Skandia RYA Sail for Gold Regatta - Day 1

by Sail-World/RYA on 14 Oct 2006
First day of the Skandia RYA Sail for Gold Regatta (13 - 15 October) at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Its been a hard day on the water, with contrasting conditions. Rain and light winds at the start of the day were replaced by sunshine and an increasing breeze, peaking at about 12 knots on the 49er course.

Leading after the first day are Mark Powell (Laser) without winning a race. Paul Goodison won two races but is also counting a 15 from the first race. In the Radial fleet Penny Clark leads ahead of Laura Baldwin in another high scoring series. Andrea Brewster won the final race but had a 32 and a 28 in the earlier races to be 17 overall.

In the Finn class, the leading three overall shared the race wins. Matt Howard leads overall, one point ahead of Ireland's Tim Goodbody, with Ed Wright in third.

In the 470, Nic Asher and Elliott Willis lead the Men ahead of Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield, who are tied on points with Luke Patience and Chris Gurbe. In the Women's series, Ally Martin and Lottie Clay lead from Hannah Mills and Rachel Larman. The women’s fleet saw the withdrawal of pre-event favourites Christina Bassadone and Saskia Clark through an injury to Clark.

Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes lead the 49er series with a 1, 1, 2 scoreline. Second are Germany's Jan Peter Peckolt and Hannes Peckolt with Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez of Spain in third place.

'We couldn’t really have asked for a much better start with two firsts and a second from today,' said Morrison. 'We’re pretty pleased but it’s still early days.'

In the Tornado, Germany's Johannes Polgar and Florian Spalteholz lead ahead of Britain's Leigh McMillan and Will Howden by one point. Rob Wilson and Mark Bulkeley are in third after two races.

Shirley Robertson started her comeback with a win in the first race of the Yngling event but then dropped to ninth in the second and finished the day in fourth overall. Leader is Ingrid Söderström (SWE) with second Mandy Mulder (NED).

'A good day and a bad day,' said Robertson. 'It was good to get out there and racing again and it certainly blew the cobwebs away.

'We just need to get some more racing time in as a team – today was quite tricky in some ways, but we’re finding our way and every day we’re getting better and better.'

Robertson’s former teammates Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb, sailing with new crew member Pippa Wilson, got off to a conservative start, posting a couple of mid-fleet results before being subsequently disqualified from both of the day’s races as Webb was judged to have infringed the regatta rules by not wearing a buoyancy aid.

Nick Dempsey took two bullets in the RS:X 9.5m fleet’s two races, while Kim Jiskoot currently heads up the 8.5m table, with Bryony Shaw in second and the top female sailor in that fleet.

Leading scores after day 1:

Laser after 3 races, 52 entries:
1 GBR 186792 Mark Powell 5.0 5.0 2.0 12.0 12.0pts
2 GBR 185652 Nick Thompson 1.0 9.0 3.0 13.0 13.0
3 GBR 186101 Paul Goodison 15.0 1.0 1.0 17.0 17.0
4 NOR 181904 Stian Tuv 2.0 10.0 14.0 26.0 26.0
5 GBR 184752 Sean Evans 6.0 7.0 13.0 26.0 26.0
6 GBR 179553 Greg Carey 21.0 3.0 4.0 28.0 28.0

Laser Radial after 3 races, 51 entries:
1 GBR 184298 Penny Clark 1.0 8.0 6.0 15.0 15.0pts
2 GBR 161921 Laura Baldwin 2.0 11.0 11.0 24.0 24.0
3 GBR 183239 David Jessop 17.0 10.0 2.0 29.0 29.0
4 GBR 182233 Charlotte Dobson 4.0 21.0 4.0 29.0 29.0
5 GBR 184951 Sarah Williams 11.0 6.0 13.0 30.0 30.0
6 GBR 186405 Iain McKeeman 3.0 19.0 9.0 31.0 31.0

Finn after 3 races, 23 entries:
1 GBR 550 Matt Howard 2.0 4.0 1.0 7.0 7.0pts
2 IRL 5 Timothy Goodbody 4.0 1.0 3.0 8.0 8.0
3 GBR 111 Ed Wright 1.0 7.0 2.0 10.0 10.0
4 GBR 188 Giles Scott 7.0 2.0 5.0 14.0 14.0
5 GBR 625 Edward Greig 8.0 3.0 6.0 17.0 17.0
6 GBR 628 Nick Craig 5.0 5.0 8.0 18.0 18.0

470 Mew after 2 races, 13 entries:
1 Men GBR 816 Nic Asher Elliott Willis 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0
2 Men GBR 817 Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield 5.0 1.0 6.0 6.0
3 Men GBR 826 Luke Patience Chris Gurbe 3.0 3.0 6.0 6.0
4 Men GBR 814 Neil Marsden Ian Dobson 4.0 5.0 9.0 9.0
5 Men IRL 77 Gerbil Owens Phil Lawton 7.0 4.0 11.0 11.0
6 Men GBR 823 Jonny McGovern Tom Mapplebeck 2.0 10.0 12.0 12.0

