Cayard ahead

After day two of US Sailing's Star Olympic trials

With a forecast for wind at half the strength it was yesterday on Biscayne Bay, the 22 teams of Star sailors competing in the 2004 US Olympic Team Trials-Sailing got in two solid races on a Sunday afternoon that couldn’t have been more perfect. Winds on the course ranged from 9-11 knots during the two races that were held in the same vicinity of the Bay as yesterday - four miles south of the Coral Reef Yacht Club Channel.

Paul Cayard and Phil Trinter finished 1-2 today to leapfrog from fourth overall yesterday into the leader’s spot in the overall scoring. They now hold first place on 11 points.

Eric Doyle and crew Brian Sharp were over early at the first start of the day and found themselves racing to catch-up after re-starting. They ultimately finished ninth in that race, and followed with an eighth-place finish in the second race. That performance dropped them out of the lead position in the overall scoring to second overall with 19 points.

John MacCausland and Brad Nichol moved up to third overall on finishes of 3-6 to net 23 points. Following them, one point back, are Olympic medalists Mark Reynolds and Steve Erickson who placed 10-7, dropping one spot in the overall standings to fourth.

Making up for the OCS they earned yesterday, Vince Brun and Mike Dorgan finished 2-1 today for a net 35 points. They are tied on points with Howie Shiebler and Will Stout who finished sixth in the first race, but were then OCS in the second race. They paid for that second race, dropping from second to eighth overall.

Results

Pos	Skipper/Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot
1	Paul Cayard/ Phil Trinter	2	6	1	2	11.00
2	Eric Doyle/ Brian Sharp	1	1	9	8	19.00
3	John MacCausland/ J Brad Nichol	6	8	3	6	23.00
4	Mark Reynolds/ Steve Erickson	5	2	10	7	24.00
5	Andrew Macdonald/ Austin Sperry	11	7	5	4	27.00
6	George Szabo/ Mark Strube	4	5	14	9	32.00
7	Vince Brun/ Mike Dorgan	23/OCS	9	2	1	35.00
8	Howie Shiebler/ Will Stout	3	3	6	23/OCS	35.00
9	Rick Merriman/ Bill Bennett	7	4	17	13	41.00
10	Karl Anderson/ Ezra Culver	13	10	15	5	43.00
11	Doug Schofield/ Bob Schofield	12	13	16	11	52.00
12	Andy Lovell/ Magnus Liljedahl	23/OCS	23/DNS	4	3	53.00
13	Ben Cesare/ Serge Leonidov	14	11	18	10	53.00
14	John Dane/ Henry Sprague	9	12	20	16	57.00
15	Henrik Wennerstrom/ Jon Rogers	15	15	7	23/OCS	60.00
16	Peter Vessella/ Brian Fatih	10	23/DNF	8	19	60.00
17	Jock Kohlhas/ Rick Burgess	16	14	12	18	60.00
18	John Virtue/ Scott Pack	8	23/DNF	19	12	62.00
19	Bill Allen/ Brad Lichter	23/DNF	23/DNS	11	15	72.00
20	Stephen Gould/ Christopher Gould	23/DNF	23/DNS	13	14	73.00
21	Fotis Boliakis/ Chris Rogers	17	17	22	20	76.00
22	Steve Brown/ Michael Marzahi	23/OCS	16	21	17	77.00