Palamos Christmas Race - Penultimate day

by Event media/GN on 30 Dec 2005 The 30th edition of the Christmas Race continued in Palamós Thursday. The Committee decided to advance the warning signal of today's first race to 10:00 hrs considering the weather forecast that announced a wind drop around 13:00hrs.

Finn, Tornado and 470 women sailed one race, the Laser, Laser Radial, Europe and 470 men sailed two races and three races were sailed by the 49ers.

Boats are all back ashore waiting for the official announcement at 16:30hrs about the time of the warning signal for the first race Friday. Depending on the forecast, the warning signal will be again put forward to 10:00 hrs.

Tornado class World and Europe champions, Spain's Fernando Echavarri and Antón Paz (Movistar)continue to lead the class despite a win today for Christina and Florian Loweg (GER).

In the 49er fleet there is a new leader, Jorge Lima and Francisco Andrade (POR) with early leaders Jan and Hannes Peckolt (GER) now second.

Swedish sailor Daniel Birgmark continues to lead the Finn class, followed by two Spanish sailors Rafael Trujillo Villar and Diego Fructuoso.

Later the 30th anniversary Christmas Race dinner was a cheeful gathering of teams who enjoyed a delicious menu cooked by the 'Arrossaires d'Argelaguer'. The fun followed with the lucky draw with lots of presents (T-shirts, caps, pullovers, sailing clothing, etc ...) for all those who attended.

Presents were offered by Perfumeria Palli, Ajuntament de Palamós, Pica-Pica, La botiga del Brodat, D'Avui, MBM Associats, Toni Tio, Espais il·luminació, Nana, Estació Nàutica, Sunami Center i Marta Blanca.

Results at 29 Dec:

Tornado leaders after 7 races:
1 ESP 1 Fernando Echavarri/Antón Paz 9 pts
2 ESP 23 Toni Rivas/Fabian Escude 16
3 GER 1096 Tino Mittelmeier/Niko Mittelmeier 17

49er leaders after 11 races:
1 POR 37 Jorge Lima/Francisco Andrade 36 pts
2 GER 6 Jan Peter Peckolt/Hannes Peckolt 41
3 ESP 7 Alberto Padron Torrent/Javier de La Plaza 43

Finn leaders after 5 races:
1 SWE 11 Daniel Birgmark 9 pts
2 ESP 100 Rafael Trujillo Villar 13
3 ESP 836 Alberto Vadell 13

Laser leaders after 6 races:
1 DEN 180749 Anders Nyholm 10 pts
2 ITA 181307 Giacomo Bottoli 22
3 ITA 184186 Regolo Michele 23

Laser Radial leaders after 6 races:
1 ITA 181553 Magnaghi Fabiola 13 pts
2 GER 182168 Martje Uecker 13
3 GER 181626 Janika Puls 13

Europe leaders after 6 races:
1 ESP 250 Ascension Roca De Togores 12 pts
2 FIN 811 Teemu Rantanen 13
3 ESP 500 Eli Llargues 20

470 Men leaders after 6 races:
1 ESP 1733 Marc Patiño Jordi/Omar Juan Moreno 10 pts
2 ESP 1 Francisco Sánchez Ferrer/Alejandro Ramos López 20
3 POL 52 Tomasz Januszewski/Marcin Mickiewicz 24

470 Women leaders after 6 races:
1 ESP 1833 Marina Gallego Durán/Florence Van Vianen 8 pts
2 ITA 4372 Giulia Conti/Giovanna Micol 10
3 SUI 1404 Emmanuelle Rol/Anne-Sophie Thilo 10

The 30th edition of the Palamós-Christmas Race can be followed live through the race-on-line on the website http://www.christmasrace.org

Full overall results available at: http://www.christmasrace.org