Another new leader

After a day of multiple OCSes, split sails and capsizes at the Tornado Worlds

A shifty NE wind, 15-18 knots with gusts reaching 20 knots, provided the competitors with lively conditions on the water for the first race of day three of the Tornado Worlds out of Palma's Club Nautico Arenal. 12 boats were OCS, but following video evidence delivered at a subsequent protest four boats got their original positions back including the new overall leaders Mitch Booth and Herbert Dercksen, Strandberg/Mattsson, Rivas/Escude and Garcia de Soto/Sales.

“The sailors were early over the line but if the Race Committee got 12 - and I reckon there were even more - why not call out a General Recall?” asked Swiss Martin Rusterholz, who was also OCS. “You could clearly see that all the boats in the top end were over. Denmark was the only one to come back. The shifty conditions today didn’t make it any easier but we are happy to be back in the game”, said Darren Bundock, who now lies fifth overall.

For race two the northeasterly had built to a steady 21 knots but with big shifts. On this occasion there were no OCSes.

Leigh MacMillan provides his account:

"Race one started and 14 boats were over the line, including race winner Mitch Booth. We had a great start from the middle of the line and won the left hand side of the course, however boats out on the right were looking favoured, and it was only a small shift back left, right at the top of the course, that saved our bacon, rounding the top mark 7th or 8th. We then quickly pulled through to 4th on the run, pushing it hard in the big gusts. Just ahead of us was Olivier Backes and the Greeks. The second upwind again saw the right favoured, however we took a small hitch left on a shift which initially helped us but eventually lost us some ground. By this point in the race, we were just ahead of a big pack of chasing boats, including Lovell and Ogletree and Lange and Espinola.

"Once again we gained on the run moving into 3rd place. The final upwind again looked like a similar right hand favoured course, however we again took a short hitch left and then came across in a left hander and pressure and were right up behind the Greeks and pushing for second on the water (but first in the results after the OCS boats had been discounted). Disaster nearly struck as Mark's trapeze gear failed and he was dropped into the water, fortunately he held on to the mainsheet and managed to drag himself back on board, not losing any places. The final run saw us dual with the Greeks and nearly beat them losing out on the line by a few feet. Lange and Espinola finished third.

"In between the races we fixed the trapeze gear and then waited for the second race, all the while the breeze building. The race officer started us and again the right was favoured, and again we had a good start from the middle. Unfortunately there were no lanes across and we rounded the top mark in the 20s. Mitch Booth had hit hard right and led comfortably. We then smoked the run to get back in to the race by the bottom mark, until our mainsail ripped in half on the gybe. This ended our race and means that with four races left we have used our discard. Booth easily won the race from Bundock and Forbes.

"In the overall results we are second equal on 24 points with Lange and Espinola of Argentina and 10 points ahead of Bundock and Forbes. Tomorrow is a lay day for the fleet. Four more races are due to be sailed on Saturday and Sunday."

