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5 & OVERALL
(Source:
sailsail.com)
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| Manhasset Bay, on the western
end of Long Island Sound was crowded with spectator boats
on Monday, September 3, 2001 as Peter Gilmour and his crew,
Kazuhiko Sofuku, Tatsuya Wakinaga and Yasuhiro Yaji won the
20th International Knickerbocker Cup, hosted by the Knickerbocker
YC in Port Washington, New York.
The conditions were difficult at best for the four teams who
raced yesterday, as the wind was very shifty and light. The
Race Committee postponed the races at 9:30 am due to lack
of wind. Shortly after noon, winds from 3-6 knots sent the
RC out on the bay to set up courses. The semi-finals were
cancelled because of wind conditions, and the four teams –
Peter Gilmour, Ed Baird, James Spithill and Ken Read – match
raced for final standings. It was Gilmour against Baird, and
Spithill vs. Read.
The first two races gave one win to each of the four skippers,
forcing a third and final match. Even with fluky wind, this
was exciting match racing, with each team working hard to
gain advantage at the start and trying to predict where the
wind might be best on the race course. Twice the RC used an
alternate rounding mark as the wind kept shifting all over
the bay. The final match found Gilmour on the right side of
the bay with a little wind that carried him to the finish
line before Baird. Spithill and Read were close at several
points in their final match, but it was Spithill who took
the honors at the finish line.
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4
(Source:
sailsail.com)
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| Variable winds marked the fourth
day of match racing at the Knickerbocker Cup on Manhasset
Bay in Port Washington. Winds out of the NE held steady at
about 8-10 knots for most of the day, but disappeared early
afternoon, never to return. The hoped-for southerly didn’t
filled in and racing was cancelled late afternoon. The second
round robin was completed, and semi-finals begun when the
wind died.
At a skippers’ meeting that was held on the Race Committee
boat out on the bay, several decisions were made: the 5-8
place finishers decided to compete in a sail-off if held before
end of day, but with the wind not cooperating, the sail-off
never took place, and 5th place through 8th place were final
based on position at the end of the second round robin.
The second decision was made by Peter Gilmour, who as the
leader, could choose which of the other semi-finalists he
would like to sail against - Ed Baird, Ken Read or James Spithill.
He chose Ed Baird, which makes sense as these two skippers
have won the Knickerbocker Cup in the past (Ed Baird won in
1993, 1994 and 2000, and Peter Gilmour won in 1998).
Racing will be fierce as Gilmour/Baird and Read/Spithill match
up on Monday, September 3rd.
Leaderboard after RR (Skipper / Wins / Looses )
1. Peter Gilmour (USA/OneWorld Challenge),
19/3
2. Ed Baird (USA/Former Young America), 15/7
3. Ken Read (USA/Stars & Stripes), 14/8
4. James Spithill (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 14/9
5. Cameron Appleton (NZL/Team New Zealand), 13/9
6. Andy Horton (USA), 12/10
7. Morten Henriksen (GER/Illbruck Challenge), 11/11
8. Mathieu Richard (FRA), 10/12
9. Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), 10/12
10. Lars Nordbjerg (DEN), 5/17
11. Andrew Arbuzov (RUS), 4/18
12. Gustav Nilsson (SWE), 4/18
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3
(Source:
sailsail.com)
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| Saturday, September 1 was a
spectacular day on the Manhasset Bay. The third day of match
racing at the 2001 International Knickerbocker Cup brought
perfect weather for the 12 teams who finished 9 flights in
their second round robin.
The sky was crystal clear and bright blue, the water was sparkling
and the fresh NW breeze at 8 –15 knots held steady for the
entire day. Racing was extremely close and intense. This was
match racing at its finest.
At the end of the day, nine flights were completed. Following
are the win/loss results of the completed Round Robin One,
and the results at the end of the day for Round Robin Two.
Leaderboard (Skipper / RR2 / Total )
1. Peter Gilmour (USA/OneWorld Challenge),
6/1 (16 pts)
2. Ed Baird (USA/Former Young America), 5/3 (14 pts)
3. Ken Read (USA/Stars & Stripes), 3/5 (12 pts)
4. Cameron Appleton (NZL/Team New Zealand), 6/1 (11 pts)
5. Andy Horton (USA), 4/4 (11
pts)
6. Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), 6/2 (10/12)
7. James
Spithill (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 5/2 (9 pts)
8. Mathieu
Richard (FRA), 4/4 (9 pts)
9. Morten Henriksen (GER/Illbruck Challenge),
2/5 (8 pts)
10. Gustav Nilsson (SWE), 1/7 (4 pts)
11. Andrew Arbuzov (RUS), 3/4 (4 pts)
12. Lars Nordbjerg (DEN), 0/7 (3 pts)
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2
(Source:
kyc.net)
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| On the second day of the Knickerbocker
Cup in New York, OneWorld Challenge's Peter Gilmour continues
his winning ways and leads the Cup at the end of the first
of two round-robins, with a total of 10 wins from 14 starts.
Hanging in close behind Peter Gilmour, there are a
2-way tie for second place for the day beetween
Ken Read (Stars & Stripes Cup campaign) and Ed Baird (former
sfipper of Young America 2000). Andy Horton (USA) is third
with 7 wins and 7 looses..
