Flying Fifteen Worlds Day 2: Light start but great racing

10:39 AM Sun 11 Jan 2009 GMT

'Close racing on the reaching legs - Flying Fifteen Worlds 2009, Royal yacht of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia' Teri Dodds &copy

Day 2 of the Flying Fifteen International Worlds, a great day after a slow start. Two races today.

Melbourne threatened a windless day this morning with a dull overcast sky that postponed the first race. But all was not lost: the breeze gently arrived and the day turned into a beauty with a light but steady southerly breeze that built slightly to an afternoon peak of 10 knots.

There was further delay with a general recall halting the first start followed by another postponement to realign the left-hand bias. The eventual start was a beauty: a perfectly balanced line with top boats splitting between the boat and pin ends. No Bull chose the left, with Tba preferring the right, both getting off to good clean starts.

Both were beaten to the top mark by ****, however, who led the way down the next run while No Bull and Tba match-raced for position behind him. By the next rounding, **** had been overtaken, but he gained the lead back to eventually win the morning's race - and lodge himself in first place for the series.

The second race of the day saw a very different outcome. Art Gekko's 36th place of the morning turned into a first in the afternoon's race (subject to protest). New Zealand's 16 was on a roll, coming in second to cement his fifth place from the morning. Britain's One Under got a few over, with a third, followed by two more Kiwis, Ffrenetic and Blowffish, in fourth and fifth respectively.

Top Ten results:

Sail Yacht Skipper 1 2 3 Total Standing
3911 **** Barry Parkin 6 1 6 13 1
3833 No Bull Grant Alderson 2 2 13 17 2
3821 Tba Steve Goacher 1 3 14 18 3
3781 16 David Tucker 15 5 2 22 4
3739 Ffortune Aaron Goodmanson 5 6 12 23 5
3840 Ffrenetic Murray Gilbert 11 17 4 32 6
3905 Secret Ingredient X David McKee 9 18 9 36 7
3917 Art Gekko Mike Hart 3 36 1 40 8
3881 I'd Swap This For A Bundy Adam Hawkins 7 23 11 41 9
3799 One Under Veronica Falat 23 20 3 46 10

Full results on the ffiworlds website, www.ffiworlds2009.yachting.org.au/

by David Seaman

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