Juerg Menzi and team Daniel Stampfli, Juerg Christen win the World championship for the second time !
Follow the races day by day:
Race 5 & 6
Wednesday 2nd of August, sunny, warm with breeze building up to force 5.
First race is won by Juerg Menzi (SUI 201), this also gives him the final victory for the second time after last years win in Torbole.
Magellan skippered by Ambroise Johnson leads the last race and takes the gun with crew Anouk Ferario and Fred Fischlin. Excellent
sailing conditions but lots of wind shifts as usual...

Race 5 & 6 Postponed due to no winds on thuesday !

Race 4:
Monday July 31, sunny, warm, light breeze southerly, start took place at 1 pm sharp. Big wind shift to the right just after the start, Marie-Françoise 14, Pungin and Magellan
lead the fleet, the three swiss boats will stay in this order until the finishing line. Lots of shouting at the finish between JohnB once again and
(BAH 17) and Kandoo (FIN 44) the case is brought up in front of the jury. (see results below)

Race 3:
Sunday July 30, cloudy, winds 2-3 beaufort same direction. There was one false start again. This time another swiss sailor from Thun took the lead and actual winner of the Dutch Open, Hans-Peter Schmid. This time it was Piet van Oopzeeland NED 12 Topaze  who was disqualified for being OCS. There where many protest flag raised during the race.

Overall leader after three races and before the protests is Marie-Françoise 14 from Switzerland. Hans Nadorp with 4 and 6 place is first Dutch boat.

Race 2:
Sunday July 30, cloudy, winds 1-3 beaufort westerly. After two false start the fleet was able at 12.30. Some 6 boats where OCS. Juerg Menzi and his crew Daniel Stampfli and Juerg Christen got the gun again.

Race 1:
Saturday July 29 , partly cloudy, winds 1-2 bf. The winds came in late and the race was delayed until 2.30 pm. but eventually the racing committee was able to give a start with a force 1 breeze which grew slightly stronger by the end of the race.
The swiss team are already in the lead as SUI 201 Marie-Françoise 14 and SUI 189 Pungin are first and second, third is the Bahamian
Gold Cup winner BAH 17 John B once again.

On 14th place we find the first classic boat which is NED 8 Vinga with crew: Niek Hoek / W.Stoutenbek/ M. Stoutenbek.

34 boats from Switzerland, Holland, Bahamas, Finland , Germany and Britain are competing for this world championship.

After the race the 5.5 class held its General Annual Meeting at the the clubhouse. It was decided to have three fleets : Modern, Evolution
and Classic all starting at the same time. There is also no limitation on sails for the Classic fleet. Hiking with a west is  authorized for the
helmsman. The worlds will be held in Finland / Hangö in 2002. Tomi Sprecher from Switzerland was reelected president of the class.

Final results after six races and one discarded:

Pl. Nation Sail No Yacht                  Helm Crew Crew                                                                           R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 R 6 Total

