FD BULLETIN NR 157, DECEMBER 2011

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Flying Dutchman BulletinNr, 157 December 2011

FDBULLETIN; NR 157, DECEMBER 2011

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changed address

TEBSailLeechlan 409001 ZH [email protected]+ 31 (0)566-622940www.tebsail.com

Continuing our commitment to provide world class FD sail design and innovation

with world class service.

Gulf Coast727-898-1123St. Petersburg, Florida

Lin Robson [email protected]

Ethan [email protected]

http://na.northsails.com/StPete.aspx

mailto:[email protected]



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president’s letter

Dear friends,

I thank you very much, again, for your involvement in supporting and promoting our Class, all over the World. Since the last FD Bulletin has been published, please I up-date the life and the news of our Class till now. The number of competi-tors, both the new boats and sec-ond hand boat market, as well as confirm the success of the Euro Cup and Dawes Cup events, the Worlds in New Zealand at the beginning of the 2008 (44 teams) , followed by the World Champi-onship in Medemblik on August 2009, with almost 100 FD on the starting line, confirms the con-tinuing interest in our Class. On July 2010, the FD Class travelled to Romania for he World Championship 2010.Mihai Butucaru, the Costanta Sailing Club and the Romanian Sailing Federation worked hardly to organise the Championship, as best ; their warm hospitality and the event very well organized both in the water and ashore, un-fortunately missed several teams,

coming from some European Coun-tries and Overseas. We have been glad to see, again, the FD Russian fleet, came to Costanta with four boats; this is a success for the Russian FD teams and Secretary, which are working to increase the Class in Russia, where already started a National activity in Moscow and St, Petersburgh. My best con-gratulations and thanks to Mihai Butucaru, to all the Sailing Clubs hosting FD events, recurrent every year, and all the people in-volved in the organisation of the FD competitions.

Finally, I thank all of you for your attendance to the FD Worlds 2011 in Malcesine, on last July.It was wonderful to meet such a great fleet and I think that 134 FD coming from 21 Countries and 4 Continent represents a great success for our Class. The kind hospitality of the Fraglia Vela Malcesine and the warm atmosphere among the sailors delighted the Champion-ship.

Finally, I thank all of you to contribute every day to the prestige and the diffusion of FD all over the World , obtained both through the enthusiasm of each team and by the synergy and con-tinuous team-work among all of us .The Class history show that "go-ing on to sail together ....our FD Class is growing-up" .I wish all of you a wonderful sail-ing season 2012 and a good work for the future of the IFDCO !!

Cheers,

Alberto


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Contents 3 President’s Letter 4 Editorial 5 AGCM minutes15 Treasurer Report18 Eurocup 201120 Hands needed ...21 New York 40022 President’s notes28 Introducing Jan29 VintagYachtingGames31 IFDCO Communication32 Introducing Ronald33 Archive & Measuring Event proposals34 Dr. Gizmo37 Worlds report41 2011 Nationals Roll Of Honour42 Planatech interview45 IFDCO on the web 46 Next Bulletin Memory test11, 12, 20, 31 & 40

ColofonIssue: Year 59, nr. 157Alberto Barenghi, Sjors Riemslag, Peter Doran, Fred Schaaf, Jan Lechler, Ronald Stalman, Peter Hinrichsen, Luca Ungaro

PrintingSportservice Noord-Holland b.v.

AdvertisementTEB sail, North Sails US, CST Composites, BM Sails, Yachtservice Bogumil

Editors FDBulletinLouk Nelissen, Ronald Stalman,IFDCO- forumSjors Riemslag

WORLDS 2011; 134 ENTRIES; 21 COUNTRIES

Flying Dutchman BulletinPeriodical of the International Flying Dutchman Class

Editorial Office: Van Goghstraat 27, 9718 MP Groningen The Netherlands email: [email protected]

Editors word,

So every now and then things are not going the way they should have been. Because of your busy job, family or ...... You end up being a dog chasing it’s own tail. And you are not finishing what you should have done. Sorry guys, we let you down editing the Bulletin.

We quit and .....

No we didn’t quit we just needed that extra helping hand. Now, we could finish the job. Way to late, we know, but still it’s done. After saying that we’ve done it the team end’s their editing job here and right now.

We complaint a lot to Alberto and his team. But somehow the message didn’t get through.

Now it looks like it finally has. By appointing a V-P communications. Let’s not get to excited by this up-front.

To edit IFDCO Bulletin 158 you need a lot of helping brains/hands. It seems the Flying Dutchman is short of these kinda men/women.

So we hope for the best that our V-P communication gets a lot of mail with people who are willing to volunteer. And join the Bulletin editing team. ([email protected])

So thanks to all the people who seeded us with stories, photograph’s and so on.

In brought day-light

(where did we copy that one?) here is:

IFDCO-Bulletin 157.

We salute you,

Casper, Louk, Sjors and

(the extra hands) Ronald.






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So to keep it simple, Q2; How do you steer your Flying Dutchman.



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Euro Cup, Altea Spain 3-5 Februari

12 teams appeared at Altea. 3 Dutch-, 3 German-teams. com-pleted by 6 Spanish ones.Weather forecast was warm and sunny but no wind. So for the teams who made the trip it was hoping for the best.Thursday the wind was thin and made the finish outcome unpre-dictable. But Ginez made it clear at the first race that he sailed to win this event. A major shift in

the 2nd race put Ginez back to 2nd spot. Friday beautiful weather and just a little wind. There was a race attempt, but after a 30dgr shift it was cancelled.The wind dropping to zero. We all got towed back home.On Friday the prediction for Sat-urday where no good. It seemed that the wind left Altea and Spain. Though the sunny weather still made it a good place to hang out.

On Saturday morning it looked like the Spanish Peter Timoveev (weatherchannel man in the Netherlands) was spot on with his prediction. But at 13.30 a race started. After a short race there was a second race.Final result:1 GER 88-Kai Schaefers/Alexander Gary2 ESP 81 Francisco Martinez/Vicente Guiijarro3 GER 113-Killian Koenig/Johannes Brack.

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Euro Cup, North Sea Regatta Scheveningen 10-13 June

18 FD’s attended. 2 British-, 1 semi-Dutch- and 15 Dutch teams showed up.Friday just enough wind to fight the current. 2 races sailed, both won by NED26. Saturday wind up to 35+ knots and thunderstorms first race cancelled after almost complet-ing the course. Afterwards we sailed 3 races. Race 1 won by NED32, race 2 by AHO3, race 3 by NED26. Sunday stabile 15 knots wind. Perfect racing against the south-west current.

