Veal by a point

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A steady breeze from the east of around 10-12 knots greeted the fleet today to provide a welcome change from the shifty conditions of the previous days. With the change in wind direction there was a tricky chop to negotiate downwind.

Race 5. Adam May had a great start out of the middle of the line, and headed left. Extending out from underneath the leading bunch as they got into the left to lead round the top, followed by Veal, and Belben. Veal was able to soak low below May's line on the run and gybe on top to squeeze round the gybe mark ahead. Belben had done similar and went round side by side with May. Payne had a good downwind to join the leading trio at the leeward mark. Four boats rounded together with Veal holding a lead and May and Belben locked together. At the finish, Veal crossed first with Jason Belben claiming a well earned second and May third.

Race 6: Most of the front runners came off the pin end of the line after a left shift near start time, and headed left. Payne led the bunch from the gun and led round the first mark with Belben and May and in hot pursuit. Veal went round fourth. Veal gybed early and went round the next mark second and from then the leading two. On the second beat Mark Robinson hit the right and went round the windward mark second in front of Veal. Payne held on to his lead and claimed the win with Veal coming through to second and May third.

With six races sailed Veal leads Payne by one point.

Results:

Pos	Sail no	Skipper	Subgroup	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Tot
1	AUS9345	Rohan Veal	Foil	1	4	1	2	1	2	11
2	GBR4076	Simon Payne	Foil & Master	3	1	2	1	4	1	12
3	GBR4073	Adam May	Foil	2	2	3	4	3	3	17
4	GBR4069	Jason Belben	Foil & Master	5	3	5	3	2	5	23
5	GBR4080	Sam Pascoe	Foil	4	5	4	5	5	6	29
6	SIN7	Mark Robinson	Foil	6	6	6	8	6	4	36
7	GBR4082	Alex Adams	Foil	7	7	7	7	8	7	43
8	AUS9347	John Ilett	Foil	8	9	9	16	7	8	57
9	GBR4079	Alex Knight	Foil	9	8	11	10	12	14	64
10	SUI607	Patrick Ruf	Foil	10	12	14	9	10	9	64
11	GER1052	Burkhard Staabs	Foil & Master	15	15	12	15	9	12	78
12	GBR4050	Ian Forksdike	Foil	11	10	8	13	33\DNS	10	85
13	GBR4085	Simon Propper	Foil & Master	14	13	15	19	14	15	90
14	AUS9279	Zac Douglas	Foil & Junior	12	16	26	18	11	13	96
15	AUS81	James Robert mackenzie	Foil	20	14	16	22	17	11	100
16	GBR4067	Adrian Murphy	Foil	18	11	17	25	18	16	105
17	GBR4046	Russell Wheeler	No Foil	19	20	19	14	20	18	110
18	GER1049	Dirk Koepe	Foil	16	31\DNF	22	11	16	17	113
19	ITA253	Franco Ferluga	Foil	17	17	18	27	19	20	118
20	FRA2016	BESSEC Nicolas	Foil	29	19	13	28	15	19	123
21	GER1040	Sven Kloppenburg	Foil & Master	13	33\DNS	10	6	33\DNS	33\DNS	128
22	GER1044	Joachim Hülsmeyer	No Foil & Master	21	22	25	17	21	22	128
23	GER1008	Leo Arnoldt	No Foil & Junior	24	21	20	21	24	23	133
24	GBR4019	Doug Culnane	Foil	23	18	23	12	33\DNS	25	134
25	DEN101	Søren Buhl	No Foil	25	25	21	23	23	24	141
26	GER1026	Jens Schoenberg	No Foil	22	23	27	20	25	26	143
27	GER1054	Jens Zurmühl	Foil	26	27	32\DNF	33\DNS	13	21	152
28	NED164	Richard Knol	Foil & Master	28	24	28	26	22	27	155
29	GER1032	Nils Warnken	No Foil	27	26	29	24	26	29	161
30	GBR4077	Peter Horn	Foil	33\DNS	28	24	30	28\DNF	28	171
31	DEN100	Jan A.Drost	No Foil & Master	30	29	30	29	33\DNS	33\DNS	184
32	GER1011	Wolfram Hettkamp	No Foil & Master	33\DNS	33\DNS	33\DNS	33\DNS	33\DNS	33\DNS	198