2.4mR Worlds - Canadians take over the leader-board

by www.sailing.ca on 24 Sep 2010

2.4mR Worlds - Canadians take over the leaderboard www.sailing.ca

2.4mR Worlds update: This morning there was four knots breeze out of 185 out on the course area. The water was surprisingly choppy for the little amount of wind. First start attempt was right on time at 11am.

After the first general recall the race committee went straight for the black flag. Bruce had mentioned before the start that the fleet was very nervous and he was right, as the next start was a general recall again. One of the black flag victims was British sailor Helena Lucas the number three overall going in to today.

On the third start Paul starts three boats away from the pin end and has a nice clear lane. Bruce is more towards the middle of the line and is forced to tack out. The breeze is dropping down to three knots as Paul works the right side of the course and Bruce the middle. The leaders are all coming out of the left. Bruce rounds in a credible 11th place, Paul is in the fifties.

Overall leader, Stellen Berlin from Sweden is in about 15th. The sun start to come through the cloud cover and the wind drops down to two knots. Bruce stays right of the lead group on the run, while Paul gybes at the mark.

At the bottom gate there is a change of course signaled. Dutch man, Thierry Schmitter arrives there first closely followed by SWE 441 and SWE 440. Bruce rounds the right gate in ninth. Paul has made some gains and rounds in the forties.

The wind has gone back to the left and there is also a bit more pressure on the left side. Thierry extends his lead followed by German Heiko Kroger, the gold medalist from Sydney, ten year ago, and GBR 92.

The pressure is still in the left and the first six boats have a big gab to the rest of the fleet. Bruce had been right but takes his loss early to hang in with a 14th place. Bruce is just behind a little group and has the opportunity to pass back a couple of boats.

Paul was on the right side and loses all the gains made on the run, so does Stellen who rounds the second top mark behind Paul. Bruce has a good run going through the middle and passes a couple of boats rounding the bottom gate in 11th. He stays in 11th crossing the finish. Paul ends up with a 39th.

With Stellen getting a second bad race and Paul bringing his ninth place from yesterday in to play Paul is in the overall lead followed by Bruce.

Race eight gets on the way with a black flag in two to three knots of wind. The course to the first mark is 165 degrees. Paul and Bruce start towards the pin and have ok starts. Both play the left as the wind picks up to four knots.

At the first mark Stellen is leading followed by SWE 420 and SWE 423. Paul is in eighth and Bruce in 10th. Halfway down the run the whole fleet is on starboard gybe and both Bruce and Paul of over taken some boats. At the gate, Stellen, in first followed by SWE 423 and SWE 420. Paul is in fifth and Bruce in sixth.

Paul is the first of the leading pack to tack on to port. Bruce makes a little tack up to the right pressure and then continues going left. Paul was the first to pick up the right pressure and looks very promising. But when the wind shift back left Paul is struggling to come back. Bruce takes the left shift all the way to the mark to round in fourth.

Swe 423 has taken the lead from Stellen and SWE 420. Paul rounds in eighth. Paul is the first to gybe. The breeze has dropped to two knots. At the bottom SWE 423 leads from Stellen and SWE 440. Bruce is in fourth and takes the right gate. Paul is still in eighth but has lost a lot of distance on the left side of the run. Bruce drops a place on the way to the finish and Paul comes across the line in eighth. Helena Lucas finishes in ninth.

Overall our Canadians have done good business today. Paul is leading and Bruce is in second. Helena in third. Three more races to go and after race number 10 the second drop comes in.

