/* Date = "" ; Title = "" ; Text = "" ; Text = Text + "" ; Text = Text + "" ; Text = Text + "" ; News() ; */ Date = "10/02/09" ; Title = "Next World Championship in Russia" ; Text = "The 33rd Micro Cup will be organised in Moscow, August 9th-16th" ; News() ; Date = "31/07/04" ; Title = "The Micro Class thanks the organisation" ; Text = "The International Micro Cupper Class Association " ; Text = Text + "(IMCCA) thanks the organising committee for the very nice championship.
This event was organised " ; Text = Text + "with the participation of:

" ; News() ; Date = "31/07/04" ; Title = "Photo galleries online" ; Text = "The photo galleries are published.  See full list on this site " ; News() ; Date = "17/07/04" ; Title = "Old-timer receives special trophy" ; Text = "A special trophy "the Micro Heritage Trophy" was presented to Robert Renan, from the Netherlands, " ; Text = Text + "whose boat NED-17 Helaas Speculaas was the oldest boat ever " ; Text = Text + "seen in a Micro Cup.  Renan himself entered several of the first editions of the cup as crew of a " ; Text = Text + "Neptune 550, and helps a lot in recovering the history of our class.  This boat was known in " ; Text = Text + "1979 as "Speculation" and two sister-ships Dogs of War ans Placebo achieved good " ; Text = Text + "performances. A GRP version was produced by Boatique Diffusion in France. " ; News() ; Date = "17/07/04" ; Title = "Prizegiving under threatening thunderstorm" ; Text = "As today's race was abandoinstead ned, the committee decided to organise the prizegiving ceremony at 15 " ; Text = Text + ";hrs instead of 17 hrs.  They were lucky.  Heavy clouds were building up in the West and " ; Text = Text + "a violent thunderstorm broke out just at the end of the ceremony.  As our forecaster told in the " ; Text = Text + "morning "the Moeren (marshes) at the French-Belgian border use to remain a colder area and protect " ; Text = Text + "Nieuwpoort; thunderstorms avoid Nieuwpoort or are weaker in this area".
The ceremony was " ; Text = Text + "attended by M. Georges Mallego, President of the International Micro Cupper Class Association, " Text = Text + "M. Willy Vandemeulebroucke, President of Koninklijke Yacht Club Nieuwpoort and " ; Text = Text + "M. Michael Rose, Chairman of the section Offshore Racing of the Royal Belgian Federation.
" ; Text = Text + "See here the final general ranking and the " ; Text = Text + "rankings in the divisions Proto, Racers and Cruisers." ; News() ; Date = "17/07/04" ; Title = "Light changing winds led to cancellation of race 10" ; Text = "After waiting a long time in the starting area, the committee decided to cancel the 10th and last " ; Text = Text + "race of the Championship.  The provisonal ranking, as published yesterday, becomes final, as no re-opening of a protest was requested." ; News() ; Date = "17/07/04" ; Title = "Light weather today" ; Text = "No wind in the harbour this morning, the race committee decided to delay the start of the last race." ; News() ; Date = "16/07/04" ; Title = "Tarnacki takes race 9" ; Text = "POL-77 Soncas won the 9th race, a medium distance inshore course " ; Text = Text + "between Nieuwpoort and Middelkerke.  With this 6th win, he is very close to the final win, but " ; Text = Text + "may not be disqualified in the last race.  Second was FRA-4183 " ; Text = Text + "Briska III, now almost sure af at leat a second place.
See full results." ; News() ; Date = "16/07/04" ; Title = "Marcel Krauth wins race 8" ; Text = "FRA-4183 Briska III won the 8th race, a 'up-and-down' short " ; Text = Text + "course.  Second was POL-1 Wirtualna Polska (Bohdan " ; Text = Text + "Goralski) and POL-77 Soncas (Piotr Tarnacki) finishes 3rd." ; Text = Text + "
With a second discarded result, Piotr Tarnacki takes the lead again, and Bohdan Goralski comes " ; Text = Text + "back to 4th place.  Anyway, both have no right to another bad result.
5 of the first " ; Text = Text + "6 boats are all the same type "L'Arte" built between 1998 and 2002 in Ustka (Poland) " ; Text = Text + "by Genek Ginter.
The quarter-century old NED-17 Helaas Speculaas" ; Text = Text + ", formerly Speculation, finishes 7th, just in front of the first cruiser LAT-84 Solo." ; News() ; Date = "16/07/04" ; Title = "BEL-8 and NED-3 retire" ; Text = "NED-3 Ad Infinitum retired this morning from the remaining races, " ; Text = Text + "one crew member suffering from a light heart disease.
BEL-8 " ; Text = Text + "Quick retired too.  The repairs made yesterday on the rudder was making the boat very " ; Text = Text + "heavy on the helm.
