Avec trois victoires et une place de sixieme, Ian Pinnell and Nick Powell ont survole l'Open de France 2000 !

The French 5o5 National championship was held over the 14 July long weekend in the great Hyeres bay surrounded on the West by the Presqu'ile de Giens, the islands of Porquerolles and Port Cros to the South, and le Fort de Bregancon to the East where Jacques Chirac spends his holidays every summer. The championship was hosted for the first time by the Yacht Club de La Londe les Maures in a very convincing manner with great Roses and beautiful dancers. But what will remain in memories will be the very challenging wind and sea state conditions. The Mistral was blowing consistently over 20 knots but for one race and the sea was very lumpy giving very challenging spinnaker runs. In those difficult conditions the British champions demonstrated a second to none performance winning 3 races out of 4. They only missed the second race failing to get a 180 degree wind shift which brought to the line the peloton leaving the leaders windless and powerless. The French crew Philippe Boite and Jean Luc Muzellec finished second overall after having finished second to Ian in most of the races. In doing so they won their 16th French title since 1982!!!
Ian Pinnell and Nic Powell

Given the challenging conditions only 10 teams out of the 30 were able to finish the 4th and last raced race. and Given the Mistral was blowing consistently over 30 knots on the last day, races were cancelled on Saturday, allowing participants to return home earlier than anticipated.

Ian and Nick are now aiming at winning the European before shipping the boat to Durban to compete in the World 2000 in November. They will certainly be a difficult team to beat this year given the very impressive lead they were able to gain with their new improvements.

Jean-Baptiste Dupont

Results

# Voile Helm Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts
1 8736 Ian Pinnell Nick Powell 1 6 1 1 3
2 8702 Philippe Boite Jean-Luc Muzellec 2 9 2 2 6
3 8709 Alain Boite Fabrice Toupet 3 3 5 3 9
4 8564 Laurent Hay Franck Tudal 4 4 3 DNF 11
5 8687 Francois Fischer Jerome Delvaux 7 1 8 5 13
6 8541 Francis Doerenbecher Aubin Doerenbecher 5 7 4 DNF 16
7 8353 Robert Fossard Ludovic Pretot 12 5 6 8 19
8 8082 Benoit Valleteau de Mouillac SC 14 2 10 10 22
9 8372 Gilbert Vinches Regis Viateur 6 18 14 4 24
10 8431 Emmanuel Boyer Boyer 9 11 16 6 26
11 8677 Michel Christ Philippe Claude 8 13 20 7 28
12 8449 Philiippe Lucienne Bernard Bonnet 11 10 13 9 30
13 8400 Marc Jouany Ivan Doerenbecher 10 16 9 DNC 35
14 8716 Christian Silvestre Pierre Yves Partant 16 14 15 DNC 45
15 7941 Veronique Dousselin Jean Peter 15 8 23 DNC 46
16 8748 Gilles Carvallo Samuel Carvallo 18 19 11 DNF 48
17 8717 Antoine Lortat Jacob Bertrand 13 DNC 7 DNC 51
18 8301 Bernard Blondy Jean-Pierre Noclain 23 12 17 DNC 52
19 8455 Marcel Buffet Damien Trouillet 17 17 19 DNF 53
20 8090 Loic Bleuez Michel Bonnet 20 15 21 DNC 56
21 8733 Michel Boiry Bruno Gallardo DNF 20 18 DNF 69
22 8348 Jacques Bochu Christophe Bochu DNC DNC 12 DNF 74
23 8459 Christian Chevalier 22 21 DNC DNC 74
24 7999 Marc Riot Geoffroy Riot 21 22 DNC DNC 74
25 8337 Bernard Taine Dominique Theron 19 DNF DNC DNC 81
26 8484 Philippe Blanchard Carole Blattner DNC DNC 22 DNC 84
DNA 8157 Bernard Dugrip Laurent Camusson DNC DNC DNC DNC 93
DNA 7932 Jacques Raguet Jacques Cavalie DNC DNC DNF DNC 93
DNA 8238 Jean-Marc Noclain Lionel Lessol DNC DNC DNC DNC 93
DNA 8704 Jean-Baptiste Dupont Thierry Gresle DNF DNC DSQ DNF 93
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