Troubles with tide

Light but better conditions greeted the competitors for day two of the 29er and 49er UK Nationals

A steady but gentle eight to ten knots from the south east kicked in at lunch time and both fleets were sent out into Hayling bay. The 49ers got in their three scheduled races while the 29ers did four to catch up yesterdays lost race. Tide was one of the biggest influences over the tactics as well as the mark rounding. Many teams not used to current found themselves drifting into the marks having miss-judged their line. Many turns were seen at the windward mark!

The 29er fleet has now finished its qualification series and the next two days will be the final races, the cut at 25 is always harsh but it looks like the final Gold fleet has all the right teams in it. Paul Brotherton and Mari Shepherd are top of the leaderboard followed by Sarah Martin and Nicola Groves who had an outstanding day winning all four races in their flight. Silja Lehitnen and Scott Babage from Finland had a steady day to end up lying third while Frances Peters and Kate Sparkes enjoyed the light winds to pull up to fourth.

It was Tristen Jaques and Alain Sign who had a good day in the 49ers, pulling up to second place behind the Dutch team of Van Catz and Stavenuyder still holding onto their day one lead. The Irish team of Russell and Matt McGovern are only one point behind Jaques and Sign along with Ian martin and Ben McGrane on equal points in fourth.

The 49ers have one more day to go while the 29ers still have two days.

Results:

49ers

Pos	Helm	Crew	Nationality	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Tot
1	Jeroen Van Cadz	Wilco Stavenuyder	NED	2	1	-8	3	8	14
2	Tristian Jaques	Alain Sign	GBR	-19	5	6	7	4	22
3	Russell McGovern	Matt McGovern	IRL	-24	18	1	2	2	23
4	Ian Martin	Ben McGrane	GBR	12	2	3	6	-13	23
5	Uffe Anderson	Christian Sogaro		4	-11	2	10	7	23
6	Dave Evans	Rick Peacock	GBR	9	7	10	-14	1	27
7	C Gundersen	F Borim	NOR	1	-21	7	1	20	29
8	Paul Campbell-James	Mark Asquithy	GBR	-20	15	4	5	5	29
9	Panagiotidis George	Panagiotidis Alfonso	GRE	-18	3	9	4	15	31
10	Tom Smedley	Jonny Clegg	GBR	6	9	11	-12	12	38
11	John Wilson	James Barker	GBR	8	8	13	9	-22	38
12	Jake Bartrom	Craig Prentice	GBR	10	16	5	-17	9	40
13	Roger Gilbert	Oliver Vidal	GBR	-17	17	15	8	3	43
14	Mats Hellman	Henrick Hellman	NED	-21	6	16	16	10	48
15	Richard Bone	Chris Rodway	GBR	15	4	12	-19	18	49
16	Ed Chapman	Tom Dawson	GBR	3	10	-24	21	19	53
17	Robert Espey	Richard McCullough	IRL	14	-28	17	15	11	57
18	Fred Shone	Hugh Shone	GBR	16	-23	22	18	6	62
19	Connor McGaughey	Johnny McHaughey	IRL	13	20	19	11	-25	63
20	Andrew Rice	Gareth Edward	FRA	5	-27	25	13	21	64
21	Tom Morris	Guy Fillmore	GBR	-23	13	14	20	17	64
22	Chris Gill	Jon Gill	GBR	7	12	21	26	-27	66
23	Florian Kohout	Jurgen Brandstotter	AUT	-27	25	18	23	14	80
24	R Knight	M Hlkes	HKG	22	-24	20	22	24	88
25	Alex Stothert	Dan Kilsby		11	-30	30	24	30	95
26	Josh Wilce	Olly Wilce	GBR	25	14	-29	28	29	96
27	Peter Waring	Andy Le Grice	GBR	26	-32	23	25	23	97
28	Matty Lyons	James Lyons		-30	29	26	30	16	101
29	Ronald Millar	Peter Marshall	GBR	28	19	27	-29	28	102
30	John Beatty	Robert Hepburn	GBR	-29	22	28	27	26	103
31	Bruce Allen	Alc Boere		(36.0 OCS)	31	31	31	36.0 DNF	129
32	Justin Visser	Simon Wheeler	GBR	(36.0 OCS)	26	DNC	DNC	DNC	134
33	Steve Bell	Simon Scullion	GBR	(36.0 DNF)	33	32	36.0 DNF	36.0 DNF	137
34	Jon Emmett	Henry Wallace	GBR	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	144
34	Alister Kinsman	Alasdair Hendry	GBR	(DNC)	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	144

29er results are yet to be released