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M30 Worlds Breeze, Breaks and Bumps on Day Two

by Bunny Wayt on 3 Oct 2008
Optimumm leads M30 Worlds on Day 2 Andrew Palfrey

Last night’s rain cleared out and the morning brought sunny skies accompanied by 14-17 knot shifty westerlies to Rhode Island Sound. Vincenzo Onorato’s Mascalzone Latino showed their championship winning style taking bullets in two of the day’s three races to pull within two points of Guy Stening’s Optimum.

With the breeze bows were buried in the waves, several boats suffered breakage and at least one skipper got bumped on the head. The forecast calls for 13-18 knots at start time tomorrow and is anticipated to build over the course of the day.

M30 Worlds - Overall positions after 6 races:

Pos Bow/Sail Boat Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Points
1 08/ AUS 7151 Optimum Guy Stening 1 1 3 9 1 2 17.00
2 05/ ITA 2121 Masclazone Latino Vincenzo Onorato 3 10 1 1 3 1 19.00
3 11/ USA 65 Barking Mad Jim Richardson 7 2 6 11 2 5 33.00
4 22/ USA 707 Groovederci 706 Deneen Demourkas 5 6 4 7 8 7 37.00
5 23/ CAN 58 Mummy Geoff Brown 2 9 10 3 5 9 38.00
6 15/ USA 35 Groovederci 35 John Demourkas 14 5 2 12 9 4 46.00
7 17/ USA 55 Illusion John Podmajersky 11 8 9 4 10 8 50.00
8 01/ USA 691 Adrenalin Jeff Maludy 12 3 14 6 13 6 54.00
9 36/ USA 683 Turbo Duck Bodo von der Wense 13 19 8 8 6 3 57.00
10 34/ USA 316 Team BOLD Nelson Stephenson 16 7 7 14 12 10 66.00
11 31/ AUS 6100 Southern Sun Bruce Eddington 8 11 17 5 7 22 70.00
12 02/ USA 28 Coffee Grinder Jeff Gladchun 10 18 5 15 11 16 75.00
13 43/ USA 316 Skiff Sailing Gino Bottino / Joey Pasquali 17 16 16 2 15 11 77.00
14 21/ USA 21 Just Plain Nutz Norm & J. Cameron Dean 4 4 19 19 19 12 77.00
15 61/ USA 630 Siren Brian Connolly 6 12 18 18 16 14 84.00
16 12/ USA 27 Kaizen Moise Solomon/ Scott Baker 9 13 12 13 17 22 86.00
17 27/ RUS 9 Sailfish Victor Los 20 17 15 16 4 15 87.00
18 16/ USA 53 Superfly Lewis Perrin 19 21 11 10 14 13 88.00
19 28/ USA 56 Snooker Brant Russell 15 15 13 17 18 22 100.00
20 14/ USA 47 Venturesome Bob Zanetti 21 14 20 20 22 22 119.00
21 04/ USA 41 Rhumb Punch John & Linda Edwards 18 20 22 22 22 22 126.00
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