Porter and Gibb lead

Toby Mace reports from the Wayfarer Worlds in Canada

Race 3 saw some of the closest and most tactical racing of the week so far. The race officer made a great call to wait 2 and a half hours until the shifty wind eventually settled to a force 2-3 northwesterly. However, it took 3 attempts to get the fleet away, with a short, biased line causing a great deal of bunching. Olympic course today – hooray! (the Brits seem to favour Olympic courses but the North Americans definitely prefer windward/leeward, so we’re doing alternate days)

Challis and Johnston again hit a corner and again were first to the
windward mark. But after a poor start Porter and Gibb worked their way through the fleet, eventually taking the lead on the second beat. They had to work hard to keep the lead throughout the race with Challis/Johnston hounding all the way. However, after being there or thereabouts throughout, Hartley and Philp sailed well to make it through to second with Challis/Johnston third.

Behind the leading battle the fleet were closing, big shifts and a large hole in the centre giving the opportunity for some massive gains (& losses). Fletcher and Edwards made the most of it to secure fourth right on the line from Ted and Wendy Gadd, with team Harris 6th. Biggest losers were probably Toby Mace/rachael Rhodes and also the Barkers, both boats having to do turns and consequently dropping them from about 4th and 8th to 10th and 18th.respectively. However this was enough to boost Mace/Rhodes to third place overall behind Porter/Gibb and Challis/Johnson.

Unfortunately race 4 was abandoned as the delay earlier in the day led the race committee to believe the wind would drop before another race could be completed.

Results:

Pos	Boat Name	Nat	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	Net
1st	Scavenger	UK	Porter	Gibb	1	2	1	4
2nd	Just Add Water	UK	Challis	Johnston	2	9	3	14
3rd	Meg B	UK	Mace	Rhodes	6	6	10	22
4th	Betty Blue	UK	Fletcher	Edwards	3	18	4	25
5th	Bizarre	UK	Hacon	Watson	11	5	9	25
6th	Doubloons	UK	Barker	Barker	4	7	18	29
7th	Cathessa	UK	Goudie	Hall	16	1	13	30
8th	Shades	CDN	Schonborn	Bennett	12	11	8	31
9th	Fantasia	UK	Hartley	Philp	8	22	2	32
10th	Wild Billy	UK	Gadd	Gadd	7	24	5	36
11th	Shadow	CDN	Rahn	Rahn	14	8	17	39
12th	Spinaway	UK	Harris	Harris	5	29	6	40
13th	Finitor	UK	Reed	Albert	18	13	11	42
14th	Danegeld III	UK	McKechnie	Turner	9	20	21	50
15th	Hans	CDN	Funk	Wharton	15	17	19	51
16th	Sink The Pink	NI	Colville	Harley	13	28	12	53
17th	River Rat	CDN	Jeffs	Bamford	20	27	14	61
18th	One for the Road	UK	Chaplin	Chaplin	29	16	16	61
19th	Unplugged	CDN	Laderoute	Laderoute	21	34	7	62
20th	Sax	CDN	Taylor	Taylor	24	10	28	62
21st	K+	CDN	Kozac		19	12	31	62
22nd	Wizzard	DEN	Jensen	Friis	17	3	44	64
23rd	Final Gambol	UK	Lamb	Hunt	31	4	29	64
24th	Fair Dinkum	Den	Nandrup-Bus	Nandrup-Bus	36	14	15	65
25th	Invasion	CDN	Shepherd	Kumpf	27	15	33	75
26th	Ab faB	CDN	Wallace	Weatherston	10	46	20	76
27th	Domino	UK	O'Malley	Denny	34	21	24	79
28th	Eclairelle	CDN	Aplevich	Nichols	28	37	22	87
29th	Ten Grand	UK	Feibusch	Lilley	23	41	23	87
30th	The Nutshell	CDN	Gottschling	Santos	30	23	35	88
31st	Silver Fox	CDN	DeBoer	DeBoer	22	44	25	91
32nd	Toodle-oo	CDN	Netherton	Redwin	25	45	26	96
33rd	Bush & Cheney	US	Seraphinoff	Blackmore	38	33	27	98
34th	Redtop	CDN	Blanchard	Codd	35	30	37	102
35th	Almera	NI	Bell	Reid	44	19	40	103
36th	Valkyrie	CDN	Ayres		37	31	38	106
37th	Fanfare	CDN	Carroll	Attwell	46	25	42	113
38th	Windshadow	CDN	Gumley	Gumley	26	35	53	114
39th	Aotearoa	CDN	Ryder-Turner	Ryder-Turner	52	36	30	118
40th	Jansubar	CDN	Edwards	Waller	48	39	32	119
41st	No Dozer	CDN	Honey	Robson	41	32	47	120
42nd	Saw Dust	CDN	Armstrong	Armstrong	47	26	48	121
43rd	Mixed Doubles	CDN	Bunt	Bunt	33	50	39	122
44th	Splatt	CDN	Platt		40	51	34	125
45th	Whiskey Run...out	CDN	Mills	Jaillet	32	DNF	36	130
46th	Fait Accomplii	IM	Dowling	Holt	42	47	43	132
47th	Prelude	CDN	Kennedy	Kennedy	43	40	51	134
48th	Fujin	CDN	Cox	Cox	49	42	50	141
49th	Aliro	CDN	Ryan	Ryan	45	43	55	143
50th	Simple	CDN	Simpkin	Earley	59	38	52	149