Behind theme, the illbruck Challenge Match Racing Team is
fighting to reach the semi finals. After a terrible first
day with two times man over board manoeuvres Coach Morten
Henriksen and his crew came back Today earning six wins by
five lost in total in the first round robin of this Grade
One Event.
Defeating Jes Gram Hansen, Andy Horton, Mattiew Richard, Andrew
Arbuzov and Gustav Nilsson by only loosing against Ed Baird
and Lars Nordbjerg the illbruck team set the base for being
under the best four competitors at the end.
A second full round robin will take place over the weekend
to eliminate the eight others. "Gilmour, Baird and Read are
already far ahead"; reported Marc Aurel Pickel from Illbrück,
"and for the moment it looks like we are fighting with Appleton,
Hansen and Horton for the fourth slot."
Semi finals and finals will take place on Labour Day (Monday)
a banking holiday in New York.
Leaderboard (Skipper / Wins / Losses)
1. Peter Gilmour (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 10/4
2. Ed Baird (USA/Former Young America), 9/5
3. Ken Read (USA/Stars &
Stripes), 9/5
4. Andy Horton (USA), 7/7
5. Morten Henriksen (GER/Illbruck Challenge), 6/8
6. Mathieu Richard (FRA), 5/9
7. Cameron Appleton (NZL/Team
New Zealand), 5/9
8. James Spithill (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 4/10
9. Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), 4/10
10. Gustav Nilsson (SWE), 3/11
11. Lars Nordbjerg (DEN), 3/11
12. Andrew Arbuzov (RUS), 1/13
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1
(Source:
sailsail.com)
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| The first day of racing at the
2001 International Knickerbocker Cup started with no wind
in the morning, causing the Regatta Chairman to postpone racing
until the first warning gun was sounded at 11:40 am. on Thursday,
August 30, 2001. Thanks to a 12-14 knot southerly that filled
in about 2:00 pm, five flights were completed before the end
of the day.
Racing was very competitive; there was a 5-way tie for second
place for the day, and a 6-way tie for third place.
The first flight matched up last year’s Knickerbocker winner
Ed Baird, USA, with the 1998 winner Peter Gilmour, USA, producing
a photo finish with Gilmour just edging out Baird by a few
seconds.
Gilmour, who is with OneWorld Challenge for the America’s
Cup, lead for the day with four points, followed by five teams
with three points each: Ed Baird, USA; Jes Gram-Hansen, Denmark;
Andy Horton, USA; Ken Read, USA; and Matthieu Richard, France.
The third place tie, with one point each, included Cameron
Appleton, New Zealand; Andrew Arbuzov, Russia; Morten Henriksen,
Germany; Gustav Nilsson, Sweden; Lars Nordbjerg, Denmark;
and James Spithill, USA.
Leaderboard (Skipper / Wins / Losses)
1. Peter Gilmour (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 4/0
2. Ed Baird (USA/Former Young America), 3/1
3. Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), 3/1
4. Andy Horton (USA), 3/1
5. Ken Read (USA/Stars & Stripes), 3/1
6. Mathieu Richard (FRA), 3/1
7. Cameron Appleton (NZL/Team New Zealand), 1/3
8. Andrew Arbuzov (RUS), 1/3
9. Morten Henriksen (GER/Illbruck Challenge), 1/3
10. Gustav Nilsson (SWE), 1/3
11. Lars Nordbjerg (DEN), 1/3
12. James Spithill (USA/OneWorld Challenge), 1/3
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| PREVIEW
(Source:
scuttlebutt
&: kyc.net)
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The 20th Annual Knickerbocker Cup match races will be
held in Manhasset Bay on Long Island Sound, near the Knickerbocker
Yacht Club of Port Washington, NY, on August 28 through
September 3, 2001.
The Knickerbocker Cup is an ISAF Grade 1 ranked event, founded
in 1982 by Yachting Hall of Famer Ed du Moulin and Arthur
Knapp Jr, and has had a long association with America's
Cup greats. It has been won by such notable skippers as
Dave Dellenbaugh, skipper for America 3 in its successful
1992 bid for the America's Cup,and Russell Coutts, skipper
for the reigning America's Cup champion, Team New Zealand.
Ed Baird, three-time winner of the Knickerbocker Cup, will
be defending their 2000 title against some America's Cupper.
Peter Gilmour, who now sails for OneWorld Challenge,
has bought out the big guns, with
Olympic gold and silver medallist Ben Ainslie in his crew.
His roomate, fresh from finishing a good european
campaign, is australian James Spithill.
Other prominent matchracers such as Ken Read (Stars &
Stripes 2003 Challenge), Cameron Appleton from the Team
NZ, Morten Henriksen (representing the German Illbruck Challenge)
or the young Danish top ten skippers Jes Gram Hansen will
make this event very difficult to win for any of the competitors.
Other skippers participating (and their ISAF rankings),
are Denmark's Lars Nordbjerg (25e),
France's Mathieu Richard (30e), Russia's Andrew
Arbuzov (54e), Sweden's Gustav Nilsson (59e) and the young
american Andy Horton (89e).
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