Changing fortunes on Day 3 of Cascais SB20 World Championships 2016

by True Angle on 2 Sep 2016

2016 Cascais SB20 World Championships – Day 3 Neuza Pereira

It was a day of changes at the Cascais SB20 World Championships, which saw three more challenging races completed on Thursday, September 1. First, the weather proved just how quickly conditions can vary at this Atlantic venue. There was sun but very little breeze as the 75-boat international fleet left the dock, which saw the competitors being towed to the race course by various RIBs, Jury and coach boats – no small undertaking with an entry of this size.

But by the time an outer course was set the breeze had filled in to 15 knots, which built to 20 over the course of race one. There were three general recalls before the first start of the day, and seventh of the series, could get underway, with at least 12 boats falling foul of the Black Flag and called OCS, which kept the Jury busy late into the evening.

2016 Cascais SB20 World Championships – Day 3 © Neuza Pereira

Race two began in similar breeze, but the right-hand side paid handsomely. The challenge with such a busy start-line was to get away cleanly and make ground to the right - Simon Hume on Skewered (GBR3716), whose previous results had all been in the second half of the fleet, impressed as they absolutely nailed the start, tacked right and stayed on the right side of the fleet all race to secure a top 10 finish.

By 1715 the breeze was dying off, leaving a patchy and difficult racecourse for race three. The race was shortened at the end of the second beat as the breeze was fading away. It then faded completely on the sail in, requiring the RIBs to be called into action once again to tow the fleet back in. It was a very tired fleet that hit the dock at gone 1900hrs, and the welcome courtesy beers and food laid on at the Clube Naval de Cascais were very appreciated.

2016 Cascais SB20 World Championships – Day 3 © Neuza Pereira

The boat of the day was unquestionably Massimo Fullone’s Mercy Bocu (ITA3637), who took a win, an 11th, and another win on a particularly tough day for consistency. The second race was won by Rodion Luka on TREM Engineering (UKR3042).

Many competitive teams today scored one strong result – and one 77-point penalty, including José Paulo Ramada on Dom Pedro Hotels/Generali (POR3105), who took a second before being Black Flagged in the last, and the experienced Nika crew (RUS3709), who picked up both a third and 77-pointer today.

2016 Cascais SB20 World Championships – Day 3 © Neuza Pereira

Significantly, Hugo Rocha’s New Territories team also carries a DNC after not racing the final race of the day due to gear failure. This has seen a change at the top of the scoreboard, with Gabriel Skoczek’s France Jeune SB20 (FRA3653) now the overall leader on 39 points, just one point ahead of New Territories. Rodion Luka is third overall, with 49 points.

The 2016 World Championships are proving to be a very tough competition with a great many good boats and a very demanding racecourse – this title fight looks set to go to the wire. The Nations Cup battle between France, Portugal and Russia is equally intriguing, and six nations are represented in the top 10.

2016 Cascais SB20 World Championships – Day 3 © Neuza Pereira

For those looking further ahead, the Royal Yacht Squadron from Cowes, UK, made a presentation tonight about the 2017 World Championships, which was very well received.

Three more races are planned for tomorrow, before competition concludes on Saturday, September 3.

The Cascais SB20 World Championships feature live tracking, allowing spectators to watch the action online – visit website.

Results:

Series Place	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Crew2	Series Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9
1	FRA3653	Gabriel Skoczek	Michel Emeric	Lucas Chatonnier , Marine Boudot	39	3	6	10	2	17	5	4	7	2
2	RUS3711	Hugo Rocha	Alex Semenov	Fran Palacios, Gonçalo Barreto	40	2	3	1	9	6	9	2	8	DNC 77
3	UKR3042	Rodion Luka	Andrey Klochko	Igor Severianov,Tomás Barreto	49	1	4	25	1	5	19	11	1	7
4	POR3114	Vasco Serpa	Joaquim Moreira	Pedro Costa Alemao	54	11	1	2	15	7	53	6	3	9
5	AUS3735	Chris Dare	Oliver Tweddell	Ella Clark	61	14	2	3	61	3	7	8	19	5
6	AUS3731	Michael Cooper	David Chapman	Matthew Johnston	65	4	13	5	3	11	4	5	20	27
7	FRA3580	Kevin Peponnet	Achille Nebout	Bruno Mourniac , Camille Rossi	68	5	20	26	16	9	1	7	4	6
8	POR3620	José Caldeira	Helder Basílio	Tiago Leal, Mariana Lobato	71	19	12	4	5	1	15	14	16	4
9	GBR3724	John Pollard	Rob Smith	Ben Warnick	90	7	23	6	6	20	3	13	24	12
10	POR3105	José Paulo Ramada	Gonçalo Ribeiro	Rita Gonçalves,Miguel Leal Faria	137	9	11	23	22	12	46	12	2	BFD 77
11	RUS3722	Vasily Grigoriev	Mikhail Markin	Valeriy Ushkov	137	26	9	20	34	4	12	28	22	16
12	ITA3637	Massimo Fullone	Andrea Airo	Nikolaos Mascoli, Pierfrancisco Schiavone	139	20	DNC77	DNC77	4	19	6	1	11	1
13	NED3714	Marco van Driel	Joost Assmann	Martijn Worseling	139	29	15	9	14	21	39	9	25	17
14	RUS3709	Vladimir Prosikhin	Artem Basalkin	Alex Martemiyanov	140	6	7	12	60	13	8	3	UFD77	31
15	FRA3423	Mathilde Geron	Sophie de Turckheim	Julie Bossard , Alice Ponsar	149	17	30	17	13	24	14	17	17	BFD 77
16	GBR3750	Jerry Hill	Alan Hillman	Craig Watson	152	22	5	27	12	18	32	15	32	21
17	GBR3728	Richard Powell	Tim Burnell	Ben Vines	155	10	18	14	19	10	2	BFD77	5	BFD 77
18	POR3558	Diogo Pereira	Fausto Briosa	Luís Queiroz	176	23	33	22	11	29	13	BFD77	35	10
19	GBR3732	Joe Llewellyn	Jeremy Vigus	Nigel Wakefield	177	18	38	28	37	37	28	10	6	13
20	ITA3543	Antonillo Ciabatti	Vincenzo Graciotti	Nando Colaninno	182	30	27	24	7	35	17	20	23	34
21	FRA3655	Charles Caudrelier	Pascal Bidegorry	Thomas Rouxel , Malo Abguillerm	199	8	34	38	18	8	61	18	14	BFD 77
22	POR3111	Manuel Marques	Rui Bóia	Hugo Mastbaum	206	32	16	8	66	25	62	24	15	24
23	POR3616	John Tavares	Paulo Manso	Jorge Ferreira	207	48	21	18	17	15	55	30	UFD77	3
24	FRA3721	Hugo Feydit	Valentin Sipan	Mathieu Corruble , Paola Amar	207	21	8	50	39	34	59	27	13	15
25	RUS3708	Kirill Frolov	Alexey Murashkin	Egor Ignatenko	208	25	51	21	43	2	31	25	47	14
26	FRA3034	Johan Ravier	Helene Urruti	Frederic Perroche, Alice Chiaporri	210	40	19	19	26	45	11	33	30	32
27	FRA3706	Edward Russo	Gilles Favennec	Cedric Chateau	214	13	22	32	48	42	24	44	29	8
28	POR3738	Nuno Vasconcelos Porto	Francisco Ancêde	Diogo Costa, Pedro Costa	218	28	28	29	21	43	18	29	59	22
29	POR3115	Rui Brites	Henrique Brites	Francisco Andrade, Mariana Freitas	226	15	14	33	25	30	33	22	54	DNC 77
30	POR3103	Luis Santos	Antonio Santos	Rui Duarte	227	31	17	30	24	27	44	26	53	28
31	GBR3720	Adrian Peach	Garry Phare	Jim Short	233	35	24	47	10	23	29	23	42	BFD 77
32	POR3286	Tiago Roquette	João Leite de Castro	Luis Pessanha	236	DNF77	44	37	47	39	27	19	12	11
33	FRA3609	Piriou Tugdual	Jade Lestré	Yan Rigal, Tom Picot	241	52	26	7	54	32	22	42	34	26
34	POR3525	Diogo Barros	Luis Alonso	Tiago Morais	251	24	DNC77	DNC77	28	22	10	31	39	20
35	IRL3065	James Gorman	Rory Fitzpatrick	Neil O'Toole, Laura Jackson	256	12	36	16	59	59	56	21	21	35
36	POR3505	Vasco Passanha	Diana Neves	Carlos Leitão, Rafael Rodrigues	263	34	49	36	8	58	48	32	37	19
37	UKR3726	Anna Kyselova	Ivan Pavlusik	Anatolii Petrov, Irina Dorosheva	265	36	37	58	46	14	41	35	33	23
38	GBR3710	Tich Summers	Scott Graham	Nick Elder	266	16	52	31	68	40	25	46	31	25