The current was a real ball-breaker that day. 3 races sailed won, again like the day before, by 3 different teams. 1st race NED25, 2nd race NED26, 3rd race NED32. With the discards, in count, it was very close be-tween NED26, NED32 and NED25. In the evening Hollands rock bitch Anouk showed what she’s got. That’s a lot we admit. The last day would by eminent for claiming the victory. AHO3, NED15 and GBR389 lead the pack behind the 1st three. Mon-day strong wind, beautiful waves

and new tide, 2 races. After a close 1st race won by NED26. Followed by the NED32 and NED25. The NED32 won the last race after an unexpected error in the last race by the NED26.But they already secured there win. So it didn’t hurt them.Final result:1 NED 26- Enno Kramer/Ard Geelkerken2 NED 32- Bas-/Marc van der Pol3 NED 25-Harold Wijgers/Niels Kamphuis

ALTEA, the question is what do FD-sailors do if they don’t sail. Look for the differences between them.

AHO 3Henry Kon-ing/Rob Taal

NSR

NED26leads

the pack


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Euro Cup, Achensee 12-15 August

22 flying dutchmen (FD) ap-peared themselves from Friday to Sunday for the Austrian championship with the SCTWV oh lake, which ranked in this year again among the Euro Cup of the international FD-class. The environment, safe wind conditions and the master pro-gram had lured crews out com-pletely Austria, Germany, The

Netherlands and Italy to the lake. With good thermal wind conditions the trip line could align 3 races with north wind on Friday. With good starts and outstanding boat speed the fa-vorites Christian Aichholzer/Philipp Zingerle with 2 victories and a second place. Closely fol-lowed by the Bavarian team Hans Peter black/Roland Kirst, Silvia Aichholzer/Christoph Zingerle, and the team of the

Attersee, Gerhard and Rainer Ulrich.Overall result1 AUT 38-Christoph Aichholzer/Philipp Zingerle2 GER 87-Hans-peter Schwarz/Roland Kirst3 AUT 39-Sylvia Aichholzer/Christoph Zingerle

eurocup 2011

Euro Cup, Kiel Germany 23-26 June

22 attendants. HUN70, AUT368, NED18 and NED19 the only for-eign teams. 18 Germans and the rest off the fleet probably al-ready gone southbound.There was a serious discussion with the racing committee to keep the FD on the list for 2012.The argument that the reason was caused by the Worlds scheduled so close aftersounded reasonable. So lesson learned schedule the Champion-ships in time. So planning for sailors is more easy.

Kiel, need we say more.Perfect surroundings. Good après sailing. And a brilliant course. Though it’s just an ordi-nary triangle, the reach from the upwind mark to the 2nd buoy is fantastic. If you don’t get your course, you’ve to let go of your spinnaker to get to the 2nd mark.Kiel stormy weather or no wind at all. Fortunately this week was the stormy type.Only Sunday the wind was just up to 5 knots.So excellent conditions on the first 3 days.

Szaboics and Andras showed us the way and won all the races they sailed, 10. Race 11 should’ve been won by the NED18. But they thought the course had one more leg. And the close pack behind them fol-lowed. Overall result:1 HUN 70-Szaboics Majhtehenyi/Andras Domokos2 GER 33- Hans Genthe/Johannes Stricker3 GER 113-Killian Koenig/Johannes Brack

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IFDCO Bulletin

Answer to Q2; Did you say: ‘By using the tiller?’.That’s right. But don’t forget you where flying the spinnaker sheet. So you should have said; ‘Get out

of the trapeze. Pull in the spinnaker. Change position with your helmsman and sail the boat’.Q3; Alberto, is hosting the competitors hearing. Every one is there .... Except for one? Who does not

attend?


HELP US OUT

The IFDCO-Bulletin needs new editors, people involved, copy-writers. So to everyone who wants to help out, mail your in-terest and do it today.

From my point of view it’s it’s getting people to interact and get stories, photograph’s and so on.So anyone who is sailing fre-quently could do an excellent job and pass the word and get others involved and let them tell

(type out) event stories, technical stories, Q & A - things, doing in-terviews etc.etc.

So get involved today.Or it could, again, take a while for the next Bulletin release.

Join the team, mail to:

[email protected]

Ronald Stalman

in need of extra hands




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In addition, the par-ticular invitation from the Dutch Government, the Lib-erty Landing Marina Yacht Club and the IFDCO U.S.A. Secretary, for the FD Class to celebrate the “400 New York Anniversary”, on September 2009, represented a very special event. On behalf of IFDCO and personally, I would like to express, again, our gratitude to Job Sandberg, his staff, the Kingdom of the Nether-

lands, the US Authorities, the New York City Hall (municipal-ity) the Liberty Landing Ma-rina, the Sponsors and all the people involved in the event. We are aware of the efforts, time and dedication that was needed to organize and manage such an event event, both ashore and in the Hudson River. Also, the chance to sail together with ancient vessels, navy ships, under the Statue of Liberty and with Manhattan

as the backdrop, represented a special and wonderful chance to show and advertise the FD Class ; so we are honoured and glad to have been invited . .......thank you also to the FD USA Class and to the 53 teams who attended to the event.

Alberto

new york 400


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Enumeration,

All those events , with regard to numbers of teams and Coun-tries represented, confirm the IFDCO strategy to develop the Class, increase the fleets in each Country, and especially promote the travel of teams to attend to races abroad and overseas.

To support this strategy, the most important issue is to or-ganize and support the trans-port of boats. Both in 2008 and 2009, 2010 and 2011, IF-DCO gave a grant of 1.200 € for each container shipped overseas.To try to enhance this process, requires efforts, time and a fi-nancial support . Our strategy is to continue to give grants for boat transport overseas and

grants to young sailors . Both can be increased by a sponsor-ship agreement between spe-cific brands and IFDCO.With regard to the future events, we have just finished the World Championship 2011 and while the sailing activity is going on, we are already look-ing forward to organise the events 2012, in details.

president’s notes

2012The 2012 sailing season will offer us a rich set of events : the FD International activity will start with the European Cham-pionship that will be held to Altea in Spain, on Easter .At the Europeans, we are or-ganising the celebration of the IFDCO 60th Anniversary ; So, that event will represent a very

important time for our Class life . After the classic series of spring race, there will be the Vintage Yachting Games on the Lake of Como, since 7 to 15 July ; .......then, we 'll have just the time to load the containers to ship the FD to USA, where there will be the Worlds in Santa Cruz , scheduled from 22 to 30 September.

