J/70 UK National Championships at Royal Torbay Yacht Club - Day 2
by Louay Habib 25 Aug 2019 13:33 PDT
24-26 August 2019
The second day of the J/70 UK National Championship was one to keep your head out of the boat. After a delay ashore, a sea breeze materialized producing super-light conditions for the international fleet.
Avoiding the wind holes, and tuning into the breeze direction as it slowly shifted south, were the keys to a top performance. PRO Stuart Childerley and his race team were roundly applauded for providing three windward-leeward races in 5-7 knots of wind.
The stand out performer of the day was Paul Ward's Eat, Sleep, J, Repeat, scoring the best score of the entire fleet with a 5-8-4 to take the lead for the teams racing for the J/70 UK National Championship. King & Wilson's Soak Racing showed early promise to come with in a single point of Eat, Sleep, J, Repeat, after Race 5, but a poor result in the last race today put Soak Racing in second place, 20 points behind the leader for the Open UK crown.
"What was important today was joining up the lumps of pressure," commented Paul Ward, owner/driver of Eat Sleep J, Repeat. "Yesterday we finished with a bad race so we came off the water feeling a bit miserable, but a good fish restaurant in Torquay seemed to sort out that! It was a day for keeping your head out of the boat, and Charlie (Cumbley) is very good at that, and we set up the boat so we were quick. We are very happy to be where we are in a very competitive fleet, but we have already scored our discard, and one bad race tomorrow and we will be off the top."
35 teams from ten different nations are competing in the regatta for championship prizes for both Open and Corinthian classes. In the Open Class Michael Goldfarb's Warcanoe (USA) leads but only on countback from Eat,Sleep, J, Repeat (GBR). Luis Albert's Patakin (ESP) is third, just two points from the top of the leaderboard, having finished the day with a 2-1 to come back strongly from a poor first race.
Eleven teams are competing in the Corinthian Class and the top three are all British. Soak Racing have a seven point lead for the Corinthian title. Calascione & Ripard's Calypso could not repeat yesterday's top performance and drop to second for Corinthian Class. Doug Struth's DSP did not have their best day, but is still on the podium for the Corinthian Class.
Today's races were won by Sergei Dobrovolskii's Amaiz Sailing Team (CYP), Luis Albert's Patakin (ESP), and Alberto Rossi's Enfant Terrible (ITA). Teams that scored podium finishes today included: Marcos Soares Highlanders (BRA), Renato Faria's To Nessa (BRA), Henry Brauer's Rascal (USA), and Jose Maria Torcida's Noticia ESP).
Results after Day 2:
Pos | Bow No | Sail No | Yacht Name | Skipper/Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Pts |
1 | 2 | USA 18 | Warcanoe | Michael Goldfarb / Cole Brauer / Jonny Goldsberry / William Goldsberry / Michael Menninger | 2 | 22 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 29 |
2 | 56 | GBR 1451 | Eat Sleep J Repeat | Paul Ward / Paul Ward / Ruairidh Scott / Charlie Cumbley / Mario Trindade | 7 | 5 | 25 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 29 |
3 | 13 | ESP 284 | PATAKIN | Luis Albert / Afonso Domingos / Eduardo Fernandes / David Louzao | 16 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 31 |
4 | 81 | CYP 1401 | Amaiz Sailing Team | Sergei Dobrovolskii / Victor Serezhkin / Egor Terpigorev / Viatcheslav Martynov | 13 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 42 |
5 | 10 | USA 180 | Catapult | Joel Ronning / Patrick Wilson / Christopher Stocke / Victor Diaz De Leon | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 42 |
6 | 71 | ITA 1256 | Enfant Terrible | Alberto Rossi / Alberto Bolzan / Stefano RIzzi / Branco Bircin / Bianca Crugnola | 1 | 28 | 3 | 15 | 1 | SCP | 48 |
7 | 68 | USA 1227 | Surge | Geoffrey Pierini / Nathan Wilmot / Richard Clark / Max Lopez | 15 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 49 |
8 | 55 | IRL 1123 | Soak Racing (Corinthian) | KING/ WILSON / Marshall King / Ian Wilson / Andrew Shorrock / Adam Brushett | 4 | 10 | 22 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 49 |
9 | 73 | BRA 1267 | Highlander's | Marcos Soares / Marcos Soares / Mauricio Santa Cruz / Andre Lekszycki / Selmo Nissenbaum | 6 | 1 | 20 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 51 |
