2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships - Record-breaking day on water

by Sail Canada on 17 Sep 2014 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships - Santander - Today consisted of a range of big swell, plenty of current and breeze that ranged from 080 to 210 with as little as one knot to as much as 18 knots during attempted racing hours. Several fleets spent multiple hours on the water waiting for breeze with a few veteran coaches reporting record breaking hours on the water (11 straight) with a coachboat refuel in order.

All fleets managed to get at least once race in with a mixed bag of results. Finn, 49er, FX and Nacra’s all had their debut on the water today. The Canadian FX fleet had a solid day on the course with Rafuse/Boyd posting a two, nineteen, six. Erin Rafuse and Dannie Boyd were unlucky with a protest this evening which resulted in a DSQ but still maintain good position in 14th overall. Nacra team Ramsay/Girke and Finn sailor Douglas also came out fighting sitting in 15 and 17 respectively.

All sailors were early to bed to rest up for a more promising day of consistent breeze tomorrow. RSX fleets split off to gold and silver fleets while the remainder of the fleets still battle in qualifiers for another day. Laser and Radial fleets head into finals with their event wrapping up on the 18th.

 Current Canadian results after Day 5:

Class	Canadian Sailors	Current Overall
Finn	Greg Douglas	17
Finn	Martin Robitaille	63
Nacra 17	Luke Ramsay and Nikola Girke	15
Laser	Lee Parkhill	31
Laser	Robert Davis	52
Laser	Evert McLaughlin	68
Laser	Tom Ramshaw	85
Laser Radial	Isabella Bertold	22
Laser Radial	Brenda Bowskill	30
Laser Radial	Claire Merry	46
49erFX	Erin Rafuse and Dannielle Boyd	14
49erFX	Arielle Morgan and Heather Myatt	15
49erFX	Erin Berry and Ingrid Merry	24
49er	David Mori and Justin Barnes	26
49er	John and Arthur Ferguson	78
470 (M)	Jacob and Graeme Chaplin Saunders	47
470 (W)	Allison Surrette and Alexandra Ten Hove	49
RS:X(M)	Zachary Plavsic	50
RS:X(W)	Laurence Bonneau-Charland	55