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8:50 PM Fri 22 May 2009 GMT
Day Three: Swiss, Americans and Brazilians are Consistent during Day 3
Flavio Marazzi and Enrico De Maria (SUI), George Szabo and Rick Peters (USA) and Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada (BRA) posted strong results in both races today at the Star Eastern European Championships in Hyeres, France. Scheidt/Prada, who have posted all top-10 finishes are leading the regatta and the Irish, Swiss and Americans are within striking distance.
The energy was different this morning as crews tightened their settings in anticipation of heavier breeze. Sailors didn't get a Mistral for the first race, but they did get to stretch their legs and use their harnesses in the 8-10 knot winds from ESE.
With the breeze on, Peter O'Leary did what he seems to do at least once in every major regatta. He took the lead on the first leg and proved to be a stubborn Irishman. He and Tim Goodbody won the first race. George Szabo and Rick Peters (USA) had a solid second throughout the final three legs of the double sausage, and Flavio Marazzi and Enrico DeMaria worked their way up the left side of the course during the second beat to pass a handful of boats and post a third place finish.
The sixth race of the series started in 8-10 knots and by the end of the first run it looked as if it might shut down. Some enormous gains were made on the run by a few teams who resorted to desperate measures and decided to split with the fleet and go high on the run. Maciej Grabowski and Arek Ornowski pulled from mid-fleet to fifth and Szabo/Peters recovered from doing penalty turns and moved into 15th at the leeward gate.
The Americans continued to roll the dice. Keeping an eye on the western shoreline, clouds, boats, birds (everything), they banged the corner and catapulted themselves into fifth by the top mark. They were in familiar company with the Swiss, Brazilians, Irish and Xavier Rohart and Alexis Pierre Ponsot. The group chased each other down the run and Marazzi/DeMaria won their second race of the series, Scheidt/Prada finished second and O'Leary/Goodbody and Rohart/Ponsot had a photo finish that went to the Irishmen.
Lars Grael in congratulating Szabo on his day said, 'I go right in the first race and come up with rocks in my pocket and you go right during the second race and come out smelling like roses. I don't understand.'
With the discard factored in the following are the results following the completion of six of the scheduled eight races in the 2009 Star Eastern European Championship hosted by COCYC Hyeres. The Race Committee hopes to fire off two races on Saturday.
Star
Place Boat Skipper Crew Sail #: Fleet 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
1 BRA 8255 SCHEIDT ROBERT PRADA BRUNO 8255 GuB 1.0 8.0 4.0 4.0 6.0 2.0 17
2 IRL 8261 O Leary Peter Goodbody Tim 8261 Isol 5.0 3.0 7.0 15.0 1.0 3.0 19
3 SUI 8364 Marazzi Flavio De Maria Enrico 8364 TB 24.0 12.0 1.0 3.0 3.0 1.0 20
4 USA 8273 Szabo George Peters Rick 8273 SDB 10.0 1.0 5.0 7.0 2.0 6.0 21
5 FRA 8237 Rohart Xavier Ponsot Pierre Alexis 8237 NI 6.0 10.0 10.0 11.0 8.0 4.0 38
6 FRA 8270 Bernaz Jean Baptiste Berenguier Vincent 8270 FdeM 2.0 5.0 18.0 8.0 13.0 13.0 41
7 ITA 8384 Celon Nicola Natucci Edoardo 8384 SG 7.0 6.0 19.0 1.0 9.0 22.0 42
8 BRA 8392 GRAEL LARS Moura Renato 8392 Par 17.0 2.0 12.0 5.0 23.0 9.0 45
9 GRE 8138 Papathanasiou Aiuilios Karnoutsos Apostolos 8138 GR 3.0 21.0 8.0 2.0 12.0 21.0 46
10 USA 8250 Macdonald Andrew Fatih Brian 8250 NH 19.0 7.0 6.0 20.0 7.0 7.0 46.0001
11 SUI 7990 Stegmeier Daniel Stegmeier Beat 7990 TG 9.0 4.0 17.0 19.0 16.0 5.0 51
12 ESP 7384 Garcia Lago Fernando Alvarez Desotomayo Juan 7384 Lar 4.0 16.0 3.0 28.0 24.0 8.0 55
13 ITA 8266 Negri Diego Devoti Luca 8266 VE 16.0 17.0 9.0 9.0 4.0 30.0 [OCS] 55.0001
14 AUS 8121 LANDENBERGER Andrew REFFOLD Simon 8121 Isol 20.0 28.0 2.0 6.0 14.0 17.0 59
15 CRO 8339 Lovurovic Jr Marin Mikulicic Sinisa 8339 KV 12.0 19.0 27.0 10.0 5.0 16.0 62
16 HUN 8076 Litkey Arpad Monus Gyula 8076 Ore 11.0 15.0 26.0 12.0 17.0 19.0 74
17 GBR8025 Gimson John Greig Ed 8025 Sol 18.0 29.0 15.0 16.0 11.0 14.0 74.0001
18 GER 7846 Wienreich Gerhard Cuber Anton 7846 H 15.0 18.0 16.0 17.0 21.0 10.0 76
19 ITA 8290 Santoni Silvio Toccoli Fabio 8290 NG 27.0 14.0 25.0 21.0 10.0 11.0 81
20 FRA 7714 Berenguier Regis Bernaz Laurent 7714 FdeM 8.0 23.0 13.0 13.0 26.0 27.0 83
21 SUI 7969 Scheidegger Kurt Scheidegger Markus 7969 TB 29.0 26.0 22.0 14.0 22.0 12.0 96
22 HUN 8386 Tenke Tibor Gemesi Joka 8386 Ore 14.0 22.0 23.0 22.0 15.0 23.0 96.0001
23 POl 8170 Grabowski Maciej Ornowski Arek 8170 Isol 13.0 20.0 21.0 24.0 20.0 30.0 [DSQ] 98
24 FRA 8196 Dabry Raoul Cotte Tristan 8196 FdeM 26.0 11.0 28.0 25.0 18.0 20.0 100
25 RUS 8359 Berezhnoy Andrey Masalov Sergey 8359 Vol 23.0 13.0 30.0 [DSQ] 23.0 27.0 15.0 101
26 FRA 7947 MARCON LOUIS Le Contel Roc 7947 FdeM 21.0 9.0 20.0 27.0 29.0 25.0 102
27 CRO 8280 Lovrovic Dan Lovrovic Sr Marin 8280 Kv 28.0 25.0 14.0 18.0 19.0 26.0 102
28 FRA 8116 Mercier Francis BOUVET CHRISTOPHE 8116 FdeSA 22.0 27.0 11.0 26.0 28.0 24.0 110
29 POL 7858 Wierzbicki Arkadiusz Pawlowski Krzysztof 7858 Isol 25.0 24.0 24.0 29.0 25.0 18.0 116
by Lynn Fitzpatrick
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