Opening day the perfect ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne Entrée

by Lisa Ratcliff on 8 Dec 2014 The ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne opened on Port Phillip for the 21st time today. A dry day with cool southerly winds 8-14 knots and reasonably calm water created the perfect entrée before the main dish, which starts tomorrow, Tuesday 9 December 2014.

The working week began as it usually does for Melbourne’s greater population, with trains, trams and slow moving traffic shifting workers and school kids about the city. On the bay, Sailing World Cup organisers Yachting Victoria calmly completed the run sheet for a reduced first day program. Tomorrow the jam-packed Olympic and Paralympic class program commences in earnest, divided into two sessions – 12:00 and 15:00.

The Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC), host venue for the ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne, is a bit like a mini-city this week. There are 800 competitors onsite and many of those have coaches and family with them. Nine partner clubs and SYC rallied 200 plus volunteers to coordinate everything from guest airport pickups to on-water race management. ISAF International Race Officials from around the world are on the ground and a growing communications team is taking Cup news to the world via social and traditional media channels.

Now to the day one racing and results….

49er

Nathan Outteridge and his crew Iain Jensen won a major victory just getting to the start line for their series opening three races. The 49er gold medallists from London missed a connecting flight and left San Francisco on Saturday night, which put them into Melbourne at 9.30am this morning. Sister Haylee drove their boat from Sydney and prepared theirs as well as her own 49erFX. The AST sailors finished second to David Gilmour and Rhys Mara by one point.

'We tried to keep it simple today and the course wasn’t complex, a pretty simple left hand track,' said Outteridge. 'We are pretty tired. For the amount of preparation we did we are happy.'

Outteridge is recovering from a foot injury sustained during a training camp at his home Lake Macquarie two weeks ago and says it’s still causing him some discomfort.

The 49er class centres around fit and agile Gen Y aged sailors. Bucking the trend is the senior of the group, Ian Cunningham, the President of Yachting Victoria who is sailing at the World Cup with his son David as crew.

'I’m pretty knackered about now, but we beat some people,' said the grinning skipper back at SYC this evening.

Before August Ian had never sailed a boat with a trapeze, admitting, 'it was my idea to buy a 49er. If I don’t do it now I’ll never do it and David is silly enough to join me.' Father and son have been sailing together for 12 years and have a massive summer ahead starting with the World Cup then onto the B14 world championship and the International 14ft skiff world championship in January where he plans to be the 'oldest newbie' on the starter’s list.

In among world champions and Olympic gold medallists Ian embodies the sport, 'We are probably the only guys still smiling when we come last.'

49erFX

Australian Sailing Squad members Tess Lloyd and Caitlin Elks scored the opening top points in the 49erFX women’s skiff, beating Norway’s Helene Naess and Marie Ronningen by one point.

Back at the boat park a shivering Lloyd said, 'Today was about getting a good start and speed through the waves. Though it’s not an Olympic qualifier, every regatta is important and this one is one of my favourites because I’m at home.'

Nacra 17

It was a powerful performance of three firsts in three races from the young AST team of Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS). They successfully achieved good separation from the other four catamarans in the shifty S-SW breeze.

Playing the right hand of the course in the first session’s 8- 12 knot breeze, Waterhouse and Darmanin kept fellow Australian Sailing Team members Euan McNicol and Lucinda Whitty in check, that combination finishing second overall ahead of Darren Bundock and Nina Curtis (AUS) in third.

'We have a pretty small fleet, but really good quality with Darren Bundock, a dual medallist, and Euan McNicol who was twelfth in the worlds,' said Waterhouse. 'We had plenty on our plate with that fleet. I suppose our approach was almost to forget about them and sail our own race.

'We haven’t raced since the Santander Worlds in September so this is a bit of training regatta as well as a tune-up to make sure we are in line with our goals as we head towards Europe next year,' he added.

Waterhouse has come to Melbourne carrying a back injury that has laid him low for the last two weeks. He’s also carrying the determination not to make the same mistakes as last year. 'I got a Bronze medal last year and I was the favourite. I got smashed by those shifts. Today it was good to tack on the shifts when you had something to tack into. The breeze was quite patchy. Working the shifts and the pressure was quite challenging,' he added.

Men’s RS:X

The RSX men’s fleet saw some tight racing across the eight-board fleet. Russia’s Evgeny Ayvazyan achieved strong starts against fellow Russian windsurfer Alexander Askerov in races one and two to lead the fleet around the course and across the line.

In the final race of the day Juozas Bernotas (LTU) found form to beat the 18-year-old Ayvazyan, but not before they shared the race lead. 'In the first two races there was not a lot of wind, about 10 knots, which was good for me. But then the third race it was a little bit more so I couldn’t finish first,' Ayvazyan said.

Ayvazyan holds first place ahead of Bernotas in second and Askerov in third overall.

Women’s RS:X

Russian sailors also dominated the women’s fleet with 17-year-old Stefania Elfutina winning all three races ahead of Anhela Poludarova. In third overall was Norway’s Maria Mollestad.

Elfutina has been in the class for two years. This year she has raced in the World Cups in Hyeres, Palma and at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander in September. 'The wind was shifty and going to right sometimes and to left sometimes. It was hard conditions, but interesting,' the happy sailor commented.

