Germany still ahead

But Switzerland wins the day at the Star World Championship in Rio

Swiss sailors Flavio Marazzi and Enrico de Maria won the second race of the 2010 Star World Championship today.

With everyone starting conservatively, the Swiss duo positioned themselves in a line sag during the start under the black flag and had clear air up the first beat. Their start did not win them the race, but it put them among the leaders at the first windward mark.

Marazzi/DeMaria and Alexander Schlonski and Frithjof Kleen (GER) made their gains during the second beat when Marazzi/DeMaria stepped into the lead. They extended during the remaining windward-leeward while Schlonski/Kleen mixed it up with Alan Adler and Guiherme Almeida (BRA), Andrew Campbell and Brad Nichol (USA) and Jojo Polgar and Markus Koy (GER). Schlonski/Kleen edged out Campbell/Nichol on the finish line to take second and third place, respectively.

With today’s eighth place finish, Johannes Babenderede and Timo Jacobs (GER) remain low point in the regatta. Two points back are Adler/Guiherme, who have shown consistency during the first two days of sailing. They followed yesterday’s sixth place finish with a fifth today. Beijing Olympic Gold medallists, Iain Percy and Andrew Bart Simpson are two points behind Adler/de Almedia having dropped from second to third place overall on 13 points. Andrew Campbell and Brad Nichol (USA) moved into fourth place overall by passing boats on the final beat and pulling into third at the finish line.

Out on the ocean, the wind was light and the current was strong enough to push the stern of the race committee boat upwind. The 73 boat fleet got off to a clean start under the black flag. According to Adler who rounded the weather mark first: "We saw a left shift two minutes before the start and moved down the line. We went left too hard. We were so far ahead and lost so much, because we overstood the windward mark." More than half of the fleet overstood the port tack layline to the mark.

Marazzi/DeMaria, Polgar/Koy and Adler/Guilherme went down the run in different lanes, and as they approached the first leeward gate, Marazzi/DeMaria crossed behind the other two leaders. Schlonski/Frithjof Kleen, Percy/Simpson, Campbell/Nichol, Eivind Melleby and Petter Morland Pedersen (NOR) and Gastao Brun and Gustavo Kunze (BRA) were intent on climbing to the front. Said Babandererde, "We overtook boats on the 2nd upwind leg. We did not go left like the others because there was less wind there. We caught Iain Percy on the second run, because he had a problem with the jib. From then on we shortened the distance to the leaders, but there were no gains to be made."

The white caps made random appearances during the final beat and the leading edge of an offshore cloud that had had a defined edge all afternoon finally became ragged.

It was a race to the finish for the top seven boats and Andrew Campbell, who came out of the fray with a third place finish for the day described the top-place American team’s final beat: "We went to the right gate and made a big gain immediately. We split with the four boats ahead of us and caught three of them. We sailed to the right of the group and knew that we had to catch Alan Adler on boat speed."

Of his win Flavio Marazzi said: "We are a lot happier than we were yesterday. Yesterday we wanted too much and our second start was bad. Everyone was very careful during the last start and was holding back. We thought that there would be a sag in the line toward the windward end. We started about 1/3 of the way down the line. There was a little risk, and at the start we were still one boat length behind the line.

"In the middle of the second beat we tacked one more time to the left and went behind JoJo and Alan Adler. We got a bit more pressure and were able to pass them."