GER-2 Sweet Lorraine came back due " ; Text = Text + "to a rudder failure, the problem is now fixed and Christian Eder was trying to go to sea in due time " ; Text = Text + "to sail the short inshore race this afternoon." ; News() ; Date = "16/07/04" ; Title = "Network problems" ; Text = "Due to failure of the network connections, we were unable to update this web site yesterday evening.
Sorry " ; Text = Text + "for the inconvenience." ; News() ; Date = "15/07/04" ; Title = "Ranking after races 5, 6 and 7" ; Text = "Both Piotr Tarnacki and Bohdan " ; Text = Text + "Goralski had a second bad result today.  POL-77 failed to pass a buoy in race 5 and " ; Text = Text + "had to retire, and POL-1 was over the starting line at the start of race 7, and loses the benefits " ; Text = Text + "of her 1st place in this race.
The first, in this situation, is now " ; Text = Text + "Marcel Krauth (15 points), immediately followed by " ; Text = Text + "Florian Kruse (16 points).
Further, Philippe Benaben" ; Text = Text + " is 3rd with 27 points and Viatcheslav Frolov " ; Text = Text + "4th with 30 points.
Updated results" ; Text = Text + " are online." ; News() ; Date = "15/07/04" ; Title = "Race 6: 5th win for Tarnacki" ; Text = "Once again, the race was won by Piotr Tarnacki (POL-77), this time " ; Text = Text + "followed by Bohdan Goralski (POL-1) and Florian Kruse (AUT-44).  The Neptune FRA-5000 " ; Text = Text + "Moutonne retired due to a broken rudder." ; News() ; Date = "15/07/04" ; Title = "Race 5: Tarnacki again" ; Text = "Race 5 was won by Piotr Tarnacki (POL-77), followed by Marcel Krauth " ; Text = Text + "(FRA-4138) and Bohdan Goralski (POL-1)." ; News() ; Date = "15/07/04" ; Title = "All boats repaired" ; Text = "All crews could repair in due time the damages of yesterday's long distance race.  Even the broken mast " ; Text = Text + "could be replaced by a spare, provided by the Neptune Class association.  Today three short races " ; Text = Text + "are planned, in the area East of the Nieuwpoort harbour entrance." ; News() ; Date = "14/07/04" ; Title = "Long inshore race: A cruiser finishes in 3rd position" ; Text = "The Diletant 550 LAT-44 Solo finished today's long race in third " ; Text = Text + "position, in front of several very performing protos.  See also full results." ; News() ; Date = "14/07/04" ; Title = "Long inshore race: Fantastic victory of the Austrian crew" ; Text = "Finishing the 26 miles race in 4 hours and 18 minutes, AUT-44 " ; Text = Text + "Siebdruck Fazokas wins the 4th race of the Micro Cup, the long inshore race (26,03 " ; Text = Text + "miles), at an average speed of 6,05 knots.  The longest leg of 7,29 miles was covered in " ; Text = Text + "less than 40 minutes, at an average speed over 11 knots." ; News() ; Date = "14/07/04" ; Title = " - updated - Long offshore race: several boats retire in strong winds" ; Text = "Cloudy again this morning, with the passage of a warm front.  WSW winds force 5 forced several boats " ; Text = Text + "to retire, some just because they thought it was too much for them, others after mechanical failure.
" ; Text = Text + "The victims are:

AUT-44 Siebdruck Fazokas leads the race and is now (13:43" ; Text = Text + " hrs) reported 5 miles from the last buoy and expected at the finish line around 15:00." ; News() ; Date = "13/07/04" ; Title = "First racing day: 3 wins for " Tarnacki"" ; Text = "Cloudy weather, moderate wind and very unconfortable waves in the morning forced three boats to retire for " ; Text = Text + "seasickness, in one case very severe.  In the afternoon, the weather conditions improved and the " ; Text = Text + "three planned races could be sailed, ending under a bright summer sun.  All three races were won " ; Text = Text + "by Piotr Tarnacki.
In the last race of the day, the tide was turning, and some crews were surprised" ; Text = Text + ".  After two general recalls, three boats were disqualified under black flag...
See the results." ; News() ; Date = "12/07/04" ; Title = "36 boats arrived in Nieuwpoort" ; Text = "With the arrival of Viatcheslav Frolov late in the night, they are " ; Text = Text + "now 36 boats arrived in Nieuwpoort, and a 8th nation." ; News() ; Date = "06/07/04" ; Title = "Measurement of Diletant 550 with daggerboard" ; Text = "The Diletant 550 appeared in previous international regattas with a fixed keel.  LAT-44 Solo is a version with daggerboard, more difficult to pass for accommodation, " ; Text = Text + "anyway the boat passed the tests." ; News() ; Date = "06/07/04" ; Title = "First boats arrived in Nieuwpoort" ; Text = "Bright new Diletant 550 LAT-44 Solo arrived in Nieuwpoort on Monday " ; Text = Text + "5th July and is already training hard.
Christian Eder arrived on Thuesday 6th with 14 years old " ; Text = Text + "Kankan GER-2 Sweet Lorraine." ; News() ;