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A foggy start to the day in Carnac was resolved when on queue the sun broke out and burned off the lingering visibility issues. Result was a timely arrival of the seabreeze but slightly weakened. A delay of some 45 minutes on launching to establish the seabreeze over the whole course area was utterly correct. Nice one Tony O’Gorman!
Results were naturally different to day 1. Yesterday was pretty full on without flat out planning conditions. Today was one for the lighter air specialist or the genuine all-rounder. So step forward Rob & Emma Loveridge, hotly pursued by Owen Bowerman & Charlie Darling. Owen & Charlie had a not dissimilar start to the Europeans last year & so won’t be letting this go their heads this year. Yesterdays Italian pacesetter Matteo Pilati and Mattia Duchi couldn’t quite keep it going but are still looking good in 3rd.
There was a real oddity in the second race when the wind misbehaved seconds before the start causing an AP to go up some 5 seconds before the start. Some boats weren’t aware and clearly didn’t quite get the subtlety of the black flag rule on their belated return to the start. To avoid the BFD result they only needed to sail sideways out of the start line windward mark triangle to be in the clear even if time was running short. Hope it was to have been a discard in any event!
The Irish were in fine form as well today with the brothers Lyden scooping 1st and 3rd in one race. So whilst Jack Hawkins and Chris Thomas were scooping fair play awards and ended day 2 in 4th place Dermot Lyden & Peter Stokes were only 3 pts behind but perhaps more importantly for them?? They were 1 point ahead of brother Brendan Lyden and Marc Cudmore! Previous leaders Fillippo Bucciarelli & Gabrielle Tropiano qualified in 7th. Rounding out the top 10 were Vikky Cudmore & Amy Harrington (IRL) in 8th, Tim & Jack Johnson in 9th ( GBR & family) and Veronica Macari & Maria Lenotti Marta (ITA) 10th.
So the qualifying position is now carried over into the final series as a non-discardable result the individual results are as above. Leading ladies are Vikki Cudmore & Amy Harrington followed by Veronica Macari & Maria Lenotti Marta whilst leading family entry are brother and sister Rob & Emma Loveridge whilst second are father & son Tim & Jack Johnson. I aplogise for not beig able to bring you the leading juniors yet but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Morgan Peach & Herbie Harford in 23rd! I’ll eat the humble pie tomorrow! Results on the YC Carnac Website under regattes and RS Tera/RS Feva... Follow the blog on RSFeva.org/worlds.
RS Tera Pro Fleet
Race 4 The Italian Pietro Graceffa won the first piping beating the leader from the first day James Kelly into second place, third spot being taken by Mathew French
Race 5 This was also won by Pietro Graceffa followed by Joshua Aldridge and Mathew French taking third spot.
Race 6 This saw James Kelly from the Isle of Man returning to winning ways followed by Mathew French and Tristan Bracgirdle taking third.
This meant that at the end of day 2 James Kelly retained his lead with Mathew French in second and Joshua Aldridge in Third.
RS Tera Sport Fleet
Race 4 This saw another win by Eoin Lyden from Ireland followed again by Birce Yriex from France and Third spot going to Ugo Zunardi from Italy.
Race 5 This was won by Eoin Lyden with Brit sailor Crispin Beaumont getting second and Ugo Zunardi taking third.
Race 6 Was won by Birce Yriex followed by Ugo Zunardi with Eoin Lyden in third.
At the end of day 2 Eoin Lyden and Birce Yriex were tying for the lead with Ugo Zunardi in third. Top UK boat was Crispin Beaumont in fourth.
