PA Consulting Allen RS Feva Worlds – Day 1

by Golly Tucker on 26 Jul 2016 Tension and Relief. Show time. After the training, the prep, the travel, the registering, the scrutineering… it is now the chips are to be played.

Champagne stuff is very overused in sailing, but with temperature in the high twenties, 15kts average, three qualifying series races, your mates are your arch competitors it is at the very least aqua frizzante, or full fat coke and not the zero stuff. OK, after race one the wind did ease off and by race three it was more like 8-10kts.

Following the 12 practice race general recalls the fleet behaved for the first championship start – all three fleets got away first time. Happy PRO keeping the U and Black flags in the box!

Freddie Peters and Louis Johnson, the newly crowned UK champions continued their blitz of races taking an impeccable three bullets on day one. Given that three fleets were racing it would be remiss to not point out that Charles Elliott/Ethan Miles scored 1,1,2 for second and Jack Lewis/Lucas Marshall pulled in a 1,1,3 to be third overnight.

Leading juniors after day one are William Pank/Finlay Dickenson from Norwich school in sixth. Pablo Fernandez/Laureano are top locals with Mattia Zinetti/Davide Carbonelli top Italians. Mattia is, we think, competing in his sixth RS Feva Worlds as both crew and helm! Pushing them hard are New Zealanders Eli Liefting/Rose Dickson who in turn have Oscar Andersson/Ragnar Alfredsson from Sweden breathing down their necks.

Given the closeness of points there could be great variations in rankings tomorrow. In principle the 162 boats who have made the start line will be divided into Gold, Silver and Bronze fleets after racing tomorrow. At present the top of the leaderboard has GBR, ESP, NZL, SWE, ITA, NED, CZE, RUS and USA making the gold fleet cut. So it is still all to do on Tuesday.