ISAF Youth Sailing World - Conditions test sailors on Day 2 + Video

by ISAF on 16 Jul 2012
If the conditions on the opening day of the 2012 Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Dun Laoghaire were challenging, they were even more so on Day 2.

A westerly to southwesterly breeze, blowing off the picturesque town on the outskirts of Dublin, was making the wind both shifty and gusty out on the water for the 343 future Olympic potentials, all under 19 years of age, who have congregated in the Emerald Isle from all four corners of the globe. At one point a squall passed over the fleet measuring 25 knots in the harbour.

Despite the testing conditions on the water, competitors in the eight classes all completed three races and with five races in total now sailed, have been able to discard their worst result.

With the offshore breeze making life difficult, Spain's Carlos Robles and Florian Trittel managed to score a 1-1-3 today in the 29er fleet. But they are not alone to have a single figure overall result in the mini version of the Olympic 49er skiff with France's Lucas Rual and Thomas Biton winning the last race. They are now four points behind the Barcelona-based sailors.

'We did three races with really difficult conditions - very shifty and very puffy, but we managed to stay in front,' said Robles. 'We still don't have a drop [ie a bad result], and that's really good for us.' Out on the water Robles said they had seen the wind oscillating between six and 14 knots as the wind shifting by up to 40 degrees. 'All the day it was really inconstant - really, really difficult. We had to have our eyes out of the boat all the time looking for puffs.'

One of the biggest leads is developing in the 420 Boys, where France's Guillaume Pirouelle and Valentin Sipan discarded their 18th in today's second race leaving them on 11 points, in turn 11 clear of Pieter Goedhart and Lars Van Stekelenborg (NED) after Spanish twins David and Alex Charles were declared OCS in today's final race.

'We are doing our best said,' said Sipan, who with his helm won the 420 European Championship last year. The duo is considered among the favourites for honours in this event. 'We have good speed and we are making quite good starts and we are following the shifts - it is good.'

'The conditions are quite difficult with big clouds and it is very shifty,' said Pirouelle. 'But we like it when it is more windy.' This is not the duo's first time in Dun Laoghaire this year having won the ISA Mitsubishi Youth National Championship, where it was equally shifty.

A 1-2-3 today has propelled Britain's Annabel Vose and Kirstie Urwin into the lead of the 420 Girls, where they are now on seven points, 11 points ahead of today's race two winners Carrie Smith and Ella Clark (AUS), benefitting from Beijing gold medallist Tessa Parkinson being with them here in Dun Laoghaire as their coach.

'We didn't lead around any of the top marks,' said Vose of today's results. 'Places were going up and down, but we had some good reaches and we did some good decision making and looking at the next marks, which were quite key and just managed to gain places slowly.'

Vose, 17, was 420 World Champion last year but with a different crew. Urwin only joined her in September. Having also attended the Youth Nationals here in Dun Laoghaire in April, the Brits came good today after they were nailed in yesterday's first race when they found themselves on the wrong side of a giant and persistent shift. 'It is really shifty out there and it is really difficult - you see that from the results. It is such a high scoring event, so I think we did quite well to get a few top 10s today,' said Vose.

Britain is also leading in the RS:X Girl's class where Saskia Sills is putting together a near immaculate series, discarding the third she scored in today's first race to end the day on five points, eight points ahead of Italy's second placed Veronica Fanciulli. Meanwhile Reg White, the late 1976 Tornado Gold medallist, would have been proud of his grandson Rupert, who posted a 1-1-2 today with crew Tom Britz to move into the lead of the SL16s.

'It was a good day - we're pretty happy with it,' said White, who reckoned that they had made the biggest gains on the reaching legs of today's three races. 'We had to keep focussed the whole day, even when things didn't go quite to plan. Downwind is our strong point. Generally we managed to pick the right side today which helps.'

White and Britz are now four points ahead of yesterday's joint leaders Paul Darmanin and Lucy Copeland (AUS) who hold second.

One of the fleets where it remains tightest at the top after five races is theRS:X Men where Korean defending champion Cho Wonwoo, still leads, but remains just a point ahead of Mattia Camboni (ITA), one of a collection of sailors able to discard their BFD disqualification from the first race. However among the Laser Radial Boys, the Mitchell Kiss (USA) leads after winning today's second race, but is tied on points with Italy's Marco Zani.