Please, find the Notice of Race of the Europeans, Vintage Yachting Games and Worlds in Santa Cruz on the web-site.Moreover, you could find every information with regard to the events in the IFDCO Website ( section "Events / Future Events / World / European Championships / Vintage Yachting Games " ).

Structure Change Discussed is the matter of how the Class will become a more sensitive structure in the nearby future.

The IFDCO members will see that their influence and in-put increase. The AGCM in Malcesine dedicated a long discussion to that topic and it was agreed to

create a Committee for such a purpose: Tom Greten has been elected to coordinate that Committee.


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president’s notes

IFDCO G.C. With regard to the offi-cial activities of the IFDCO Gen-eral Committee, I thank you very much for your commit-ment in your specific activity and role; As often reported in my President’s letter and re-ports, I strongly believe that the success and the strategies of our Class are particularly re-lated to the best team-work we are able to express. Moreover, the commu-nication with the National Sec-retaries and the chance to in-volve young sailors and new blood in the management of

the Class is vital .The IFDCO structure, involving the Execu-tive, General Committee, Com-modores, Sub – Committees, National Secretaries, IFDCO Ar-chive, Dawes and EuroCup Re-sults, FD Bulletin editors and Website, offer a dynamic and synergic system , able to take care of every problem and mat-ter. The IFDCO structure al-lows to the Commodores to be a very important link, between General Committee and Na-tional Secretaries.That strategy is very important to coordinate the calendars of different

Countries, in order to improve and increase the travelling process. I ‘m sure that continu-ous cooperation and communi-cation among all the IFDCO Of-ficers and Class structures should warranty long-term success , step by step. During the AGCM in Malcesine, started the process and new people have been in-volved in the Board.In particular, after 17 years Stephen Parry resigned as V.P. Championship and will be re-placed by Jan Lechner. Jan can consult Stephen for the 2012 Worlds in Santa Cruz.

Dear All,Thought that I would let you know that the ISAF Classes Committee, which met yesterday morning, has supported the submission 051-11 which I was involved in its drafting with Co-lin Smith (Int14). An email from Chris Atkins (Chair Events Committee) said the following:"But news from the front line is that Classes Committee voted overwhelmingly to support the submission, so thank you and Stephen for all your hard work.No seriously negative com-ments. Delegates had obviously read the submission so ques-tions were on an aware and in-formed basis and were helpful clarifications. Slides were ready for use but not necessary.

Comments made included:

- keelboats (eg TP52) racing Corinthian and Professional in one fleet (for race management and ethos of class reasons) should be able to continue to award two World titles.

This was attached to the deci-sion as a comment for Council as it was something we had not considered and it merits due consideration- same provision for all subsidi-aries - not supported- subsidiaries should have lower fleet size requirements - handle as submission in an-other year when can be dis-cussed on its own merits- multihull exception shouldn't be there - handle as submis-sion in another year."

The numbers are favorable for the FD's.

Cheers, Stephen

Stephen Parry Dear Steve, personally and on behalf of all IFDCO, I thank you very much for your availability and congratulate for the great job, you did in several years.

Your engagement for IFDCO was dedicated not only to the Championships, but also to represent the IFDCO to ISAF and look to the future strategy of the Class ; so, thank you very much, again!!

As team, Steve, Jan and many others coworked now, to fi-nalize the Notice of Race of the Europeans 2012.

Stephen we will invite you at the EC2012 Altea to salute you.


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Introduction

My name is ...Jan Lechler (GER 100)I am ...helmsman / crewI team up with ...Jens SwalowOur boat manufacturer is ...Steingross-BogumilOur mast manufacturer is ...AvantgardeOur sail manufacturer is ...North SailsWhat do you like in sailing FD ...Every time there’s a smile on our faces, it’s fast and teamwork. Socially the class is a big family.What do you dislike in sailing FD ...NothingMost unforgettable FD-moment ...Worlds Lake Garda 2011 with 130 boatsMost favorite event FD ....Worlds Lake Garda 2011With whom you would like to sail your FD ...With my crew Jens, well sail 30 years together.I insist the Bulletin should publish ...All results from the last Worlds and euro’s, all details for techni-cal developments and all details for the great incoming events of the class.Last but not least; Give your opponents a great hint/tip ...Enjoy sailing FD every minute!Now that you answered all this question with regarding to your sailing.

There’s something else I want to ask you!

You are in the board as VP-championships, since Malcesine.

Tell us why ...Many sailors asked me to help in the IFDCO. Since it is my job to organize fairs and exhibitions around the world, it seems natu-ral to organize FD Championships around the world too.What does the IFDCO need to do for their members ...In my opinion the IFDCO has to bundle all the Ideas of the fleet to organize sporting competi-tions and great events for all the sailors and the friends of the Flying Dutchman Class. And it has to ensure, that the FD will be a wonderful and trendy sailing class in the future.What opportunities do you see ...The FD is an conventional con-struction, but it is a modern and stylish sailing class with friendly people and with good sailing com-petitions around the world also today. We have to show that the rest of the sailing family and es-pecially to the young sailors. Then I’m sure, that there will be more and more young sailors, who would like to sail the Flying Dutchman.

What needs to be changed ...The IFDCO has to give more

information to the FD Sail-ors, more quickly and with more transparence. Espe-cially the internet communi-cation should be better, be-cause that’s the medium to talk together and to get information in time.How many boats you ex-pect in Altea Spain at the EC ...I hope, that there will be 40 Boats or more……

How many boats you expect in Santa Cruz Worlds ...It´s a beautiful sailing area and a beautiful country too; the or-ganizers are creating a great event. I hope that there will be many, many FD sailors joining the great sailing conditions in the States.What are you going to do to get so many boats there ...The US Class Organization and Frank Nooijen will organize the best possibilities to transport the boats to Santa Cruz. The IFDCO, the national fleets and sponsors from the US will spon-sor parts of the transport. In Europe there will be the possibil-ity to load the containers at dif-ferent central places to make it easier for the sailors to get the equipment in the containers. We have seen at the NY 400 event, that loading 6 Flying Dutchmans in one Container is easy and fast. I hope, that these conditions make it easy for the sailors to go to Santa Cruz.