39	RUS3707	Vadim Pushev	Timur Sabirzianov	Alexander Mikhailov	270	27	31	13	58	33	50	BFD77	40	18
40	IRL3739	Ger Dempsey	Chris Nolan	Maeve Judge, Blair Stanaway	270	47	25	40	32	26	51	16	52	33
41	IRL3060	Stefan Hyde	Graeme Grant	Tara Flood, Clara Hynes	283	DNC77	67	35	23	38	30	34	9	47
42	GBR3027	Alec Russell	Mark Lees	Jess Lees, Rich Pull	299	41	66	49	27	44	37	45	26	30
43	POR3427	João Villas-Boas	José Camelo	Guilherme Gomes, Nuno Bajanca	301	33	58	45	20	51	49	38	28	37
44	RUS3420	Igor Ginzburg	Basalkina Anna	Krivov Oleg, Klepikov Leonid	316	44	40	11	35	16	16	BFD77	DNC77	DNC 77
45	POR3341	David Aleixo	Miguel Guimarães	David Abecassis , António Barros	325	37	10	52	42	28	DNF77	BFD77	43	36
46	IRL3537	Chris Arrowsmith	David Cahill	Colin Galavan	337	42	46	34	52	46	43	47	27	55
47	CHN3557	Kong Chengheng	Chen Jinhao	Liu Xue	346	57	41	41	69	48	38	36	46	39
48	BEL3311	Jan Alleman	Paul Jonckheere	Geert Orbie	350	62	35	15	53	65	26	50	56	53
49	BEL3345	Bart Tytgat	Hielke Krijnen	Kristof Woutters	357	50	60	55	31	DNF 77	DNC77	37	18	29
50	AUS3390	Phil Reid	Sam Ibbott	Andre DeClerck	359	54	50	43	72	56	20	54	44	38
51	GBR3069	Ian Hudson	Niall Peelo	Helen Macnamara, Laura Woosey	359	56	32	53	45	36	40	43	61	54
52	GBR3057	John Outhwaite	David Atkinson	Carl Outhwaite	369	58	48	44	40	49	65	40	38	52
53	GBR3716	Simon Hume	Oli Nedham	John Malone	370	38	53	54	62	60	DNF77	49	10	44
54	POR3203	Margarida Aguiar	Sofia Regojo	Ana Champalimaud,Maria João Marques	374	43	42	42	41	70	60	52	51	43
55	RUS3512	Vladislav Ivanovskiy	Alexey Egorov	Vitaliy Nosach, Ekaterina Bessonova	384	61	39	56	38	50	66	39	55	46
56	POR3723	Pedro Ambrósio	Miguel Oliveira	Francisco Oliveira	386	49	43	48	44	52	52	57	41	57
57	POR3652	Paulo Palha	André Gonçalves	António José Barros, Rita Leal faria	401	46	29	51	55	66	36	41	DNF77	BFD 77
58	GBR3740	Doug Innes	Martin Fox	Gareth Glover	405	45	47	65	49	31	70	BFD77	58	40
59	POR3411	Diogo C Mendes	Ana Santos	Bernardo Loureiro, Duarte Teles	414	71	56	59	29	64	67	55	36	48
60	RUS3730	Aleksey Kolobanov	Gaiane Kolovalova	Bozhko Aleksander, Manuel Cruz	415	53	45	39	64	61	54	BFD77	57	42
61	SUI3169	Ueli Guggenbuehl	Caspar Guggenbuehl	Heinrich Guggenbuehl	424	70	62	46	51	63	42	BFD77	45	45
62	GBR3276	Harry Barker	George Chilvers	Christopher Merril, Olive Bazfour	432	63	55	60	67	41	35	BFD77	62	49
63	OMA3560	Fahad Al Hasni	Yasir al Rahbi	Raad al Hadi	436	59	54	57	30	54	45	60	DNF77	DNC 77
64	RUS3523	Iurii Popov	Igor Svirida	Oleg Chugunov	438	39	DNC77	DNC77	57	57	47	51	60	50
65	GBR3516	Rob Clark	Alexey Farenyuk	Manuel Arriaga e Cunha	439	51	DNC77	DNC77	33	DSQ 77	23	53	48	DNF 77
66	FRA3576	Benoit Melen	Gregory Baum	Eric Brioist	447	64	61	63	65	55	57	56	50	41
67	POR3581	Andrei Balaykin	Maksim Fedorov	Valentin Uvarkin	451	68	59	61	70	47	34	58	66	58
68	POR3092	Patrick Lindley	Pedro Simões	Luís Vasconcelos Dias	457	60	57	66	63	68	63	48	49	51
69	POR3733	Peter Stratton	Pedro Henriques	Francisco Garcia	487	55	DNC77	DNC77	50	53	21	DNF77	DNC77	DNC 77
70	POR3090	Paulo Lobo	Elisio Lourenço	Filipe Carioca, João Soeiro	506	67	65	68	56	73	68	61	65	56
71	POR3150	Miguel Fonseca	Edgar Miguel Tereso Faria	Vasco Justino, Nuno Duarte	529	66	63	DNC77	36	69	64	BFD77	DNF77	DNC 77
72	OMA3256	Ali Al Balushi	Abdulrahman Al Mashari	Sami Al Shukaili	541	DNC77	64	64	75	62	58	BFD77	64	DNF 77
73	POR3100	Luis Jardim	Bernardo Macedo	Guilherme Jardim	562	69	DNS77	67	73	71	69	59	DNF77	DNC 77
74	POR3521	Luís Rosário	Andre Carinhas	Valerio Conceição	562	72	69	69	74	67	71	BFD77	63	DNF 77
75	GBR3305	Gary Baker	Dan Craft	Chris Odonnell	569	65	68	62	71	72	DNC77	DNF77	DNC77	DNC 77
76	SUI3183	Chappuis Denis	Stalder Cécilia	Bober Volodymyr	607	DNS77	DNC77	DNC77	76	74	72	DNF77	DNC77	DNC 77