International 14 World Championships - Brits win Day 5

by Neil Patchett on 7 Jan 2010 British sailors took first place in both qualifying races today in Day 5 of the CST Composites International 14 World Championship.

Defending World Champion Archie Massey and his crew Dan Wilsdon recovered from their breakages of yesterday and posted solid win in race one for the day. It was a lead from the front effort from the British sailor in a 8-12kt sou'easter.

Massey and Wilsdon relished the light to moderate seabreeze and generally flat conditions on the harbour to record a comfortable win ahead of Australian Ron Scherwinski and his crew James Lanati with Lindsay Irwin and Andrew Perry third.

In race two, it was the British pair of Robert Greenhalgh and Phil Harmer who cleared out early but they were forced to work hard for their win by a pack of Australians chasing hard. One of those chasing was Ben Austin with crew Peter Nicholson who looked to be threatening but they came unstuck in at the first spinnaker hoist which ended in a capsize that cost nearly a dozen places.

South Australian Dave Alexander and his crew Cameron Mcdonald finshed second in race two ahead of Britain's Tom Heywood and crew Ed Clay.

The first leg of today's windward-leeward course was 1.5 nautical miles long and Massey/Wilsdon went round in 71min while Greenhalgh/Harmer were three minutes quicker in the afternoon race... perhaps due to a slightly stronger seabreeze of around 10-16kts.

Racing continues tomorrow.

Rank	Nat	SailNo	Flight	Boat	HelmName	CrewName	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Total	Nett
1st	AUS	656	Yellow	Too Late to Stop Now	Mark Krstic	Andrew Wilson	2.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	(55.0 DNC)	61.0	6.0
2nd	AUS	1519	Blue	Gill Carbon Express	Archie Massey	Dan Wilsdon	1.0	3.8 RDGa	1.0	(12.0)	1.0	18.8	6.8
3rd	GBR	1540	Blue	WSI - Internet	Andy Partington	Tom Partington	1.0	2.0	6.0	1.0	(11.0)	21.0	10.0
4th	GBR	1530	Yellow	Smash It!	Robert Greenhalgh	Phil Harmer	2.0	(55.0 BFD)	2.0	7.0	1.0	67.0	12.0
5th	GBR	1541	Yellow	Seldon	Roger Gilbert	Ben McGrane	3.0	1.0	3.0	5.0	(6.0)	18.0	12.0
6th	AUS	663	Blue	Ronstan Irwin Sails	Lindsay Irwin	Andrew Perry	(9.0)	4.0	4.0	2.0	3.0	22.0	13.0
7th	AUS	635	Yellow	Dimension Polyant	Benjamin Austin	Peter Nicholson	3.0	7.0	1.0	3.0	(55.0 DNF)	69.0	14.0
8th	AUS	653	Yellow	Touring Wombat	Dave Alexander	Cameron McDonald	(6.0)	5.0	5.0	4.0	2.0	22.0	16.0
9th	GBR	1484	Yellow	GBR 1484	Tom Heywood	Ed Clay	(5.0)	5.0	5.0	3.0	3.0	21.0	16.0
10th	GBR	1500	Blue	Greenheart	Douglas Pattison	Mark Tait	4.0	2.0	9.0	2.0	(12.0)	29.0	17.0
11th	USA	1168	Blue	Old Bull, Young Bull	Paul Galvez	Simon Marks	7.0	3.0	(55.0 OCS)	4.0	7.0	76.0	21.0
12th	AUS	651	Blue	Fingers	David Hayter	Trent Neighbour	(55.0 DNF)	6.0	3.0	5.0	8.0	77.0	22.0
13th	AUS	661	Yellow	Del Boca Vista	Brad Devine	Denis Jones	6.0	8.0	4.0	(55.0 DNF)	5.0	78.0	23.0
14th	AUS	645	Blue	Ray and the Crazy 88's	Anthony Anderson	Phil Chadwick	9.0	6.0	(12.0)	6.0	4.0	37.0	25.0
15th	AUS	652	Blue	Ray White Mordiallic- Flaunt It	Ray Scherwinski	James Lanati	10.0	9.0	6.0	(14.0)	2.0	41.0	27.0