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The Vintage Yachting Games (Vintage) are the International Post-Olympic Yachting/Sailing event for former Olympic classes. The Vintage is held every four years.The idea behind the Vintage is to Organize a four yearly high-end event in the calendars of all the former Olympic classes af-ter their discontinuation of the Olympics.The 2012 Vintage Yachting Games (2012 Vintage), is the second time this post-Olympic multi-class sailing event for discontinued Olympic classes will be organized. The event will be held July 7–15, 2012, on Lake Como Italy.Following loosely the Olympic tradition, Como’s project man-ager Pietro Adamoli (right) re-ceived the Vintage Yachting Games Flag during the closing ceremony of the 2008 Vintage in Medemblik, The Netherlands from the mayor of Medemblik: Theo van Eijk.Anticipated participation es-timates the following classes, continents, contries, yachts and sailors.

Classes Conti-nents

Coun-tries

Yachts

Sai-lors

Europe 2 12 20 20

Europe 2 12 20 20

12 foot dinghy

2 7 20 20

O-Jolle 1 5 20 20

Flying Dutchman

3 14 25 50

Yngling 2 10 16 48

Tempest 2 7 10 20

Soling 3 13 20 60

Dragon 3 14 25 75

5.5 Metre 2 8 12 36Total 4 27 188 369Look at the list, the Flying Dutchman is really the class with the best performance! We have to be there to show, that the FD is living and the class is modern with great Sailors and a great family!Villa Monastero will used for prize giving ceremony. This villa is one of the most inter-esting examples of eclectic

style residence on the Lake Como. Originally built to ac-commodate the cistercensian monastery of Santa Maria, first quoted in a document dated 1208. Since 1963 the villa is an international cultural and sci-entific centre. Every country can enter 2 teams. But teams can mix up. One of the sailing crew-members must represent his country. This makes it, for example, possible for an Aus-tralian FD-sailor to lease a European boat with an Euro-pean helm or crew.

The Vintage is a promotional platform to show that the class is still active in many countries. The Bid process for the 3rd edition of the Vintage Yachting Games in 2016 is announced. The announcement went to the Organizations of Vintage Yachting Classes, National Authorities, Sailing Press, sev-eral International orientated yacht clubs and our many friends of the Vintage Yachting Games. The deadline for sub-mitting the proposals by the candidate host yacht clubs is December 31st , 2011! After that the voting will take place before March 1st, 2012 and the formal announcement of the 2016 site will take place during the Vintage Yachting Games 2012 at Lake Como. At this moment interest for bidding for the event is shown by: Germany (Chiemsee); Romania; Sweden; United Kingdom (Weymouth and Portland Na-tional Sailing Academy).So I would like to invite all FD Sailors from all over the World to attend (and team up with a European FD-friend) at the 2012 Vintage at Lake Como/ Italy!Jan LechlerV-P ChampionshipsIFDCO

WHAT IS IT? AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US?

2012 Vintage Yachting Games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Olympic_sailing_classes




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Como

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Como

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medemblik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medemblik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands

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IFDCO communication

V-P communications

The AGCM went on with a discussion with regard to the IFDCO communication, espe-cially concerning the IFDCO Website and the FD Bulletin. With regard to the "communi-cation and promotional tools FD Bulletin, IFDCO website & Forum , I congratulate Sjors, Casper and Louk for their en-gagement to develop the “Fo-rum” last year. The Forum rep-resents a quick way to commu-nicate, compare notes and in-formations among FD members and new sailors.It is an excellent interactive tool to allow a discussion about every topic.Nevertheless, Website and Fo-rum represent two complemen-tary reality and structures, both fundamentals but difference to show and promote the Class.

Those two Internet in-struments have to live together, integrate reciprocally and work in parallel and they need to be updated simultaneously, but preserving their specific iden-tity. To rationalise their de-velopment and updating, the team-work between the FD Bulletin Editors, Forum and Website is fundamental, but we also require the cooperation of Officers, National Secretaries and sailors, to collect and send us informations, news and photos to update and maintain the IFDCO archive in every sec-tion of the website.With such team-work I 'm aware that we can ensure the best way and result to inform the FD members and sailors, and promote the Class, in real time.

"The Class Book", up-dated and renewed by Stephen in a new format, has been de-livered to the FD sailors during the Worlds. It will be updated year by year and you could pur-chase it on the website. Finally, it will be show and sell during the races. Thank you Stephen for your engagement and for the beau-tiful result !!Moreover, looking to the importance of the com-munication and promotion of the Class, the AGCM in Mal-cesine decided to create the new role of V.P. Communica-tions. Ronald Stalman will be in charge of that role, since now; thank you very much Ron-ald for your availability.

Sailing? at Garda on Thursday

Answer to Q3; You are. You where working the tiller. Again wrong answer? We stretch your memory maybe beyond your ..... So zero out of 3 so far?

Here’s your lucky day! Last question, Q4; The best FD-crews are out where you are. You have never won a Flying Dutchman race your gear is simply not good enough!. How do you win the race?



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Introduction

My name is ...Ronald Stalman (NED-18) I am ...helmsman / crewI team up with ...Frank NooijenOur boat manufacturer is ...MaderOur mast manufacturer is ...ProctorOur sail manufacturer is ...Bojsen-MoellerWhat do you like in sailing FD ...Handling the boat in cooperation with the helmsman in every cir-cumstanceWhat do you dislike in sailing FD ...2-days events, because of the rigging and unriggingMost unforgettable FD-moment ...Still to come; New York so farMost favorite event FD ....Though one after Malcesine, but I’m chauvinistic North Sea Re-gatta ScheveningenWith whom you would like to sail your FD ...Henry KoningI insist the Bulletin should publish ...More tips and tricks on handling the boat

Now that you answered all this question with regarding to your sailing.

There’s something else I want to ask you!You are in the board as VP-communications, since Mal-cesine.

Tell us why ...The IFDCO and NFDO facilitate me so I can sail FD-events. This is my way to do something for the class in return.A website is the most easy and fast way to communicate with the outside and within the class to promote the boat and events. The common IFDCO website is not like that and is far from up-to-date. When they asked me if I want to be involved I said ‘yes’.How are you gonna do that ...Look up what kind of develop-ments there are in the web-communities and devices. By making an inventory of the his-tory and the archives. Think about what attracts people to look at a website. So we/I don’t start processing, before we/I know what there’s to know.What’s your inventory so far ...I see not a lot of new people who ask or / stand up to do some-thing for the IFDCO.That makes me wonder if the IFDCO is needed and is there for a true reason.

