Byte CII World Championship days 3 and 4

by Byte Class Association on 3 Sep 2008 On the third day of competition at the 2008 Byte CII World Championship, winds continued to drop and, on Thursday, they were just below planing for all but the very lightest who did manage some spurts. Again, Jon Emmett (GBR) demonstrated his huge talent in all conditions by winning all four races.

The course was two triangles for Race 10 and the top of the fleet all came in from the left, led by Emmett. At the top mark, he let off his kicker - completely, unfortunately - and the rope unreeved. With a jury rig he maintained his lead to the end. second was Shevaun Sethi (SIN) having her best result so far. Mary Stamp (GBR), the oldest competitor at 68, was out on the water for the first time with a very respectable 18th. Fengyi Lei (SIN) had his worst race to date with an eighth, now dropped - an indication of how consistent he has been. Other than these three, competitor placings were fairly consistent with their results to date. Michael Louzada had another altercation with Hannah Bloor (GBR) and lost his sixthplace in a DSQ. third went to Herman Nurfendi (SIN), fourth Bloor (GBR), fifth Rezel (SIN) and sixth Nicholson (CAN).

Emmett won the pin in Race 11 but was over the line early. After returning, he worked the centre of the course as the fleet had gone left. He was third at the weather mark, took one on the reaches and took the last two upwind. Sethi(SIN) took another second place, Lei(SIN) another uncharasteristic eighth (dropped) and Herman Nurfendi(SIN) his lowest placing so far with a sixth which he has dropped. third was Eugene Woo (SIN), fourth Michael Louzada, fifth Tom Nicholson (CAN) and sixth Ian Rezel (SIN).

Race12 Emmett nearly lost. He tacked over onto port too soon near the top and several, including Louzada (BRA), went a bit further. He arrived fourth at the weather mark, got two back on the reaches, one more upwind, but Louzada held him off all the way until just at the finish line. Louzada had sailed high on the last reach home while Emmett sailed a straight line to the finish and that was the difference. third was Nurfendi(SIN), fourth Lei (SIN) and fifth Nicholson (CAN).

Emmett lead Race 13 from start to finish although very close behind there was very close racing between Singapore and Canada. Herman Nurfendi (SIN) had his best finish with a second, Fengyi Lei (SIN) took third, Tom Nicholson (CAN) fourth and Eugene Woo (SIN) finished pretty well on his average scores with the fifth.

Jon Emmett (GBR) sailed the last two races of the Championship even though he did not need to do so - a very nice touch from a classy competitor. He won race 14, 15 was thrown out and he ended up with 12 first place finishes after dropping a first and a third. Hard to beat!

The racing conditions today were questionable and the second race should probably not have been started at all. The fleet already had 13 races in the bag with two drops but 15 races would give competitors a third drop. It was not to be. Only one race was scored on the day.

Overall Results:

Rank	Tally	Sail No	Helm	Club	Total	Nett
1st	74	2946	Jon Emmett	WPNSA	16.0	12.0
2nd	60	SIN 2959	Lei Fengyi		61.0	39.0
3rd	58	SIN 2957	Herman Nurfendi Bin Awmad		53.0	41.0
4th	54	BRA 3130	Michael Louzada	EVV	78.0	49.0
5th	72	855	Hannah Blore	Gresford SC	90.0	65.0
6th	62	SIN 2956	Ian Bryce Rezel		86.0	67.0
7th	57	2958	Woo Chung Hin Eugene		90.0	67.0
8th	53	CAN 3129	Thomas Nicholson	RKYC	117.0	88.0
9th	50	CAN 3127	Sacha Roberts	FBYC/COSA	153.0	120.0
10th	63	406	Richard William Whitehouse	Combs Sailing Club	168.0	133.0
11th	79	1636	Eddie Pope	Littleton SC	174.0	137.0
12th	73	1490	Chris Tack	Tynemouth	193.0	140.0
13th	65	1637	Gordon Kevan	Blackpool & Fleetwood	180.0	146.0
14th	51	485	Alan Roberts	Midland SC	204.0	147.0
15th	61	SIN 3126	Shevaun Su-Lyn Sethi		203.0	158.0
16th	70	USA 3128	Bill Tieman		214.0	175.0
17th	78	1453	Ruth Tayler	Warsash	228.0	179.0
18th	77	2620	Chris Rees	Warsash	242.0	193.0
19th	59	SIN 3125	Germaine Teo Wei Yin	SAFYC	238.0	194.0
20th	66	1663	Maggie Futcher	Weston SC	271.0	224.0
21st	55	850	Olwen Binks	Weston SC	294.0	240.0
22nd	68	2616	Sarah Gregson	Frampton on Severn	292.0	244.0
23rd	76	894	Ian Ayres	Rollsby Broad SC	307.0	245.0
24th	69	3078	Hilary Ross Watson	BCYC	330.0	268.0
25th	52	BRA 3131	Amandio Rampinelli	LIC	355.0	295.0
26th	56	2628	Lydia Frew	Hawley Lake	362.0	300.0
27th	75	2623	Karen Thompson	Mudeford SC	368.0	306.0
28th	67	GBR 2888	Mary Stamp	Royal Harwich YC	375.0	313.0
29th	64	2618	Rachel Marden	Blackwater SC	376.0	314.0
30th	71	CAN 3132	Alwyn Hughes	Venture SC	416.0	354.0