Mauricio Santacruz (BRA) lead J24 Worlds - Day 3

by Kathy Taylor on 9 Mar 2007 After day 3 of the 2007 World Championship Brazil’s Mauricio Santacruz and his Bruschetta team are still firmly in first place, with Chris Snow’s Bogus from the USA right at his heels.

The USA continues to hold three of the top five spots, with Mark Hillman on WIP and Mike Ingham’s Brain Cramp claiming third and fourth place. Argentina’s Tag Heuer, driven by the team of Grimaldi and Contessi dropped and are in fifth position.

Day three’s first race started with light air and flat seas. Great Britain’s Imarsat Hedgehog helmed by Ian Southworth and Chris McLaughlin took a strong early lead and held it to the finish, followed by Chris Snow on Bogus, and Argentina’s Tag Heuer in third place.

The big wind shifts of yesterday repeated themselves today as the wind clocked south just before the start of the second race. The Race Committee reset the course quickly, and the fleet had one of the best starts of the regatta so far, with only three over the line early.

18 knot winds forced the quickest boats on the first windward leg to change to small jib, but by the turn, the big sails were up again. In oscillating winds Mauricio Santacruz on Bruschetta and Chris Snow battled for position, while Canadian John Polglase on Fragata sailed to a first place finish.

2006 and 2007 Mexican National Champion Kenneth Porter on S finished the day in 13th place.

Off the water, Sponsor Village continues to be the post-race Happy Hour spot – top notch local restaurants have been offering gourmet specialties and the cerveza has been very very cold. Wednesday’s Fiesta on the Beach features a traditional Mexican buffet – time to loosen your belts, sailors.

Overall results after 6 races, 1 discard:

Pos Nat Helm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pts:

