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Latest News Links Olympic - Three wins for Patience and Bithell at 470 Europeans . . . Matchrace - Williams leads Ainslie after day 2 at St. Moritz Match Race . . . more here Olympic - RS:X Worlds move to final series in Denmark . . . Dinghy - First UK National Championship for the RS100 . . . Olympic - Day 5 - Final day of Qualifying for Senior event at Laser Worlds . . . Keelboat - Jerry Hill leads the UK Laser SB3 National Championships after day 2 . . . Olympic - Ed Wright takes lead at Finn Gold Cup . . . Olympic - Wednesday, Day 3 of Laser Worlds at Hayling Island SC . . . Matchrace - NZL, GBR and SWE hold the lead at St Moritz . . . Olympic - Not so confusing for Kliger and Sela at 470 Europeans . . . Keelboat - Day 1 of the Laser SB3 UK Nationals at Brighton . . . Olympic - Wright makes it two wins on Day 2 of the Finn Gold Cup . . . Olympic - Dempsey and Shaw win final qualifying races at RS:X Worlds . . . Dinghy - Tim Wilkins and Heather Martin are RS500 World Champions . . . Dinghy - Nick Craig and James Stewart crowned RS400 Champions . . . Olympic - Major players stake-out their territory on Day 1 of Laser Worlds . . . Olympic - Scott in third on opening day at Finn Gold Cup . . . Dinghy - Wade and McGrane claim their second National Fireball title . . . Olympic - Dempsey starts the long road back at RS:X Worlds . . . Dinghy - UK Laser Champions decided in the 4.7, Radial and Standard versions . . . Dinghy - Results Round-Up . . . Catamaran - Rothschild take victory at Kiel Extreme 40 event . . . Olympic - Dempsey with uphill struggle after opening day at RS:X Worlds . . . Offshore - TeamOrigin improve, but still fall short in Cartagena . . . More Sailing News reports here . . . Three wins for Patience and Bithell at 470 Europeans . . . Istanbul produced sun, wind and waves for a spectacular day three at the 2010 Open 470 European Championships. Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell, who opened their account with a black flag disqualification, won yesterday’s following race. And then today in the big breeze the Brits put the hammer down to fire in three bullets in their qualifying fleet.  With the discard now coming into play, the British move to the front of the men’s fleet and the Italians, defending European Champions Giulia Conti and Giovanna Micol, have become the leading ladies. In the men’s fleet, Patience and Bithell hold the lead with defending European Champions from Croatia, Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic, lying in 2nd overall.Bithell’s not counting his chickens quite yet, though. “Still a long way to go, and another black flag would probably see us drop outside the top 10. But if there was ever a day where you could say ‘champagne conditions’, 16 knots breeze, 25 degree temperatures, waves, sunshine, today was the day. Perfect.” Conti was almost as pleased with her day, except she was trying to massage her forearms back into life after a particularly hard day for the 470 helms. Big waves demanded a lot of mainsheet work upwind and a lot of pumping downwind. Sophie Weguelin and Sophie Answorth are the leading GBR pair in the women's event in 11th place, Hannah Mills and Claire Cumming are 13th. Williams leads Ainslie after day 2 at St. Moritz Match Race . . . more here  After the second day of the St. Moritz Match Race, Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar leads and Ben Ainslie (GBR) TeamOrigin holds second place, tied with Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team.With seven teams advancing to the next stage, these three are confirmed as having made the quarter finals, but another six - including some veteran stars - are still in the hunt for the remaining four places. A classic French - British dogfight is developing between the front runners and if anyone is going to put a counter-attack together on Damian Iehl, there's a strong chance it will come from Ian Wiiliams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar who leads the standings overnight, having won all three of his races today. Triple Olympic gold medalist and America's Cup skipper, Ben Ainslie (GBR) TeamOrigin also demonstrated total dominance of his opponents with a clean sweep of victories, as did Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team. Leading Results after Day 2 of the St. Moritz Match Race: Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar: 7-1 Ben Ainslie (GBR) TEAMORIGIN: 6-2 Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team: 6-2 Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing: 5-3 Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team: 5-4 Björn Hansen (SWE) Hansen Global Team: 5-4 Bertrand Pace (FRA) Aleph Sailing Team: 5-4 Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team: 4-4 Francesco Bruni (ITA) Azzurra: 4-4 RS:X Worlds move to final series in Denmark . . . Showing that experience pays in this class, so today veteran windsurfer and quadruple Olympic medallist Alessandra Sensini from Italy pulled into the lead at the RS:X World Championships, being held at Kerteminde, Denmark. Following Wednesday’s layday, today was the first of the second round/final series. While some of the top players in the Women’s fleet had high scores today including Poland’s Maja Dziarnowska, France’s Charline Picon, past leader China’s Sasa Sun, Sensini posted a valuable 3-1. Also on the rise today in the Women’s fleet were Israel’s Lee-el Korzits, who’s 4-2 elevates her to second overall, while in contrast to Abalau, her Spanish team mate Blancha Manchon is now up to third, after a slow start to the regatta. In the Men’s RS:X class, the Netherland’s Dorian van Rijsselberge continues to lead, although such is the level of competition that a 12th in today’s first race (non-discardable as he was black flagged in race one of the series) has allowed second placed Pole Piotr Myszka to close to within three points of him. RS:X Women - Leading positions after 7 races 1st ITA 25 Alessandra Sensini 9.0 2.0 1.0 7.0 (11.0) 3.0 1.0 23.0pts 2nd ISR 1111 Lee-el Korzits 3.0 5.0 3.0 (16.0) 10.0 4.0 2.0 27.0 3rd ESP 1 Blanca Manchon (12.0) 9.