Oppie Nationals

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Racing was abandoned at the Volvo Musto Optimist National Championship due to lack of wind and extremely low visibility.

The juniors have already completed three races, which constitutes a series, while the seniors so far have only completed two races.

In the senior fleet, as predicted the sailors who have recently returned from the Optimist World Championship that were held in Ecuador are dominating at the front of the fleet.

Sophie Weguelin, 15 from Lymington who was 97th at the Worlds, is leading the championship with three points. In second place with seven points is Gijs Pelt, 15 who has come over from the Netherlands for the Championship. In third and fourth place with eight and ten points respectively are twin brothers Ben and Tim Saxton, 14 from Grafham Water. The top Scottish sailor at present is Andrew Normand, 15 from Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club who is in 15th place with 36 points.

In the junior fleet Mark Lees, 12 from Poole YC, is leading the championship with 15 points. Adrian Clay, 12 from Wraysbury Lake is in second place with 18 points. First Scot is Anna Burnet, 12 from Royal Northern & Clyde who is in 8th place with 59 points.

Four races are scheduled for Wednesday for both the senior and junior fleets.

Juniors (Top 20):

	Sailor	Pts	R1	R2	R3
1	Mark Lees	15	2	5	8
2	Adrian Clay	18	13	1	4
3	Jack Costigan	18	5	7	6
4	Thomas Rutter	40	23	6	11
5	Vaughan Ross	46	14	27	5
6	Aaron Smith	47	1	11	35
7	Konrad Weaver	47	29	3	15
8	Anna Burnet	59	21	25	13
9	Jane Butler	69	15	9	45
10	Oliver White	70	59	2	9
11	Guy Stephens	72	38	31	3
12	James Grant	75	3	56	16
13	Sam Stacpoole	77	27	20	30
14	Andrew Lis	78	6	65	7
15	Calum Murdock	79	10	38	31
16	David Grant	82	31	4	47
17	Sophie McKeeman	82	33	35	14
18	Andrew Adam	87	59	10	18
19	Kevin Peet	97	7	18	72
20	Cian O'Regan	99	4	61	34
21	Joshua Cripps	99	59	30	10

Seniors (Top 20):

	Sailor	Pts	R1	R2
1	Sophie Weguelin	3	1	2
2	Gijs Pelt	7	3	4
3	Ben Saxton	8	2	6
4	Tim Saxton	10	9	1
5	Frances Peters	11	4	7
6	Thomas Willis	16	8	8
7	Tom Hayes	18	5	13
8	Jacob Brubert	19	10	9
9	Oliver Maton	21	11	10
10	Owain Matthews	22	7	15
11	Lucy de Boltz	23	6	17
12	Claire Lasko	26	15	11
13	Michael Clark	32	14	18
14	Alyson Rumball	33.5	21.5	12
15	Andrew Normand	36	20	16
16	Daniel Wray	38	12	26
17	Charlie Poyner	40	16	24
18	Peter Kloezeman	41.5	21.5	20
19	Tiffany Brien	51	30	21
20	Joe Williams	53	34	19