Decent conditions, finally

Typhoon Shanshan has now passed allowing the Laser fleet some good racing at their World Championship

For the Race Committee, Jury and volunteers the sixth day of the Laser World Championships in Jeju, Korea began at 0615 to start the process of returning all the evacuated boats back to the beach to be ready for racing. At the same time all race committee boats where re-launched.

This was completed by 1030 at which stage the scheduled start was postponed for one hour to allow the sailors time to prepare their boats after the passing of typhoon ShanShan.

Racing finally got underway at 1230 in a perfect 15 knot offshore wind and the fleets split into gold and silver groups. The large easterly swells of the previous days had disappeared to be replaced with a short chop.

In the first gold fleet race the boats at the committee boat end of the line tacked quickly after the start. This group included Deniss Karpak (EST) and Michael Leigh (CAN). Leigh said he was clear to tack not long after the start and he held on until he was headed when he came back onto starboard and the just worked the shifts to round the first mark second behind Karpak.

Meanwhile most of the other race leaders had worked the left hand side of the course and got caught by a right hand shift towards the end of the first leg. Overall first and second place holders, Tom Slingsby and Michael Blackburn from Australia, both had bad starts but Blackburn admitted surprise that he was able to recover to fourth after doggedly working the shifts.

Karpak was passed by Leigh on the first downwind leg and then by Milan Vujasinovic (CRO) on the second upwind leg. Leigh extended his lead to finish first with no further change in second and third.

In the second race of the day Thomas Le Breton (FRA) and Paul Goodison (GBR) both had good starts and sailed to the left initially when most of the fleet went right. They then went up the middle and got the last shift right to be a comfortable first and second at the first mark. "After rounding, Thomas and I had a very good race but were lucky to stay ahead of the fast finishing Australians (Slingsby and Blackburn)". commented Goodison.

In view of the previously challenging weather conditions the race committee have scheduled three races for Tuesday, the penultimate day of the championship.

Results:

