Massive seas at Contender Worlds in Monterey Bay
by Sarah Desjonqueres 28 Apr 2016 13:30 BST
23-29 April 2016
Highcliffe's Mussell and Langdown were pushed to the limits racing in Monterey Bay today, facing massive seas and high winds. Mussell battled hard but only managed to post a 3rd leaving Australia's Mark Bulka to take the honours for race 5. Langdown continued his run of 10th places clocking up his third of the Championship.
After 5 races it is all change at the top of the leader board with Australia's Mark Bulka winning race 5 and taking a 1 point lead over Mussell with Soren Dulong-Andreasen, who did not finish the race, a further 4 points back. Langdown is now tied for 5th with fellow Brit Holden and Italian Lambertini, scores after discards.
Forecast is set for kinder conditions tomorrow.
Results after Day 3:
| Pos | Helm | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | Mark Bulka | McCrae | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Simon Mussell | Highcliffe SC | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Soren Dulong Andreasen | Hellerup Sejlklub | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | (DNF) | 13 |
| 4 | Jason Beebe | RQYS | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 14 |
| T5 | Gary Langdown | Highcliffe SC | 1 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | T27 |
| T5 | Tim Holden | Halifax SC | 3 | 7 | 12 | DNF | 5 | T27 |
| T5 | A Lambertini | Marvelia | 6 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 6 | T27 |