Laser Radial Men’s World Championship 2012 - Off and Running on Day 2

by Alaine Neilson on 13 Jul 2012 The 2012 Laser Radial Men’s World Championship 2012 is being hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, with fifty-two competitors from nine countries sailing on Moreton Bay.

Day one was breeze free and it looked as if the second day might go the same way.

However Principal Race Officer Kevin Wilson held the fleet ashore for an hour or so and the day gradually built. The fleet began racing in a seven knot breeze and the rain came in hard in a series of squalls as the day progressed. Three races were sailed and the boats went wide attempting to catch any breeze they could.

Overall winner today, Daniel Smith (AUS), said modestly, ‘I had a couple of good races – I felt relaxed and comfortable. It just seemed to work. The wind was a bit tricky and the rain made it trickier because you couldn’t see much. ‘Daniel ranked 10th overall in the Youth Worlds.

Tristan Brown (AUS) came second overall, with a win the a fourth and a sixth. ‘It was quite tricky… the wind was swinging a lot with the clouds and the rain. It was hard to work out where to go. I came back in two of the races OK because I was a fair way behind. But Daniel sailed really well so he’s the person to beat I guess,’ he said.

Kiwi sailor Mahia Pepper was third overall, with a 4, 2, 8 score line. He said, ‘The wind was really nice – it was sort of consistent in pressure if not in direction. I had a bad start but recovered well. ‘Mahia is fresh from the World Laser Youths where he ranked thirteenth overall, and he is well placed here.

Ben Walkemever was ranking fifth, with a 12, 3, and 5. He said he would have rather sailed in breezier conditions. ‘The wind was just enough but not really enough for an 83 kilo sailor.’

Ben ranked seventh overall in the recent Laser Radial Youth World Championship also sailed out of Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron.

 