It’s over 100 days now ...I’ve seen a lot in these days. Communication between board members is hard and mostly non-verbal. So there’s easily some-thing burning without a fire. Since I’ve no track-record I should be not the one to judge. My job now is to make sure that a Bulletin is issued after 2 years. Then the web-site is on the agenda (see page 45).Promotional activities will auto-matically come with it and in that process. My role will be clearer in time.What needs to be changed ...(according to my opinion)The IFDCO should be as lean and mean as possible with as few people in it as needed.It’s should exist like an umbrella for the national CO’s and facili-tate and inform them in the most direct and correct way what is happening in the ISAF and sailing world.Transparency is also a key-factor, so members know that’s something is happening. Also new (and younger) people should be seated on the board so the class will be served in every-one’s interest and at it’s best into the future.


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The IFDCO Archive contains the Measurement Certificates, Sail Numbers, etc. and it is funda-mental to maintain the history of the Class and to support the Measurement staff in their work. This very important job, done for several years by Clè , is now possible with the engagement of Zsofia, who has been able to update and computerised all the procedures.Moreover, she has been able to reorganise and up-date some National Archives, co-working with the National Secretaries: dear Zsofia, I thank you very much for your funda-mental role to collect and main-

tain the historical memories of our Class!! With regard to the Technical matters, I thank and congratulate Peter Hinrichsen, John Best, Paul Hemker and all their Technical staff , for their professional approach and in-volvement to improve the Meas-urement procedures to allow to check more than 100 boats in two days, both in Medemblik and Malcesine.I ‘m very satisfy and glad be-cause they always perfectly up-date the Class Rules according to the progressive development of boats, riggings and sails, looking ahead to the future

.Moreover, the efficiency, the quality control and the comput-erised data base showed in every Championship, testify the success of the technical strategy adopted by IFDCO to update the Rules and manage the Meas-urements, in order to ensure every time high quality control, safety and equity.The goals of that strategy and technical procedures are testi-fied also by the success of John Best, as Chief Measurer of all the five Classes, represented in the last Vintage Yachting Games 2008.

IFDCO archive & measurement

event proposalsPeter Doran, as secretary got a letter from the NFDO where they asked us to announce events at least 13 months up-front.As this matter was discussed IFDCO asked several class-members to come up with fu-ture Worlds - and European Championships proposals.

Caribbean WorldsFor a long time the only pro-posal was the Bonaire isle.Proposed by Rob Taal (AHO3).

Other proposalsAt Malcesine more members gave proposals for Worlds Event to the IFDCO, to go to:- Hungary, Lake Balaton

- UK, Largs- Australia, Sydney.

IFDCO event policyThe IFDCO is in favour of or-ganising the events in a country where further promotion is needed. And the class could be growing in numbers.

Event selectionAt the AGCM the events, for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, were discussed and selected. (see 7.3 in the AGCM-minutes)

ThanksWe thank all the people for the proposals made.For the once chosen they can start with their preparations.

Special thanks we want to make to Rob Taal. When asked he went straight ahead to get things going for Worlds in the Caribbean area.As other proposals came through, they were favoured.Rob your proposal is still at the table. So ......


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The poor get poorer and the rich get richer: Thoughts on bad and good air

Dr. Gizmo’s Physics Chat Corner

Suppose you and your mate decide to go for a bike ride. Your mate is the strong sport-ing type and you are lazy and suffering from a hangover. You know what to do: you let your mate do the headwork while you stay safely tucked in be-hind him in his slipstream. Your companion is pumping hard against the ever present head-wind and you are pedaling along leisurely, shielded from the opposing gale. Now, you may ask, is there an opposite effect: does the front man need to push even harder when he

has a slip-streamer behind him than when he would be cycling alone? Is the ‘suction’ that helps the second holding back the first? It turns out that the answer is no. The FD bulletin is not a cycling periodical so let’s turn to a similar situation with two sailboats. You are sailing close hauled in boat B shown in pic-ture 1 below. One of your com-petitors (boat A) has just had the bad taste to tack right in front of you and is now on the same tack. You are less than pleased because, as we all know, you are suffering from an unwanted dose of ‘bad’ air emanating from A’s sails. So quite contrary to the bicycle story the back marker suffers; his pointing ability is seriously compromised by the disturbed air thrown at him by his com-

petitor in front. Now we can ask the same question: does boat A actually benefit from the pres-ence of B behind him? Your guess is probably going to be: no way; the air that A is sailing in comes to him from the front and in no way can there be a beneficial effect from the fact that this air, once released, is captured by the sails of a sec-ond boat. You may be surprised to find that your guess is wrong: A is actually able to point higher in the case in which a second boat is sailing in his ‘dirt’ than in the absence of this boat. There is such a thing as ‘good’ air projected out in front of a boat. So the poor get poorer but the rich also get richer. Thus, sailing is an even more undemocratic sport than cycling.

Fig 1. Two boats sailing upwind. The complicated airflow, deflected by the sails of the boats, can be thought of as the sum of the straight wind flow pattern present in the absence of the boats (b), and circulating flow patterns associated

with each of the two boats (c). The blue and red circulation patterns are due to boats A and B respectively.

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So why is there such a back action? Let’s go back to the aerodynamic basics. Firstly, the wind that is released from the sails of boat A is riddled with turbulence. This is bad for B. Its sails prefer a smooth flow for optimal performance. There is no back action associated with this effect and I will not discuss it further. However, there is a second effect that would even occur if the flow past the sails of A were per-

fectly smooth: as you can see from Fig. 1a, the air is deflected by A’s sails, which causes it to impinge on the sails of B at a less advantageous angle. We all know, and fear, this effect: B’s pointing ability suffers. The aerodynamic reason for the backwash leading to this effect is the circulation set up by the sails of A. As shown in Fig. 1 b and c the flow around the sails can be decomposed into an ambient component that is just

the flow field that would be present in the absence of the boats, and a flow field that ro-tates around the sails in the direction indicated. The vector-sum of these two fields is the real flow field shown (a bit schematically) in Fig. 1a. Please consult my earlier article on centerboards in one of the pre-vious editions of the FD Bulletin if you want to understand why this circulation happens.

Fig. 2 If the boat shown is trailing another boat it feels its circulation flow impinging from the leeward side (red curved arrow). As a consequence the shown boat points less high. Alternatively, if the boat is ahead of a competing yacht it feels

the circulation pattern shown by the green curved arrow and thus points higher.

DR. GIZMO

Fig. 3 Good and bad regions. If you are sailing in the region marked ‘good’ relative to the boat shown, you benefit. In the bad region you suffer. If you are located in the neutral areas, you and your competitor are roughly at par.


