Racing cancelled at IFDS World Championships

by Sail-World/G New on 25 Jan 2006 All racing was cancelled at the 2006 Alcoa IFDS World Disabled Sailing Championships in Perth, Tuesday, due to storm warnings for the area. This leaves just one day of sailing to complete the series..

With both classes finely balanced the Royal Perth Yacht Club, who are hosting the regatta, will try and run three races in the time remaining - there should have been four to complete the 11 race series.

For Briton´s Helen Lucas in the 2.4mR it will be critical that the three are sailed in order to be able to claim another discard - Lucas was disqualified from race six and that is her dicard at the moment. With the leader, Bjornar Erikstad (NOR) five points ahead Lucas will need all the races to overhaul her, and you can be sure Erikstad will be protecting her advantage.

In the Sonar Britain's John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas are level on points with Germany's Jens Kroker, Holger Schoenberg and Tobias Schuetz. So again it could be a match-race situation, but both could loose out to the Australian Jamie Dunross and crew, or the Norwegian Jostein Stordahl just a few points behind them.

Positions in Sonar after 7 races, 1 discard:
1 GBR702 John Robertson 1 2 5 2 1 [ 9] 6 26 17pts
2 GER11 Jens Kroker 6 1 2 1 3 4 [ 9] 26 17
3 AUS721 Jamie Dunross 3 5 1 [ 9] 7 3 2 30 21
4 NOR1 Jostein Stordahl 5 4 [ 9] 3 8 1 1 31 22
5 ISR1 Dror Cohen 8 3 3 4 5 7 [ 8] 38 30
6 IRL697 Paul McCarthy 4 9 8 [ 10] 4 5 3 43 33
7 ISR5 Shimon Ben Yakov 10 6 7 5 2 10 [ 17] 57 40
8 AUS621 Peter Thomson 2 [ 12] 10 7 11 8 7 57 45
9 ISR1000 Avi Tzur 9 10 12 12 [ 13] 2 4 62 49
10 CAN644 Ken Kelly 7 11 14 8 6 [ 17] 5 68 51
11 IRL694 JohnTwomey 12 8 4 11 12 6 [ 13] 66 53
12 GRE1 Vasilis Christoforou 11 7 6 [ 17] 10 12 12 75 58
13 AUS716 Stephen Churm 13 13 11 [ 13] 9 11 10 80 67
14 USA732 Jen French 14 [ 17] 13 6 14 13 11 88 71
15 JPN1 Hidehiro Kodaira 16 14 15 14 [ 16] 15 14 104 88
16 SIN99 Tan Wei Qiang Jovin 15 15 17 15 15 14 [ 17] 108 91

Positions in 2.4mR after 7 races, 1 discard:
1 NOR102 Bjornar Erikstad 2 3 [ 19] 2 2 3 2 33 14pts
2 GER1 Heiko Kroeger 4 2 1 [ 7] 5 6 1 26 19
3 GBR75 Helena Lucas 1 1 2 11 1 [ 20] 4 40 20
4 CAN39 Bruce Millar 6 [ 17] 5 5 4 2 13 52 35
5 CAN99 Paul Tingley 3 6 6 9 9 [ 9] 5 47 38
6 GBR60 Megan Pascoe [ 13] 8 4 1 10 8 9 53 40
7 CAN1 Danny McCoy 8 [ 14] 10 6 3 4 10 55 41
8 NZL1 Andrew May [ 12] 5 11 3 8 11 6 56 44
9 USA114 Nick Scandone 9 9 8 [ 18] 6 1 15 66 48
10 USA109 Roger Cleworth 5 7 3 8 13 12 [ 14] 62 48
11 GBR79 Michael Cogswell 7 11 12 4 [ 16] 10 7 67 51
12 AUS13 Aaron Hill 10 4 7 [ 18] 11 14 12 76 58
13 GRE2 George Delikouras 14 12 13 10 7 5 [ 17] 78 61
14 PUR1 Julio Reguero Hernandez 11 13 9 [ 20] 12 15 11 91 71
15 ITA84 Fabrizio Olmi 20 [ 20] 14 18 14 7 3 96 76
16 AUS21 Rachael Cox 16 15 16 [ 18] 15 16 8 104 86
17 GBR80 Brian Harding 15 10 17 13 18 [ 20] 18 111 91
18 ITA19 Fabio Vignudini 20 [ 20] 15 12 17 13 16 113 93
19 AUS7 Maryanne Ireland 18 20 20 20 [ 20] 17 19 134 114