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 2.0 6.0 31.0 4th POL 7 Maja Dziarnowska 1.0 12.0 2.0 2.0 10.0 5.0 (23.0) 32.0 5th FRA 4 Picon Charline 7.0 4.0 10.0 4.0 1.0 12.0 (18.0) 38.0 GBR 8th GBR 94 Bryony Shaw 4.0 10.0 (12.0) 8.0 1.0 10.0 9.0 42.0 RS:X Men - Leading positions after 8 races 1st NED 8 Dorian van Rijsselberge (57.0 BFD) 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 12.0 1.0 23.0pts 2nd POL 82 Piotr Myszka 2.0 1.0 7.0 7.0 1.0 4.0 3.0 (10.0) 25.0 3rd ISR 21 Nimrod Mashiah 7.0 (12.0) 2.0 1.0 6.0 3.0 5.0 3.0 27.0 4th POL 126 Przemyslaw Miarczynski 6.0 3.0 2.0 3.0 (11.0) 8.0 4.0 7.0 33.0 5th NZL 151 Jon-paul Tobin 6.0 6.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 17.0 (20.0) 2.0 36.0 GBR 11th GBR 1 Nick Dempsey 16.0 (18.0) 3.0 5.0 7.0 1.0 18.0 6.0 56.0 First UK National Championship for the RS100 . . . Around 40 competitors are expected to enter the inaugural UK National Championship for the new RS100 racing dinghy at Parkstone Yacht Club this weekend. The RS100 was only launched this year and has generated over 200 new boat orders to date.  Generously supported by DAKINE, the RS100 UK National Championship will be the first time the UK boats will meet face-to-face on home waters and will provide the ideal practice regatta for the much anticipated European Grand Prix in St Raphael, France in late September. So who will be the first RS100 Champion? Well, you’d have to put some money on RS’s own Nick Peters who probably has the most hours in the boat and is, after all, a top sailor! Simon Childs, ex Phantom champion, is getting to grips with his new RS100 quickly and then there are the home team from Parkstone; Phil Jackson likely to be near the top of their pile. The great thing about a brand new class is the empty form book and no knowing who’ll walk away with the trophies. Day 5 - Final day of Qualifying for Senior event at Laser Worlds . . .  The final two qualifying races for the Laser senior worlds flights were sailed at Hayling Island SC today, Thursday. Australian Tom Slingsby tops the final qualifying table with a 14 point lead over Paul Goodison of Britain. In third place is New Zealander Michael Bullot. Goodison: “We were on the inside course and it was a bit frustrating. I made a couple of schoolboy errors with the tide. In the first race I went around the bottom mark in fourth and expected there to be a tidal gain on the right, and ended up losing 10-12 places which was a bit frustrating. In the second race I got a pretty good start but got caught out in the middle when the wind went right a bit and then hit the windward mark, so a bit of a frustrating day. Second is a lot better than I thought it would be after today, almost putting a smile on my face again. There are still six races to go and I’m looking forward to going into the finals.” Slingsby admitted that he owes much of his revitalised attack this season to his lacklustre World Championships last year, when he finished 17th. After winning Skandia Sail for Gold regatta in Weymouth he said today that he is especially happy to have found an extra gear to his downwind speed, completing a package which he feels can win him the title he won in 2007 and 2008 again. After their rest day today the Junior World Championships resume their Qualifying with two scheduled races Friday before their four race Finals commence Saturday. Laser - Senior Overall after Race 8: 1st AUS 197541 Slingsby Tom 1.0 8.0 (29.0) 3.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 49.0 20.0pts 2nd GBR 198605 Goodison Paul 3.0 1.0 9.0 4.0 3.0 7.0 (15.0) 7.0 49.0 34.0 3rd NZL 192703 Bullot Michael 1.0 2.0 5.0 13.0 9.0 3.0 3.0 (23.0) 59.0 36.0 4th NZL 195541 Maloney Andrew 2.0 (22.0) 4.0 10.0 2.0 11.0 3.0 4.0 58.0 36.0 5th CYP 194752 Kontides Pavlos 4.0 3.0 21.0 4.0 5.0 (27.0) 1.0 1.0 66.0 39.0 6th NZL 197273 Murdoch Andrew 6.0 4.0 11.0 2.0 8.0 (22.0) 9.0 1.0 63.0 41.0 7th GBR 198211 Thompson Nick 2.0 3.0 (25.0) 6.0 9.0 7.0 9.0 8.0 69.0 44.0 8th NZL 197247 Junior Joshua 3.0 22.0 1.0 2.0 7.0 5.0 8.0 (29.0) 77.0 48.0 9th AUS 196904 Brunning Ashley 12.0 9.0 10.0 12.0 3.0 3.0 1.0 (19.0) 69.0 50.0 10th AUT 191383 Geritzer Andreas (33.0) 6.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 22.0 9.0 9.0 84.0 51.0 Other Leading GBR 50th GBR 197712 Powell Mark 17.0 (28.0) 27.0 9.0 17.0 10.0 17.0 22.0 147.0 119.0 61st GBR 198501 Godwin Stuart 11.0 32.0 20.0 (36.0) 26.0 29.0 1.0 10.0 165.0 129.0 71st GBR 194878 Mon Eifion 29.0 1.0 (49.0) 22.0 21.0 25.0 21.0 31.0 199.0 150.0 102nd GBR 180945 Holloway Max 32.0 25.0 (45.0) 36.0 24.0 27.0 39.0 24.0 252.0 207.0 104th GBR 160521 Green James 13.0 28.0 31.0 43.0 42.0 (DSQ [55.0]) 26.0 26.0 264.0 209.0 115th GBR 195258 Godwin Robert 31.0 42.0 47.0 (48.0) 22.0 26.0 38.0 17.0 271.0 223.0 126th GBR 193651 Reid Matt 45.0 33.0 44.0 21.0 48.0 19.0 43.0 (50.0) 303.0 253.0 Jerry Hill leads the UK Laser SB3 National Championships after day 2 . . . At the end of the second day of racing at the Neilson Active Holiday UK Laser SB3 National Championships, the World Champion, Jerry Hill is repeating his form from Italy earlier this summer and leads the fleet at the halfway stage of the regatta. Andy Oddie, ‘In Your Pocket’ lies second, his best result so far in the fleet while David Hudson and the crew of Spirt of Cape Town lie in third. Day 2 started with a steady 10 knots of wind off the coast of Brighton this morning. However, as the day progressed, the wind became less settled and eventually dropped leaving the Race Officer with a tricky job in hand. Rob Gullan and the Parkway Pirates won the first race of the day, with Rola Trac in second and Spirt of Cape Town in third place. A number of boats were caught out in Race 2 with the massive shift, but Chris Darling, George Yeomans and Andy Shaw managed to battle their way to the front of the fleet and took a well deserved bullet, with ‘In Your Pocket’ second and ‘3 Sad Old Blokes’ finishing third. Rola Trac and Spirit of Cape Town both lost out in Race 2 and finished in the late-teens. Ed Wright takes lead at Finn Gold Cup . . . Ed Wright has taken the lead of the Finn Gold Cup after day three in San Francisco. Wright added a third victory to his scoreline and then a third place to go 13 points clear of second placed Rafael Trujillo of Spain.  