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Second day of racing
Brits hold on in the breeze on day two of Skandia Sail For Gold
Gusts of up to 35 knots hammered Weymouth and Portland today for Tuesday’s second day of world class race action at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, but despite the testing conditions British hopes continued their solid start to their regatta occupying three top spots at the home leg of the ISAF Sailing World Cup finale.
Finn sailor Giles Scott leads the table for Skandia Team GBR having posted a 1,2 in his two races of the day, escalating him to first from yesterday’s eighth place, with fellow Brits Andrew Simpson and Iain Percy continuing to occupy the top rung in the Star class after another race win today.
Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin also retain their 100% record in the new Elliot 6m match racing class after beating Mary Rook’s fellow British crew in the one match that today’s difficult conditions allowed.
Lush commented: “It’s been interesting for us – yesterday we were outside the harbour and we haven’t done much training there yet so big waves and we haven’t seen the boats in those yet. It was good fun, surfing downwind and new conditions for us.”
Keen to keep a cool head she continued: “There’s really good competition here. It’s going to be quite interesting – we’ve got a lot of good match racers here from the top four or five in the world, and then Olympic medallists and some very strong Olympic sailors so and we’ll see who comes out on top in the end.”
The event, and especially today’s testing conditions, is giving the Elliot 6m women’s match racing crews a chance to get a good first world class test of the boats which were only delivered two weeks ago. Lush gave a good first verdict: “We’re definitely warming to the boats.
“Ergonomically they’re quite difficult for the crew, but we’re actually learning to love that. The harder you work, the faster you go and hiking hard helps you win. They’re faster than an Yngling and quite a lot of fun, so we’re enjoying it. They’re very physical, but that’s a benefit for us – something for us to work on, and hopefully get good at.”
RS:X women’s windsurfer Bryony Shaw joined Scott in climbing the leaderboard to finish second at the end of day two stepping up to second on the leader board posting a 7, 4 in her morning races. And it was a similar story in the 470s with men’s crews Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell leaping up the leaderboard to sit in third behind Nic Asher and Elliot Willis holding on to their second place.
“We’re really pleased,” Patience explained. “We’re yet to pick up a discard – touch wood – so we’re just clocking in the good results while we can. The wind does suit us as a team so it’s nice to be able punch a bit of risk in there and get some good ones.”
New 470 women’s paring Pippa Wilson and Saskia Clark posted a 3,7 edging the duo up the ranks to lead the British women’s bid in third place.
Nick Thompson looks to be firmly on course to his overall World Class series victory having posted a 3,6 sitting in a comfortable fourth place in the Laser class and in the women’s Laser Radial class British sailors occupy fifth (Charlotte Dobson, 4,11), seventh (Andrea Brewster, 8,2) and eighth (Alison Young, 10,10) places
Left firmly ashore to observe the windy conditions the SKUD-18, Sonar and 2.4mR Paralympic fleets had racing cancelled early on with the 49er class joining them later due to the afternoons impossible conditions.
The Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy continues until Saturday 19 September.
After day two Skandia Team GBR boasts 20 sailors finishing in top 10 positions.
For the latest news, results and information visit http://www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk/
Second day of racing
Brits hold on in the breeze on day two of Skandia Sail For Gold
Gusts of up to 35 knots hammered Weymouth and Portland today for Tuesday’s second day of world class race action at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, but despite the testing conditions British hopes continued their solid start to their regatta occupying three top spots at the home leg of the ISAF Sailing World Cup finale.
Finn sailor Giles Scott leads the table for Skandia Team GBR having posted a 1,2 in his two races of the day, escalating him to first from yesterday’s eighth place, with fellow Brits Andrew Simpson and Iain Percy continuing to occupy the top rung in the Star class after another race win today.
Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin also retain their 100% record in the new Elliot 6m match racing class after beating Mary Rook’s fellow British crew in the one match that today’s difficult conditions allowed.
Lush commented: “It’s been interesting for us – yesterday we were outside the harbour and we haven’t done much training there yet so big waves and we haven’t seen the boats in those yet. It was good fun, surfing downwind and new conditions for us.”
Keen to keep a cool head she continued: “There’s really good competition here. It’s going to be quite interesting – we’ve got a lot of good match racers here from the top four or five in the world, and then Olympic medallists and some very strong Olympic sailors so and we’ll see who comes out on top in the end.”
The event, and especially today’s testing conditions, is giving the Elliot 6m women’s match racing crews a chance to get a good first world class test of the boats which were only delivered two weeks ago. Lush gave a good first verdict: “We’re definitely warming to the boats.
“Ergonomically they’re quite difficult for the crew, but we’re actually learning to love that. The harder you work, the faster you go and hiking hard helps you win. They’re faster than an Yngling and quite a lot of fun, so we’re enjoying it. They’re very physical, but that’s a benefit for us – something for us to work on, and hopefully get good at.”
RS:X women’s windsurfer Bryony Shaw joined Scott in climbing the leaderboard to finish second at the end of day two stepping up to second on the leader board posting a 7, 4 in her morning races. And it was a similar story in the 470s with men’s crews Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell leaping up the leaderboard to sit in third behind Nic Asher and Elliot Willis holding on to their second place.
“We’re really pleased,” Patience explained. “We’re yet to pick up a discard – touch wood – so we’re just clocking in the good results while we can. The wind does suit us as a team so it’s nice to be able punch a bit of risk in there and get some good ones.”
New 470 women’s paring Pippa Wilson and Saskia Clark posted a 3,7 edging the duo up the ranks to lead the British women’s bid in third place.
Nick Thompson looks to be firmly on course to his overall World Class series victory having posted a 3,6 sitting in a comfortable fourth place in the Laser class and in the women’s Laser Radial class British sailors occupy fifth (Charlotte Dobson, 4,11), seventh (Andrea Brewster, 8,2) and eighth (Alison Young, 10,10) places
Left firmly ashore to observe the windy conditions the SKUD-18, Sonar and 2.4mR Paralympic fleets had racing cancelled early on with the 49er class joining them later due to the afternoons impossible conditions.
The Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy continues until Saturday 19 September.
After day two Skandia Team GBR boasts 20 sailors finishing in top 10 positions.
For the latest news, results and information visit http://www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk/
