Finn Europeans and Nacra 17 World Championship - Racing underway

by Craig Heydon on 24 Jul 2013 At the Finn European Championship in Warnemunde, Germany, and the Nacra 17 World Championship in The Hague, Netherlands racing is now underway after a day lost due to a lack of breeze.

The Finn fleet’s patience on Monday was rewarded with three races contested in a building sea breeze, while at the Nacra 17 World Championship it was another stop start day, with one fleet managing to complete two races late in the day.

After three races Oliver Tweddell is the best placed Australian in the Finn fleet, with the Victorian currently 26th overall.

Tweddell was 41st in the first race of the regatta, before finishing 18th in race two and 38th in race three.

'It was nice to get so much breeze today considering how bleak the forecast was,' said Tweddell. 'The body is feeling worse off though as it was an extremely physical day of racing. It would be great to have this breeze for the rest of the week and as predicted we had some extremely tight and tricky racing with it taking many recalls before we were finally able to get our first race away.

'Unfortunately I was really off the pace today, throw in a lot of poor decisions and mistakes and it made for a very humbling day of racing,' he said. 'My coach John and I have highlighted these issues and look forward to correcting them over the rest of the week. I feel confident that once these issues are corrected I should be back on the pace.'

Fellow Australian Jake Lilley ended the day in 50th after being black flagged in the first race of the regatta and then finishing 21st and 23rd in the next two.

'It was a long day today with a lot of recalls and three races, making for about eight hours on the water,' said Lilley. 'Racing was challenging with the seabreeze fighting the gradient and packed starting lines. Today I picked up a black flag and two races in the low twenties and am optimistic about tomorrow as I learnt a lot today.'

Joe McMillan is currently in 61st following a 23rd, a 93rd and a 61st.

The 65 entries at the Nacra 17 World Championship have been split into two fleets, with the first fleet finally completing two races late in the day, in a light breeze and strong current.

Only one Australian crew was in action on Tuesday with Josh McKnight and Nina Curtis ending the day in 17th position after an 18th and a 15th.

Fellow Australians Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin, Euan McNicol and Lucinda Whitty, and Pip Pietromonaco and James Wierbowski will be hoping for more breeze on Wednesday to kick off their World Championship campaign.

Despite not getting any racing in on Tuesday the three crews spent time on the water in the early evening with the race committee unsuccessfully attempting to get a start away before the breeze disappeared.

Full results from the Finn Europeans can be found here, and the Nacra 17 World Championship results are here.

 

 

Results Nacra17

 

 

 

