(Naarden, The Netherlands)- This year’s Benelux Open J/80 Championship
was hosted by R&ZV Naarden from April 15th to 16th. The outcome was
all but determined after the first day of racing. The team of Jilko
& Sybren on OANT S’JEN were in their element and were simply
unstoppable, they were way too fast for any other team on the race
course, no matter what the conditions were.After two days of racing with eight races sailed and one discard for all teams, the Jilko/Sybren crew kept winning races to easily take top honors for the event with a tally of 2-3-2-1-2-1-1-1 for about a 1st average with 10 pts net! Doh! Hard to beat that number, right? Sailing their hearts out and hoping to forestall the inevitable was Bernard Holsboer’s crew on JUUL. Despite tossing a 4th place, JUUL’s crew still could not match the blistering pace set by the Jilko/Sybren crew, happily settling for the silver. Zeroing in for the bronze position was Jorrit Beekman’s JSB with 23 pts net. Rounding out the top five was OJ Golverdingen’s LED2LEASE with 27 pts net in 4th place and in 5th place was Bart van Breeschoten & Michel van der Stelt’s DEEP with 33 pts net. For more J/80 Netherlands sailing information Add to Flipboard Magazine.
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