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To summarize, let’s look at fig.3. This diagram shows a single boat sailing upwind. Three regions are indicated: from the perspective of a sec-ond boat (not shown) we can

distinguish three regions. Re-gion I, where you don’t want to be; if you maneuver your boat into this region you will get the bad air of the boat shown. Re-gion II is neutral territory and

region III is the good air region. If you sail there you will benefit and the drawn boat will feel your dirty air.

DR. GIZMO

Fig.4 Situation at the start: The green boat points higher and the red boat points lower than the pack.

To end, we consider an effect that you have always suspected to be there but were unwilling to accept as being true. In Fig.4 we see a pack of boats on starboard tack just after the starting gun has fired. All boats have just had a rea-sonable start, but one boat’s start was just impeccable. This

boat (A) has inched ahead slightly. A second boat (C) is a touch too slow hauling in the sheets and had dropped behind a bit. Now look at the circula-tion pattern set up by the entire pack: It gives a nasty dose of bad air near the poor guys aboard C and this boat will quickly slump even further be-

hind. A on the other hand will feel the good air from the en-tire pack and will effortlessly pull away even further. You knew it: a good start is more than half the job in competitive sailing. Now you understand why.

DR. Gizmo maybe you should have told this story earlier


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worlds 2011; chaos at the marks


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Having been to Dervio in 2005 I was really looking forward to going to Malcesine with the fabulous sailing conditions of Lake Garda and obviously from the entry of 130 FDs this is a favorite place for the sailors to come and enjoy themselves. I was fortunate to get a lift from the Starnberger See to Mal-cesine with Ioannis Remoundos who was sailing GRE 7. We had a good trip through Innsbruck but the magnificent scenery and vineyards started after we passed Roverito and went through the mountains. The decent into Torbole was spec-tacular and one got an appre-ciation of why Lake Garda is one of the premium sailing venues in the world as we

drove along the lakefront to Malcesine.

Regatta InspectionThe view from the clubwhen we arrived at the Fragelia Della Vela Di Malcesine a Mel-ges 24 regatta was just con-cluding so there were all sorts of activity with FDs being un-loaded from containers and Melges 24s packing up. John Best had been very busy organ-izing the regatta inspection with Gerard who was extremely helpful in providing the meas-urers with all they needed. With 130 boats to inspect in 3 days the initial intention was to have two lines but this proved to be impractical as the inspection was in the open along the

gravel path in front of the club. Fortunately John had as usual arranged for an excellent measurement team of Zsophia for certification, Catherine for inspection records, Heidi for initial inspection, Albert and Robin for masts and rudders etc., Paul with help from Do-menico for weighing, Dawn, Susan doing a magnificent job of measuring the sails. Fortu-nately, except for one short pe-riod, the weather was beautiful sunshine and the inspection went on efficiently. The team even managed to complete a fundamental template meas-urement of a Bogumil hull in the evening!

WORLDS 2011 REPORT by Peter Hinrichsen

Fragelia Della Vela Di Malcesine

The FD Class measurers, John, Paul and Albert measuring hull keel rocker of the NED16


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Opening CeremonyThe opening Ceremony late on Sunday afternoon began with an informal procession behind na-tional flags through the narrow streets of Malcesine, ending in a park where we were welcomed by the Mayor, the Commodore of the club and Alberto formally

declared the Champion-ships open. This was followed by some recol-lections of his FD days by Johnathan McKee, the 1984 Gold medalist who was there for the Melges 24 which is just one of his present sail-ing classes. Then the many different kinds of food were served and a good time was had by all getting reacquainted

with all ones old FD friends.

Sailing InstructionsThe very large entry had not been anticipated so the initial sailing instructions had all com-petitors starting together, and also sailing courses which were

not according to the FD Cham-pionship requirements. It was however quickly agreed that the fleet should be split and that the courses should include reaching legs. The race officers, Alberti Marco and Georgio Battinelli graciously agreed to let Peter Doran, Ronald Stalman and me, acting in the capacity of VPConsidering that this system was implemented after many sailors had already registered and to make life simple while ensuring that every entrant sailed against every other en-trant at least twice in the quali-fying series, the fleet was di-vided into four groups, red, green, blue and yellow.After 6 races the last 3 races the fleet was split in Gold and Silver.


Café Tent

Launching Ramp

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The Championship site with measurement routing


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ConditionsThe wind on Lake Garda blows from the North in the morning then dies at about 11 am and comes back from the South at around 2 pm. This means that you either have very early starts or, as was the case for the qualifying series a nice relaxed beginning to the day with am-ple time to launch before a 2

pm start. We were fortunate to have great conditions for racing on the first three days and the qualifying series went off very well. The7courses were laid along the lake with the gybe mark set close to the club so the specta-tors got a good view of the rac-ing. This however meant that the course was behind the

small headland on which Mal-cesine is built and so there was generally a wind bend which favored the left side of the course. The starting lines were therefore crowded at the pin end as everyone wanted to go left. I hate to think what would have happened if there had been one start on a line twice as long.


100+ TrophySome time ago this was the 75+ Trophy and if this is to be a competition while the Danes continue to sail FD perhaps it should have remained at 75+! The nearest 100+ team to the Bojsen Mollers was Ian McCrossin and James Cook at 15th place. It will be some years before HUN 70 or NED 26 reach 100+.

The age distributions of the skippers, crews and the com-bined ages are shownbelow.The youngest Skipper was Sev-ila Marco (ESP 91), the youngest crew was Nigel Gorbold (GBR 367) and the youngest combi-nation was Philipp Backes and Dominic Kiefer (GER 2098) who were also sailing the oldest boat. The oldest skipper was

Wolfgang Dietrich (GER 224), the oldest crew was Paul Hem-ker, our joint chief measurer (GBR 382) who was sailing with our class secretary Peter Doran, and the oldest combination was Henry Koning and Rob Taal (AHO 1) who came second in the Silver fleet.

Ladies CupThere were five lady helmsper-sons and one all lady crew in the championships. The winner of the “Ladies Cup” was Silvia Aichholzer, with Christoph Zingerle crewing (AUT 39) a 24 year old boat to a final position of 39, i.e. in the top third of the fleet. The runner up was Elisa

Koenig with Lars Dehne crewing (GER 133). They had a good lead coming out of the Qualify-ing series but, together with some top boats, had problems in the Final series to end up 56th. Tanja Heijink and Nettie Van der Valk (NED 33), our all lady crew ended up 62nd, so above the half way mark of the

fleet, congratulations. Although there were no really high wind days, these championships had very difficult and testing condi-tions and the high placing of these lady sailors’ attests to their skills and to the fact that the modern FD can be sailed competitively by the ladies.


