Soling Worlds - Day 2 at Milwaukee YC

by Matias Collins on 21 Sep 2012

The 2012 Soling Worlds are taking place from 17th-23rd September at Milwaukee Yacht Club. The 30 Solings from nine nations and four continents had to face a windy postponement on the first day at the Worlds but the second day despite the wind, decreased a bit - oscillating in between 14 knots and 20 and some gusts 20+ shifting into a westerly and unstable condition due to the Milwaukee buildings. There was a nice upwind view from the famous 'wing' monument at the memorial park.

The first race USA 853 surprised the fleet by rounding the first mark ahead of USA 846 and CAN 1 with some boat lengths of spare, but CAN 1 and his Olympian experience with a superb spinnaker drive by Joanne Abbott just got the boat flying , the whole distance USA 853 had was lost just before the leeward mark, CAN 1 rounding first (inside overlap) and USA 853, the surprise was finished, with a few things breaking at the boat, USA was left behind by many other boats while CAN 1 built their lead taking the first bullet home through the shifts CAN 225 the reigning champion also did a great job finishing second and NED 33 ended at the third place.

The second race already had many boats going into docks for fixing, a bended mast, tiller that broke, etc, etc… At sometimes it was blowing really hard in one side of the course and people were leaving hiking position in the other side, really difficult to play with. CAN 225 rounded first the windward mark, and kept building their lead, CAN 230 did their homework and placed a second and CAN 1 took the third place, a complete Canadian domain of the race.

The third race had more ups and downs with the wind intensity, and it paid big on the starting vessel and right of the course at the first beat, another great performance from the reigning champion CAN 225 with Peter Hall, Paul Davis and William Hall to finish the race in first followed by CAN 1 with William Abbott, Joanne Abbott and Tom Freeman, in third came CAN 230 with Hans Fogh, John Finch and Gord Devries, once more showing the level of the Canadian fleet.

Tomorrow more strong winds are expected, the same for Saturday….and probably Sunday?

But tonight sailors have their Oktober fest party, with traditional Bavarian music lots of beer and food.

World Championship / MYC, Milwaukee 9/17/2012 To 9/23/2012. / Rk=2


Pos	Sail	Helmperson	Midperson	Bowperson		Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	D1
1	CAN 225	Peter Hall	Paul Davis	William Hall	RSLYC	6	2	1	1	1	2	1	2
2	CAN 001	Billy Abbott	Joanne Abbott	Tom Freeman	SYC	14	1	3	2	8	6	2	8
3	CAN 230	Hans Fogh	John Finch	Gordon Devries	EYC	14	5	2	3	2	4	3	5
4	NED 33	Rudy den Outer	Gavin Lidlow	Ramzi Souli	KZC	20	3	4	7	3	3	11	11
5	BRA 78	Nelson Ilha	Paulo Lemos Ribeiro	Felipe Ilha	VDS	26	7	7	5	6	1	8	8
6	HUN 77	George Wossala	Maxl Koch	Gregor Bornemann	BYC/CYC/SSS	26	4	5	6	4	7	9	9
7	USA 846	Steve Dolan	Scott Stroud	Todd Deblois	MYC	29	6	6	13	7	5	5	13
8	USA 853	Matias Collins	Eric Nowina	Dominik Meissner	CNSI	42	8	11	15	5	8	10	15
9	CAN 210	Kenneth Davy	Stephen Lacey	Richard Boyles	EYC	44	11	8	4	9	12	17	17
10	USA 718	Scott Conger	Mark Rodaer	Stephanie Vavra	MYC	57	10	13	20	11	11	12	20
11	BRA 31	Henrique Ilha	Gustavo Ilha	Fernando Ilha	RGYC	61	9	10	11	17	14	18	18
12	USA 832	Charles Q. Kamps	Toby Kamps	Cooper Anderson	MYC	61	12	14	9	12	15	14	15
13	USA 824	David Crysdale	Willie Rozanski	Anna Dietzel	MYC	63	14	20	17	13	13	6	20
14	CAN 227	Tom Mitchell	Bruce Fielding	David Johnston	EYC	66	13	12	16	15	10	19	19
15	AUS 21	Philip Smith	Gavin Worth	Leslie Sawyer	MOFC	73	DNF	DNS	10	10	9	13	31
16	USA 843	Stephen Bobo	Steve Taylor	Aubrey Granner	SSYC	78	15	15	14	18	18	16	18
17	USA 845	David Baum	Bill Bresser	James Bruss	MYC	83	17	24	18	DNF	17	7	31
18	AUT 1	Christian Holler	Peter Farbowski	Michael Holly	SCK	87	23	21	8	DNF	DNC	4	31
19	USA 799	Henry Thomas	Joe Hidalgo	Andrew Dize	SSA	91	20	16	19	20	16	22	22
20	USA 816	Ross Richards	Lucas Hiller	Patrick Richards	SSYC	92	18	17	12	14	DNC	DNC	31
21	USA 818	John Kennedy	Spencer Powell	John Hodges	SSYC	94	19	19	DNF	16	20	20	31
22	GER 312	Gernot Heller	Gerhard Auerswald	Valentin Koch	SCE/SCAS/DYC	98	21	18	25	21	23	15	25
23	USA 768	Tom Elliott	John Bayldon	Joe Nedoss	SSYC	107	24	23	23	19	21	21	24
24	GER 320	Micheal Dietzel	Frank Gundlach	Jan Bender	BYC	108	16	9	21	DNF	DNC	DNC	31
25	USA 737	Nick Hayes	Dick Kinney	Eric Roman	MCC	127	DNF	DNC	22	DNF	19	24	31
26	USA 834	Paul McGuan	Mark Keast	Chris Bisenius	MYC	130	22	22	24	DNF	DNC	DNC	31
27	USA 790	Scott Evans	Drew Kosmoski	Natarsha Blacker	MYC	130	27	DNS	DNC	22	24	26	31
28	USA 601	Whitney Kent	Cate Muller	Ashley Henderson	MYC	132	25	DNF	DNC	DNF	22	23	31
29	USA 808	Bob Nickel	Pete Buerger	Buck Crist	SSYC	143	DNF	DNC	DNC	DNF	25	25	31
30	ISV 1	John Morgan	Justin Galleon	Morgan K White Morgan K White	St Croix	144	26	25	DNS	DNF	DNC	DNC	31