Giles Scott is in third place, tied on points with Thomas le Breton of France. Mark Andrews, second behind Wright in the first race, makes it three GBR sailors in the top ten, with Andrew Mills in 12th. Finn - Gold Cup, Leading positions after 6 races 1 GBR 11 Edward Wright 18 3 1 1 1 3 9pts 2 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo 2 1 35 10 8 1 22pts 3 GBR 41 Giles Scott 10 2 6 5 4 7 24pts 4 FRA 115 Thomas le Breton 8 7 3 3 3 12 24pts 5 USA 4 Zach Railey 5 5 7 4 5 10 26pts 6 SLO 5 Gasper Vincec 1 16 2 6 11 30 36pts 7 CRO 524 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic 3 15 37 9 6 16 49pts 8 SLO 573 Vasilij Zbogar 9 35 9 16 15 6 55pts 9 CRO 25 Marin Misura 26 4 8 14 22 8 56pts 10 GBR 88 Mark Andrew 12 11 10 2 39 22 57pts 11 AUS 1 Brendan Casey 4 12 41 8 19 14 57pts 12 GBR 85 Andrew Mills 14 22 5 15 10 15 59pts 13 FRA 112 Jonathan Lobert 19 31 14 7 2 18 60pts 14 SWE 11 Daniel Birgmark 11 20 17 17 7 11 63pts 15 ITA 146 Michele Paoletti 17 9 12 19 9 17 64pts Wednesday, Day 3 of Laser Worlds at Hayling Island SC . . . Day 3 of Laser Worlds at Hayling Island SC and the weather continued to co-operate with sunshine and light to moderate breezes. Both Senior and Junior fleets went afloat on schedule heading out into Hayling Bay for a midday start sequence on both course areas. It was a very good day for Australian Tom Slingsby, winning both his flight races to take the overall lead after six qualification races. Kiwi Joshua Junior could not repeat yesterdays top performance, but a 7 - 5 scoreline today puts him in second, tied on points with defending champion, Paul Goodison.  Goodison: “It was a tricky day all in all. I thought with the breeze in that it was going to be a little easier today but it wasn’t. It was still quite shifty and the tide played a big part of it. The second race did not quite go quite to plan and I was in the 20’s but I had good speed downwind and played the shifts well up the second beat.” “I think with it being such a long regatta it is all about trying to keep in single figures and I’ve managed to do that so far. I think for me that has been about not taking too many risks and sailing the fleet, but that is not easy because if you do get caught in the middle and it comes in from one side or the other then you do end up in the teens. It is just about giving yourself.” In the Junior event Francesco Marrai of Italy has taken over the lead, with Thorbjoern Schierup of Denmark in second. Britain's Alex Mills-Barton Alex won his first flight race and moves into tenth overall. Laser - Senior, Leading positions after 6 races (159 entries) 1st AUS 197541 Slingsby Tom 1 8 -29 3 1 1 43 14 pts 2nd NZL 197247 Junior Joshua 3 -22 1 2 7 5 40 18 pts 3rd GBR 198605 Goodison Paul 3 1 -9 4 3 7 27 18 pts 4th NZL 192703 Bullot Michael 1 2 5 -13 9 3 33 20 pts 5th ITA 197313 Bottoli Giacomo -9 4 3 6 3 8 33 24 pts 6th GBR 198211 Thompson Nick 2 3 -25 6 9 7 52 27 pts 7th NZL 195541 Maloney Andrew 2 -22 4 10 2 11 51 29 pts 8th NZL 197273 Murdoch Andrew 6 4 11 2 8 -22 53 31 pts 9th AUT 191383 Geritzer Andreas -33 6 2 1 2 22 66 33 pts 10th CRO 193189 Radelic Luka 2 2 -42 1 18 10 75 33 pts Other GBR 51st GBR 197712 Powell Mark 17 -28 27 9 17 10 108 80 66th GBR 194878 Mon Eifion 29 1 -49 22 22 25 148 99 79th GBR 198501 Godwin Stuart 11 32 20 -36 26 29 154 118 92nd GBR 160521 Green James 13 28 31 -43 42 19 176 133 101st GBR 180945 Holloway Max 32 25 -45 36 24 27 189 144 119th GBR 193651 Reid Matt 45 33 44 21 -48 20 211 163 123rd GBR 195258 Godwin Robert 31 42 47 -48 23 26 217 169 Laser - Junior, Leading positions after 6 races (119 entries) 1st ITA 192309 Marrai Francesco 2 3 -7 5 5 3 25 18 pts 2nd DEN 196987 Schierup Thorbjoern 3 3 6 -19 6 2 39 20 pts 3rd THA 191389 Bualong Keerati -19 1 10 6 2 4 42 23 pts 4th FRA 194788 Munos Antony -14 2 8 4 8 1 37 23 pts 5th DEN 192590 Kaeldso Magnus 2 15 1 2 -16 16 52 36 pts 6th TUR 183121 Basegmez Alican -28 7 11 7 2 11 66 38 pts 7th NED 197495 Haakman Jochem-bart -26 9 14 6 10 1 66 40 pts 8th CRO 189016 Peresa Marko 11 9 2 3 -29 15 69 40 pts 9th POL 196898 Zieminski Kacper 7 10 3 13 7 -22 62 40 pts 10th GBR 197679 Mills-Barton Alex 12 (BFD [62.0]) 5 2 1 21 103 41 pts Other Leading GBR 34th GBR 197310 Beckett Stephen 30 19 10 -39 3 28 129 90 pts 37th GBR 195222 Evans Martin 16 (OCS [62.0]) 34 15 4 26 157 95 pts 43rd GBR 195988 Holmes Robert 24 45 11 14 (DNF [62.0]) 13 169 107 pts 51st GBR 194753 Carpenter David -43 36 24 31 7 22 163 120 pts 56th GBR 195131 Elsey Robin 49 11 20 -50 26 20 176 126 pts 59th GBR 195021 Reynolds Phillip 32 16 -55 26 30 23 182 127 pts NZL, GBR and SWE hold the lead at St Moritz . . . The opening day of racing at the St Moritz Match Race dawned bright but cold, with the surface of the lake covered in a thin layer of picturesque mist. However, the tranquil setting belied the intensity of racing that was to come most notably between the British and French teams.  