1 BRA Mauricio Santacruz 3 3 -8 1 7 7 21pts
2 USA Chris Snow 8 4 5 2 -36 6 25
3 USA Mark A. Hillman 18 1 -25 4 2 3 28
4 USA Mike Ingham 7 2 -16 11 8 2 30
5 ARG Juan Ignacio Grimaldi/Domingo Contessi 16 5 3 12 -25 5 41
6 JPN Yasutaka Funazawa 14 -16 11 5 10 4 44
7 JPN Wataru Sakamoto -21 20 1 7 6 14 48
8 CHI Per von Appen -33 15 2 17 9 8 51
9 GBR Ian Southworth/Chris McLaughlin (50.0 ZFP) 12 15 9 1 18 55
10 USA Ryan Cox 4 6 4 18 23 -27 55
11 USA David Klatt 1 13 6 -27 16 21 57
12 CAN Rossi Milev 10 19 (23.0 SCP) 3 5 20 57
13 MEX Kenneth Porter 5 9 18 25 12 -31 69
14 USA Will Welles -19 10 10 15 15 19 69
15 ARG Rigoni Alejo/Gustavo Gonzalez 12 18 36 (37.0 SCP) 3 12 81
16 CHI Dag von Appen 26 (35.0 SCP) 21 8 21 9 85
17 MEX Yon Belauteguigoitia 17 -26 7 20 19 25 88
18 JPN Tomomi Hatakeyama 16.0 ZFP (36.0 SCP) 17 30 17 13 93
19 USA Roger Harden 41.0 ZFP 8 13 28 4 -43 94
20 MEX Jorge Murrieta/Diego Berho 23 32 12 21 13 (71.0 DNF) 101
21 CAN John Polglase (71.0 BFD) 11 57.0 SCP 16 41 1 126
22 USA Bob Harden 9 7 41 33 38 -53 128
23 GBR Bob Turner/Alastair Clarke 6 29 27 32 35 -55 129
24 JPN Masashi Hirota -59 30 26 13 26 34 129
25 URU Diego Garcia Terra 37 25 14 20.0 SCP 39 (DNC) 135
26 PER Javier Arribas Leigh -39 39 20 31 14 32 136
27 URU Santiago Silveira 47 14 (71.0 DSQ) 22 29 24 136
28 URU Gustavo Coll 25.0 ZFP -40 33 40 27 15 140
29 JPN Mr.Tsuji (71.0 BFD) 24 19 42 18 40 143
30 USA Michael Whitfield -48 47 22 14 24 37 144
31 ARG Fernando Montes/Alberto Zan 25 -55 32 34 22 39 152
32 MEX Julian Fernandez 15 36 35 38 -44 29 153
33 CAN Robin Avery 22 43 24 24 40 -52 153
34 MEX Claudio Cozzi 34.0 ZFP 23 -58 45 52 11 165
35 GBR James Chalmers/Gareth Robinson 41 (47.0 SCP) 28 35 42 30 176
36 MEX Manuel Villareal (59.0 ZFP) 52 30 41 30 28 181
37 MEX Mauricio Miranda (58.0 ZFP) 38 23 37 43 41 182
38 ITA Anna Sargenti/Di Faria 52.0 ZFP (71.0 dsq) 37 19 34 44 186
39 USA Jason Decker 49.0 ZFP 34 44 51 -58 10 188
40 USA Keith Whittemore 41.0 SCP+ZFP 56.0 SCP+SCP (71.0 DNF) 71.0 DNS 11 22 201
41 PER Alec Hughes -58 56.0 SCP 38 36 20 51 201
42 JPN Shuhei Saito 45.0 ZFP 41 46 -57 33 36 201
43 SWE Per Håkan Persson 43.0 ZFP 45 -56 26 48 42 204
44 MEX Javier Velazquez (71.0 BFD) 17 51 10 56 71.0 OCS 205
45 MEX Robert Vulling 48.0 ZFP 35 42 44 -55 38 207
46 MEX Hector Guzman (71.0 BFD) 58.0 SCP 45 48 31 26 208
47 MEX Dennis Gentry (71.0 BFD) 27 34 52 37 59 209
48 MEX Peter Colliard (71.0 BFD) 46 29 71.0 OCS 51 16 213
49 USA Ed Leslie 53 -57 54 29 32 54 222
50 MEX Luis Alvarez 32 48 55 39 -65 48 222
51 MEX Ricardo Brockman 42 -56 52 56 50 23 223
52 MEX Francisco Guzman (64.0 ZFP) 31 49 60 28 58 226
53 MEX Pablo Cervantes (71.0 BFD) 37 50 63 46 35 231
54 MEX Joaquín Bargallo 38.0 ZFP 49 48 (71.0 OCS) 49 49 233
55 MEX Erik Mergenthaler/E. de la Madrid (71.0 ZFP+ZFP) 51 31 46 45 61 234
56 MEX Javier Cabildo 54.0 ZFP (71.0 DSQ) 39 43 53 46 235
57 ITA Gian Maria Pantella 42.0 ZFP 50 40 54 -57 50 236
58 MEX Klaus Wiegandt 44.0 ZFP 58 67 (71.0 DNS) 62 33 264
59 MEX Luis Morales/Javier Ruiz Galindo (71.0 BFD) 54 71.0 OCS 64 60 17 266
60 USA Sarah Buckley 49 59 63 53 -66 45 269
61 CAN Brandon Lambert (71.0 ZFP) 60 62 50 47 60 279
62 MEX Peter Wiegandt 61 (71.0 SCP) 57 55 64 47 284
63 MEX Pablo Gutierrez (68.0 ZFP) 64 53 49 63 56 285
64 AUS Tim Bilham (71.0 ZFP+ZFP) 71.0 DSQ 61.0 SCP 47 54 57 290
65 USA Bridgit Lane 43 61 (71.0 SCP) 59 70 64 297
66 MEX Karla Moreno (71.0 ZFP+ZFP) 53 59 61 59 66 298
67 MEX Jorge Castillo 55 63 -65 58 61 62 299
68 BER Rikki Hornett (71.0 BFD) 65 60 62 68 65 320
69 MEX Franco Ambrosi 52 (71.0 DSQ) 64 71.0 DNS 69 71.0 OCS 327
70 ITA Aroldo Di Rienzo 70.0 ZFP 66 61 (71.0 SCP) 67 63 327