Three points separates the leaders in the Laser Radial Girls, where Norway's Line Flem Höst holds a four point advantage of Turkey's Pinar Kaynar, winner of today's second race. However the best scoreline of the day belonged to third placed Agata Barwinska, who posted a 3-3-2. The Pole's view of today's conditions was markedly different to the rest of the competitors, 'It was really good wind, first strong wind and then it was dropping and dropping. I think it was a great wind for me, the best wind for me.'

Barwinska is competing in her first ISAF Youth World Championship, which she says is the most important regatta of her sailing career so far.

The Laser Radial Girl's fleet also sees Malaysia's Khairunneeta Mohd Afendy competing, 31st among the 42 boats. 'It's pretty good, but it's pretty cold too, because it's really different weather between here and Malaysia, and the wind is really shifty.' At present the temperature is into the 30s back home in Langkawi, host venue of the 2015 ISAF Youth Worlds.

This is Afendy's second Youth Worlds, having won her Nationals in Malaysia and came seventh in the Youth Olympic Games. At the recent Laser Radial World Championship in Germany she was five places adrift of gaining Malaysia a berth at London 2012. However the Youth Worlds she says is an event she likes because she gets to compete with sailors of her own age. 'I really want to improve my skills here and compare with other sailors.'

Racing continues at 12:00 tomorrow with two races, with conditions forecast to be stronger and even more gusty.

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420 Boys:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 30, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Crew	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
420 Boys	FRA	Guillaume PIROUELLE	Valentin SIPAN	1st	1.0	5.0	4.0	(18.0)	1.0	29.0	11.0
420 Boys	NED	Pieter GOEDHART	Lars VAN STEKELENBORG	2nd	(26.0)	4.0	10.0	2.0	6.0	48.0	22.0
420 Boys	ESP	David CHARLES	Alex CHARLES	3rd	6.0	1.0	16.0	(31.0 OCS)	2.0	56.0	25.0
420 Boys	GBR	Craig DIBB	Charlie COX	4th	(11.0)	6.0	9.0	6.0	4.0	36.0	25.0
420 Boys	ITA	Giacomo FERRARI	Giulio CALABRO	5th	8.0	(14.0)	1.0	4.0	14.0	41.0	27.0
420 Boys	MAS	Mohamad Faizal NORIZON	Ahmad Syukri ABDUL AZIZ	6th	10.0	(24.0)	5.0	13.0	3.0	55.0	31.0
420 Boys	ISR	Ian BARZILAI	Tal HARARI	7th	2.0	(22.0)	6.0	5.0	21.0	56.0	34.0
420 Boys	TUR	Cem AYDIN	Ali KURIS	8th	3.0	23.0	7.0	3.0	(27.0)	63.0	36.0
420 Boys	ISV	Ian BARROWS	Ian COYLE	9th	(20.0)	13.0	3.0	8.0	12.0	56.0	36.0
420 Boys	GER	Oliver OCZYCZ	Daniel HOFFMANN	10th	(27.0)	3.0	15.0	12.0	7.0	64.0	37.0

420 Girls:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 26, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Crew	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
420 Girls	GBR	Annabel VOSE	Kirstie URWIN	1st	(16.0)	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	23.0	7.0
420 Girls	AUS	Carrie SMITH	Ella CLARK	2nd	4.0	(22.0)	7.0	1.0	6.0	40.0	18.0
420 Girls	ITA	Ilaria PATERNOSTER	Benedetta DISALLE	3rd	8.0	3.0	3.0	(11.0)	4.0	29.0	18.0
420 Girls	SIN	Kimberly LIM	Savannah SIEW	4th	3.0	8.0	2.0	(16.0)	8.0	37.0	21.0
420 Girls	FRA	Jennifer PORET	Louise CHEVET	5th	5.0	6.0	(21.0)	6.0	7.0	45.0	24.0
420 Girls	CHI	Nadja HORWITZ	Francisca FUENTES	6th	7.0	4.0	(12.0)	12.0	2.0	37.0	25.0
420 Girls	NZL	Erica DAWSON	Ellie COPELAND	7th	1.0	(21.0)	10.0	5.0	11.0	48.0	27.0
420 Girls	ISR	Noya BARAM	Rimon SHOSHAN	8th	(9.0)	2.0	9.0	7.0	9.0	36.0	27.0
420 Girls	USA	Megan GRAPENGETER-RUDNICK	Abigail ROHMAN	9th	6.0	12.0	6.0	4.0	(19.0)	47.0	28.0
420 Girls	NED	Anne-Christianne KENTGENS	Marchien SPEELMAN	10th	(24.0)	5.0	5.0	3.0	17.0	54.0	30.0

