18ft Skiff World Championship for the Mark Foy Trophy - Days 1 & 2
by Tom Hill 31 May 2015 18:15 BST
30 May - 3 June 2015
The first two days of the Mark Foy Championships have taken place in Torbole, Lake Garda. 15 teams travelled from all over the world with sailors coming from the UK, Australia, America, Germany, Hungary and Denmark.
On the first day, the fleet launched into a building breeze up to 23 knots for all 3 races. Howie Hamlin of Australia took 3 bullets throughout the day. Black Dog, Pica and Delonghi shared the other podium places and all close on points at the end of the first day. The rest of the fleet coped well with testing conditions after a wake up call on the practice race the day before.
The second day was much lighter with only one race being held in dying breeze. Many place changes happened up the beat with spots of pressure appearing and disappearing. The fleet was very mixed up with some new boats taking their turn on the front. Pica sailed through to a victory after a close upwind battle with Howie Hamlin.
3 more days are left of the world championships, with many boats in with a chance of being on the podium.
Results after Day 2:
| Pos | Sail No | Helm & Crew | Boat Name | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Pts |
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| 1 | USA 9 | HOWIE HAMLIN
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PETER HARRIS
SCOTT BABBAGE | HARKEN | 1 | 1 | 1 | (2) | 3 |
| 2 | GBR 92 | GEORGE HAND
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TRISTAN HUTT
STEWART MEARS | TEAM PICA | (7) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | GBR 47 | JARROD SIMPSON
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NICK MURRAY
SAM PASCOE
RYA | BLACK DOG | 2 | 2 | 6 | (9) | 10 |
| 4 | AUS 300 | GRANT ROLLERSON
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JOHN SWEENDOG
BRAD COLLINS
18 | DELONGHI | 3 | (11) | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | GBR 2 | GRAHAM BRIDLE
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EDDIE BRIDLE
BEN RUSHTON
| CHAMELEON | 6 | 5 | (11) | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | GER 5 | HEINRICH VON BAYERN
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CHRISTIAN PORSCHE
MAXIMILIAN | KANTELBERG | 4 | 4 | 9 | (10) | 17 |
| 7 | AUS 200 | RICHARD YAYNE
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PETER MACKIE
MATT STENTA
18 | COMPASS MARKETS | (dnc) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 8 | HUN 18 | UJHELYI‑GASPAR MIKLOS
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BOTOND NEMETH
ZSOMBOR | LIBERTY SAILING TEAM | 8 | 7 | 4 | (DNF) | 19 |
| 9 | GER 22 | FRIEDL RENNER
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CHRISTIAN MEISSNER
TOM EGGERSDORFER
| EUROLINK | 5 | (9) | 7 | 8 | 20 |
| 10 | AUS 100 | LEE KNAPTON
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MICHAEL McKENSEY
RICKY BRIDGE
18 | MOJO WINES | (dnc) | 10 | 10 | 3 | 23 |
| 11 | DEN 1 | FLEMING CLAUSEN
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THOMAS EBLER
SOREN CLAUSEN | ORIGINAL CHIA | (dnf) | 8 | 8 | 7 | 23 |
| 12 | GBR 30 | TOM HILL
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MARK KUDLINSKI
MICHAEL ANDREW
RUTLAND | THE RUTLAND CHANDLERY | 9 | dnf | (dnf) | 11 | 35 |
| 13 | GER 13 | BENJAMIN BOEHRINGER
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HENRIETTE GRUSE
EIKE EHRIG
| | dnf | 12 | (dnf) | 12 | 39 |
| 14 | GBR 52 | SCOTT BONNER
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ALASDAIR YORK
RICHARD YORK
BRISTAN | S4C | dnf | dnf | dnf | (dnf) | 45 |