Results

Place	Sail No	Boat	Owner	Series Points
1	CAN99	Hustle and Flow	Paul Tingley	43
2	CAN39		Bruce Millar	49
3	GBR75		Helena Lucas	59
4	SWE379		Stella Berlin	61
5	SWE441	Fanny	Hans Asklund	64
6	DEN107	Nordea	Bent Moller Sorensen	64
7	SWE423	Raven	Lennart Heselius	69
8	SWE420	Plastret	Henrik Johnsson	88
9	GER1		Heiko Kroeger	89
10	SWE440	JED	Bo Hedensjo	94
11	FRA13	EVN4	Bruno Jourden	104
12	GER44	Temptation	Lasse Klotzing	113
13	NED12	Delta Lloyd Kernploeg	Thierry Schmitter	117
14	NOR114	Sirius II	Harald Rofsnes	129
15	FIN165		Marko Dahlberg	136
16	NED11	Delta Lloyd Kernploeg	Abdre Rademaker	146
17	SWE433	Corall	Peter Norlin	155
18	GBR92	Min	Megan Pascoe	162
19	GER99	Flitzpiepchen	Detlef Muller-Boling	162
20	FIN143		Veikko Martin	167
21	DEN114	Bettemus	Niels Ulstrup	169
22	FIN91	Huisman	Ral "Bobi" Casen	171
23	GBR94	Sixtisix	Ian Stowe	177
24	NOR1		Bjornar Erikstad	182
25	NED1	Delta Lloyd Kernploeg	Barend Kol	188
26	SWE419	Promillan	Mats Millboum	205
27	ESP21		Francisco Llobet	207
28	SWE421		Magnus Lidholm	210
29	SWE378	Lincia	Per Ahrbom	211
30	NED16		Matias Paillot	212
31	FIN159		Rikard Bjurstrom	214
32	SWE364		Peter Anderson	225
33	NED28	Gaastra Sails	Jade Rachel Ottema	229
34	CZE41		Viktor Sadilek	233
35	SWE425	Tiki II	Pekka Seitola	239
36	POL2	Kalif	Ryszard Szumowski	258
37	GER11	Sword	Crostoph Tromer	258
38	FIN87		Janne Laine	259
39	SWE391	Aussie	Jonas Palm	262
40	SWE437	Harmony II	Claes Bengzton	264
41	CZE7	Tanci s Vetrem	Daniel Bina	273
42	GBR31	Miss Leading	Bruce Hill	274
43	SWE422	Mini-Tonja	Pelle Schonning	275
44	BEL12	Ultimate Joker	Richard van Rij	276
45	FIN134		Karl Wessberg	283
46	ESP10		Emilio Fernandez	284
47	ESP509		Rafael Andarias	288
48	NED25	24sailing.nl	Edwin Visser	293
49	SWE373	Blasningen	Christer Frennert	306
50	GBR88	Mice Pie	Martin Whittingham-Jones	315
51	GER111		Eberhard Bieberitz	321
52	FRA5	EVN3	Kevin Cantin	322
53	USA88		John F. Ruf	331
54	GBR96	Time Alone	Stephen Bullmore	333
55	CZE4		Alexander Sadilek	338
56	FIN152		Sauli Ylitalo	353
57	SWE400	Ada	Bertil Grandinson	359
58	NED19		Jasper Zuidervaart	372
59	GER61		Dirk Bohlen	372
60	NED14		Cor de Graaff	380
61	NED24	Brein	Nico Nuyen	380
62	ARG1	Aeropuertos Argentina	Juan Fernandez	381
63	IRL3	Delamare	Paul Phillps	387
64	GBR84	Intrepid	Richard Cornah	390
65	FIN156		Anna-Lisa Oxby	393
66	GER58	Two4me	Michael Busing	395
67	NED29	Amigo 2	Nico Foekema	397
68	GBR69	Liberty	Michael Cogswell	417
69	GER63	Adrenalin	Stefan Klotzing	419
70	GBR95		Simon Hill	437
71	GBR27	North Star	Keith Gordon	439
72	NED8		Jan Haan	449
73	ESP25		Miquel Gomez	467
74	NED26		Arend Pet	467
75	NED17		Henny Bouman	470
76	NED22	Freya	Wieta Jonker	474
77	GBR36	Courageous	Peter Gregory	476
78	GER71	Solveig 2.4	Anja Schlutius	478
79	FRA1	EVN2	Eric Flageul	485
80	NED20		Roald van Vuuren	486
81	CZE9		Petr Cermak	509
82	GBR54	Leo	Keith White	533
83	FIN139	Metrocom	Nisse West	602
83	FIN155		Pelle Stromman	602
83	USA32	E-2	Mark Bryant	602