470 Women after 2 races:
1 Women GBR 827 Ally Martin Lottie Clay 2.0 1.0 3.0 3.0pts
2 Women GBR 808 Hannah Mills Rachel Larman 1.0 3.0 4.0 4.0
3 Women GBR 17 Chitsu Nwe Nwe San 3.0 2.0 5.0 5.0
4 Women GBR 809 Melissa Heppell Katrina Hughes 4.0 4.0 8.0 8.0
5 Women NOR 6 Monica Rodal Benedicte Heide 5.0 5.0 10.0 10.0
6 Women NOR 117 Tina Løken Nilsson Lina Beyer Strømquist 6.0 6.0 12.0 12.0
7 Women GBR 819 Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark DNC DNC 16.0 16.0

49er after 3 races, 44 entries:
1 GBR 3 Stevie Morrison M Ben Rhodes M 1.0 1.0 2.0 4.0 4.0
2 GER 4 Jan Peter Peckolt M Hannes Peckolt M 9.0 3.0 5.0 17.0 17.0
3 ESP 10 Iker Martinez M Xabi Fernandez M 2.0 5.0 12.0 19.0 19.0
4 GBR 1 Chris Draper M Simon Hiscocks M 12.0 10.0 7.0 29.0 29.0
5 USA 14 Tim Wadlow M Chrisuser Rast M 24.0 4.0 3.0 31.0 31.0
6 SWE 975 Jonas Lindberg M Kalle Torlen M 4.0 22.0 6.0 32.0 32.0

Tornado after 2 races, 19 entries:
1 GER 7 Johannes Polgar M Florian Spalteholz M 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0
2 GBR 1 Leigh Mc Millan M William Howden M 3.0 1.0 4.0 4.0
3 GBR 7 Robert Wilson M Mark Bulkeley M 2.0 5.0 7.0 7.0
4 GBR 438 Chris Rashley M Marcus Lynch M 4.0 4.0 8.0 8.0
5 GBR 434 Hugh Styles M Tom Peel M 8.0 3.0 11.0 11.0
6 DEN 1 Allan Norregaard M Michael Risor M 7.0 6.0 13.0 13.0

Yngling after 2 races, 13 entries:
1 SWE 51 Ingrid Söderström F Johanna Larsson F Caroline Åberg F 4.0 3.0 7.0 7.0pts
2 NED 11 Mandy Mulder F Annemieke Bes F Marye Kampen F 2.0 6.0 8.0 8.0
3 GER 261 Ulrike Schuemann F Julia Bleck F Ute Hoepfner F 9.0 1.0 10.0 10.0
4 GBR 9 Shirley Robertson F Annie Lush F Macgregor Lucy F 1.0 9.0 10.0 10.0
5 FIN 11 Silja Lehtinen F Maria Klemetz F Livia Väresmaa F 7.0 4.0 11.0 11.0
6 NED 111 Janneke Hin F Brechtje Van der Werf F Floortje Hendriksen F 12.0 2.0 14.0 14.0

2.4mR after 3 races, 13 entries:
1 NED 12 Thierry Schmitter 1.0 1.0 2.0 4.0 4.0pts
2 FRA 1 Seguin Damien 2.0 3.0 1.0 6.0 6.0
3 GBR 60 Megan Pascoe 3.0 4.0 3.0 10.0 10.0
4 GBR 75 Helena Lucas 4.0 2.0 6.0 12.0 12.0
5 NOR 102 Bjornar Erikstad 5.0 5.0 5.0 15.0 15.0
6 GBR 63 Steve Bullmore 6.0 6.0 7.0 19.0 19.0

Sonar after 3 races, 12 entries:
1 FRA 739 Bruno Jourdren M Gerard Fulgoni M Philippe Balle M 2.0 3.0 1.0 6.0 6.0pts
2 IRL 697 Paul McCarthy M Paul Ryan M Richard Wheally M 4.0 1.0 3.0 8.0 8.0
3 GBR 702 John Roberston M Steve Thomas M Hannah Stodel F 1.0 5.0 4.0 10.0 10.0
4 GER 11 Jens Kroker M Siegmund Mainka M Tobias Schütz M 5.0 2.0 5.0 12.0 12.0
5 NOR 1 Jostein Stordahl M Aleksander Wang-Hansen M Per Eugen Kristiansen M 3.0 4.0 6.0 13.0 13.0
6 GBR 7021 Dan Parsons M Jon Waite M Thomas Pygall M 6.0 6.0 2.0 14.0 14.0

RS:x Men after 2 races, 12 entries:
1 GBR 21 Nick Dempsey 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0
2 GBR 20 Leo McCallin 4.0 2.0 6.0 6.0
3 GBR 75 Richard Hamilton 3.0 5.0 8.0 8.0
4 GBR 274 Elliot Carney 2.0 7.0 9.0 9.0
5 GBR 13 Hugh Sims Williams 9.0 3.0 12.0 12.0
6 GBR 428 James Bulleid 8.0 4.0 12.0 12.0

RS:x Women after 2 races, 17 entries:
1 GBR 312 Kim Jiskoot M 5.0 1.0 6.0 6.0
2 GBR 94 Bryony Shaw F 4.0 4.0 8.0 8.0
3 GBR 967 Jacob Brubert M 7.0 2.0 9.0 9.0
4 GBR 523 Peter Fey M 9.0 3.0 12.0 12.0
5 GBR 518 Beth Williamson F 1.0 12.0 13.0 13.0
6 GBR 958 Richard Cleworth M 6.0 7.0 13.0 13.0

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