J/22 World Championship at Kingston, Ontario, Canada - Day 3
by Christopher Howell 24 Aug 2016 23:36 PDT
22-25 August 2016
After three days and nine races, it all comes down to the final contest on Thursday at the J/22 World Championship at CORK/Sail Kingston in Ontario Canada.
By way of a victory in Wednesday's third race, Mike Marshall, Todd Hiller and Luke Lawrence are tied at 30 points with Chris Doyle, Will Harris and Adam Burns. Jeff Todd is still in the hunt in third place with 35 points. Marshall had been discarding a 10, but with a 16th in race 8, the team needed to rebound to keep pace with Doyle who took a four-point advantage into Wednesday's final battle. Marshall holds the overall lead with the tie breaker being the three bullets for a line of 1,5,10,2,1,3,7,(16), 1. Reigning World Champion Doyle has maintained a consistent tally of 4,4,2,4,4,(12),4,3,5. The 10th and final race is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday.
It was another day of champagne sailing conditions on Lake Ontario with sustained winds of 12-15 knots for the three races. Brad Julian won the first two meetings, followed by Travis Odenbach and Jeff Todd in race seven, and by Chris Gaffney and Doyle in race eight. Behind Marshall in race nine were Terry Flynn and Jeff Todd.
Racing concludes for the 41 teams on Thursday. Photos are available on the J/22 Facebook page, and complete results may be found at cork.org/past-results/results2016/J22/J22.html.