Results

49er - Men - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 7	David Gilmour Rhys Mara	(5)	1	1	7.00	2.00
2	AUS	AUS 1	Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen	1	(2)	2	5.00	3.00
3	ITA	ITA 26	Ruggero Tita Giacomo Cavalli	2	4	(7)	13.00	6.00
4	AUT	AUT 84	Nico Delle - Karth Nikolaus Resch	(6)	3	4	13.00	7.00
5	AUS	AUS 400	Joel Turner Lewis Brake	3	(17) OCS	5	25.00	8.00
6	POL	POL 42	Lukasz Przybytek Pawel Kolodzinski	(8)	7	3	18.00	10.00
7	NZL	NZL 127	Jack Simpson Logan Dunning Beck	4	6	(9)	19.00	10.00
8	NZL	NZL 34	Marcus Hansen Josh Porebski	(10)	5	6	21.00	11.00
9	AUT	AUT 29	Benjamin Bildstein David Hussl	7	(9)	8	24.00	15.00
10	AUS	AUS 104	Harry Price Harry Morton	9	8	(10)	27.00	17.00
11	AUS	AUS 222	Jack Lloyd Kevin Reisenauer	11	(17) RET	11	39.00	22.00
12	AUS	AUS 248	Ian Cunningham David Cunningham	13	(17) DNC	12	42.00	25.00
13	AUS	AUS 1028	Will Boulden Bayden Schutte	12	(17) DNF	17 RET	46.00	29.00
14	AUS	AUS 762	Mathew Himson Robert Tuck	14	(17) RET	17 DNC	48.00	31.00
15	AUS	AUS 676	Luke Eiszele Benjamin Phibbs	15	(17) DNC	17 DNC	49.00	32.00
16	AUS	AUS 109	Stephanie Coady Paul Coady	(17) DNF	17 RET	17 DNC	51.00	34.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	RAF - Retired after finishing
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RDG - Redress given
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RET - Retired
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	SCP - Took a Scoring Penalty under rule 44.3(a)
DNF - Did not finish	STP - Standard Penalty SI Specific
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2
DSQ - Disqualification

49erFX - Women - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 11	Tess Lloyd Caitlin Elks	1	(6)	1	8.00	2.00
2	NOR	NOR 123	Helene Naess Marie Rønningen	(9) OCS	1	2	12.00	3.00
3	AUS	AUS 848	Olivia Price Eliza Solly	2	2	(4)	8.00	4.00
4	NOR	NOR 888	Ragna Agerup Maia Agerup	3	3	(6)	12.00	6.00
5	AUS	AUS 14	Haylee Outteridge Sarah Cook	(5)	5	3	13.00	8.00
6	NZL	NZL 484	Erica Dawson Ellie Copeland	4	4	(5)	13.00	8.00
7	AUS	AUS 290	Phoebe Freeman Emma Knighton	(9) RET	9 DNF	9 DNF	27.00	18.00
7	IRL	IRL 997	Andrea Brewster Saskia Tidey	(9) RET	9 DNF	9 DNF	27.00	18.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	RAF - Retired after finishing
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RDG - Redress given
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RET - Retired
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	SCP - Took a Scoring Penalty under rule 44.3(a)
DNF - Did not finish	STP - Standard Penalty SI Specific
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2
DSQ - Disqualification

Nacra 17 - Mixed - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 3	Jason Waterhouse Lisa Darmanin	(1)	1	1	3.00	2.00
2	AUS	AUS 158	Euan McNicol Lucinda Whitty	2	(3)	2	7.00	4.00
3	AUS	AUS 242	Darren Bundock Nina Curtis	(3)	2	3	8.00	5.00
4	AUS	AUS 156	Paul Darmanin Lucy Copeland	(4)	4	4	12.00	8.00
5	JPN	JPN 157	Hiroki Goto Wakako Tabata	(5)	5	5	15.00	10.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	RAF - Retired after finishing
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RDG - Redress given
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RET - Retired
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	SCP - Took a Scoring Penalty under rule 44.3(a)
DNF - Did not finish	STP - Standard Penalty SI Specific
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2
DSQ - Disqualification

RS:X - Men - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	RUS	RUS 3	Evgeny Ayvazyan	1	1	(2)	4.00	2.00
2	LTU	LTU 14	Juozas Bernotas	(4)	3	1	8.00	4.00
3	RUS	RUS 7	Alexander Askerov	2	2	(3)	7.00	4.00
4	RUS	RUS 4	Dmitrii Polishchuk	3	(5)	4	12.00	7.00
5	AUS	AUS 32	Jock Calvert	(5)	4	5	14.00	9.00
6	AUS	AUS 11	Sam Treharne	(7) STP	7 STP	7 STP	21.00	14.00
7	AUS	AUS 1177	Hugh Jones	(8) STP	8 STP	8 STP	24.00	16.00
8	CYP	CYP 1	Andreas Cariolou	(9) DNC	9 DNC	9 DNC	27.00	18.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	RAF - Retired after finishing
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RDG - Redress given
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RET - Retired
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	SCP - Took a Scoring Penalty under rule 44.3(a)
DNF - Did not finish	STP - Standard Penalty SI Specific
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2
DSQ - Disqualification

RS:X - Women - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	RUS	RUS 271	Stefania Elfutina	(1)	1	1	3.00	2.00
2	RUS	RUS 11	Anzhela Poludarova	2	(3)	2	7.00	4.00
3	NOR	NOR 23	Maria Aadland Mollestad	(4)	2	4	10.00	6.00
4	AUS	AUS 254	Joanna Sterling	(9) OCS	4	3	16.00	7.00
5	FRA	FRA 57	Hélène Noesmoen	3	(6)	5	14.00	8.00
6	AUS	AUS 1133	Lara O'Brien	5	5	(6)	16.00	10.00
7	AUS	AUS 1199	Shari Obrien	(9) DNC	9 DNC	9 DNC	27.00	18.00
7	TUR	TUR 191	Dilara Uralp	(9) DNC	9 DNC	9 DNC	27.00	18.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	RAF - Retired after finishing
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RDG - Redress given
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RET - Retired
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	SCP - Took a Scoring Penalty under rule 44.3(a)
DNF - Did not finish	STP - Standard Penalty SI Specific
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2
DSQ - Disqualification

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