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ORC World Championship at New York Yacht Club Day 4 - Two more races today and discards applied

by Offshore Racing Congress 4 Oct 2024 10:26 AEST September 27 - October 5, 2024

Two more races today and discards applied for evolving leaderboards

A delayed start to wait for wind today still yielded two more windward-leeward inshore races at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. With five inshore races completed the scorelines now have one discard applied, resulting in even closer points margins on the leaderboard in some classes.

Racing in the short 1-hour courses in 7-9 knots of southerly breeze was once again extremely close, with some new winners emerging in the race results. Class 0 is still being dominated by Victor Wild's TP52 FOX 2.0, but in Race 6 they fell to 4th place behind David Team's TP52 VESPER in first, followed by Andrew Berdon's TP52 SUMMER STORM having their best race yet in second by 26 seconds, and only 2 seconds back Jon Desmond's Pac 52 FINAL FINAL in third.

In this class four teams are tied on 16 points for 2nd through 5th place.

Similarly, Austin & Gwen Fragomen's Botin 44 INTERLODGE IV continues to dominate Class A with a 9-point lead, even with a 3rd place in the first race today that was 46 seconds behind race winner TIO LOCO, Henry Brauer's first race win on his Club Swan 42, and 35 seconds behind Don Thinschmidt's Ker 43 ABRACADABRA who is lying second in the standings.

"We're pretty pleased with things so far," said ABRACADABRA tactician Brad Boston. "We have a new rig we're getting used to, new sails, and not much time in the boat as a team compared to our rivals, so we feel like we're improving every day."

Class B leader Marcin Sutkowski's Grand Soleil 44 WIND WHISPER 44 from Poland also continues to dominate the top of that class's leaderboard, but fell to 5th place in the first race, with Linda & Andrew Weiss's Italia 11.98 CHRISTOPHER DRAGON taking their first race win by a narrow 7 second margin over Bill & Jackie Baxter's J/111 FIREBALL in second.

With the discards applied, this leaderboard in this class is the tightest of all: only 0.5 points separate the Polish team from the current runner-up, John Brim's Italia 11.98 RIMA98.

The Maxi class also enjoyed two windward-leeward races today, with Jim Swartz's Maxi 72 VESPER continuing their winning ways with a 19 second win over Hap Fauth's Maxi 72 BELLE MENTE in the first race but both teams falling to TEMPTATION in the second race. The JV 66 owned by Art Santry/Oakcliff scored this win by a razor-thin 2 second corrected time margin over VESPER.

On the racing schedule for tomorrow for the ORC Worlds classes is another distance race, but this time of just day-long duration. The exact course and course length is being considered by the Race Committee this evening and will be announced in the morning. Like the Long Distance Race that opened this event, this race will not be discardable from team scorelines.

Results after Day 4:

Class 0 (6 boats)
1. FOX 2.0, Botin 52, Victor Wild, 2-1-1-1-1-4, 6pts
2. VESPER, TP52, David Team, 6-2-5-4-3-1, 16pts
3. WIZARD, Botin 52, Peter Askew, 1-4-4-5-2-6, 16pts
4. FINAL FINAL, PAC 52, Jon Desmond, 4-5-2-2-5-3, 16pts
5. SUMMER STORM, TP52, Andrew Berdon, 5-3-3-3-4-2, 16pts

Class A (19 boats)
1. INTERLODGE 44, Botin 44, Austin & Gwen Fragomen, 2-1-1-1-3-1, 6pts
2. ABRACADABRA, Ker 43, Don Thinschmidt, 4-3-3-8-2-3, 15pts
4. TIO LOCO, Swan 42, Henry Brauer, 6-4-4-5-1-4, 19pts
4. ZAMMERMOOS, Swan 42, David Fass, 1-2-13-7-6-5, 21pts
5. IMPETUOUS, Swan 42, Paul Zabetakis, 5-7-2-4-5-6, 22pts

Class B (14 boats)
1. WIND WHISPER 44, Grand Soleil 44, Marc Sutkowski, 5-1-2-1-5-1, 10pts
2. RIMA98, Italia 11.98, John Brim, 1-2.5-1-6-4-2, 10.5pts
3. CHRISTOPER DRAGON XII, Italia 11.98, Linda & Andrew Weiss, 3-2.5-5-4-1-4 14.5pts
4. FIREBALL, J/111, Bill & Jackie Baxter, 6-4-6-2-2-3, 17pts
5. THE ROCC, J/112, Al Minella, 4-8-3-5-3-5, 20pts

Maxi North American Championship
1. VESPER, Maxi 72, Jim Swartz, 2-1-1-1-1-1-2, 7pts
2. BELLA MENTE, Maxi 72, Hap Fauth, 1-2-2-3-2-2-3, 12pts
3. TEMPTATION, J/V 66, Art Santry Oakcliff, 3-3-3-2-3-3-1, 15pts

Complete results are found here.

Positions of the entries in all races may be replayed on the TracTrac system here.

More information at nyyc.org/2024-orc-world-championship.

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