Zhik SB3 World Championship day 4 - Glenn Bourke hangs on

by Katie Ashworth on 20 May 2011 Zhik SB3 World Championship day 4.

Glenn Bourke and crew (Club Marine) currently hold fourth spot while Nathan Outteridge (One Design Sailing) and crew are 15th after an OCS today.

Blue skies and brilliant sunshine greeted the 103 boat fleet of SB3s on Day 4 of the Zhik SB3 World Championships 2011. Unfortunately the wind was late arriving and the 'AP' was raised for over an hour. Eventually, the wind put in an appearance and as the afternoon went on the pressure increased and as forcast, the direction tracked right.

All eyes were on Robert Greenhalgh (GBR) and the crew this morning after their strong performance yesterday. At the first windward mark 'Red' rounded towards the middle of the gold fleet, but the crew managed to pick up the wind shift and improve their position to finish the race in third place. The race was won by Irish entry Mel Collins (IRL) and his crew on Sibelus. Sarah Allan was back in action and finished the race second.

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The rock star crew on One Design Sailing, Nathan Outteridge, Ian Brown and Tom Slingsby (AUS), have had a difficult Championship and today was no exception. They were called over the line in race two, but didn’t hear the Race Committees radio announcement of their bow number. After leading the fleet all the way around the course, they finished first. The news of their 'OCS' was a bitter blow for the Australian team. Having finished tenth in race one and fifth in race three, it’s fair to say One Design Sailing’s performance was back, but their luck is yet to be found.

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Gill Race Team, helmed by Craig Burlton (GBR) have found their form today. The second discard has now been applied to the results which puts Burlton in third position overall. 'From the forecast, it looked like it was going to be a really tough day, but we’ve worked it out today and the breeze was much more consistent. The smiles are back onboard!' said Craig as we had a chat on the harbour-side this evening. Going into the final day, there is a twenty point gap between Burlton and Greenhalgh, 'It would be a big call to beat Rob, and we’d have to rely on him having some major errors tomorrow. But we’re happy to be in third place this evening.'

Yesterday, Rob Gullan (GBR), the helm of Pieter Heyn’s 'Parkway Pirates' took a great leap up the overall results. This evening Parkway Pirates lie in fifth position, sixteen points behind Glenn Bourke (AUS) in fourth. 'We don’t do a lot of sailing together and it’s taken us a bit of time to work out the conditions in Tor Bay. We sailed all of our qualifying races on the Orange course, but our results have improved since we’ve been sailing in the Gold fleet on the Yellow course.' With just two races left to sail, Gullan and crew will be looking to sail two more consistent races to protect their fifth position. 'If somebody had said to us before this event we’d be fifth at this stage, we’d have taken that, the competition is the hardest it’s been at any of the World Championships so far.'

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This evening the 'WKD Girls' are in town to entertain the competitors at the Zhik SB3 World Championships, though I expect for many at the top of the gold fleet the order of the day will be dinner and an early night ahead of the final battle on Tor Bay tomorrow.

