Photos: 29ers and 49ers at Weymouth

Ingrid Abery of www.photeau.com catches the action from this weekend

It seems whenever there is a 9er event there is wind - often too much! Saturday started off with an exciting 18 knots as the fleets launched, however by the time most boats got to the start the wind was a steady 25 with gusts of 28. Race officer Laurie Thornton-Grimes took the decision to send the fleets ashore and wait. By 3 o'clock the wind had abated to a comfortable 20 - 22 knots and the fleets set off again.

Three races for both fleets were sailed and a very battle scorn fleet got back to the shore around 6. Sunday brought drizzle and a light wind - a welcome change except for the rain.Once again 3 races were held completing the series.

In the 29er, Tristen Jaques & Alain Sign seemed not to be able to put a foot wrong winning every race in the mixture of conditions. They were followed home by visiting Australians Dave O'Connor and Scott Babbage. The Finnish team of Lauri Lehtinen & Miikka Pennanen just beating James Stewardson & Tom Morris into 3rd

Chris Draper & Simon Hiscocks could not quite match the 29ers row of firsts, James McIntosh & Phil Kennard had the honour of winning the only race that Chris and Simon did not win. John Pink & Alex Hopson put together and impressive scoreline with three seconds on Sunday and nothing outside the top four in the windy conditions on Saturday. Ben McGrane & Jonny Clegg found form for the weekend to put in a solid 3rd overall.

	29er
	Helm	Crew	Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6
1	Jaques Tristan	Alain Sign	5	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	David O'Connor	Scott Babbage	16	4	2	6	5	2	3
3	Lauri Lehtinen	Miikka Pennanen	19	2	6	3	3	14	5
4	James Stewardson	Tom Morris	20	11	9	2	4	3	2
5	Ed Chapman	Tom Peel	29	9	5	4	2	11	9
6	Justin Visser	Simon Wheeler	30	3	4	7	15	6	10
	49er
	Helm	Crew	Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6
1	Chris Draper	Simon Hiscocks	5	4	1	1	1	1	1
2	John Pink	Alex Hobson	13	3	4	4	2	2	2
3	Ben McGrane	Jonathan Clegg	15	2	3	2	6	5	3
4	James McIntosh	Philip Kennard	18	1	2	3	7	10	5
5	Tom Smedley	Olivier Vidal	26	6	8	10	5	3	4
6	Dave Evans	Rick Peacock	33	5	5	8	8	7	11