32.0 8 6 7 7 (9) 4
8 HobieTiger 2607 Nick Comrie-Smith, Ann Comrie-Smith 35.0 7 8 8 (10) 6 6
9 HobieWildcat 87 Richard Eyre, Mat Pollock 43.0 (11) 10 6 8 11 8
10 HobieTiger 1310 Patrice Lesage, Stephen Wallace 48.0 9 12 12 5 10 (dns)
11 AClass 399 Jens Huhn 52.0 12 (13) 11 9 13 7
12 HobieTiger 2525 David Cullerier, Delphine Cullerier 58.0 10 7 9 (dns) dns dns
13 HobieTiger 2663 Mark Hamill-Stewart, Janmes Pitchon 61.0 14 14 10 11 12 (dns)
14 HobieTiger 2497 Axel Soennichsen, Greg 64.0 13 11 (dnf) ocs 8 dns
15 HobieTiger 1559 Stephan Paauwe, Jelmar de Vries 73.0 (dnf) 15 bfd 12 14 dns


Yellow Division Club Championship

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Dart18 7834 Gareth Owen, Bobby Friefel 11.0 (4) 3 1 2 2 3
2 Nacra16Sq 225 Jan Holldorff 13.0 1 1 (dnf) dnf 3 1
3 Hobie16 111653 Gary Baguley, Araya Peampibul 15.0 5 (6) 3 4 1 2
4 Nacra16Sq 345 Alberto Cassio 16.0 3 2 (dnf) 3 4 4
5 Nacra16Sq 210 Frank Teeuwen 20.0 2 4 2 (dns) dns 5
6 Nacra16Sq 222 Simon Hirst 21.0 6 5 4 1 5 (dns)

White Division Overall

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 ViperF16 289 Caroljn Brouwer, Brett Goodall 13.0 1 1 1 (4) 2 (3) 1 3 1 1 2
2 NacraF20 23 Xander Pols, Marc Pols 16.0 2 4 2 1 1 1 (dnf) 2 (6) 2 1
3 ViperF16 287 Jason Waterhouse, Lisa Darmanin 33.0 4 5 3 (8) 3 8 2 1 2 5 (9)
4 ViperF16 288 Adrian Fawcett, Jesse Dobie 40.0 6 2 5 5 7 4 4 (8) (12) 4 3
5 NacraF20 51 Guillaume Laberenne, Jean-Richard Minardi 48.0 5 3 4 6 4 2 8 (11) (13) 11 5
6 NacraF16 12 Coen de Koning, Marieke Jongens 50.0 7 (8) 8 2 (dns) 7 5 7 3 7 4
7 NacraInfusio 7 John Moret, Frank de Woord 56.0 3 6 9 3 8 (10) 9 6 9 3 (15)
8 NacraF16 1 Gunnar Larsen, Marije Kampen 59.0 10 7 6 (ocs) 5 9 (dnf) 4 5 6 7
9 ViperF16 290 Chris Sproat, Georgina Burke 62.0 (11) 9 (16) 11 6 5 6 5 4 10 6
10 C2 222 Greg Goodall, Christa Van Helden 78.0 (ocs) 12 10 13 9 6 3 9 (14) 8 8
11 NacraInfusio 20 Remco Remeijer, Marielle Remeijer 101.0 9 11 12 14 (17) 14 10 10 (15) 9 12
12 Capricorn 15 Thomas Groen, Mischa de Munck 104.0 14 14 (17) 7 10 (17) 13 14 8 13 11
13 NacraInfusio 5 Peter Kloppers, Jeff Dusek 113.0 13 13 7 12 (19) 11 14 18 (22) 12 13
14 NacraInfusio 8 Hans Breur, Natasja van Thiel 120.0 12 18 11 10 25 13 7 13 11 (dns) (ocs)
15 NacraInfusio 18 Tjiddo Veenstra, Maaike Veemecken 123.0 8 15 13 16 13 (dns) 11 17 16 14 (dns)
16 NacraInfusio 1488 Morton Jacobsen, Florent Herson 125.0 16 16 15 (17) 12 15 15 16 10 (17) 10
17 NacraF20 22 Alex Skaria, Peter Herning 135.0 20 10 14 15 11 16 (dnf) (dns) 17 16 16
18 NacraInfusio 1275 Stefaan De Voss, Apple Asawanwatanaporn 157.0 19 (27) 21 (dns) 14 20 16 19 19 15 14
19 NacraInfusio 1542 Willie van der Heijden, Arthur Moerman 171.0 22 21 22 23 20 18 12 15 18 (dns) (dns)
20 Tornado 69 Dieter Maurer, Guenter Moertel 174.0 15 20 18 25 18 22 (ocs) 12 7 (dns) dns
21 HobieWildcat 310 Andy Wells, Caroline Wells 187.0 25 23 24 22 (26) 19 17 21 (dnf) 18 18
22 NacraInfusio 1409 Nicolien van Ravestegn, Otto de Smeth 188.0 23 24 (dns) 20 21 21 (ocs) 20 20 20 19
23 NacraInfusio 1473 Saranya Mackinson, Roch Giacinti 203.0 17 19 20 9 15 12 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns
24 HobieWildcat 87 Richard Eyre, Mat Pollock 210.0 28 (29) 23 24 28 26 18 22 (dnf) 21 20
25 NacraInfusio 1112 Roch Ahnert, Till Ahnert 216.0 21 22 19 21 23 (dns) (dns) dns dns 19 17
26 NacraInfusio 1202 Rogier van Dijk, Sander Elting 225.0 31 28 30 28 (dnf) 24 19 23 21 (bfd) 21
27 HobieTiger 2646 Frank Bentschap Knook, Sietse van den Berg 235.0 (34) 32 25 30 30 27 21 25 24 (dns) 22
28 AClass 399 Jens Huhn 240.0 29 33 29 26 31 25 20 24 23 (dns) (dns)
29 NacraInfusio 1522 John Higham, Wandee Vongpim 254.0 18 17 (dnf) 18 16 (dns) dns dns dns dns dns
30 HobieTiger 2607 Nick Comrie-Smith, Ann Comrie-Smith 259.0 24 26 26 27 22 23 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns
31 HobieTiger 1310 Patrice Lesage, Stephen Wallace 282.0 26 31 31 19 27 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns dns
32 HobieTiger 2525 David Cullerier, Delphine Cullerier 301.0 27 25 27 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns dns dns dns
33 HobieTiger 2663 Mark Hamill-Stewart, Janmes Pitchon 302.0 33 35 28 29 29 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns dns
34 HobieTiger 2497 Axel Soennichsen, Greg 306.0 30 30 (dnf) (ocs) 24 dns dns dns dns dns dns
35 Spitfire 119 Hans Buist, Willie Balvert 311.0 32 34 32 (dns) (dns) 28 dnf dns dns dns dns
36 HobieTiger 1559 Stephan Paauwe, Jelmar de Vries 321.0 (dnf) 36 (bfd) 31 32 dns dns dns dns dns dns