29er:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 24, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Crew	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
29er	ESP	Carlos ROBLES	Florian TRITTEL	1st	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	(3.0)	8.0	5.0
29er	FRA	Lucas RUAL	Thomas BITON	2nd	3.0	(11.0)	2.0	2.0	2.0	20.0	9.0
29er	USA	Quinn WILSON	Dane WILSON	3rd	1.0	3.0	(10.0)	9.0	1.0	24.0	14.0
29er	GER	Paul KOHLHOFF	Carolina WERNER	4th	5.0	2.0	(16.0)	3.0	7.0	33.0	17.0
29er	ARG	Klaus LANGE	Mateo MAJDALANI	5th	4.0	(6.0)	4.0	4.0	5.0	23.0	17.0
29er	AUS	Tom SIGANTO	Joel TURNER	6th	7.0	(12.0)	3.0	8.0	6.0	36.0	24.0
29er	NZL	Trent RIPPEY	Alex MUNRO	7th	(17.0)	9.0	8.0	5.0	4.0	43.0	26.0
29er	POL	Konrad LIPSKI	Michal ZAK	8th	8.0	5.0	(13.0)	7.0	9.0	42.0	29.0
29er	GBR	Benjamin BATTEN	Timothy GRATTON	9th	12.0	4.0	(18.0)	6.0	11.0	51.0	33.0
29er	RSA	Alex LEHTINEN	Alex BURGER	10th	10.0	13.0	5.0	14.0	(19.0)	61.0	42.0

SL16:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 15, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Crew	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
SL16	GBR	Rupert WHITE	Tom BRITZ	1st	(7.0)	2.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	13.0	6.0
SL16	AUS	Paul DARMANIN	Lucy COPELAND	2nd	1.0	3.0	4.0	2.0	(6.0)	16.0	10.0
SL16	BEL	Henri DEMESMAEKER	Philip HENDRICKX	3rd	3.0	1.0	3.0	(8.0)	3.0	18.0	10.0
SL16	NZL	Gemma JONES	Tomer SIMHONY	4th	(12.0)	4.0	5.0	5.0	1.0	27.0	15.0
SL16	BRA	Martin Manzoil LOWY	Kim VIDAL	5th	2.0	5.0	(7.0)	6.0	7.0	27.0	20.0
SL16	DEN	Daniel BJORNHOLT CHRISTENSEN	Nicolaj BJORNHOLT CHRISTENSEN	6th	(9.0)	6.0	6.0	4.0	4.0	29.0	20.0
SL16	FRA	Antoine DIJOU	Guillaume LECROQ	7th	11.0	9.0	2.0	3.0	(12.0)	37.0	25.0
SL16	ITA	Andrea MARTINELLI	Viola MONACI	8th	(13.0)	7.0	11.0	11.0	5.0	47.0	34.0
SL16	ESP	Pau DENGRA	Jordi BOOTH	9th	4.0	(13.0)	10.0	12.0	9.0	48.0	35.0
SL16	IRL	Alexander RUMBALL	Rory MCSTAY	10th	8.0	10.0	(15.0)	7.0	10.0	50.0	35.0

Laser Radial Boys:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 58, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
Laser Radial Boys	USA	Mitchell KISS	1st	19.0	1.0	13.0	1.0	(30.0)	64.0	34.0
Laser Radial Boys	ITA	Marco ZANI	2nd	(13.0)	9.0	7.0	8.0	10.0	47.0	34.0
Laser Radial Boys	AUS	Mark SPEARMAN	3rd	6.0	12.0	(15.0)	13.0	8.0	54.0	39.0
Laser Radial Boys	RUS	Maxim NIKOLAEV	4th	10.0	4.0	(32.0)	10.0	16.0	72.0	40.0
Laser Radial Boys	NOR	Hermann TOMASGAARD	5th	(59.0 BFD)	6.0	8.0	25.0	3.0	101.0	42.0
Laser Radial Boys	FRA	Jean-Baptiste DUCAMIN	6th	7.0	28.0	1.0	7.0	(34.0)	77.0	43.0
Laser Radial Boys	POR	Eduardo MARQUES	7th	(59.0 BFD)	13.0	2.0	5.0	27.0	106.0	47.0
Laser Radial Boys	POL	Lew Cezary GOLDA	8th	12.0	21.0	3.0	(31.0)	11.0	78.0	47.0
Laser Radial Boys	IRL	Finn LYNCH	9th	4.0	15.0	14.0	16.0	(22.0)	71.0	49.0
Laser Radial Boys	PUR	Juanky PERDOMO	10th	(59.0 BFD)	14.0	25.0	6.0	5.0	109.0	50.0