The Brits - Ian Williams, Team GAC Pindar and Ben Ainslie, TeamOrigin - dominated the first part of the day's racing, with both teams winning all their races, including Ainslie's match against current World Match Racing Tour leader Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team. So what would happen when Ainslie and Williams went head-to-head? After close sparring in the pre-start, Williams held Ainslie out to the wrong side of the committee boat, winning the start by a length and a half. At the windward mark Williams misjudged his tack and collided with Ainslie, but maintained a tenuous lead. At the beginning of the final leg he had extended this to three-lengths, but still had a penalty turn to take before finishing - it was impossible to predict the result, until a gust allowed Williams to extend his lead 150m from the finish line. It was also a good day for defending champion St. Moritz Match Race Champion, Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing, Björn Hansen (SWE) Hansen Global Team, who top the rankings along with Williams at the end of day one, each of these skippers having won four races and lost one. St. Moritz Match Race - Results after Day 1: Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing: 4-1 Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar: 4-1 Björn Hansen (SWE) Hansen Global Team: 4-1 Ben Ainslie (GBR) TEAMORIGIN: 3-2 Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team: 3-2 Bertrand Pace (FRA) Aleph Sailing Team: 3-2 Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team: 2-3 Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team: 2-3 Francesco Bruni (ITA) Azzurra: 2-3 Eric Monnin (SUI) Swiss Match Racing Team: 2-3 Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team: 1-4 Jérôme Clerc (SUI) CER: 0-5 Not so confusing for Kliger and Sela at 470 Europeans . . . It was a crazy, confusing day at the 2010 Open 470 European Championships in Istanbul, yet somehow Gideon Kliger and Eran Sela emerged from their side of the men’s qualifying with two first places. The Israeli team made sense of the light, patchy and shifty conditions that left most of the 92 teams quite bewildered. The day dawned 10 degrees colder than previous days, the blazing hot Turkish weather replaced by a rainy, blustery, grey day that made some competitors wonder if they had been teleported back to Weymouth in England, where many of these same Olympic athletes were competing just two weeks ago. The only team that came close to matching the Israelis’ consistency were the defending European Champions from Croatia, Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic, who scored two second places on the other side of the qualifying split. GBR’s Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell, fell foul of the black flag. “It’s the one thing you don’t - or shouldn’t - do,” said Patience as he berated himself afterwards. “We didn’t think we were over, but we were, so that’s that.” At least the Brits made amends with a victory in the second heat, passing the Croatians who had led for the first half of the race. 470 Men - Leading positions after 2 races (54 entries) 1 ISR 7 Gideon KLIGER, Eran SELA 2,0pts 1 1 2 CRO 83 Sime FANTELA, Igor MARENIC 4,0pts 2 2 3 UKR 67 Yurii ZHURAVLOV, Pavlo MATSUYEV 10,0pts 8 2 GBR 21 GBR 846 Ben SAXTON, David KOHLER 21,0pts 13 8 25 GBR 852 Philip SPARKS, Chris GRUBE 23,0pts 12 11 30 GBR 844 Luke PATIENCE, Stuart BITHELL 29,0pts bfd 1 470 Women - Leading positions after 2 races (31 entries) 1 FRA 12 Emmanuelle ROL, Hélène DEFRANCE 4,0pts 1 3 2 FRA 9 Camille LECOINTRE, Mathilde GERON 8,0pts 3 5 3 DEN 143 Henriette KOCH, Lene SOMMER 10,0pts 6 4 GBR 17 GBR 847 Hannah MILLS, Claire CUMMING, 33,0pts 26 7 20 GBR 840 Sophie WEGUELIN, Sophie AINSWORTH, 36,0pts 13 23 Day 1 of the Laser SB3 UK Nationals at Brighton . . .  The Laser SB3 fleet returned to the south coast of the UK Wednesday for the first day of racing at the 2010 Neilson Active Holiday Laser SB3 National Championships. 41 boats are taking part in the event, based in Brighton Marina. After three races the fleet is lead by David Hudson (Spirit of Cape Town) followed by Craig Burlton (Gill Race Team) and Geoff Carveth (Core Elements) in third. Wright makes it two wins on Day 2 of the Finn Gold Cup . . . Day 2 at the Finn Gold Cup belonged to Britain's Ed Wright after dominating and winning both races. Wright is now in third tied on points with Giles Scott. New leader is Frenchman Thomas le Breton with Zach Railey of the USA in second on the same points.  The heavy mist rolling in through the Golden Gate was a foreteller of things to come later in the day with a cold breeze quickly building on the first leg to peak out at 22 knots. Race three started after a general recall with most of the fleet immediately tacking onto port to head to the right hand side. This proved to be the best decision as half way up the beat it was apparent that a massive change was about to take place. While the left side was still experiencing light winds, on the right, it started to increase and when the boats tacked they easily cleared the left. Emerging from the middle right, Alexey Selivanov (RUS) led round the top mark from Piotr Kula (POL) and Ed Wright (GBR) and Ioannis Mitakis (GRE). Wright flew down the run to round the gate in the lead from Selivanov. Wright extended on the second upwind, while ViGasper Vincec (SLO) climbed to second and Thomas Le Breton took third. The positions stayed the same down the final run as the wind kept increasing to 18-20 knots for some spectacular downwind sailing. In the second race Wright and Mark Andrews (GBR) led to the right hand corner, tacked and led round the top mark from Le Breton and Greg Douglas (CAN). Andrews got past Wright on the first downwind while Railey climbed to fourth. Wright applied pressure to Andrews on the second beat and both passed him and created a useful gap. The final two reaches to the finish were fast and furious as the boats planed and surfed the choppy waves in balls of spray. Railey moved up to third, but Le Breton took it back on the reach to take his second third place finish of the day. Wright said, “It was a great day today. Two bullets for me and my coach did his good deed for the day finding a Finn sail sinking on the right side in the second race. I had two good starts and didn't make any mistakes like yesterday. Mark Andrews pushed me hard on the second race