Pos	Helm	Sail Number	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Tot
1	Slingsby, Tom	AUS 190007	1	1	1	1	-20	3	7,0
2	Blackburn, Michael	AUS 190003	1	2	3	2	-4	4	12,0
3	Scott, Giles	GBR 190065	11	1	1	1	-23	12	26,0
4	Leigh, Michael	CAN 190019	3	8	6	10	1	-11	28,0
5	Murdoch, Andrew	NZL 190101	4	13	2	3	-18	7	29,0
6	Myrgen, Rasmus	SWE 190115	8	3	8	5	8	-13	32,0
7	Lima, Gustavo	POR 190106	7	6	3	2	-28	15	33,0
8	Le Breton, Thomas	FRA 190050	5	2	14	13	-22	1	35,0
9	Luttmer, Bernard	CAN 190020	9	7	-21	8	6	5	35,0
10	Goodison, Paul	GBR 190058	9	-15	12	6	7	2	36,0
11	Karpak, Deniss	EST 190044	17	9	6	11	3	-42	46,0
12	Vujasinovic, Milan	CRO 190036	3	10	18	14	2	-20	47,0
13	Bougiouris, Adonis	GRE 190076	2	10	7	6	-43	22	47,0
14	Arapov, Mate	CRO 190030	2	7	5	7	-53	30	51,0
15	Alsogaray, Julio	ARG 190001	6	14	2	9	-29	21	52,0
16	Del Solar, Matias	CHI 190024	5	12	18	-4	12	6	53,0
17	Schadewaldt, Tobias	GER 190074	6	5	12	22	-48	8	53,0
18	Weaver, David	NZL 190102	10	6	15	-21	17	9	57,0
19	Fontes, Bruno	BRA 190012	14	-29	9	18	5	14	60,0
20	Bouwmeester, Roelof	NED 190095	4	18	8	dnf	-42	16	62,0
21	Geritzer, Andreas	AUT 190008	7	-23	23	12	16	10	68,0
22	Pruvot, Felix	FRA 190054	22	19	5	7	-41	18	71,0
23	Thompson, Nick	GBR 190066	20	4	4	9	-47	36	73,0
24	Wigforss, Johan	SWE 190116	13	3	11	3	45	(raf)	75,0
25	Nyholm, Anders	DEN 190040	17	9	14	(dnf)	10	26	76,0
26	Zbogar, Vasilij	SLO 190110	15	13	23	8	-32	17	76,0
27	Radelic, Luka	CRO 190033	10	26	10	5	-40	25	76,0
28	Bullott, Michael	NZL 190099	21	11	29	10	9	-33	80,0
29	Groteluschen, Simon	GER 190068	25	16	16	4	-31	19	80,0
30	Hernandez, Javier	ESP 190042	14	11	(dnf)	14	13	29	81,0
31	Stipanovic, Tonci	CRO 190034	8	5	26	17	30	-48	86,0
32	Kamrath, Malte	GER 190070	12	-26	13	15	26	24	90,0
33	Julie, Allan	SEY 190107	26	18	17	20	11	-41	92,0
34	Claeson, Arvid	SWE 190114	29	4	20	21	27	-31	101,0
35	Schlonski, Alexander	GER 190075	11	-37	21	12	25	35	104,0
36	Pruvot, Corentin	FRA 190053	(dnf)	14	19	11	19	43	106,0
37	Romanko, John	CAN 190022	20	24	19	20	-62	23	106,0
38	Howard, Mark James	GBR 190061	31	17	4	19	35	-61	106,0
39	Grabowski, Maciej	POL 190104	23	12	17	33	-36	28	113,0
40	Kjaerdgaard, Kristian	DEN 190039	18	35	25	28	14	-38	120,0
41	Powell, Mark	GBR 190062	13	16	29	24	-44	40	122,0
42	Campbell, Andrew	USA 190120	29	23	35	15	21	-37	123,0
43	Kalin, Michael	CAN 190018	22	31	24	16	-51	32	125,0
44	Gray, James	GBR 190059	19	15	27	27	39	-47	127,0
45	Rudawski, Marcin	POL 190105	33	25	28	31	15	-51	132,0
46	Lobert, Jonathan	FRA 190051	32	28	11	13	-59	49	133,0
47	Wright, David	CAN 190023	12	36	-41	26	24	39	137,0
48	Bernaz, Jean Baptiste	FRA 190049	28	20	16	39	34	-59	137,0
49	Iijima, Yoichi	JPN 190082	18	22	25	28	49	-52	142,0
50	Lim, Kevin	MAS 190093	33	22	39	22	-63	27	143,0
51	Reger, Thomas	GER 190072	21	20	15	35	52	-57	143,0
52	Steyaert, Jeremie	FRA 190055	24	17	9	38	55	-60	143,0
53	Kuzmanic, Tonko	CRO 190031	30	24	31	19	46	-62	150,0
54	Reinisch Perdicaris, Andreas	BRA 190014	dnf	21	39	37	-60	34	151,0
55	Foglia, Alejandro	URU 190119	23	8	7	(dnf)	57	56	151,0
56	Funk, Brad	USA 190123	19	50	31	24	33	(dnf)	157,0
57	Powell, Stephen	GBR 190063	36	-60	10	32	37	45	160,0
58	Papadopoulos, Charis	CYP 190038	24	33	37	23	-64	44	161,0
59	Mihelic, Daniel	CRO 190032	28	37	41	18	38	-50	162,0
60	Ward, Dan	GBR 190067	27	27	33	29	-54	46	162,0
61	Higgins, Connor	CAN 190017	37	30	13	32	50	-55	162,0
62	Couto, Eduardo	BRA 190010	15	36	22	35	-58	54	162,0
63	Reichartz, Bastian	GER 190073	39	25	34	17	-56	53	168,0
64	Murati, Mathieu	FRA 190117	35	21	43	39	-61	58	193,0