Youth Match Racing Worlds at Noumea, New Caledonia - Day 1
by Matthias Balagny 14 Jun 2016 03:59 PDT
14-18 June 2016
Youth Match Racing Worlds day 1 © Emmanuel Dervaux
The Youth Match Racing World Championship started this morning in New Caledonia. 27 matches were sailed in windy conditions (20-25 knots gusting to 30 knots).
To everyone's surprise, the best performance of the day was shown by the local crew skippered by Cyril Fortin. The Caledonians, Cyril Fortin, Kim Goetz, Jéremy Picot won 5 races out of 5.
Seeded sixth at the Youth Match Racing World Championships, they beat the Australian crew of Harrison Price, seeded 2nd and 30th worldwide (CYCA members) and the American crew of Christopher Killian (seeded third, 33th worldwide (members of Balboa Yacht Club in California).
Over the next two days all the crews will meet 2 twice (90 matches).
At the end of the 90 matches, 8 will qualify for the quarter-finals.