1 SUI 201 Marie-Francoise XIV     Juerg Menzi Daniel Stampfli Juerg Christen                                1 1 2 1 1 DNS               6   (Modern)
2 SUI 189 Pungin                             Hans-Peter Schmid Lionel Rupp Roland Baumgartner              2 3 1 2 2 2                        9
3 BAH 17 John B. Once Again       Gavin McKinney Lars Petter Fjeld Craig Symonette                 3 OCS 3 4 4 6                20
4 NED 21 Maitresse                       Hans Nadorp Eric Wesselman Frans van Schellen                      5 4 6 7 6 13                   28
5 FIN 44 Kandoo                             Johan Gullichsen Timo Telkola Staffan Lindberg                        8 6 4 DSQ 5 8               31
6 SUI 168 Magellan                        Ambroise Johnson Anouk Ferario Fred Fischlin                        21 12 9 3 7 1                    32
7 SUI 199 Rana                               Felix Bibus Dominik Schenk Reto Heilig                                  13 10 8 5 3 7                     33
8 SUI 192 Artemis X                       Roni Pieper Ralph Junker Mark Dangel                                    4 OCS 5 17 11 3             40
9 AUS 56 Addam Addam                 Gordon Ingate Tom Wilson James Bevis                                    10 7 11 9 10 5                41
10 SUI 200 Joker 8                         Dani Sprecher Stefan Zueger Felix Meier                                   11 2 12 21 9 12               46
11 SUI 177 Topas                           Jack Frei Thomas Frei Bruno Durrer                                           6 OCS 7 11 8 14             46
12 SUI 130 Comeback                   Stefan Zlot Christophe Porchet Pierre Fragniere                         24 11 13 8 15 9                56            (First Evolution)
13 NED 20 Firestorm                     Bouw van Wijk Bouw van Wijk Ellen van Wijk                           17 8 16 16 14 4                58
14 SUI 190 Chlika Chlika             Alain Cloux Elke Groetzschel Francois Homberger                      9 OCS 10 10 22 10         61
15 GBR 39 Candida III                 Peter Shanks Max Anthony Shanks                                             7 18 19 6 16 DNF            66
16 NED 8 Vinga                             Niek Hoek W. Stoutenbeek M. Stoutenbeek                             14 15 14 22 12 11              66            (First classic)
17 NED 12 Topaze                         Piet v. Opzeeland Geneveve v. Dijk Tom Hendriks                   26 5 OCS 13 13 18           75
18 SUI 153 Akvavit                        Boudewijn van Doorn Ralph Bock Philippe Schwab                  15 9 18 19 20 29                81
19 NED 19 Sinbad                         Hella Knegtel Ludo Knegtel Matthijs Knegtel                           16 26 17 12 21 20              86
20 NED 22 Above the Line           Max Berend Ronald de Tombe  Jan Derk Haan                        19 22 20 23 17 17              95
21 GER 25 Knock Out                 Hans-Juergen Queisser Raphael Queisser Derek Queisser      12 DNF 15 DSQ 19 15      96
22 NED 13 Tripel                         Sander v.d. Post Arend-Jan Pasman Jan-Hein Phillipona           18 19 DSQ 24 18 21          100
23 NED 9 Moeders Mooiste       Victorien Brederoo Alexander Hooijbergh Robert Kampscheur 20 14 29 14 26 28            102
24 NED 16 Isis                               Jeroen de Vries Linda Rijkuiter Philip Rijkuiter                        27 16 21 15 25 26             103
25 GER 28 Ghaje                         Holger Joost Jan Brink Kai Wohlenberg                                      28 25 27 18 24 16             110
26 FIN 26 Chaje 3                         Matti Muoniovaara Uula Muoniovaara Matias Muniovaara    32 20 25 25 23 24             117
27 NED 11 Woelgeest                 Ben Staartjes Cees Kurpershoek Arnaud Thijssen                      25 17 23 26 28 27            118
28 NED 17 Leeloo                        Robert Smolders Rene Lignac Peter Parmetier                          31 24 DSQ 20 27 19         121
29 NED 10 Double Five               Lex Vriesendorp Just Vriesendorp Maarten Hepkema             22 21 24 30 29 25              121
30 NED 7 Geisha                         Pim van Capelle Jan-Willem de Vrijer Maurice Mulder              23 23 30 29 33 22             127
31 SUI 182 Skylla III                  Juerg Stocker Daniel Stocker Pirmin Knobel                                  30 13 31 31 30 30           134
32 NED 14 Swift Swiss                 Remy Kok Rob Sax wisselend                                                       26 27 26 27 31 DNS        137
33 NED 15 Mistress                     Joost Kempers Siebe de Boo Bart Kuipers                                 33 OCS 33 32 32 23         153
34 NED 18 Vision II                     Frits Kruijt Marieke Engel Erwin Poeze                                       34 28 32 28 34 31             153

 J-W van Weezenbeek
 P.R.O