Womens Yngling Worlds - Redress changes leader

by Richard Gladwell on 22 Jul 2005 An International Jury decision has altered the places at the top of the points table in the 2005 Yngling Womens World Championship.

As reported by Australia’s Nicky Bethwaite earlier on Sail-World.com, there was some conflict between the Open Worlds fleet and the Womens World fleet on the race course. While specifics of the Jury decision are not to hand, it would appear that the Race Committees actions/omission would have given good ground for a redress claim - and clearly this view was upheld by the International Jury.

Provisional points leader after six race, Sharon Ferris (NZL) reported that the redress had been granted and the New Zealand team had lost its regatta lead as a result.

‘We lost the lead after the USA team were given redress.

‘The location of Mondsee is just 25km west of Salzburg and has great mountains on both sides. We were training here in May and the mountains had snow on the top!!

‘We have had wind from all 360 degrees and from 0 - 28 knots. So we have had a bit of everything in the lake. The lake is made up of two parts and the first day we were in the southern part were it is very norrow and has very high cliffs. The wind is dumping down and you have to react very quickly.

‘In the second race we were third at the top mark and the wind died and turned 180 degrees to come form the other direction of the lake. We finished sixth in that race and it could of been so much worse.

‘At the moment we are flying in the light conditions and that is giving us options to do what we want to do.

‘Tomorrow is another day and we have four races to go anything can happen and we just want to make sure we are on the right side of the shifts sailing towards the top mark.

‘As usual on the lay day we have perfect conditions and we will see what happens tomorrow we are expecting light and shifty conditions again.’

Racing commences again tomorrow on Lake Mondsee, Austria, with two races scheduled.

At the time of writing, results were yet to be updated on the offical race site at: http://www.yngling2005.com/mmdb/1/2/55.pdf