Francesco Gojenola (ARG) leads Cadet Worlds

by Event media/Sail-World on 6 Aug 2007 The Argentinian sailors at the International Cadet Class World Championships feel right at home in the conditions of North Wales as they made an early mark on day one in Pwllheli. Defending world champion, Argentina’s Francisco Cosentino, was lying in second place behind compatriot Francesco Gojenola as the two 17-year-olds got off to the strongest start.

Leading British Competitor is Amy Seabright, with Hannah Muskett crewing. They had a 3, 7, 24 to be in fifth place overall. Sixth are Tye Wichard and Ben Thame with a 10, 20, 6.

Also Katrina Brewer from Parkstone Yacht Club dragged herself back into contention after winning the third and final race of the day with her 11-year-old brother Christopher crewing with her, they are in seventh place overall.

Racing took place with the wind between 5-15 knots, increasing as the day wore on at Pwllheli Sailing Club on the Lleyn Peninsula on the North Wales coast.

Defending world champion, Argentina’s Francisco Cosentino, was lying in second place behind compatriot Francesco Gojenola as the two 17-year-olds got off to the strongest start. Cosentino finished second, sixth and second in his opening races, with 12-year-old crew Sancho Castro.

'Although it’s a bit cold at the end of a long day on the water, conditions have been very similar to my home club of River Plate in Argentina

Gojenola had the perfect opening, winning the first two races, and then finishing fifth in the third, along with 11-year-old crew Agustin Romero.

Brewer started badly, finishing 30th in the opening race, but improved through the day coming 9th in the second before winning the final race. 'That was great, apart from race one,' she said after coming off the water at Pwllheli in seventh place overall.

'That was in the lightest conditions of the day and I did not do very well, I certainly preferred the stronger wind of the last race where I led pretty much from start to finish.'

Corinthian Otters’ Amy Seabright, with crew Hannah Muskett, finished third in the first race of the day and followed that up with seventh finish in the second race. They finished the day as the top British crew in spite of a 24th finish in the third race.

There were five British crews in the top 10 at the end of the day with Tye Wichard and Ben Thame of Corinthian Otters in sixth, Joanna Freeman and Holly Francis of Parkstone in ninth, with Charlie Matthews and Christopher Sycamore also of Corinthian Otters in 10th.

Sixteen boats were black flagged in the final race for crossing the line before the start, which will have an impact on the competition until they can discard that result.

Cadet Worlds - Leading postions after Day 1, 3 races

1 8054 ARG Francisco Gojenola Agustin Romero 1 1 5 7 pts
2 8087 ARG Francisco Cosentino Sancho Castro 2 6 2 10
3 9462 POL Mateusz Giemza Pawel Glowicki 15 2 9 26
4 9354 POL Michal Tomaszewski Agata Tomaszewska 17 8 3 28
5 8520 GBR Amy Seabright Hannah Muskett 3 7 24 34
6 6994 GBR Tye Wichard Ben Thame 10 20 6 36
7 8997 GBR Katrina Brewer Christopher Brewer 30 9 1 40
8 9520 AUS Elliott Noye Ellie Chesterman 28 10 10 48
9 9575 GBR Joanna Freeman Holly Francis 19 14 15 48
10 8570 GBR Charlie Matthews Christopher Sycamore 14 22 13 49
11 8008 ESP Julia Marfil Cristina Laucirica 5 12 36 53
12 8066 ARG Martin Travascio Santiago Romero 4 17 33 54
13 9127 POL Pawel Wysocki Piotr Szlachcic 25 18 12 55
14 3502 ARG Juan Pablo Alvarez Galessio Maria Josefina Tonelli 8 25 23 56
15 9488 POL Artur Ponieczynski Michal Rola-Janicki 9 32 18 59
16 9065 POL Lukasz Kawinski Damian Frank 11 26 22 59
17 8043 ARG Gonzalo Cosentino Lucas Cabral 18 11 31 60
18 8518 BEL Quinten Lauwers Nele de Munck 27 4 30 61
19 9528 AUS Joel Aulich Jarad Cavanah 38 5 19 62
20 7335 GBR Peter Lawrance Ole Alcock 24 34 7 65
21 5712 AUS Tom Ransley Sophie Chesterman 41 13 11 65
22 8060 ESP Marta Hernandez Maria Leon Lainez 6 46 14 66
23 9554 HUN Vince Grafel Gergo Boisos 20 23 25 68
24 9489 POL Szymon Wierzbicki Krystian Dziubinski 16 3 50 69
25 735 GBR Joshua Pistol Jack Wilson 43 21 8 72
26 6005 AUS Lucy Shepherd Lydia Newton 36 15 21 72
27 9029 GBR Oliver Herve Alex Warrington 44 30 4 78
28 9472 ARG Candela Pineyrua Josefina Subias 39 16 29 84
29 9325 HUN Gergely Petrahai Viktor Maki 22 29 34 85
30 8909 BEL Toon de Munck Hendrik Panneel 48 24 16 88

Cadet website: http://www.cadetclass.org.uk