 

Yellow Division Overall

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 Hobie16 110585 Damronsak Yongtim, Kitsada Yongtim 15.0 (4) (8) 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 2 2
2 Hobie16 111732 P.O.1. Teerapong, Whatcharpong 22.0 (9) 3 (dns) 1 4 4 2 2 2 3 1
3 Dart18 7834 Gareth Owen, Bobby Friefel 39.0 6 4 2 6 6 5 (ocs) 3 4 (9) 3
4 Hobie16 109853 Alan Kernick, Fiona Kernick 43.0 (17) 9 3 5 3 6 4 5 3 5 (dnf)
5 Dart18 7924 Dick Ganseman, Diane Rokx 58.0 7 5 5 7 (14) (18) 5 6 9 8 6
6 Hobie16 111653 Gary Baguley, Araya Peampibul 61.0 (19) (21) 13 13 5 2 3 4 12 4 5
7 Dart18 1198 Robby Vogelenzang, Astrid Abendroth 66.0 3 10 10 4 9 8 (ocs) 7 7 (dns) 8
8 Dart18 7201 Angela Hendriks, Reinut den Teuling 68.0 (11) 7 4 9 10 (17) 8 8 6 7 9
9 Dart18 7875 Florian Bleisch 71.0 8 6 8 (17) 2 10 10 (16) 5 10 12
10 Hobie16 111956 Chulapong Chanyim, Kamolwan Chanyim 87.0 10 (16) 6 12 8 14 7 (15) 11 6 13
11 Dart18 5145 Simon Moruzz, Will Thompson 90.0 (14) 12 11 (18) 12 13 9 10 8 11 4
12 Nacra16Sq 225 Jan Holldorff 93.0 1 1 (dnf) (dnf) 7 1 dns dns dns 1 7
13 Dart18 7787 Geoff Lloyd, Jenny Lloyd 100.0 (15) (17) 12 11 13 9 6 12 13 14 10
14 Dart18 7612 Werner Heynisch, Erich Sonderegger 107.0 12 15 9 10 15 12 14 9 (16) (ocs) 11
15 Nacra16Sq 345 Alberto Cassio 133.0 5 2 (dnf) 8 11 7 (dns) dns dns dns dns
16 Hobie16 41 Nicolette Van Gorp, Ruud Van Gisbergen 133.0 (23) (20) 18 19 16 20 13 11 10 12 14
17 Dart18 3773 Ruud Goudriaan, Marco van Buuren 138.0 13 14 17 15 (dnf) 15 11 13 15 (dns) dns
18 Dart18 7370 Francis van Baaren, Frederique Grijpma 139.0 16 (19) 16 (21) 17 19 12 14 17 13 15
19 Dart18 7217 Pieter de Vries, Jan van Pypen 153.0 20 22 15 16 19 (dnf) 15 17 14 15 (dnf)
20 Nacra570 3466 Friso Bakker, Annemariek Nijs 154.0 (21) (23) 20 20 18 11 17 18 18 16 16
21 Nacra16Sq 210 Frank Teeuwen 161.0 2 11 7 (dns) (dns) 16 dns dns dns dns dns
22 Nacra16Sq 222 Simon Hirst 181.0 22 18 19 2 20 (dns) (dns) dns dns dns dns
23 Dart18S 6535 Bart Damen 184.0 18 13 14 14 (dnf) (dnf) dns dns dns dns dns
24 Hobie16 15 Lee Matthews, Chantelle Neighbour 212.0 (dnf) (dns) dns dnf 21 dnf 16 dnf dns dns dns