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World ChampionshipsThe fight for the title involved the usual competitors, all past champions, the Hungarians Majthenyi and Andreas Do-mokos, the Danes Jorgen and Jacob Bojsen-Moller, and Enno Kramer with Ard Geelkerken from the Netherlands. At the end of the 6 qualifying races the Hungarians had a lead of 2 points over the Dutch who were 2 points ahead of the Danes so the championship was still wide open. The first race of the final series was postponed a day and even when sailed the conditions were fluky, resulting in all three leaders having their drop race, so no change. On the final day the first race was aban-doned and re sailed in the afternoon with the Danes winning, the Hungarians third and the Danes sixth which was there sec-ond drop race.Going into the final race the Hungarians were leading the Danes by just one point, with the Dutch only three points back so this was to be the showdown. The Danes won the final race with the Dutch in 16th and the Hungarians hav-ing their worst race at 34th. So

it was looking good for the Danes, but both the other teams used this as there sec-ond drop race and then the Hungarians won the champion-ships by two points with the Dutch a further two point back in third place, that is exactly where they were at the end of the qualifying series. All three had their drop races in the final series but the Danes had a fifthand a sixth that they dropped so won the Mexican hat (no drop races) by a big margin, namely 16 points from the Dutch.

It is interesting to note that there were seven nations in the top ten and that a 27 year old hull was sixth. It is understand-able that at a World Champion-

ships that there are a large number of new boats but it is interesting to see the large number of boats which are be-tween 20 and 26 years old. These boats are presumably the last generation of Olympic Fly-ing Dutchmen and indicate the longevity of the hulls. Few modern high performance rac-ing dinghies remain competi-tive for this length of time.To summarize this was a fan-tastic championship and dem-onstrates that the Flying Dutchman class is thriving and providing top class racing in

large International fleets. Italy with its warm climate, good winds, fabu-lous food and hospitality has al-ways attracted FD sailors, and this regatta certainly lived up to this reputation. We would like to thank the race of-ficers, the Jury and the club for mak-ing our sailing and social life so en-joyable. We will recommend the

Fragelia Della Vela Di Malcesine to all our sailing friends and hope to return someday soon.


Answer to Q4; Just sail the course correctly and keep your gear in one piece than you win the race! Why? Have you not been listening? All the others are attending the competitors hearing. You are the

only one out there sailing the race!According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, approx 90% of the Pro’s they tested got all questions wrong, but many several preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says that

this conclusively proves the theory that most professionals do not have the brains of a four-year-old.It’s OK to frustrate your smart friends by asking/sending them these questions.

Afterwards you tell them like I tell you that it should make you feel good.

MEMORY TEST, HOW SMART ARE YOU REALLY


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nationals 2011 roll of honour


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planatech; new name in fd - constructing

Interview with PLANATECHwebsite: www.planatech.eupart one / parte uno

Italian designed FD-hull

Tell us about Planatech ...(Dicaci circa Planatech ...) Well, since my architecture degree I began to work in the marine industry as a consultant in the Latini Marine technical office and at the same time I started my company and my brand including my logo. Meanwhile, together with my brother Marco, I started the de-sign and the construction of the first FD “Ask Her Out” (see bul-letin number 153). From that moment on, I have increased my knowledge by taking part in the construction of boats such as TP52 and GP42, these boats, made with Pre-Preg technolo-gies, have sailed the most fa-mous races in the yachting world. After the experience in the Latini Marine yard, I was the project manager for a GP42 and late I was responsible for the technical assistance in Italy of composite materials and sys-tems in a company that is leader in the Marine Market.

Day after day, thanks to all the good teachers I had, I have be-come increasingly specialised in the advanced composites de-sign and manufacturing. In the last three years I had been in-volved also in the wind energy and military markets. Now, after three years far away from boat construction I miss that kind of work and so one year ago I started to design a completely new FD and now I’m answering to your question, Ronald, because I’m near the start of the construction of this exiting new boat. Unbelievable!!

Tell us about Planatech products ... I can’t say that Plana Tech have any kind of products until now, because I have always worked on the design, the management and the manufac-turing supervision of composite parts for other companies. Since I started doing this job my dream has always been to realise my own projects. The path has been tough but I think that now the dream can come true: learning different things, to manage the com-plexity of all the parts and to be able to satisfy all the differ-ent requirements of a boat is

really a difficult task and now I feel confident to deal with this kind of challenges.

Planatech is about to go con-structing FD’s ... That’s a crucial question Ron-ald!After my answer I will take a course whit no way back… Yes, the answer is yes, more then one year ago I had started to design a completely new FD. I had drawn 8 different versions before the final one. During the design stage the hardest thing was to achieve the highest level in all areas keeping costs under control.

Luca Ungora

After we have done winning boats such asTP 52 , GP 42... ...now we are ready to build your own

Flying Dutchman.

http://www.planatech.eu

http://www.planatech.eu


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planatech; interview part 1With Bogumil, Mader and other boats no track record and only 6-10 new boats sold every year it doesn’t look profitable.So why start building FD’s ... The whole Flying Dutchman class is alive after sixty years thanks also to all the boat builders that in the past made and still make the boats. I’m an FD sailor and I’m always enthu-siast when I look to every kind of boats: Alpa, Bianchi&Cecchi, Bob Hoare, Lindsay, Mader, Bo-gumil…and all the others I for-got.All the builders along whit sail-ors has renewed and increased our boats making them always the best and more advanced dinghy in the world. Looking at the past I can see some different stages regarding materials and construction technology: plywood then VTR and wooden deck…then Kevlar hull and wooden deck…and so on. At the same time they de-veloped the construction tech-nology and they improved also the deck hardware, everything it was increased well and quickly. After 1992 with the end of the Olympic games for the FD I think that this fast development of the boats has slowed down, always increasing but slowly. Several times the project of Mr. Uus Van Essen proved to be practically eternal, all those who want something more from him always receive great gifts!! I strongly believe that now is time to ask him another effort. My idea is to take the building technology of boat such as TP52, AC, Volvo70 and con-dense it in our beloved boat to let it go a little bit faster…to let it be again strongly the queen of dinghies. Well the reason for which I decided to make a completely

new FD does not depend on a commercial reason, but by the joy of seeing a dream come true, by the joy of seeing what a new FD built with the latest technology and the best mate-rials can perform on the wa-ter…what the FD can be with-out any kind of compromise.

Will you just be building the hulls or the whole carbon package (cen-tre board, rudder, mast, boom) ...We will make everything except masts, although we want to produce also the mast but in a second step.

