2015 Finn Gold Cup – Light conditions on Day 3
by Cora Zillich on 26 Nov 2015
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In other World title events, racing for the 2015 Finn Gold Cup, the Finn Class World Championship, continued off Takapuna in New Zeland as the fleet took to the water for day three of the six day regatta.
Three races were scheduled for the day after only one race was possible yesterday. But again conditions were light and only two races were completed.
After both Australian Sailing crews had a tough day in the office yesterday, Oliver Tweddell had a strong recovery posting a 14th and eighth and moving up from 19th into eleventh overall.
“We had massive delay today waiting for breeze to come in. It was a light northerly to start with and eventually the breeze came in and we sat on the water for a couple of hours whilst we waited for the breeze to fill. The breeze eventually came in and we had a light seven to eight knots breeze and I managed to have two really good races,” Oliver Tweddell said about the day.
“I sailed quite conservatively as I had a bad race yesterday but was very happy how I sailed today. I’m looking forward to tomorrow with three races scheduled and a lot of breeze, which should be good.”
Australian Sailing Squad’s Jake Lilley (QLD) did not have the best day posting an 18th and 36th and sitting in 31st overall after five races.
Three races are now scheduled for Friday, 27 November to try and catch up with the programme.
Racing at the Finn Gold Cup runs from Tuesday 24 to Sunday 29 November with ten races scheduled until Saturday 28 November and with the medal race and final race on Sunday 29 November.
Australia secured country qualification for the Finn class for Rio 2016 at last year’s ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain. But who will be representing Australia in the class is yet to be decided. With selection still ongoing the Finn World Cup will be an important event for the current world number two Jake Lilley and world number six Oliver Tweddell.
Results 2015 Finn Gold Cup results (as of November 26)
- Oliver Tweddell (VIC/VIS/SYC/SSBC) – ASS: 17, 12, (39), 14, 8 – 11th
- Jake Lilley (QLD/QAS/RQYS) – ASS: (56), 2, 45, 18, 36 – 31st
Other Australian, non AST/ASS entries:
- Joseph McMillan (WSC): 54, 56, 56, 28, 51, 32 – 52nd
- Ian McKillorp (PAYC): 64, 60, 47, 51, 32 – 53rd
- John Condie (Yarra Bay): 68, 64, 60, 37, 41 – 57th
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