by using his acrobatics on the first run and passing me. But I hope for more speed again tomorrow.” Finn - Gold Cup, Leading Results after 4 races (87 entries): 1 FRA 115 Thomas le Breton 8 7 3 3 21 pts 2 USA 4 Zach Railey 5 5 7 4 21 pts 3 GBR 11 Edward Wright 18 3 1 1 23 pts 4 GBR 41 Giles Scott 10 2 6 5 23 pts 5 SLO 5 Gasper Vincec 1 16 2 6 25 pts 6 GBR 88 Mark Andrew 12 11 10 2 35 pts 7 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo 2 1 35 10 48 pts 8 CRO 25 Marin Misura 26 4 8 14 52 pts 9 GBR 85 Andrew Mills 14 22 5 15 56 pts 10 ITA 146 Michele Paoletti 17 9 12 19 57 pts 11 DEN 2 Jonas Høgh-Christensen 6 6 38 12 62 pts 12 CRO 524 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic 3 15 37 9 64 pts Dempsey and Shaw win final qualifying races at RS:X Worlds . . . Dutch sailor Dorian van Rijsselberge has launched himself into the lead today at the RS:X World Championship, with the final two qualification series races held off Kerteminde, in the centre of Denmark. With six races now sailed and the discard coming into play, van Rijsselberge, 22, dropped his black flag disqualification from race one and with an impressive three firsts is now on just 10 points, five ahead of Poland’s Piotr Myszka and Beijing Gold medallist Tom Ashley.  British hopes are on the rise with Nick Dempsey winning the second race today, as did Beijing bronze medallist Bryony Shaw. Dempsey, the defending World Champion, is now tenth overall. In race two Dempsey was buried on the start line but recovered to seventh by the first weather mark rounding and managed to pull into the lead on the second beat, just by doing a better job reading the giant shifts. “I seem to be making it quite difficult for myself,” he admitted. “I made a mistake in the first race and went from 3rd to seventh. Normally I don’t tend to go backwards much.” Less congestion lured him into taking what turned out to be the wrong leeward gate mark. With the qualification series complete, tomorrow is a lay day at the RS:X World Championship. Racing resumes on Thursday and Friday with the fleet divided into gold and silver fleets prior to the top 10 show down in Saturday’s medal races. RS:X Women - Leading positions after 5 races 1 - POL 7, Maja Dziarnowska 1-(12)-2-2-10 15pts 2 - FRA 4, Picon Charline 7-4-(10)-4-1 16 3 - CHN 8, Sun Sasa 2-1-4-(20)-11 18 4 - CHN 7, Li Ling 1-3-2-(22)-12 18 5 - ITA 25, Alessandra Sensini 9-2-1-7-(11) 19 GBR 9 - GBR 94, Bryony Shaw 4-10-(12)-8-1 23 RS:X Men - Leading positions after 6 races 1 - NED 8, Dorian van Rijsselberge (57 BFD)-2-1-1-1-5 10pts 2 - POL 82, Piotr Myszka 2-1-(7)-7-1-4 15 3 - NZL 181,Tom Ashley 1-5-3-4-(18)-2 15 4 - NZL 151,Jon-Paul Tobin 6-6-1-2-2-(17) 17 5 - GRE 8, Byron Kokalanis 1-7-4-3-(22)-3 18 GBR 10- GBR 1, Nick Dempsey 16-(18)-3-5-7-1 32 Tim Wilkins and Heather Martin are RS500 World Champions . . . The RS500 Magic Marine Worlds were held at Bruinisse, Grevelingen Meer in the Netherlands. For the title it was a last race shootout! Exactly the same scoreline meant that whoever was ahead of the other (no matter where) at the line would be crowned.  Four laps to decide it. Up the first beat Taylor/Mobbs and Wilkins/Martin were as tied by an umbilical cord and rounded in that order. But the Swedes Rook/Broberg first to mark 2 having had a blinding downwind. Upwind on lap 2 there was still barely any separation but Dutch Hilterman/Blom were now into their stride as the Swedes started to wilt just a little. Lap 3 is where it was won barring any last minute breakages. Wilkins/Martin found a gust they could hold onto downwind whilst Taylor/Mobbs in seeking the separation required to be able to cut the covering umbilical cord sailed out of the pressure. Worse still, it let the Dutch boat back in ahead of them as well. Whilst Tim Wilkins and Heather Martin extended a little to take the title in joyous celebration Alex Taylor and Bryan Mobbs showed that they are true champions in the wider sense of the word by fighting back past the Dutch to take the second step on the podium. Youth World Champions are Hansebas Meijer and Fedor Couvert of the Netherlands in 8th place. They were also one of the leading party boats together with a posse of a further 2 Dutch boats, a British youth boat and the inimitable lads from Hong Kong Will Stephens & Justin Tse. Ladies World Champions are Annika Ellerbrock and Anne Werner from Rostock in Germany by a mere 3 points from the host nations Stephanie and Chantalle Grootscholten. Nick Craig and James Stewart crowned RS400 Champions . . .  Well it's all over for the 2010 RS400 Nationals Championships at sunny Pwllheli SC, with Nick Craig and James Stewart once again crowned Champions. RS400 - UK Nationsls, Final Leading scores (60 entries) 1st 1237 Nick Craig James Stewart Frensham Pond SC 1 1 2 1 1 -4 1 11 7 pts 2nd 1321 Jim Downer Jon Price Royal Victoria YC 3 2 6 -8 3 7 2 31 23 pts 3rd 1263 Tom Halhead Paul Hilliar Bristol Corinthian YC 2 3 -11 3 11 5 3 38 27 pts 4th 1319 Leighton King Richard Brown Weston -12 4 10 2 2 10 7 47 35 pts 5th 962 Tom Jeffcoate Mark Hogan Notts County Sailing Club 4 -15 3 5 9 13 10 59 44 pts 6th 1186 David Exley Nigel Hall Leigh And Lowton SC 10 8 7 -21 4 12 6 68 47 pts 7th 892 Alex Horlock Ed Pearce Exe Sailing Club -14 6 14 12 6 3 9 64 50 pts 8th 1251 Howard Farbrother Nathan Pinch Queen Mary 5 7 17 11 5 14 -17 75 58 pts 9th 685 Josh Metcalfe Iwan Basten 7 14 (DSQ) 13 10 16 4 125 64 pts 10th 1014 Hamish Gledhill Rachel Gledhill West Riding Sailing Club -28 28 4 6 14 8 5 93 65 pts 11th 1301 Mike Saul Charlie Merchant 6 13 -20 9 16 9 18 90 71 pts 12th 1325 John Cooper Becci Wigley Lymington Sailing Club 16 19 5 14 -25 20 11 110 85 pts 13th 1155 Paul Allen Greg Booth 13 10 16 16 -29 24 12 119 90 pts 14th 1172 Alex Fleming Heather Chpperfield 18 21 12 -32 21 15 8 127 95 pts 15th 1007 Marke Greaves Alan Woosey SCYC 15 -27 8 26 7 19 23 125 98 pts Major players stake-out their territory on Day 1 of Laser Worlds . . . After the first two races on the opening day of the Laser World Championships at Hayling Island SC the expected players have staked out their territory. Winners in the first series of flights were Nicholas Heiner (NED), Michael Bullot (NZL) and Tom Slingsey (AUS). Followed in the second series of races by Paul Goodison (GBR), Karl-Martin Rammo (EST) and Eifion Mon (GBR). Overall this put the Kiwi Bullot in top position, one point ahead of Goodison, Rammo and Luka Radelic (CRO) with Nick Thompson (GBR) a further point back. Pavlos Kontides (CYP) holds sixth place and Slingsby is seventh.  