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2
1	GBR 56	Lucy Macgregor, Tom Phipps	0,0	dns	dns
1	FRA 65	Moana Vaireaux, Manon Audinet	0,0	dns	dns
1	GBR 60	Ben Saxton, Hannah Diamond	0,0	dns	dns
1	NED 46	Elke Delnooz, Coen de Koning	0,0	dns	dns
1	FRA 63	Audrey Ogereau, Matthieu Vandame	0,0	dns	dns
1	AUS 36	Jason Waterhouse, Lisa Darmanin	0,0	dns	dns
1	SUI 41	Matias Buhler, Nathalie Brugger	0,0	dns	dns
1	NED 40	Mandy Mulder, Thijs Visser	0,0	dns	dns
1	GBR 14	Rupert White, Nikki Boniface	0,0	dns	dns
1	USA 172	Robbie Daniel, Sarah Streater	0,0	dns	dns
1	RUS 163	Maxim Semenov, Alena Pankratova	0,0	dns	dns
1	NZL 109	Nicole van der Velden, Tomer Simhony	0,0	dns	dns
1	AUS 53	Euan Mcnicol, Lucinda Whitty	0,0	dns	dns
1	ESP 97	Marc Verdaguer, Marina Lopez	0,0	dns	dns
1	AUS 67	Pip Pietromonaco, James Wierzbowski	0,0	dns	dns
1	USA 171	Sandra Tartaglino, Tripp Burd	0,0	dns	dns
1	ITA 90	Ferdinando Trambaiolo, Carlotta Gianni	0,0	dns	dns
1	GER 10	Stefan Rumpf, Anna Bettina Goos	0,0	dns	dns
1	ITA 166	Francesco Sabatini, Marcella Mamusa	0,0	dns	dns
1	GBR 119	Millie Newman, Tim Carter	0,0	dns	dns
1	BUL 48	Alexander Alexandrov, Maria Alexandrova	0,0	dns	dns
1	GER 92	Jakob Lenz, Susann Brechlin	0,0	dns	dns
1	ARG 142	Lucas Gonzalez Smith, Moira Gonzalez Smith	0,0	dns	dns
1	AUT 160	Guido Pasolini, Mercedes Zinnenburg	0,0	dns	dns
1	DEN 17	Allan Christensen, Nahid Gaebler	0,0	dns	dns
1	ESP 18	Adriana Romano, Jacobo Miquel	0,0	dns	dns
1	FIN 167	Ida Voutilainen, Anton Store	0,0	dns	dns
1	FRA 83	Flora Laugier, Antoine Joubert	0,0	dns	dns
1	ITA 93	Pietro Sibello, Lisa Rattemeyer	0,0	dns	dns
1	NED 5	Menno Vercouteren, Lynn Pieters	0,0	dns	dns
1	NZL 159	Gareth Moore, Vickery Francis	0,0	dns	dns
1	SWE 82	Sandra Sandqvist, Tomas Westergren	0,0	dns	dns
1	URU 147	Pablo Defazio, Mariana Foglia	0,0	dns	dns
34	ITA 32	Vincenzo Sorrentino, Barbara Rinauro	9,0	3	5
35	NZL 102	Gemma Jones, Jason Saunders	10,0	7	3
36	AUT 35	Thomas Zajac, Tanja Frank	11,0	1	10
37	NED 44	Renee Groeneveld, Karel Begemann	11,0	2	9
38	GBR 58	Pippa Wilson, John Gimson	12,0	5	7
39	ITA 91	Francesco Porro, Caterina Marianna Banti	14,0	8	6
40	ARG 149	Cecilia Carranza Saroli, Esteban Blando	19,0	11	8
41	VEN 168	Yamil Saba, Andrea Saba	20,0	19	1
42	FRA 43	Billy Besson, Marie Riou	23,0	21	2
43	USA 170	Michael Easton, McKenzie Wilson	27,0	16	11
44	SWE 12	Tim Shuwalow, Hanna Klinga	29,0	12	17
45	CAN 100	Luke Ramsay, Nikola Girke	30,0	9	21
46	ESP 16	Toni Rivas, Laia Tutzo	30,0	17	13
47	USA 104	Sarah Newberry, John Casey	30,0	14	16
48	ITA 107	Elia Mazzucchi, Giorgia Catarci	31,0	13	18
49	BRA 173	Clinio de Freitas, Claudia Freitas	32,0	10	22
50	AUS 57	Josh McKnight, Nina Curtis	33,0	18	15
51	ITA 55	Federica Salva, Francesco Bianchi	34,0	22	12
52	GER 8	Maximilian Said, Tina Vercouteren	37,0	23	14
53	ESP 108	Iker Martinez, Tara Pacheo	38,0	dsq	4
54	ITA 37	Vittorio Bissaro, Silvia Sicouri	38,0	4	dsq
55	GBR 152	Alicia Clifford, Tom Bruton	39,0	15	24
56	RUS 164	Sergey Dzhienbaev, Daria Ivanova	40,0	6	ret
57	ARG 148	Irina Pineyrua, Franco Greggi	44,0	24	20
58	UKR 51	Max Oberemko, Olga Maslivets	47,0	28	19
59	SUI 88	Stephanie Rosse, Michael Gloor	50,0	27	23
60	HKG 9	Tat Choi Fung, Yu Ting Chan	52,0	25	27
61	ESP 20	Elisabet Llaargues Masachs, Fabian Escude Lavit	52,0	26	26
62	USA 169	Taylor Reiss, Catherine Shanahan	54,0	20	dsq
63	DEN 80	Anne-Line Thomsen, Jacob Dannefer	54,0	29	25
64	GER 19	Julia Bleich, Niklas Meyer	59,0	31	28
65	GBR 141	Abby Zambinski, Sam Brearey	64,0	30	dsq

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