Left, right or middle?

Conditions remain difficult at the Tornado World Championships in Argentina

Thursday December 7th 2006, Author: Event press/dailysail, Location: United Kingdom
The sunny warm weather was back in San Isidro for day two of the Tornado World Championship. Two races were sailed in a decent but shifty south easterly ten to 12 knots with some large holes evident over the length of the course.

Race three saw two boats OCSs, the Chinese team of Luo Youjia and Xiuke Chen and Vincenzo Sorrentino and Giorgio Colombo (ITA).

The start had a small amount of pin bias and this was exaggerated by a starboard tack header which allowed the boats furthest to leeward to tack and cross the fleet.

According to the official report, although conditions today were different the principal out on the water for race three was much the same as the previous day. The left side of the course was the way to go. However, left was perhaps not the best for everyone as Will Howden (GBR) explains. "The fleet lined up with the breeze clocking left in the start sequence, the guys at the pin end came out of the line best with the rest of the fleet falling into them. [We] got a poor start and hitched right which looked good. [We] then made the mistake of trying to get back to the left and lost out to both sides of the course," he says. To add to this confusion, in their weblog Andrew Walsh and Ed Barney (GBR) describe their version of the first race. "We started at the committee boat end and were first out to the right hand side. We over-stood the windward mark slightly costing us a top five rounding and rounded maybe eighth," they comment.

Whichever way was best to go, the left certainly did it's job for Austrians, Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher, who lead the way with no competition and crossed the line one minute and a half ahead of second placed Russians, Andrey Kirilyuk and Valery Ushkov. There was little competition for third and fourth places either as the Spanish Toni Rivas and Fabian Escude, and the Australians Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby finished with decent gaps over the rest of the fleet.

The committee boat end of the line for race four was very jam-packed as boats vied for both the favoured end of the line and what looked to be the favored side of the beat. The French Yann Guichard and Alexandre Guyader were thrown towards the back of the committee boat and didn't make it to the starting line. The same happened to the Russians Andrey Kirilyuk and Valery Ushkov who still managed to restart behind the whole fleet and finished 31st.

The French Billy Besson and Arnaud Jarlegan were the leaders this time and the fleet stayed close together for two upwinds. The French opened the lead on the second downwind and had no problems getting the bullet. The Ozzies Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby were second followed by Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher, who are now the leaders of the Regatta. The Aussies hold on to second place overall.

"We decided to start clean at the pin, together with the Australians, and that made all the difference", explained French sailor Billy Besson, as they jump up to fourth overall.

The Argentinean Bronze Medalists Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola, made a come back and crossed the line in fourth, after an exciting finish head to head with Quingdao winners French Olivier Backes and Paul Ambroise Sevestre.

After a consistent performance in yesterday's races, French team Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon had a difficult day with a 22nd and a 24th and are now seventh overall.

Results:
 
Pos
Helm/Crew
Sail Number
R1
R2
R3
R4
Tot
1
HAGARA-STEINACHER 
AUT3 
1
8
1
3
13
2
BUNDOCK-ASHBY 
AUS8 
6
2
4
2
14
3
LANGE-ESPINOLA 
ARG1 
7
23
8
4
42
4
BESSON-JARLEGAN 
FRA5 
10
21
15
1
47
5
BOOTH-NIEWENHUIS 
NED8 
4
12
7
27
50
6
MARCOLINI-BIANCHI 
ITA257 
20
6
18
6
50
7
REVIL-ESPAGNON 
FRA1 
2
5
22
24
53
8
SOUBEN-BONTEMPS 
FRA298 
5
28
11
9
53
9
POLGAR-SPALTEHOLZ 
GER7 
15
1
28
10
54
10
PASCHALIDIS-TRIGONIS 
GRE7 
31
3
13
7
54
11
ECHAVARRI-PAZ 
ESP1 
11
13
12
22
58
12
GAEBLER-STRUCKMANN 
GER1104 
12
10
19
19
60
13
MORVAN-VANDAME 
FRA11 
8
29
9
15
61
14
FIGUEROA-HERNÁNDEZ 
PUR1 
3
18
25
17
63
15
MITTELMEIER-MITTELMEIER 
GER1096 
14
25
6
20
65
16
PADRON-CUERVAS-MONS 
ESP104 
23
4
26
13
66
17
GUICHARD-GUYADER 
FRA7 
9
31
14
18\RDG 
72
18
MC MILLAN-HOWDEN 
GBR436 
19
11
16
28
74
19
BACKES-SEVESTRE 
FRA302 
26
17
32
5
80
20
JOHANSSON-KEVIN 
CAN7 
29
19
24
8
80
21
WALSH-BARNEY 
GBR430 
24
20
5
33
82
22
WILSON-BULKELEY 
GBR7 
18
9
29
26
82
23
BROUWER-GODEFROID 
BEL7 
28
14
30
11
83
24
DANIEL-CHU 
USA804 
13
48\DNF 
17
12
90
25
RIVAS-ESCUDE 
ESP23 
48\OCS 
26
3
14
91
26
KIRILYUK-USHKOV 
RUS97 
30
33
2
31
96
27
HEEMSKERK-DERCKSEN 
NED1 
48\OCS 
7
20
21
96
28
LOVELL-OGLETREE 
USA808 
48\OCS 
15
10
25
98
29
SORRENTINO-COLOMBO 
ITA5 
21
22
48\OCS 
18
109
30
RASHLEY-LYNCH 
GBR438 
22
24
31
34
111
31
ZAJAC-CZAJKA 
AUT381 
16
27
23
48\OCS 
114
32
SAMAMA-VAN LEEUWEN 
NED100 
35
16
36
32
119
33
CAYOLLA-CERVEIRA 
POR1 
25
30
34
30
119
34
STYLES-PEEL 
GBR434 
32
48\DNF 
21
23
124
35
MIRSKY-GUAL 
BRA1 
34
37
39
16
126
36
DI BERNARDI-CHANG 
BRA37 
27
35
38
37
137
37
MCINTOSH-KENDALL 
NZL87 
48\OCS 
34
27
29
138
38
GUEVARA-MARIANI 
ARG29 
17
40
42
41
140
39
JESSENIG-JESSENIG 
AUT360 
33
39
35
38
145
40
GRANDFIELD-CALLEN 
USA813 
36
38
37
35
146
41
THINSCHMIDT-WIERDA 
USA840 
48\DSQ 
32
41
36
157
42
BLANDO-NOÉ 
ARG360 
37
41
40
40
158
43
DZHIENBAEV-SEMENOV 
RUS7 
48\OCS 
36
33
48\OCS 
165
44
GOLEMBIEVSKYY-VOLOSHENYUK 
UKR21 
39
42
43
42
166
45
DUBUC-HERENDEER 
CAN2 
40
43
44
43
170
46
YOUJIA-CHEN 
CHN112 
38
48\DNF 
48\OCS 
39
173
47
SEIFERT-TIEMANN 
GER1103 
41
44
45
44
174

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