World Championship 2007 day4
The First day of gold and silver fleet racing started with a postponement for no wind, at around lunch time some wind arrived and we started the first race with around 5 knots from the east and after 2 general recall, in the gold fleet 72 good sailor were racing together and in that wind is very easy to be covered and to loose 20-30 places in few minutes, Stacey Bray had a good start and was leading at around half way, I was near Graham Scott and Marcus, Scott and Marcus went left on the last upwind, Marcus was 1st at the top mark for an easy racing leading all the way to the finish. I got covered by an increasing number of boat and got at the top mark over 45th, Jan von der Bank, Soren, Christoph were even worst, the 2 reaches without pumping didn't see much overtaking. In the second upwind the wind increased a bit to 6-7 knots, the top sailor slowly started to climb positions, specially G. Scott that was really fast in those condition. At the finish G. Scott was 2nd, Jono Neate 3rd, Gary Langdown 4td and and Stacey Bray 5th.
In the second race the wind was a bit more but still between 7 and 9 knots and shifted a bit from the left, the starting line was much in favor for who was starting on the left, we 1 general recall and then most of the sailor tacked right away to get the ift on port tack, Graham Scott had the best start right down on the pin, The top Mark was just a short distance once on the starboard tack layline. Graham Scott was leading Jan Von der Bank 2nd Marcus 3rd and i was not far behind in front of Christoph, the racing went ahead with more or less these position, G. Scott I think had the better speed and controlling the race quite confortably, Marcus passed Jan von der bank, the Jan passed back Marcus on the last upwind when marcus followed me on the left of the course. Christoph end up 5th and 6th very near christoph Jacob Lunding.
In the Silver fleet the Danish Bjarke B. Johnsen won both races with a big lead, he had a bit of bad luck on the qualifing and he is a good sailor specially in lighter wind.
After we went back into the harbour at around 5 the wind got a bit stronger just over 10 knots with the wave building up...
Andrea Bonezzi
In the second race the wind was a bit more but still between 7 and 9 knots and shifted a bit from the left, the starting line was much in favor for who was starting on the left, we 1 general recall and then most of the sailor tacked right away to get the ift on port tack, Graham Scott had the best start right down on the pin, The top Mark was just a short distance once on the starboard tack layline. Graham Scott was leading Jan Von der Bank 2nd Marcus 3rd and i was not far behind in front of Christoph, the racing went ahead with more or less these position, G. Scott I think had the better speed and controlling the race quite confortably, Marcus passed Jan von der bank, the Jan passed back Marcus on the last upwind when marcus followed me on the left of the course. Christoph end up 5th and 6th very near christoph Jacob Lunding.
In the Silver fleet the Danish Bjarke B. Johnsen won both races with a big lead, he had a bit of bad luck on the qualifing and he is a good sailor specially in lighter wind.
After we went back into the harbour at around 5 the wind got a bit stronger just over 10 knots with the wave building up...
Andrea Bonezzi
posted by ita 11 at 10:00
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