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Gold Fleet

Series Place Sail No Bow No Boat Helm Series Points Race 1A Race 1B Race 2A Race 2B Race 3A Race 3B Race 4B Race 4A Race 5B Race 5A Race 6B Race 6A Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 Race 10 Race 11 Race 12   1 GBR3489 19 Red Robert Greenhalgh 35 1   2   1     11   8   8 1 3 1 3 11 7   2 GBR3053 111 Race Team Gill Geoff Carveth 40   4   2   9   3   4   1 2 14 6 9 1 8   3 GBR3042 54 Gill Racing Team Craig Burton 55 4   3   2     8   1   10 21 2 29 4 9 1   4 AUS3108 70 Club Marine Glenn Bourke 59   5   1   11   53   5   5 7 4 14 15 4 3   5 GBR3047 95 Parkway Pirates Rob Gullan 75   9   14   12 11   5   15   3 6 4 7 20 4   6 GBR3058 15 Xcellent John Pollard 77 2   6   14   1   4   1   17 13 13 36 5 15   7 GBR3082 68 Henri Lloyd/Forelle Estates Joe Llewellyn 79   6   13   1   4   53   2 13 19 8 13 8 11   8 ITA3073 39 Stenghele Roberto Caresani 89   2   3   19   1   3   7 23 9 32 5 24 12   9 RSA3469 49 Musto Race Ahead Asenaithi Jim 92   3   4   10 3   53   25   9 8 10 18 25 2   10 IRL3324 22 Sibelus Mel Collins 94   17   8   21 7   16   2   11 10 22 1 6 16   11 RUS3554 109 Team Russia Rodion Luka 95 8   53   4     53   2   3 5 5 2 41 7 6   12 NZL3287 36 Sailing West - Sharkbait Ben Duncan 113   16   28   4   2   6   4 15 49 11 12 34 9   13 GBR3065 65 Rola-Trac Peter Saxton 116   1   5   2 36   1   3   18 20 43 30 12 24   14 GBR3475 57 Perky III Jez Entwistle 124   12   6   5 26   3   11   4 1 37 17 28 42   15 AUS3063 32 One Design Sailing Nathan Outteridge 124 6   4   3   4   53   4   24 29 35 10 53 5   16 ITA3543 101 Bravi Thytronic Giovanni Meloni 140 23   12   17   5   7   8   16 18 19 19 19 21   17 GBR3149 16 Poor Buoy Mark Gillett 141 17   16   6   33   19   5   27 30 5 45 2 14   18 GBR3032 92 Rumbleflurg David Cummins 154 3   8   5   2   9   7   6 36 25 22 40 41   19 GBR3305 55 Rigging Gurus Mark Richards 159   26   25   3   29   53   6 32 7 9 53 3 19   20 GBR3336 8 Uber 3 Adrian Peach 162   8   15   18 9   53   9   33 27 15 11 17 43   21 GBR3575 56 Sailboat Deliveries Sarah Allan 164 29   9   16   22   10   41   14 24 48 2 10 28   22 GBR3292 93 Chill Pill Tich Summers 167   41   7   41 10   2   12   49 17 3 28 14 33   23 GBR3462 58 Underground Toys Andrew Oddie 179 19   1   10     53   17   17 36 15 27 27 43 10   24 GBR3465 26 3 Sad Old Blokes Jerry Hill 182   25   9   6   53   7   30 28 12 20 53 23 22   25 GBR3134 84 Marilyn Dom Ford 197 5   18   9   14   8   20   36 22 28 20 37 47   26 GBR3027 63 Darling Associates Chris Darling 197   10   11   23   32   13   29 26 33 47 6 15 31   27 GER3561 86 Razzmatazz Sebastian Dohrendorf 199 12   7   7   45   14   6   41 26 31 37 22 37   28 GBR3556 69 Herbie Phil Tilley 199 7   29   15   6   53   18   44 40 30 16 18 20   29 GBR3106 37   Tom Clay 203   21   29   37 20   6   24   48 11 24 8 33 27   30 GBR3546 98 Orthteam Richard Catchpole 204   7   18   13   25   10   23 12 38 17 24 42 51   31 IRL3298 64 Toucan 3 Ross Vaughan 204   43   19   17   14   19   12 31 37 7 25 50 23   32 GBR3517 75 Doolalli Colin Simonds 208 18   19   12     22   18   28 22 32 21 32 27 17   33 GBR3079 116 Excuse Me Gents Ann Jackson 213   19   37   8 17   21   14   8 25 40 42 32 29   34 GBR3510 52 Hutton's Richard Wharram 221 21   10   25   21   18   30   38 41 18 26 26 18   35 NED3441 17 Rivium Paul Gast 223 9   5   8     5   9   9 46 46 12 39 47 44   36 GBR3084 1 Eau No! Mark Sotkes 226   20   34   26 23   26   13   30 21 16 38 39 13   37 GBR3029 44 3-Some Niall Peelo 232   11   16   22 27   11   34   19 48 33 14 44 35   38 GBR3021 51 Here Comes Bod Charlie Whelan 245 44   27   24     9   24   22 25 34 38 29 13 50   39 GBR3464 5 Eric Martin Wedge 254 15   13   22     7   11   53 29 51 34 44 41 38   40 GER3402 21 Norah Daniel Spaenle 256.2 14   17   20     6   14   14.2 43 35 39 48 29 45   41 GBR3041 67 Robina Dan Goodman 259 16   24   18     10   15   25 33 47 42 46 21 34   42 GBR3183 30 Respect John Danby 264 33   11   23   8   28   32   39 39 26 23 35 49   43 ITA3606 114 Lunatico XS Aurelio Bini 264 20   15   53     23   16   11 40 23 46 34 53 36   44 ITA3596 99 Briefing Luca Bacci 266   39   24   20   53   12   14 37 43 44 21 31 25   45 GBR3276 89 Trouble & Strife Ian Armstrong 268 11   20   19   30   12   53   50 16 49 40 45 26   46 UKR3443 78 Transbunker Polovy Valeriy 268 27   14   13     53   25   20 47 42 23 43 29 32   47 AUS3607 104 Wysiwyg VI Stephen Fries 280   22   10   31 25   13   10   45 31 36 53 48 40   48 BEL3472 35 Los Zapateros Alex Schoenmakers 282   14   21   36   26   23   16 35 45 41 31 30 46   49 GBR3468 60 Fully Badgered Paul Lovejoy 297 10   32   42   29   17   17   34 28 50 33 49 48   50 IRL3338 59 Milvus Milvus Robert Howe 319 30   21   26   38   20   19   42 52 51 35 36 39   51 IRL3226 112 Quantitative Easing Paul McMahon 329 35   30   11   13   53   31   52 44 45 53 38 30   52 IRL3312 91 Bomchickawahwah John O'Driscoll 368   32   30   15   16   29   53 51 50 52 47 46 52

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