On a sad note, Marcoa Lagoa (BRA) was taken to the hospital after a shackle on a lifting bridle failed and the boat fell off of the hoist. Logoa’s toes were injured and the boat was damaged.
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Pos	Skipper	Crew	Nat	R1	R2	Tot
1	Babendererde, Johannes	Jacobs, Timo	GER	1	8	9
2	Adler, Alan	Almeida, Guilherme	BRA	5	6	11
3	Percy, Iain	Simpson, Andrew	GBR	2	11	13
4	Campbell, Andrew	Nichol, Brad	USA	3	12	15
5	Loof, Fredrik	Tillander, Johan	SWE	8	9	17
6	Melleby, Eivind	Morland Pedersen, Petter	NOR	9	10	19
7	Scheidt, Robert	Prada, Bruno	BRA	3	19	22
8	Macdonald, Ross	Lekszycki, Andre	CAN	10	13	23
9	Schlonski, Alexander	Kleen, Frithjof	GER	2	24	26
10	Stanjek, Robert	Stanjek, Philipp	GER	12	14	26
11	Brun, Gastao	Kunze, Gustavo	BRA	7	21	28
12	Polgar, Johannes	Koy, Markus	GER	4	26	30
13	Grael, Torben	Ferreira, Marcelo	BRA	5	25	30
14	Marazzi, Flavio	De Maria, Enrico	SUI	1	30	31
15	Kouyoumdjian, Juan	Colla, Alejandro	ARG	4	30	34
16	Mirsky, Andre	Jordao, Marcelo	BRA	6	33	39
17	Labandeira, Julio	Thompson, Valentin	ARG	15	26	41
18	Negri, Diego	Colaninno, Fernando	ITA	18	23	41
19	Bodra, Fabio Barbosa	Lopes, Arthur	BRA	20	24	44
20	Treacy, Max	Shanks, Anthony	IRL	13	31	44
21	Poggi, Giampiero	Corsi, Manlio	ITA	22	23	45
22	Grael, Lars	Seifert, Ronald	BRA	15	35	50
23	Pascolato, Alessandro	Boening, Henry	BRA	22	28	50
24	Ficker, Peter	Oliveira, Ubiratan	BRA	19	32	51
25	Lovrovic, Marin	Mikulicic, Sinisa	CRO	17	34	51
26	Domingos, Afonso	Melo, Frederico	POR	25	29	54
27	Mendelblatt, Mark	Von Schwarz, John	USA	17	44	61
28	Cunha, Renato	Mascarenhas, Marcos	BRA	27	34	61
29	Celon, Nicola	Natucci, Edoardo	ITA	21	41	62
30	Rigoni, Alejo	Percossi, Juan Pablo	ARG	29	33	62
31	Lovrovic, Dan	Arapovic, Antonio	CRO	27	37	64
32	Papathanasiou, Emilios	Papastefanou, Pachos	GRE	16	49	65
33	King, John A Spear	MacPherson, Norman	BRA	11	56	67
34	Raulino, Guilherme	Lagoa, Marco	BRA	16	51	67
35	Santoni, Silvio	Toccoli, Fabio	ITA	32	43	75
36	Gimson, John	Greig, Ed	GBR	37	41	78
37	Rohart, Xavier	Ponsot, Pierre Alexis	FRA	14	66	80
38	Razmilovic, Ante	Hammersley, Brian	GBR	40	40	80
39	Lima, Gustavo	Nankin, Charles	POR	7	74	81
40	Miller, Matthias	Wenk, Benedikt	GER	20	62	82
41	Cramer, Brian	Johnston, Matt	CAN	31	52	83
42	Fornaro, Andrea	Tarabella, Andrea	ITA	35	48	83
43	Merriman, Rick	Trinter, Phil	USA	36	49	85
44	Hornos, Tomas	Hornos, Luis	USA	39	48	87
45	Della Torre, Daniel	Barroso, Julian Gazari	ARG	28	60	88
46	Echavarri Erasum, Fernando	Rodriguez Rivero, Fernando	ESP	18	74	92
47	Szabo, George	Peters, Rick	USA	39	53	92
48	Gonzaga Neto, Admar	Figueiredo de Freita, Alexandre	BRA	46	47	93
49	Conrad, Reinaldo	Pomerantzeff, Paulo André	BRA	45	50	95
50	Tomasini Grinover, Roberto	Bahr, Gunnar	AUT	44	55	99
51	Gimeno, Pablo	Calegari, Frederico	CHI	38	65	103
52	Carabelli, Horacio	Ilha, Fernando	BRA	46	57	103
53	Rauch, Hubert	Schappeler, Ingo	GER	51	52	103
54	Simeone, Luca	La Porta, Manuele	ITA	42	62	104
55	Della Torre, Gerardo	Latour, Guillermo	ARG	38	67	105
56	Perez, Jorge Oscar	Tufarolo, Marcelo	ARG	54	55	109
57	Bonanni, Claude	Burgess, Richard	USA	36	74	110
58	Raulino, Gabriel	Camargo Rosas, Juliano	BRA	54	59	113
59	Bueno, Mauricio	Zarif, Jorge Joao	BRA	45	69	114
60	Erac, Branislav	Tosic, Ozren	SRB	47	67	114
61	Augelli, Marco	Rocca, Leone	ITA	42	74	116
62	Goretkin, Sergio	Cruz, Renato	BRA	50	66	116
63	Zimmermann, Lorenz	Hollweg, Nils	SUI	56	60	116
64	Boggi, Lucio	Lambertenghi, Sergio	ITA	43	74	117
65	de Barros, Patrick M.	Plantier Santos, Bernardo	POR	57	63	120
66	Castro, Cezar	Montezuma, Afonso	BRA	53	68	121
67	Almeida Reis, Luiz André	Moura, Renato	BRA	58	64	122
68	de Almeida, Joao Marcos	Bunge, Manuel	BRA	61	63	124
69	Irrera, Renato	Cristaldini, Corrado	ITA	58	68	126
70	Caruso, Bruno Manzoli	Bremer, Rolf	BRA	59	71	130
71	Gautschi, Christoph	Koenig, Juerg	SUI	61	70	131
72	Graciotti, Vincenzo	Cisbani, Paolo	ITA	64	74	138
73	Siemsen, Francisco	Floricke, Manfredo	BRA	65	74	139