Allen RS Feva World Championships at Yacht Club de Carnac - Day 2
by Pip Baily, RS Sailing 29 Jul 2014 11:51 BST
26 July - 1 August 2014
Allen RS Feva Worlds day 2 in Carnac © YCCarnac
The last day of the Qualifying series brought brilliant sailing with significant challenges as the wind went from 10-12 knots during Race 4 (first race of the day) through 16 knots dropping to 9 knots in Race 5 and pumping up to 20-22 gusting 26 knots by the end of Race 6 for Red fleet. Serious concentration and physical prowess was required to maintain levels during the whole day. The race course largely dodged all showers during racing – it was sunny almost all day – but there was a massive thunderstorm at about 6.30pm which was monsoon style.
Performance of the day was from Markus Lilienthal & Uko Rasmus Tideman from Estonia who pushed up with a pretty dominant 2,1,1 for the day to pitch into 4th at the end of qualifying. Equally impressive were Tom Dutilh & Max Bruijn from the Netherlands who contributed a 1,2,1 to qualify in 2nd. Edward Norbury & Charlie Hutchings kept it steady to win the qualifying series while Piers Nicholls & Freddie Peters came through in 3rd place – which would have been a 2nd had they not forgotten to sign off at the end of day 1.
The top ten represent quite a haul of nations and given that the qualifying series place counts as non discardable points for the final series they will all still feel right in the hunt. So 5th to 10th in nations goes GBR x3, CZE, LTU and GBR again. Leading family at present are the Taylors in 5th, leading ladies are Hannah Tucker & Bethan Matthew and leading juniors are Jack Lewis & Lucas Marshall.
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