Three bullets for Greenhalgh

Boy wonder and the RMW crew dominate at International 14 Worlds in Japan reports Peter Danby

Rob Greenhalgh and Dan Johnson from Great Britain repeated the total domination they showed when they won the opening race of the championship yesterday by winning the two races sailed this afternoon.

After coming ashore, Rob commented: "We were able to tack on to port just when we wanted to in both races, and found very good lanes to the windward mark. We are very pleased with our speed both upwind and down. We were using a lot of foil today, and the new asymmetric foils we have on our rudder work really well."

Other significant factors in today's races were the consistency of Archie Massey and George Nurton, who added a third and a second to their second place yesterday, and the return to form of reigning champion Zach Berkowitz, racing with Mike Martin this year, who bounced back from 13th place yesterday to record second and third this afternoon.

After the first race of the day was held up for a while to allow a fleet of ten fishing boats to move out of the bay, followed by one general recall, the 14s got away in bright sunshine and a breeze of 10 knots.

Greenhalgh and Johnson led at the windward mark and showed tremendous downwind speed, as well as profiting from a favourable wind shift. They then made their only mistake of the day when they lost an already large lead at the end of the downwind leg by sailing towards the wrong mark, but they soon recovered to win from Berkowitz (below) and Martin, with Massey and Nurton in third place.



The second race of the day got going after two general recalls and a black flag, and it followed the now familiar pattern of Greenhalgh and Johnson leading at the first mark. This time they sailed flawlessly, and finished with a monstrous lead ahead of Massey and Nurton, and then Berkowitz and Martin, who had climbed back from fifth after being fined two turns by the jury for pumping.

The schedule now reverts to one race tomorrow, followed by a lay day on Friday.

Results:

Pos	Sail No.	Skipper	Crew	R1	R2	R3	Tot
1	GBR1482	Rob Greenhalgh	Dan Johnson	1	1	1	3
2	GBR1476	Archie Massey	George Nurton	2	3	2	7
3	GBR1479	Andrew Penman	Tim Bastow	4	6	7	17
4	USA1137	Zach Berkowitz	Mike Martin	13	2	3	18
5	GBR1484	James Fawcett	Bruce Grant	10	4	6	20
6	GBR1481	Andy Partington	Ben Vervieres	6	8	9	23
7	GBR1487	Ian Teasdale	Matt Chapman	11	9	5	25
8	USA1127	Kris Bundy	Jamie Hanseler	14	7	8	29
9	GBR1495	Chris Turner	Peter Bagwell	7	13	10	30
10	GBR1483	Victor Brellisford	Damian Ash	5	10	19	34
11	GBR1489	Jarrod Simpson	Harvey Hillary	3	5	27	35
12	AUS623	Mark Krstic	Rob Oshlack	9	14	22	45
13	AUS602	Anthony Anderson	David Hughes	12	23	11	46
14	GBR1431	Colin Smith	Peter Helm	18	16	13	47
15	USA1150	Ron Boehm	Pete Mohler	19	17	14	50
16	AUS617	Alan Vickery	Andrew Wilson	8	18	25	51
17	AUS616	Lindsay Irwin	Andrew Perry	36	12	4	52
18	GBR1444	Paul Vine	Dave Dobrijevlc	16	21	16	53
19	CAN583	Jamie Kidd	Jason Lemieux	22	11	21	54
20	AUS624	David Alexander	Don Hart	20	19	20	59
21	AUS622	James McDonald	Jason King	25	15	29	69
22	CAN584	Fred Eaton	John Vincze	15	28	31	74
23	USA1129	Steve Goodson	Alan Direcks	31	32	12	75
24	USA1152	John Hele	Stuart Saffer	34	24	17	75
25	AUS577	Mark Elsworth	James Lanati	38	25	15	78
26	AUS400	Mat Lon	Derek Layfield	30	27	28	85
27	GBR1448	Roger Douglas	Jeremy Reed	21	42	23	86
28	GBR1477	Paul Ravenhill	Neil Trickett	17	35	35	87
29	GBR1472	Rollo Pyper	Anthony Haines	24	26	38	88
30	USA1114	Gvillaume Vernieres	Reiko Tani	37	29	24	90
31	GBR1461	Ian Pinnell	Sam Gardiner	DNF	22	18	97
32	USA1117	Brad Ruetenik	Todd Czarnecki	23	20	DNF	100
33	GBR1486	Dominic Bowns	Gretel Van Raemdonck	27	34	39	100
34	JPN108	Yoshihisa Fujii	Naoki Shigeyama	28	38	34	100
35	GBR1464	Doug Walker	Louise Hickey	29	31	40	100
36	AUS609	Stewart Vickery	Matt Balmar	39	30	32	101
37	JPN110	Takashi Shimozato	Tomonari Tanaka	40	41	30	111
38	JPN106	Ryo Nishima	Yasunobu Yanagisawa	43	44	26	113
39	GBR1462	Kimball Morrison	Chris Kinghts	33	37	43	113
40	JPN107	Toru Kojima	Kei Matsumoto	35	33	46	114
41	JPN112	Kensuke Kita	Takao Washino	42	36	37	115
42	JPN101	Yoichi Hirane	Kenji Hirade	41	39	36	116
43	JPN99	Yusuke Sugahara	Satoshi Ishida	44	43	33	120
44	USA1140	Ted Rogers	Kirk Price	26	OCS	42	125
45	USA1144	Andrew Bates	Eric Arens	45	40	45	130
46	JPN111	Eiji Kato	Susumu Shima	48	45	41	134
47	GBR1442	Charls Duchesne	Martin Pascal	32	46	DNF	135
48	USA1145	Kirk Twardowski	Tim Burks	47	47	48	142
49	JPN109	Yasutaka Uto	Takehide Takase	46	48	51	145
50	JPN113	Daijiro Takahara	Yoichi Mori	50	50	47	147
51	USA1128	John F Hyde	Peter Shumar	DNF	49	44	150
52	JPN90	Kenichi Hagiwara	Hiroshi Aoki	49	51	54	154
53	JPN89	Toshinari Harada	Takao Kawamura	DNC	52	49	158
54	JPN84	Tsunenori Chiba	Masahiro Ii	DNF	54	50	161
55	JPN97	Naoki Yamaguchi	Masayuki Nagashima	51	DNC	53	161
56	USA1138	Alan Laflin	Tatsuo Okada	DNC	53	52	162