World Laser Radial Men's Championship

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron

Nation Leaderboard

Laser Radial Men's Results as of 14:21 on July 14, 2012

Overall

Rank	ent-sailno	name	sailorid	nat	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	Nett
1st	199104	Smith Daniel	AUSDS33		2.0	1.0	1.0	(8.0)	12.0	4.0
2nd	185806	Pepper Mahia	NZLMP9		4.0	2.0	(8.0)	1.0	15.0	7.0
3rd	202854	Brown Tristan	AUSTB13		1.0	4.0	6.0	(20.0)	31.0	11.0
4th	197284	OConnell Jeremy	AUSJO5		(8.0)	6.0	4.0	2.0	20.0	12.0
5th	202810	Walkemeyer Ben	AUSBW14		12.0	3.0	5.0	(21.0)	41.0	20.0
6th	192612	Lane George	NZLGL2		16.0	8.0	(27.0)	3.0	54.0	27.0
7th	199215	Roberts James	NZLJR6		(27.0)	11.0	13.0	4.0	55.0	28.0
8th	199111	Perez Garcia-duran Alejandro	ESPAA20		6.0	17.0	10.0	(27.0)	60.0	33.0
9th	153160	Wearn Matthew	AUSMW34		3.0	15.0	17.0	(22.0)	57.0	35.0
10th	192624	Kennedy Mitchell	AUSMK2		5.0	(30.0)	16.0	14.0	65.0	35.0
11th	199225	Kempkers Matthew	NZLMK10		(29.0)	7.0	15.0	13.0	64.0	35.0
12th	198363	Puopolo Andrew	USAAP58		7.0	20.0	12.0	(33.0)	72.0	39.0
13th	162626	Kennedy Mark	AUSMK7		14.0	(23.0)	3.0	23.0	63.0	40.0
14th	196479	Hiwa Shota	JPNSH7		21.0	14.0	(23.0)	5.0	63.0	40.0
15th	183535	de Trazegnies Jean Paul	PERJD1		9.0	24.0	7.0	(36.0)	76.0	40.0
16th	170509	Langford Rohan	AUSRL17		13.0	21.0	(30.0)	11.0	75.0	45.0
17th	191645	Howe Nicholas	AUSNH7		(22.0)	22.0	18.0	6.0	68.0	46.0
18th	201506	Vincent Thomas	AUSTV3		25.0	5.0	(31.0)	18.0	79.0	48.0
19th	189794	Davids Keith	USAKD53		18.0	32.0	2.0	(52.0 OCS)	104.0	52.0
20th	114658	Yamamoto Kazuyuki	JPNKY11		17.0	27.0	(40.0)	12.0	96.0	56.0
21st	203223	Franklin Benjamin	AUSBF3		11.0	(28.0)	20.0	26.0	85.0	57.0
22nd	187268	Dietrich Tomas	ARGTD1		15.0	13.0	29.0	(42.0)	99.0	57.0
23rd	197287	Bates William	AUSWB17		(41.0)	18.0	14.0	25.0	98.0	57.0
24th	193921	Tan Wei Ann Nicodemus	SINNT2		24.0	19.0	(32.0)	15.0	90.0	58.0
25th	202599	Lilley Jake	AUSJL12		35.0	16.0	9.0	(40.0)	100.0	60.0
26th	195326	Vidal Agustan	ARGAV3		19.0	9.0	(33.0)	32.0	93.0	60.0
27th	202882	Utting Bradley	AUSBU2		10.0	25.0	26.0	(31.0)	92.0	61.0
28th	198115	Dunning Beck Logan John	NZLLD6		30.0	(33.0)	24.0	9.0	96.0	63.0
29th	199099	Atherton-Feeney Sean	AUSSF4		32.0	10.0	25.0	(52.0 DNF)	119.0	67.0
30th	195542	Le Roy Cullen	NZLCL4		(46.0)	12.0	28.0	28.0	114.0	68.0
31st	193919	Wong Mark	SINMW1		20.0	(31.0)	21.0	29.0	101.0	70.0
32nd	198122	Hookings Luke	AUSLH25		23.0	38.0	11.0	(39.0)	111.0	72.0
33rd	199095	Howard Richard	AUSRH1		26.0	34.0	(35.0)	19.0	114.0	79.0
34th	202619	Onodera Shoichiro	JPNSO4		34.0	(43.0)	37.0	10.0	124.0	81.0
35th	201538	Johnson Hayden	AUSHJ3		31.0	36.0	(39.0)	17.0	123.0	84.0
36th	201521	Plenderleith Stuart	AUSSP22		(45.0)	37.0	43.0	7.0	132.0	87.0
37th	193070	Pullen Zac	AUSZP2		28.0	26.0	34.0	(41.0)	129.0	88.0
38th	196421	Bennett Liam	AUSLB11		33.0	42.0	(47.0)	16.0	138.0	91.0
39th	199093	Loosemore Jeff	AUSJL17		(38.0)	35.0	36.0	24.0	133.0	95.0
40th	199070	Masaaki Taniguchi	JPNTM13		(42.0)	39.0	19.0	38.0	138.0	96.0
41st	199109	Connor Nicholas	AUSNC12		48.0	29.0	22.0	(52.0 OCS)	151.0	99.0
42nd	193132	Charlie Markson	PNGMC1		36.0	41.0	(52.0 ARB)	35.0	164.0	112.0
43rd	198125	Brooks-duncan Joshua	AUSJB61		(49.0)	40.0	44.0	34.0	167.0	118.0
44th	198089	Halsey Luke	AUSLH?		40.0	(48.0)	38.0	45.0	171.0	123.0
45th	184709	Russell Stephen	AUSSR22		37.0	(47.0)	41.0	46.0	171.0	124.0
46th	203211	Mills Michael	AUSMM27		47.0	(50.0)	48.0	30.0	175.0	125.0
47th	180187	Blight Dan	AUSDB32		(50.0)	45.0	45.0	37.0	177.0	127.0
48th	202666	Pursch Kingsley	AUSKP10		39.0	46.0	(49.0)	44.0	178.0	129.0
49th	193143	Numa Raymond	PNGRN1		44.0	44.0	(46.0)	43.0	177.0	131.0
50th	202852	Meech Christopher	AUSCM26		43.0	49.0	42.0	(52.0 OCS)	186.0	134.0
51st	152875	Lott Nigel	AUSNL6		(52.0 DNC)	52.0 DNC	52.0 DNC	52.0 DNC	208.0	156.0

 

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