Results

Pos	Sail no	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Tot
1	NED 1	Mitch Booth/Herbert Dercksen	20	32	2	1	1	1	25
2	ARG 1	Santiago Lange/Carlos Espinola	1	8	1	14	4	11	25
3	GBR 420	Leigh McMillan/Mark Bulkeley	12	4	3	3	3	DNF	25
4	USA 808	John Lovell/Charlie Ogletree	5	1	8	16	6	16	36
5	AUS 967	Darren Bundock/John Forbes	8	7	30	5	14	2	36
6	ESP 1	Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz	9	6	13	12	5	5	37
7	RUS 97	Andrey Kirilyuk/Valery Ushkov	29	14	7	9	7	6	43
8	FRA 28	Yann Guichard/Christophe Espagnon	4	11	9	19	DNF	3	46
9	FRA 295	Olivier Backes/Laurent Voiron	22	3	11	11	9	13	47
10	FRA 279	Xavier Revil/Laurent Guillemette	10	9	6	13	20	9	47
11	GRE 1	Dimitris Theodorakis/Andonis Bougiouris	19	18	41	4	2	7	50
12	AUT 380	Roman Hagara/Hans Peter Steinacher	13	5	10	2	29	22	52
13	SWE 199	Martin Strandberg/Kristian Mattsson	32	16	14	10	18	8	66
14	CAN 369	Oskar Johansson/John Curtis	3	19	29	18	22	12	74
15	GER 1087	Johannes Polgar/Carsten Happel	23	12	18	7	17	21	75
16	GER 1090	Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann	48	34	4	27	12	4	81
17	FRA 282	Matthieu Souben/Gurvan Bontemps	21	10	21	36	15	18	85
18	FRA 293	François Gabart/David Romain	2	25	5	28	OCS	27	87
19	POR 2	Hugo Rocha/Luis Beito	14	13	34	6	OCS	20	87
20	POR 1	Diego Cayolla/Nuno Barretto	RDG	RDG	16	8	28	29	92,6
21	PUR 1	Enrique Figueroa/Jorge Hernandez	7	17	40	24	8	37	93
22	BRA 37	Mauricio Santa Cruz/Henrique Pelicano	35	26	28	15	10	19	98
23	SWE 201	Hans Wallen/Christoffer Rappe	18	21	17	20	27	25	101
24	ESP 2004	Enrique Garcia de Soto Lastra/Fernando Sales	26	30	25	43	13	10	104
25	SLO 1	Dusan Puh/Alan Biderman	31	2	12	35	32	30	107
26	NZL 87	Aaron McIntosh/Mark/Kennedy	17	20	24	25	24	28	110
27	ESP 23	Toni Rivas/Fabian Escude	6	33	47	37	23	14	113
28	ESP 121	Jose Mª Ponce/Ramon Illan	11	39	20	21	31	36	119
29	NED 162	Sven Karsenbarg/Mischa Heemskerk	38	15	23	26	19	DNF	121
30	ITA 257	Francesco Marcolini/Edoardo Bianchi	27	27	OCS	39	25	15	133
31	ESP 7	Francisco Sanchez Ferrer/Juan Manuel Barrionuevo	24	36	19	29	DNF	26	134
32	ESP 11	Manuel Calavia/Carlos Varea	37	22	22	46	21	DNF	148
33	DEN 1	Peder Ronholt/Soren Schmidt Jorgensen	33	29	32	34	35	24	152
34	FRA 281	Besson/Arnaud Jarlegan	OCS	24	OCS	22	11	39	159
35	CAN 1	Eric Holden/Mark Coakley	34	31	37	47	26	33	161
36	ITA 5	Vincenzo Sorrentino/Giorgio Colombo	30	28	46	30	OCS	32	166
37	FRA 286	François Morvan/Matthieu Vandame	OCS	23	35	40	42	31	171
38	UKR 21	Stanislav Golimbiyevskyy/Oleksandr Meninkov	39	41	26	33	34	43	173
39	GRE 7	Iordanis Paschalides/Christos Garefis	DNF	DNF	31	44	16	23	177
40	FRA 276	Baptiste Balzeau/Gaël Ledoux	42	35	15	42	DNF	47	181
41	RUS 27	Alexey Chekrygin/Sergey Bogatkin	OCS	44	33	17	37	53	184
42	RUS 007	Sergey Dzienbaev/Oleg Ryazantsev	15	RDG	36	31	DNF	DNC	186,6
43	FRA 260	Moana Vaireaux/Romain Petit	28	42	51	51	33	35	189
44	RUS 77	Konstantin Emelyanov/Alexander Yanin	43	37	39	38	OCS	38	195
45	AUT 381	Thomas Zajac/Thomas Czajka	16	DNC	38	DNC	36	45	198
46	ITA 7	Giuseppe Angilella/Giovanni Barraja	50	51	52	55	30	17	200
47	GRE 11	Constantinos Gkiris/Andreas Tsamitas	45	52	DNF	23	40	42	202
48	FRA 278	Guillaume Coyon/Lucas Millieret	25	38	49	49	OCS	46	207
49	HUN 1	Arpad Litkey/Peter Szaniszlo	49	49	27	53	OCS	34	212
50	CZE 52	Zdenek Pavlis/Jri Pavlis	47	53	43	32	45	49	216
51	GBR 402	Andrew Walsh/Ed Barney	46	48	44	54	38	41	217
52	BRA 52	Luiz Eduardo Adler Pimentel Duarte/Gualberto Naldi	41	47	42	50	43	48	221
53	GBR 404	Jonathan Hutchcroft/Marcus Lynch	51	40	48	52	44	40	223
54	SUI 227	Martin Rusterholz/Michiel Fehr	36	43	45	41	OCS	DNC	228
55	GBR 415	Leo Farrow/Tristan Lamb	40	46	50	45	47	51	228
56	ESP 5	Bernardo Benítez/Miguel Quintana	44	50	DNC	DNC	39	44	240
57	BRA 51	Jose Roberto de Jesus/Fernando Jacobina	52	45	55	57	41	DNF	250
58	BRA 43	Alex Leal/Thiago K Leal	55	DSQ	57	48	46	50	256
59	GER 1024	Günter Mörtl/Walter Kerf	56	55	54	56	OCS	DNC	284
60	ESP 3	Oriol Bou Bohé/Eduardo Olmos	DNC	56	56	DNC	DNC	52	290
61	ESP 277	Pablo de Villar Farrés/Nicolás de Virgiliis	53	DNF	53	58	DNC	DNC	290
62	GBR 398	John Bernard Ready/Angus Roberts	54	54	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNF	297