NETHERLANDS Henk de Jager writes: We had some fantastic after-summer races in the Netherlands, including the Dutch Open Masters in Harderwijk, the Open Dutch Championship at Medemblik, the Finn Club Holland 50 years celebration races at Loosdrecht, with short course races for old and young Finn sailors. It was best Finn party, with excellent food, drinks, music, races and weather – it looks like the lucky weather boys like us. At the last one in October, the Boerenkool cup at Loosdrecht lakes, we had perfect Saturday race and wind conditions with tropical sunshiny weather. We had large fleets at all events with Swiss, German, UK, Belgium and Irish visitors at all events. The Dutch fleet, as you see on the scoring lists, has been injected with new sailors so called the Nijkerk gang. Pieter Jan Postma has qualified himself into the Dutch Olympic selection again, with Stefan de Vries as his personal assistant and coach. We hope that the efforts in 2012 will be a maximum performance and at the right time for them. Further on the total Dutch Finn fleet has again been growing this year to 213 Finn Club Holland members. We have been very happy with our neighbour countries entries and we will negotiate with the German Finn class to get some of our 70+ boat races on the German point system races list. The goal is to get fleets of more than 100 entry races in 2012 on the Netherlands waters. Finn Club Holland 50th Anniversary, HWH Short Course Racing 3 September 1 Thierry van Vierssen 2 Wiebe Schippers 3 Ewout Meijer 4 Martijn van Muyden 5 Henk de Jager 6 Robert de Jong 7 Chiel Barends 8 Erik Verboom 9 Lenard Kaptein 10 Hans van Elst Jubileumwedstrijden 4 September (42 entries) 1 NED 64 2 NED 35 3 NED 780 4 NED 809 5 NED 66 6 NED 38 7 NED 77 8 NED 80 9 NED 88 10 NED 747
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Wietze Zetzema Bas Proper Jan Willem Kok Karel van Hellemond Ewout Meijer Timo Hagoort Jan Jaap Lamme Sander Willems Chiel Barends Thierry van Vierssen
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FINNFARE DECEMBER 2011
Above: Dutch Finn sailors at the Boerenkoolcup Right: Pieter Jan Postma
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Open Dutch Championship 2011 - Medemblik 16 - 18 September NED 842 Pieter-Jan Postma 1 1 (2) 1 1 2 1 2 NED 83 Timo Hagoort 2 2 1 4 (5) 4 2 3 GER 771 Jan Kurfeld (ocs) 3 3 2 4 5 4 1 GER 151 Matthias Miller 4 4 9 10 2 3 3 (dnc) NED 841 Hein Van Egmond 5 5 4 5 6 6 (10) 7 NED 41 Karel Van Hellemond 7 8 7 (16) 9 12 5 12 SUI 5 Christoph Christen 12 (17) 6 9 7 14 7 6 GER 711 André Budzien (16) 9 11 6 14 7 9 8 NED 927 Gert Van Der Heijden 8 6 13 7 12 10 (ocs) 11 IRL 4 Ross Hamilton 6 13 8 12 11 13 (26) 10
11 NED 80 12 AUT 3 13 NED 64 14 NED 787 15 GER 707 16 GER 165 17 NED 780 18 NED 881 19 NED 724 20 NED 29 21 NED 7 22 NED 69 23 NED 81 24 NED 912 25 NED 27 26 NED 58 27 NED 22 28 NED 43 29 NED 66 30 NED 67 31 NZL 1 32 NED 60 33 NED 88 34 NED 11 35 GER 208 36 NED 100 37 NED 888 38 NED 35 39 NED 902 40 NED 54 41 NED 745 42 NED 34 43 NED 804 44 NED 941 45 NED 937 46 NED 833 47 NED 110 48 NED 6 49 NED 740 50 NED 789 51 NED 722
Sander Willems 73 Florian Raudaschl 74 Wietze Zetzema 77 Nanno Schuttrups 82 Uli Breuer 94 Dirk Meid 99 Jan Willem Kok 99 Thierry van Viersen 115 Stefan Marechal 134 Bas de Waal 135 Cees Scheurwater 151 Jelte Baerends 155 Gerko Visser 168 Peter Verseveldt 169 Paul Kamphorst 173 Thomas Mohren 176 Peter Hubregtsen 179 Chris Frijdal 180 Ewout Meijer 184 Ronald Ruiter 188 Tim Van Rootselaar 201 Luuk Kuijper 202 Chiel Barends 206 Henk De Jager 209 Uwe Kinast 244 Arend Vandersluis 249 Bas De Regt 250 Bas Proper 250 Pieter Risseeuw 254 Joos Bos 264 Bas Weijman 277 Stefan Bloemendaal Van 292 Sebastiaan Zuiddam 294 Pim Mommersteeg 302 Dick Loos 321 Michel Miltenburg 323 Diederik Sarels Van Rijn 348 Rob De Cocq 349 Ingmar Waijenberg 353 Ingmar Loos 359 Ekels Siebe 364
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Open Dutch Masters 2011 Randmeer (44 entries) 1 NED 29 2 NED 747 3 NED 27 4 RSA 581 5 GBR 707 6 NED 55 7 NED 54 8 NED 2 9 NED 912 10 NED 67
Bas de Waal Thierry van Vierssen Paul Kamphorst Davis Leigh Adrian Brunton Eddy Huisman Joos Bos Wouter Molenaar Peter Verseveldt Ronald Ruiter
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Boerenkoolcup 2011 (77 entries) 1 NED 41 2 NED 881 3 NED 64 4 NED 69 5 NED 80 6 NED 81 7 NED 841 8 NED 787 9 NED 77 10 IRL 4 11 NED 2 12 NZL 1 13 NED 76 14 NED 777 15 NED 922 16 NED 67 17 NED 66 18 NED 780 19 NED 888 20 NED 43
Karel van Hellemond Thierry van Vierssen Wietze Zetzema Jelte Baerends Sander Willems Gerko Visser Hein van Egmond Nanno Schuttrups Jan Jaap Lamme Ross Hamilton Wouter Molenaar Tim van Rootselaar Klaas Bood Albert Kroon Roel van Olst Ronald Ruiter Ewout Meijer Jan Willem Kok Bas de Regt Chris Frijdal
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