Byte CII World Championship Day 4 - Northerly wind shakes up the fleet

by Byte CII Media on 29 Aug 2013

2013 Byte CII World Championship day 4 Rodrigo Fernández http://www.andesvisual.com/

On day four of the Byte CII World Championship in Newport, heavy rain caused postponement of the day's racing but, when it cleared, the competitors from 22 nations were met with a northerly oscillating up to 35° all afternoon. Two races saw the competitors going around the course as if tied with a rope and the racing was exceptionally close. Unfortunately, the sun came out and started to kill the wind with the last race barely making the time limit.

As there have been eleven races sailed, the competitors now have a second drop and the score sheet is looking more and more like the final thing.

2013 Byte CII World Championship day 4 © Rodrigo Fernández http://www.andesvisual.com/

Championship leader Jonatan Vadnai, HUN had a harder time of it in the lighter air with 17, 17 finishes in the first two races (which he has dropped) but took a second in the last very light air race. Second placed Henry Marshall, USA had a better day with a 6,13 (dropped) and a first and is now only 12 points behind Vadnai.

Pavle Zivanovic, CRO remains in third but Peter Dill, BER has dropped out of the top five.

Bernie Chin, SIN has moved into fourth and Justin Vitecoq CAN has now taken over the fifth country spot. He had the best overall results of the day with a 3, 2, 8.

2013 Byte CII World Championship day 4 © Rodrigo Fernández http://www.andesvisual.com/

In the women's lineup, Odile Van Aanholt, NED retained her lead with finishes of 5, 6 and a DSQ (dropped) but Maria Erdi, HUN had stronger finishes of 1, 4, and an OCS (also dropped), and is only six points out of first so tomorrow will be an exciting day for these two as they are well clear of the rest.

Cecilia Wollmann, BER remains in third but Capucine Raguet, FRA, who had vaulted into fourth yesterday, slipped out of the top five and Samantha Yom, SIN is now fourth. Florence Allan, CAY has moved back into fifth.

2013 Byte CII World Championship- PRELIMINARY RESULTS, Day 4

Pos	Sail	Country	Skipper	9	10	11	Total
Pos	Sail	Country	Skipper	9	10	11	Points
1	3418	Hungary	Vadnai, Jonatan	[17]	[17]	2	11
2	3177	United States of America	Marshall, Henry	6	[13]	1	23
3	3420	Croatia	Zivanovic, Pavle	[16]	7	6	52
4	3441	Singapore	Chin, Bernie	[24]	[18]	5	60
5	3257	Netherlands	Van Aanholt, Odile	5	6	[39/DSQ]	69
6	3221	Canada	Vittecoq, Justin	3	2	8	74
7	3419	Hungary	Erdi, Maria	1	4	[39/OCS]	75
8	3188	Finland	Mikkola, Martin	9	5	3	85
9	3417	Thailand	Punjamala, Chusitt	8	11	7	86
10	1316	Bermuda	Dill, Peter	31	[39/DSQ]	[39/DSQ]	91
11	3	Sweden	Nordquist, Arvid	10	23	16	110
12	3415	Bahamas	De Souza, Paul	[29]	14	[31]	115
13	2353	Cayman Islands	Bertran, Pablo	19	19	[26]	115
14	3191	Singapore	Chew, Justin	18	8	11	125
15	1029	Bermuda	Wollmann, Cecilia	11	25	15	129
16	3040	Cayman Islands	McDermot, Andres	25	[33]	[30]	132
17	3425	Mexico	Seifert, Leopoldo	22	[32]	[29]	145
18	3437	Singapore	Yom, Samantha	13	1	4	146
19	2457	Cayman Islands	Jackson, Jesse	[36]	[34]	33	158
20	3178	Finland	Von Koskull, Jacob	4	21	12	173
21	3057	Finland	Gronblom, Alexander	15	20	24	174
22	3172	Barbados	Gittens, Scott	[37]	9	21	175
23	327	British Virgin Islands	Morrell, Sam	14	3	19	176
24	3423	Bulgaria	Maksimov, Georgi	[28]	27	17	180
25	2246	Cayman Islands	Allan, Florence	20	10	[28]	185
26	20	Dominican Republic	Lugtmeijer, Celeste	21	15	32	188
27	24	Bermuda	Smith, Benn	2	24	25	203
28	3426	Mexico	Medina, Juan Luis	33	31	14	205
29	3184	Singapore	Ang, Christopher	[34]	26	20	208.2
30	3300	France	Raguet, Capucine	26	[36]	34	212
31	3141	US Virgin Islands	McKenzie, Scott	7	30	13	214
32	413	US Virgin Islands	Clarke, Paige	12	12	18	229
33	3422	Bulgaria	Hinkovska, Viktoriya	[38]	35	10	235
34	2888	Bermuda	Cooper, Chase	27	29	23	241
35	3110	Singapore	Low, Jasime	30	22	9	262
36	3197	Singapore	Lee, Candice	23	28	22	267
37	3427	Trinidad & Tobago	Affoo, Abigail	35	37	27	277
38	4	Ecuador	De Lulio, Romina	32	16	[39/OCS]	282