Laser Radial Girls:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 42, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
Laser Radial Girls	NOR	Line Flem HOST	1st	2.0	1.0	10.0	2.0	(23.0)	38.0	15.0
Laser Radial Girls	TUR	Pinar KAYNAR	2nd	(22.0)	2.0	12.0	1.0	3.0	40.0	18.0
Laser Radial Girls	POL	Agata BARWINSKA	3rd	(13.0)	13.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	34.0	21.0
Laser Radial Girls	ISR	Oren JACOB	4th	5.0	4.0	5.0	12.0	(26.0)	52.0	26.0
Laser Radial Girls	SWE	Julia CARLSSON	5th	4.0	17.0	1.0	(20.0)	6.0	48.0	28.0
Laser Radial Girls	NED	Maxime JONKER	6th	(25.0)	11.0	4.0	6.0	7.0	53.0	28.0
Laser Radial Girls	ITA	Cecilia ZORZI	7th	(20.0)	10.0	7.0	5.0	9.0	51.0	31.0
Laser Radial Girls	BRA	Maria Cristina BOABAID	8th	(16.0)	6.0	11.0	4.0	13.0	50.0	34.0
Laser Radial Girls	LTU	Milda EIDUKEVICIUTE	9th	(18.0)	9.0	2.0	14.0	15.0	58.0	40.0
Laser Radial Girls	GBR	Ellie MEOPHAM	10th	3.0	15.0	8.0	(17.0)	14.0	57.0	40.0

RSX Girls:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 23, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
RSX Girls	GBR	Saskia SILLS	1st	1	1	(3)	1	2	8.0	5.0
RSX Girls	ITA	Veronica FANCIULLI	2nd	2	3	2	6	(9)	22.0	13.0
RSX Girls	BLR	Anastasiya VALKEVICH	3rd	5	(15)	7	2	3	32.0	17.0
RSX Girls	ISR	Naomi COHEN	4th	6	8	(15)	3	1	33.0	18.0
RSX Girls	ESP	Blanca ALABAU	5th	4	7	4	(14)	5	34.0	20.0
RSX Girls	THA	Siripon KAWWDUANG-NGAM	6th	7	6	1	(15)	7	36.0	21.0
RSX Girls	NED	Sara WENNEKES	7th	8	2	(12)	7	4	33.0	21.0
RSX Girls	POL	Natalia KACPZIK	8th	9	(11)	5	4	6	35.0	24.0
RSX Girls	HKG	Lydia CHAU	9th	3	4	11	(16)	8	42.0	26.0
RSX Girls	FRA	Jeanne DANTES	10th	(18)	10	6	5	12	51.0	33.0

RSX Boys:

Overall

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 30, Scoring system: Appendix A

Class	Country	Helm	Rank	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
RSX Boys	KOR	Wonwood CHO	1st	1.0	4.0	2.0	(6.0)	2.0	15.0	9.0
RSX Boys	ITA	Mattia CAMBONI	2nd	(31.0 BFD)	2.0	1.0	2.0	5.0	41.0	10.0
RSX Boys	GBR	Kieran MARTIN	3rd	(31.0 BFD)	1.0	4.0	5.0	4.0	45.0	14.0
RSX Boys	FRA	Maxime LABAT	4th	(31.0 BFD)	3.0	11.0	7.0	1.0	53.0	22.0
RSX Boys	NED	Kiran BADLOE	5th	(31.0 BFD)	9.0	8.0	3.0	3.0	54.0	23.0
RSX Boys	HKG	Michael CHENG	6th	7.0	6.0	(16.0)	1.0	11.0	41.0	25.0
RSX Boys	ARG	Bautista SAUBIDET	7th	2.0	7.0	(31.0 OCS)	8.0	12.0	60.0	29.0
RSX Boys	UKR	Tugaryev OLESKSANDR	8th	5.0	(19.0)	3.0	13.0	8.0	48.0	29.0
RSX Boys	BRA	Yago CARVALHO	9th	6.0	(16.0)	6.0	11.0	6.0	45.0	29.0
RSX Boys	MEX	Ignacio BERENGUER	10th	4.0	14.0	5.0	(17.0)	7.0	47.0	30.0

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