Your section planning is totally computer designed/supported ... Of course it is. When you need to achieve a high level of inte-gration between the different things that in a boat lives to-gether like the shape of the cockpit and the deck, the deck hardware and all the structure you need a place in which eve-rything could be simulated and tested. This was one of the crucial part of this project, a 3D draw-ing was created for every com-ponent and each part has been optimised and integrated with the other passing through dif-ferent reiteration of this task. This boat is not the result of only one person work, difficult things such boat design and construction needs more then one and each whit his specific skills. Behind me there are sev-eral persons involved in this project. Antonio Latini, Latini Marine yard, will be the builder of the boats and during all the design stage of the boat has been at the centre of decisions about technology solutions. It is an honour for me to work again with my teacher shoulder to shoulder.

Right now I still need to con-trol the confidential information about the other two members of the designing team. I can say that the designer of the water lines of the hull and appendages is Italian and is one of the famous yacht de-signer in the world with an ex-tensive experience gained over the years designing dinghies and big boats. The last one is the structural engineer who made the struc-tural design of the boat, verify-ing the stiffness and longevity of each component, he works for the biggest company in the world that is the market leader in designing structures for composite race boats.That is really a great team!!!


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planatech; interview part 1What will be different on the Pla-natech FD-hull ... We have focused in the opti-misation and realisation of the basic concepts of a fast race boat. We strictly believe that the FD is an overpowered boat and we want to take advantage of this power! It means that less power you loose, because of the de-formation of any components, faster the boat will be. For this reason we did the choice to produce the whole boat with carbon pre-preg and use for all the secondary bondings a high strength structural adhesive. Thanks to the carbon pre-preg and the sophisticated structural engineering, we can remove completely the longitu-dinal bow beam for example, we managed to get very light extremity. When you are able to save weight all around the boat you can choose where you want it, the goal is to take the centre of gravity of the boat as close as possible to the one of the crew. All this things increase the ca-pacity of the boat to pass the waves with less pitching, allow-ing you to maintain a higher average speed. If all these things are well managed and implemented to-gether with dedicated water

lines I think that it will be un-likely that those boats will not be faster. You will see also a completely new control box near the main traveller that is the result of a streamlining and simplification of all the running rigging. Something that will be really useful is the lifting rudder with the tiller that pass through the transom and not over the deck. There are several other small changes and new items in this boat but in my mind there is a voice that is telling me that be-tween a boat and the man who is looking at her there is a feel-ing that doesn’t depend on all this things but is always like love at first sight.

When do you start molding the first FD-hull ...That is a good question. The costs of all this operation are really expensive because everything has to be done at the maximum level. To let all this things come true I have appealed to the trust and es-teem in me of some of the great FD sailors here in Italy. At this moment I have 3 of the 4 boats that I need to sell al-ready sold on paper and I’m waiting for the crucial answer of the fourth owner. If this an-swer will be positive after five

months the first boat will be ready to sail. Let me do my warmest thanks to Alberto, Francesco&Giovanni and Giacomo: thank you to let my dreams come true, thank you for your trust, thank you for your help in all the difficult things we did together… the only thing I can do for you in return is the fastest FD ever!!!!

Who is gonna sail the first Pla-natech FD ... Well, when you are dealing with so special people, what happens is that nobody cares to have the first boat. All are now focused on being able to start, to be able to make the boats as soon as possible without want-ing to put themselves in front of the others. You need to know that, it’s really something special!!

Thank you Ronald for this nice interview and I hope to see you soon….

Editors note ...We will follow the whole process, so to be continued ...part 2, ... interview during the constructing process.part 3, ... interview after the first completed event/season.

Pre-preg lamination of a TP52 Mast bulkhead of TP52-Orlanda


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ifdco on the web

IFDCO web-site

The web-site will change.The old web-site is outdated and not suitable to nowadays technical possibilities.Since mobile devices run web-sites we miss out opportunities to connect with them.So we are renewing the web-site. It’s the next big project of the communications group.

As Google is dominating the search engine market we will use some of there utilities. To stay on top in Google lists/topics refreshing your web-site is a necessity.You-tube video postings, twit-ter messages help you refresh your web-site.So we are integrating these things in the new web-site de-sign.The Event section also is a main issue on the IFDCO web-site.We are testing a solution that will meet up to our goals of look and feel for this section. new web-site preview

FacebookThe IFDCO has a facebook ac-count. Account-name:

IFDCO Bulletin.

Please make the connection.

kiwi’s already on facebook

Linked InThere are several accounts to somehow connect with informa-tion regarding the Flying Dutchman Class.Existing accounts:- vliegende hollander

Tell us your account name and get linked.

TwitterProbably you don’t like to have a Twitter account. Neither did I. But since it’s an easy to use tool

and is helping us with achieving other goals (like Google) I

strongly recommend all FD-sailors to get an account.Name suggestions.FD- to start withCountry letters as used in our sails. End your boat or personal number. So ours could be:FD-NED18.

Further Twitter advantages. It’s easy to notify people. For exam-ple last minute changes to the event, change your attendance or ask a place to sleep/stay.So think about it?And take, with us, the challenge to be more digital.


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EUROPEANCHAMPIONSHIP

30th March-7 AprilALTEA; SPAIN

Notice Of RaceMeasurement Info

Entry Form

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPSANTA CRUZ

22 - 30 September

now available onlinewww.sailfd.org

IFDCO NEW WEB-SITE to be developed.2012 national calendar's to be released on short notice, keep looking on the web-sites.Go see the brand new websites of: Germany, Switzerland and US.

WORLD CHAMPIONS 2011

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inside the next IFDCO-Bulletin- interviews- latest news- up-date on restructuring- the sixties anniversary party

1952 - 2012

CELEBRATING

22 -30 September 2012 Santa Cruz fireworks

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To leave the others behind!

With our experience of many years with the sailing-

sport, the equipment of boats and the cooperation

with producers from high value products we gua-

rantee a high value perform of all works and a high

performance equipment of the boats.

The perfect handling and the longevity of the fittings

are very important for us.

Building and fitting out take place with most modern

technology and newest processing techniques.

regatta service/trade:

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crew wear

sails

fittings

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FD type BYS

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made of high-tech materials, how carbon kevlar watchcomb epoxy

complete rig, rudder, centreboard made of carbon fitting out only with high value equipment exactly measuring of rudder and centre-board position

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September 23-30, 2012

Documents

FD BULLETIN NR 157, DECEMBER 2011