Class Association
Jockeying for the titles began in earnest today with the first 3 races in the final series for both Gold & Silver Fleets. After protests, that delayed the start of racing due to the importance of fleet division, the weather settled into some sort of routine. Starting with 12kts it built to some 16kts with the seabreeze doing it’s stuff.
Most results included a bigger score today but the first final series discard kicks in after tomorrows first race so there could be big movers at that point. Owen Bowerman & Charlie Darling were the only boat score single digit results in each race and are duly rewarded with the overnight lead. Jack Hawkins and Chris Thomas sit pretty in second having got the initial 16th out of the system with 2 bullets in the next two races.
Theodor Hansson and Patrik Andreasson from SWE have at least temporary ownership of the third podium step sitting as they are points wise just ahead of Matteo Pilati & Mattia Duchi from ITA who are 4th on tiebreak from Rob & Emma Loveridge.
Completing a very international top 10 there are a further Brit (Emily Peters & Alice Masterman), two Irish, a Swede and an Italian. The points difference between 4th and 10th is only 9 points and as said before they all have a score from around the 20’s to discard at present after the next result is in ( they have also all carried their position from the Q series forward as a non discardable score).
The forecast for tomorrow is for lighter breeze than today so that will affect performance too. Could be the real light wind flyers will emerge from the chasing packs.
In the Silver fleet there are also 4 nations contesting the top 4 slots. Currently Sarah Hyland & Enya O’Connor (IRL) hold sway by one point from William Hussey & Tom Oliver (GBR). Luca Carlini & Stefano Costini (IRL) are 9 points back but tiebroken ahead of Victor Hogbom & Tore Walden (SWE)
Final mention must go to Luca Carlini who got one of the days special prizes competing as he is in his 5th consecutive major Championship stretching back from the first worlds in Garda through the Euros in Ireland, the next worlds in Sweden, the Euros last year back in Garda and finally here! Wow! Do follow the event on the Worlds site at rsFeva.org/worlds and the blog available on it!