The strong tidal current and light and at times very shifty breeze, typical of a northerly in Hayling Bay, proved to be the principal challenges on the first day. The shifting directions of the wind, oscillating through as much as 30 degrees at times in the Senior fleet’s first race set the early test, but a big 50 degrees swing early in of the second contest, kept the racers and the race team on their toes; the second and third starts were delayed until the breeze settled. According to Goodison patience was his key virtue through both races, waiting until changes in the breeze were sufficiently established enough to make a considered move, rather than falling to the temptation to try and benefit every small change. Paul Goodison: “The first race started off in a really shifty breeze, up to 12 knots but it dropped back to five or six knots with some big swings in the wind. I think it was a bit of a patience game waiting for the wind to come back. It can be too easy to go chasing things, but the wind usually came back and so that was a bit of a patience game." "The second race got super light just before the start but at the gun there was probably 10-11 knots, that dropped to about 4-5 knots, but there was nearly a knot of tide and so it was very important to stay inside the laylines with that much of tide running. Quite a lot of the fleet got outside the port tack layline which meant them reaching in and pushing tide and that hurt them quite a lot." Scott in third on opening day at Finn Gold Cup . . . After two fantastic races on San Francisco Bay Rafa Trujillo of Spain takes the early lead in the 2010 Finn Gold Cup. The 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist Zach Railey (USA) lies in second while Giles Scott (GBR) ended the opening day in third.  It was always going to be a windy day with 15 knots already in place when the sailors arrived and forecasts of more for later in the day. It was bright, sunny, windy. Race one turned into a two horse race race with Trujillo leading Gasper Vincec (SLO) round the top mark from the right hand side. Trujillo maintained his lead all the way to the wing mark but then lost it to Vincec on the fast reaches to the finish by around five boat lengths. This pair were about a minute ahead of the chasing pack, with Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) leading Brendan Casey (AUS) and Zach Railey (USA) over the line. Scott was tenth and Ed Wright (GBR) 18th. The wind increased slightly for race two with the fleet again favouring the right hand side. Trujillo made the best of it to hold a narrow lead from Hogh Christensen (DEN) round the top mark with Wright and Scott close behind. Trujillo pulled out a useful gap on the first downwind and was never really threatened again. He extended slightly again on the second beat crossing back from the favoured right hand side, while Scott moved up to second and Wright dropped to fourth. Trujillo took the win followed by Scott, Wright, Marin Misura (CRO), Railey and then Christensen. Racing continues Tuesday with two more races and forecasts of slightly stronger winds coming through. Finn - Gold Cup, Leaing positions after 2 races (87 entries): 1 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo 3pts 2 USA 4 Zach Railey 10 3 GBR 41 Giles Scott 12 4 DEN 2 Jonas Høgh-Christensen 12 5 FRA 115 Thomas le Breton 15 6 AUS 1 Brendan Casey 16 7 SLO 5 Gasper Vincec 17 8 CRO 524 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic 18 9 GBR 11 Edward Wright 21 10 ESP 7 Alejandro Muscat 21 Other GBR 16 Andrew MIlls 36 Wade and McGrane claim their second National Fireball title . . . Dave Wade and Ben McGrane claimed their second National Fireball title on the final day of racing at Restronguet SC. Friday saw three races out in Falmouth Bay, making for a long day on the water. Wade and McGrane were leading going into the final day and they were the most consistent boat again winning the final race to secure the title ahead of Martyn Lewis and Richard Byne with the 2009 Champions Matt Burge and Richard Wagstaff in third.  The opening day had little wind to speak of. Martyn Lewis and Richard Byne, who were sailing this year in a borrowed boat, were the stars of the day posting two bullets in the tidal and shifty conditions. Reigning champions Matt Burge and Richard Wagstaff also had an excellent day posting two seconds. Monday brought a complete change of conditions. Two windy races were held with the wind reaching 28 knots during the 2nd race of the day. Wade and McGrane winning from Burge and Wagstaff and Sam Mettam & Richard Anderton. Race 4 saw Becky Priest and Tim Saunders lead for much of the race with Wade and McGrane only taking the lead on the final leg of the course. Tuesday was another day of excellent racing in Falmouth bay. Race 5 saw Mettam and Anderton charge off with Wade and McGrane in close pursuit to finish in that order with Burge and Wagstaff keeping the pressure on with a 3rd. Race 6 saw Wade and McGrane score another win and take the lead into the layday. Vince Horey and Sam Breary took 2nd. Thursday. Race 7 was held in Falmouth bay in marginal trapezing conditions. Wade won from Lewis, with Russ and Ali Cormack 3rd. Fireball - National Championship, Leading positions (47 entries) 1 15045 David Wade Ben McGrane Northampton -7 -6 1 1 2 1 1 3 4 1 27 14 pts 2 