J/80 World Championship beats the gales

by Sail-World on 6 Jul 2007
The 124 boat J/80 Worlds fleet is split into four flights for a qualifying series, before being sorted into gold and silver divisions later in the week. Suprise leader is Ignacio Camino of Spain, with another spanish entry, Jose Torcida in second place.

Ignacio Camion and Jose Torcida, remain the leaders after six races. Taking advantage of a lull in the gale force winds the committee managed to get the fleets away and Camion added another two wins. Victor Lanier of France stayed in contention, also winning two races.

Kevin Sproul of Britain is in fourth overall after adding a 3, 2, 3 to his earlier, 4, 6, 2 scores. In fifth is the American boat of Glen Darken and in sixth Ulrich Muenker of Germany.

Racing continues thro Sunday.

J/80 Overall leaders after 6 races, 124 entries

1  ESP 899 NEXTEL ENGINEERING CAMINO IGNACIO 6
2  ESP 859 ECC VIVIENDAS TORCIDA SEGHERS JOSE MARIA 9
3  FRA 646 ECOLE NAVALE EFM LANIER Victor 11
4  GBR 834 THE DUKE SPROUL KEVIN 12
5  USA 407 LE GLIDE DARKEN GLENN 20
6  GER 508 NEEDLES AND PINS MUENKER ULRICH 22
7  FRA 651 VOILERIE ALL PURPOSE PELLISSIER Sylvain 24
8  FRA 936 NANTES ST NAZAIRE ALIQUEM.COM QUEVEAU Jean 25
9  ESP 783 HOTEL PRINCESA YAIZA TABARES Rayco 26
10  FRA 691 GAN'JA  NADAL Luc 28
11  GBR 662 UNLIMITED SAILING  CHERY NICK 28
12  FRA 639 ECOLE NAVALE CG29 BOT Patrick 34
13  ESP 861 LUPA MADRAZO DAVID 40
14  FRA 955 SALSA APCC VOILE SPORTIVE  ARNAUD Remy 42
15  FRA 637 FAIS TOI PLAISIR GUIGNE Philippe 42
16  FRA 849 TBS FOLLENFANT Pierre 42
17  FRA 799 GOLD SAILING VAUGHAN AVOCATS BREZELLEC Eric 43
18  ITA 947 NORTH STAR SANTA CRUZ MAURICIO 43
19  FRA 967 ATLANTICOQUE BERNARD Benoit 44
20  SWE 615 SWEDEN MOVIN TOMAS 49
21  ESP 961 LANZAROTE CIUDAD DE ARRECIF GONZALEZ ALFREDO 50
22  FRA 628 VMF - ECOLE NAVALE - SRD  VILBOUX Vincent 50
23  USA 531 BLACK RIVER RACING  STREBEL DOUGLAS 51
24  FRA 553 JULES CHIRON Paul 60
25  GBR 850 SAVAGE SAILING TEAM SAVAGE LIZ 67

Event website: http://www.j80worlds2007.com