10 | 33 | ITA 853 | Petite Terrible | Claudia Rossi / Michele Paoletti / Matteo Mason / Erica Ratti / Giulio Desiderato | 3 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 52 |
11 | 58 | BRA 1174 | To Nessa | Renato Faria / Kadja Brandao / Gabriel Portilho / Henrique Haddad / Pedro Costa Alemao | 9 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 53 |
12 | 16 | MLT 441 | Calypso (Corinthian) | Jonathan Calascione / Seb Ripard / Tom Ripard / Dave Kohler | 5 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 32 | 56 |
13 | 3 | USA 25 | Rascal | Henry Brauer / Brian Kamilar / Karl Anderson / Orrin Starr | 18 | 18 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 60 |
14 | 85 | AUS 7071 | Juno | Reg Lord / Murray Jones / Tom Grimes / James Hodgson | 29 | 3 | UFD | 16 | 5 | 9 | 62 |
15 | 70 | GBR 1248 | DSP (Corinthian) | Doug Struth / Geoff Carveth / Dan Schieber / Tom Mallindine / Lauren Mead | 11 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 17 | 64 |
16 | 31 | USA 833 | Relative Obscurity | Peter Duncan / Willem van Waar / Bill Hardesty / Will Felder | 21 | 23 | UFD | 10 | 6 | 5 | 65 |
17 | 69 | GBR 1247 | JElvis | Martin Dent / Mark Lees / Ruby Dent / Matt Haslam | 27 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 67 |
18 | 12 | RUS 269 | Akhmat | Alexander Bozhko / Sheremetev Michail / Sheremetev Maksim / Konstantinov Roman / Khadzhiev Khasan | 23 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 67 |
19 | 41 | ESP 961 | Noticia | Jose Maria Torcida / Luiz Martin Cabiedes / Rayco Tabares / Pablo Santurde / Robin Imaz | 20 | 9 | 26 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 68 |
20 | 67 | RUS 1217 | Joyfull (Corinthian) | Denis Cherevatenko / Vladimir Chaus / Viktor Filippov / Artem Markov | 12 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 22 | 70 |
21 | 26 | 744 | Elizabeth (Corinthian) | Fiona Hampshire / Josh Flack / Tim Gratton / Hugo Sloper / Mary Henderson | 24 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 72 |
22 | 74 | GBR 1282 | Mjölnir | Thor Askeland / Henry Wetherell / Jack Wetherell / Alejandro Fraile Perez | 25 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 26 | 8 | 76 |
23 | 25 | GBR 741 | Cosmic (Corinthian) | Patrick Liardet / Freddie Liardet / Ancel Davison / Billy Veniss‑Ozanne | 14 | 14 | 30 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 89 |
24 | 57 | GBR 1169 | Jeepster | Graham Clapp / Josie Glidden / Chris Taylor / James Taylor / Oliver Wells | 22 | 24 | 2 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 92 |
25 | 76 | GBR 1290 | Bryn (Corinthian) | Phil Rees / Ali McDonald / Ben Rees / Anthoney Harvey | 10 | 17 | 29 | 27 | 31 | 14 | 97 |
26 | 44 | NOR 976 | AGERA3 | Fredrik Hedlund / Eivind Melleby / Scott Terry / Lasse Berthelsen | 19 | DNF | 17 | 32 | 28 | 16 | 112 |
27 | 35 | GBR 933 | Darcey | Clive Bush / John Pink / Paul Childs | 30 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 117 |
28 | 62 | GBR 1206 | Offbeat | David McLeman / Lucy Kennedy / Alex McLeman / Ben Whaley / Ralph Singleton | 31 | 32 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 10 | 119 |
29 | 28 | SWE 786 | Pro4u | Patrik Forsgren / Magnus Sjögren / Anders Mårtensson / Tore Lewander / Anders Gille | 28 | 26 | 27 | 25 | 25 | 35 | 131 |
30 | 29 | GBR 828 | Brutus (Corinthian) | Charles Thompson / Ian Southworth / Tony Hanlon / Andrew McLelland / Craig Burlton | 17 | DNF | 24 | 30 | 32 | 29 | 132 |
31 | 4 | GBR 118 | PHAN | Jeremy Thorp / Saskia Clark / Ben Cooper / James Hemingway | 26 | 25 | UFD | 29 | 22 | 30 | 132 |
32 | 14 | GBR 290 | Jenga8 (Corinthian) | Andrew Barraclough / Peter Watts / John Curtis / Stuart Johnston / Oscar Watts | 33 | 31 | 28 | 33 | 33 | 12 | 137 |
33 | 42 | GBR 972 | Yeti (Corinthian) | Jack Davies / Tom Williams / Freddie Davies / Charlie Davies | 32 | 29 | UFD | 28 | 30 | 28 | 147 |
34 | 65 | GBR 1210 | Jalapeno | Brian Denney / Hannah Le Prevost / Ian Morrin / Sam May / Andy Thornsby | 34 | 30 | 19 | 34 | 35 | 34 | 151 |
35 | 87 | GBR 745 | Boat 5 (Corinthian) | Robert Orr / Nick Gaynor / Oliver Charlton / Archie Hinde / William Toogood | 35 | 33 | 31 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 166 |
Racing at the J/70 UK National Championship concludes Monday 26th August. Keep up to date with all the news from the J/70 UK National Championship at j-70.co.uk and via our facebook page at www.facebook.com/j70uk