14994 Martyn Lewis Richard Byne Draycote Water 1 1 4 3 4 -6 2 5 -11 3 40 23 pts 3 15036 Matt Burge Richard Wagstaff Poole 2 2 2 -8 3 3 -7 4 1 6 38 23 pts 4 15020 Vince Horey Sam Bearey King George -13 4 5 -7 5 2 6 1 3 2 48 28 pts 5 15031 Sam Mettam Richard Anderton RNSA -11 3 3 4 1 5 -11 2 9 7 56 34 pts 6 14954 Becky Priest Tim Saunders Staunton Harold 6 -10 10 2 10 7 -23 8 7 10 93 60 pts 7 14807 Tim Rush Russell Thorne RYA 10 9 6 11 -16 -13 4 6 5 9 89 60 pts 8 14917 Remy Thuillier Loic Berthelot LS Vigneux 4 -21 8 10 7 10 -14 7 10 11 102 67 pts 9 14837 Russ Cormack Ali Cormack Budworth 8 5 -16 15 11 16 3 12 8 -23 117 78 pts 10 14977 Philip Popple Gavin Tillson Shoreham -22 15 7 6 13 4 9 16 -22 8 122 78 pts Dempsey starts the long road back at RS:X Worlds . . . In stark contrast to yesterday’s marginal winds, so conditions came alive on the Bay of Kerteminde, Denmark, for day two of the RS:X World Championships with 20 knot winds and brilliant sunshine. A better day for defending champion Nick Dempsy, he finished the day with a 3rd and a 5th but he is still weighed down by his 16 and 18 from day 1, which put him in 13th overall. At the top of the men's leaderboard the two New Zealanders, Tom Ashley and Jon-Paul Tobin are seperated by one point, with Byron Kokalanis of Greece and Przemyslaw Miarczynski of Poland within another point of them. The Netherland’s Dorian van Rijsselberge, posted a 2-1 although this otherwise fine scoreline has the blemish from a black flag disqualification in yesterday’s first race. Unable to compete yesterday due to the light winds, the Women’s class got two races in to start with in 18 knot northeasterly winds, gusting to over 20 knots. After two races, Chinese sailors held three places in the top five, with Sasa Sun tied in first place with Ukraine’s Olga Maslivets, both on three points. Bryony Shaw started well with a fourth place but slipped to a 10 and 12 to finish the day in 14th. RS:X Women - Leading positions after 3 races1st CHN 7 Li Ling 1986 1 3 2 6pts 2nd CHN 8 Sun Sasa 1985 2 1 4 7 3rd ISR 25 Lee-el Korzits 1984 3 5 3 11 4th ITA 25 Alessandra Sensini 1970 9 2 1 12 5th UKR 9 Olga Maslivets 1978 2 1 10 13 6th CHN 1 Chen Qiubin 1985 4 6 3 13 Leading GBR: 14th GBR 94 Bryony Shaw 1983 4 10 12 26 31st GBR 30 Izzy Hamilton 1992 19 9 17 45 43rd GBR 279 Claudia Carney 1991 24 20 24 68 RS:X Men - Leading positions after 4 races 1st NZL 181 Tom Ashley 1984 1 5 3 5 14pts 2nd NZL 151 Jon-paul Tobin 1977 6 6 1 2 15 3rd GRE 8 Byron Kokalanis 1985 1 7 4 3 15 4th POL 126 Przemyslaw Miarczynski 1979 6 3 2 4 15 5th POL 82 Piotr Myszka 1981 2 1 7 7 17 6th ISR 21 Nimrod Mashiah 1988 7 12 2 1 22 Leading GBR: 13th GBR 1 Nick Dempsey 1980 16 18 3 5 42pts 39th GBR 75 Richard Hamilton 1990 22 34 15 16 87 69th GBR 41 Alistair Masters 1991 13 25 49 42 129 UK Laser Champions decided in the 4.7, Radial and Standard versions . . . New champions in the three Laser types were decided at Mounts Bay SC last week. Winner of the 4.7 class was Robert Dyer from Restronguet SC., winner in the Radial class was Elliot Hanson from Redesmere SC and winner of the Standard class, Greg Carey from Royal Lymington YC. Laser - 4.7 UK National Championship, Final Leading scores (35 entries) 1 191701 Robert DYER Restronguet 7 2 138168 Anthony PARKE Hayling Island 16 3 197705 Megan O'BRIEN Hollowell 22 4 196171 Dan BULLOCK Burghfield 24 5 195779 Ross STANLEY-WHITE Helensburgh SC 28 6 175620 Jonanna ASPLUND Guernsey 40 Laser - Radial UK National Championship, Final Leading scores (126 entries) 1 195302 Elliot HANSON Redesmere SC 13 2 195760 Jon EMMETT Weir Wood 17 3 193480 Ross HARVEY Hayling Island / Bowmoor 19 4 193455 John BOOTH Stokes Bay 23 5 189355 Max ROBINSON Saltash 29 6 197629 Dan ELLIS R Plymouth Corinthian 29 Laser - Standard UK National Championship, Final Leading scores (49 entries) 1 181945 Greg CAREY Royal Lymington 7 2 192532 Simon BARRINGTON Weir Wood SC 23 3 195318 Jack WETHERELL Beaver SC 25 4 193497 Colin SMITH Hayling Island 28 5 198292 Richard KEATES Parkstone 31 6 195120 James GRANT Restronguet 41 Results Round-Up . . . Results Round-Up from the past week . . . Int Canoe - UK Nationals, Final Leading Positions at WPNSA 1st Scarlett O'Hara GBR 311 Phil Robin London Corinthian SC -5 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 12pts 2nd MONKEY 308 ALISTAIR WARREN ALDEBURGH YC 1 1 4 -6 3 2 2 3 16pts 3rd Cunning Stunts GBR 265 Mark Goodchild Wilsonian SC -4 3 1 2 2 3 3 2 16pts Int Asymmetric Canoe - UK Nationals, Final Leading Positions at WPNSA 1st Dreammatcher GBR 294 G. Caldwell Carsington 1 2 1 3 -5 2 1 1 11pts 2nd Outlaw GBR 284 Charles Chandler Tewkesbury Crusing and Sailing Club 3 -5 2 2 4 3 2 5 21pts 3rd Twisted Welshman GBR290 Stephen Bowen Aberaeron YC 5 1 4 1 12 1 5 (DNC) 29pts Topper - World Championship, Lake Garda, final leading positions (124 entries) Gold Fleet 1st Michele Benamati (ITA) 2nd Giovanni Benamati (ITA) 3rd Edward Jones (GBR) Silver Fleet 1st Samantha Bonella (GBR) 2nd Tom Methven (GBR) 3rd James Cunnison (GBR) 420 - UK Nationals, final leading positions (57 entries) 1st GBR 5275 Philip SPARKS Ben GRATTON 20 pts 2nd GBR 53966 Mike WOOD Hermione STANLEY 26 pts 3rd GBR 53967 Tim GRATTON Ed RILEY 28 pts 4th GBR 54123 James HAYWARD Tim CARTER 36 pts 5th GBR 54058 Matt FOSKETT Adam WALKER 63 pts 6th GBR 54091 Tarra GILL-TAYLOR Christian TOWNROW 78 pts Cherub - Uk Nationals, final leading positions (19 entries) 1st C Lewns & T Pygall (Whitstable YC) 12pts 2nd P Croute & T Unerman (Chew Valley) 15pts 3rd A Peters & J Peters (Queen Mary) 21pts 4th G Bridle & E Bridle (Brightlingsea SC) 27pts 5th D Ching & N Pratt (Poole YC) 32pts 6th J Hamilton & D Still (Draycote Water SC) 45pts Knickerbocker Cup at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, final leading positions (12 entries) 1. Phil Robertson (NZL) Waka Racing 2. Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS) Synergy 3. Bill Hardesty (USA) LineHonors.com 4. William Tiller (NZL) Full Metal Jacket Racing 5. Anna Tunnicliffe (USA) Gus 6. Taylor Canfield (ISV) Team ISV Rothschild take victory at Kiel Extreme 40 event . . . Yann Guichard and his crew on Groupe Edmond de Rothschild won the third round of the 2010 Extreme Sailing Series in Kiel with a race to spare – an unusual occurrence on this circuit that normally sees every event go to the wire in the final double points race. The all-British team on Ecover, having led for the first two days, had to settle for 2nd place overall and that was not without a fight. At the start of the final day they were lying in third behind Oman Sail Masirah, skippered by Loick Peyron. But good fighting tactics saw them move into 2nd overall after two races which they managed to cling on to. The battle for 3rd place then developed between the two Omani teams of Oman Sail Masirah and The Wave, Muscat. Paul Campbell-James, skipper of The Wave, finally got the upper hand in the penultimate race moving into 3rd overall with 120 points, 1 point ahead of Masirah. In the final double points race, Loick Peyron had the advantage but ‘CJ’ fought back to finish ahead and take 3rd place on the podium. Next stop for the series is Trapani, Sicily over the 24-26 September, the penultimate event of the circuit. Extreme 40 - Sailing Series 2010 Overall Standings 1st Groupe Edmond de Rothschild 22 points 2nd The Wave, Muscat 20 points 3rd Ecover Sailing Team 19 points 4th Oman Sail Masirah 17 points 5th Red Bull Extreme Sailing 10 points 6th Groupama 40 9 points 7th The Ocean Racing Club 8 points 8th Team GAC Pindar* 3 points Dempsey with uphill struggle after opening day at RS:X Worlds . . . A challenging opening day at the RS:X World Championships in Kerteminde, Denmark. While one race was sailed for the Men’s Yellow fleet in the morning, everyone was then returned to shore and it wasn’t until mid-afternoon after a rain squall had passed through, that racing could continue. Two races have now been completed for each of the 60 strong Men’s fleets, but none for the Women’s. And a difficult start for Britain's Nick Dempsey who is defending the RS:X Windsurfing World Championship title he won in his home town of Weymouth 12 months ago. Dempsey is in 30th place after 16, 17 scores, Alistair Masters is in 3rd after a 13 and 15. The class act of the day in the Blue fleet was Poland’s Piotr Myszka, leading the Men’s regatta overall having scored a 2-1 today. The Pole is followed by Shahar Zubari (ISR) with Beijing Gold medallist Tom Ashley (AUS) third after posting a 1-5. RS:X Men - World Championship, leading positions after 2 races (113 entries) 1st POL 82 Piotr Myszka Blue 2 1 3 pts 2nd ISR 11 Shahar Zubari Yellow 2 3 5 pts 3rd NZL 181 Tom Ashley Yellow 1 5 6 pts 4th GRE 8 Byron Kokalanis Blue 1 6 7 pts 5th POL 126 Przemyslaw Miarczynski Yellow 6 2 8 pts 6th POL 738 Lukasz Grodzicki Yellow 5 4 9 pts 7th POL 7 Maksymilian Wojcik Blue 4 7 11 pts 7th UKR 19 Maksim Oberemko Yellow 4 7 11 pts 9th NZL 151 Jon-paul Tobin Blue 6 6 12 pts 10th FRA 112 Samuel Launay Yellow 11 3 14 pts GBR positions: 30th GBR 1 Nick Dempsey Yellow 16 17 33 pts 33rd GBR 41 Alistair Masters Blue 13 25 38 pts 51st GBR 7 Elliot Carney Blue 27 27 54 pts 54th GBR 75 Richard Hamilton Yellow 22 34 56 pts TeamOrigin improve, but still fall short in Cartagena . . . Emirates Team New Zealand’s return to Cartagena proved something of a repeat performance as the 2009 Audi MedCup champions retained the overall Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy for the second year in a row on the same waters where they clinched the overall TP52 Series championships title last year. The Kiwis seemed to have sailed an almost blemish free regatta, consistent across the broad wind range through the event, emerging triumphant at the dockside with a comfortable cushion on second placed Matador, but the jury subsequently disqualified them from the second race of the day for infringing Quantum Racing at the first windward mark.  TeamOrigin (GBR) seemed to have the measure of them at times in the light to moderate wind conditions and flat water, but the British crew were recalled for starting too early in the final race of the day, finishing ninth. Added to their 11th in Saturday’s coastal race that left TeamOrigin, who lead early in the event, third overall. Ben Ainslie and team will take some satisfaction not only from their first podium finish of the season and also the positive progress they are making on the season’s leaderboard. Ainslie: “It was a good week for the team. We had a couple of tough races but have been improving throughout the season which was always our goal and hope for a strong finish to the series in Cagliari” Overall the results for the Med Cup series mean that TeamOrigin are serious contenders for second place with Matador on equal points and Quantum Racing not far infront. That’ll make things interesting in Cagliari. Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy TP52 Series - Final after ten races 1. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 4+2+5+4+3+1+1,5+2+12(DSQ)+1= 35,5 points 2. Matador (ARG), 1+4+1+5+8+5+6+1+7+7= 45 3. TeamOrigin (GBR), 3+1+3+2+1+3+16,5+7+1+9= 46,5 4. Quantum Racing (USA), 9+5+6+3+7+2+7,5+6+5+3= 53,5 5. Artemis (SWE), 5+6+2+10+4+6+3+9+9+10= 64 6. Synergy (RUS), 8+3+7+11+6+7+10,5+10+2+4= 68,5 7. Luna Rossa (ITA), 2+7+9+6+2+9+15+3+8+8= 69 8. Bribón (ESP), 7+11+4+1+10+4+12+11+4+6= 70 9. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE (FRA/GER), 6+8+11+8+9+10+9+5+10+2= 79 10. Bigamist 7 (POR), 11+9+8+9+11+11+4,5+4+6+5= 78,5 11. Cristabella (GBR), 10+10+10+7+5+8+13,5+8+3+11= 85,5 GP42 Series - Final after nine races 1. Madrid – Caser Seguros (ESP), 2+3+1+5+3+2+3+2+2= 23 points 2. Iberdrola (ESP), 4+4+3+4+4+3+1+1+2= 27 3. Península Petroleum (GBR), 1+5+2+2+2+4+2+5+4= 27 4. Islas Canarias Puerto Calero (ESP), 3+1+5+1+5+5+4+4+1= 29 |
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