Clemente Sequel of Chile leads at 2017 Sunfish Worlds after Race Day 2

by Vicki Palmer on 31 Aug 2017

2017 Sunfish World Championship - Day 1 Brant Beach SF Regatta Pictures

A race day that started out with cloudy skies and a bit of a nip in the air ended up being a near perfect day at Brant Beach Yacht Club in NJ at the International Sunfish Class Association (ISCA) World Championship.

Winds for Races 1 and 2 held pretty steady at 12-15 knots. Winds for Race 3 started out at 11-12 but got lighter and lighter as the race wore on. With the wind gods smiling down on us, it blew just hard enough to finish the racers within the time limit.

2017 Sunfish World Championship - Day 1 © Brant Beach SF Regatta Pictures

Preliminary race results show that Clemente Sequel of Chile is currently the lead finisher after Race Days 1 and 2. In today's Race 1, Clemente scored a bullet just beating out Jean Paul Trazegnies of Peru who sailed neck and neck with Clemente the whole race.

The second place finisher after six races is Alonso Collantes of Peru. David Hernandez of Guatemala is currently in third place. The fourth place finisher is Eugene Schmitt of the USA. And in fifth place is Edgar Diminich of Ecuador. Talk about a nice mixture of countries sailing in the top of the fleet!

2017 Sunfish World Championship - Day 1 © Brant Beach SF Regatta Pictures

Jesus Bailon of Ecuador scored a bullet in today's Race 2. And Simon Gomez of Colombia beat a fleet of world champion sailors to score the bullet in Race 3.

Tomorrow's scheduled Lay Day is going to be the Race Day to make up for yesterday's races which were canceled due to heavy winds.

Tonight, there will be a catered dinner at the Brant Beach Yacht Club for the group of hungry and tired competitors and all those who are here to cheer them on.

**Series Summary, Preliminary**
Pl	S#	Sailor	Subg.	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	42	Clemente Seguel	Y	11	2	1	3	1	4	(14)
2	15	Alonso Collantes		20	1	2	1	6	10	(17)
3	25	David Hernandez		22.4	8.4\RDG	5	4	3	2	(28)
4	08	Eugene Schmitt		27	4	3	8	9	3	(10)
5	16	Edgar Diminich		30	7	7\RDG	7\RDG	4	5	(12)
6	06	Jean Paul de Trazegnies Valdez		35	15\RDG	4	5	2	9	(55\DNF)
7	17	Jonathan Martinetti Mawyin		35	10	8\RDG	8\RDG	5	(13)	4
8	12	Paul-Jon Patin	AM	41	5	6	2	(18)	17	11
9	51	Ignacio Antequera Erro	Y	43	(16)	10	7	11	7	8
10	13	Jesus Bailon		45	22	9	(29)	7	1	6
11	10	David Mendelblatt	AM	45	12	13	(16)	12	6	2
12	24	Diego Silvestre		54	6	7	9	24	8	(35)
13	38	Martin Alsogaray		56	3	8	19	8	(26)	18
14	14	John Birkett		62	11	21	(26)	10	11	9
15	28	Stewart Draheim		63	15	15	6	13	14	(19)
16	56	Hank Saurage	M	67	14	12	11	23	(28)	7
17	33	Dan Hesse		72	9	20	13	(21)	15	15
18	35	Juan Sebastian Martinez	Y	81	13	11	18	14	(27)	25
19	02	Juan Esteban Restrepo		82	19	14	(55\OCS)	16	12	21
20	07	Brian McGinnis	AM	89	18	22	14	19	16	(47)
21	41	Gustavo Alayon	Y	90	17	17	15	20	21	(22)
22	01	Esteban Echavarria		99.6	21	20.6\RDG	23	15	20	(24)
23	43	Nicholas Patin	Y	101	(31)	27	22\RDG	25	22	5
24	36	Juan Mazzini		102	25	18	25	(38)	18	16
25	48	Alejandro Mago	Y	112	23	19	27	(40)	30	13
26	03	Rob Eberle	GM	113	30	29	22	(35)	29	3
27	05	William Kresic		118	(38)	30	21	17	19	31
28	09	Josh Kerst	M	124	29	23	10	37	25	(49\TLE)
29	44	Simon Gomez	Y	127	(40)	33	30	26	37	1
30	20	Jaime Torres	M	129	(33)	28	24	33	24	20
31	29	Mark Weider	GM	132	24	26	12	39	31	(45)
32	26	Lee Montes	AM	138	30.5\RDG	30.5\RDG	17	31	(45)	29
33	21	Chris Houston	GM	143	26	34	33	27	(40)	23
34	30	Jim Koehler	GM	150	28	31	(55\OCS)	29	32	30
35	31	Guy De Chavigny	M	159	27	16	34	46	(47)	36
36	23	John Butine	M	160	36	25	35	41	23	(42)
37	34	Gail Heausler	F & GM	162	35	24	28	(47)	42	33
38	46	Santiago Canziani	Y	168	(55\RET)	37	36	28	35	32
39	22	Christopher Williams	M	169	20	(55\DSQ)	20	42	46	41
40	19	Romina DeIulio	F & Y	170	41	40	41	22	(44)	26
41	52	Rune Henrik Hansen	M	172	37	32	32	34	(41)	37
42	54	Juan Carlos Barrera	Y	176	34	39	39	30	34	(40)
43	18	Luis Mario Acosta		180	39	36	40	32	33	(43)
44	04	Lyndsay Stockwell	F	186	42	42	37	(43)	38	27
45	45	James Ranker		193	32	38	38	36	(52)	49\TLE
46	32	Paul Welles	GM	194.6	40.6\RDG	35	31	(49)	39	49\TLE
47	11	Marguerite Koehler	F	217	45	41	43	44	(48)	44
48	49	Tom Katterheinrich	GM	226	43	43	42	(50)	49	49\TLE
49	40	Nicholas Reyes	Y	231	(55\DNF)	55\DNS	55\DNS	51	36	34
50	37	Griffin Sisk	Y	232	46	44	44	52	(53)	46
51	53	Charles Rahn	GM	236	47	(55\DNS)	55\DNS	45	50	39
52	47	Nicky Einthoven	F & M	246	(55\DNF)	55\DNS	55\DNS	55\DNS	43	38
53	50	Lee Parks	F & GM	258	(55\DNF)	55\DNS	55\DNS	48	51	49\TLE
54	27	Lawrence Suter	GM	275	(55\DNF)	55\DNS	55\DNS	55\DNS	55\DNS	55\DNS