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Samba Pa Ti into the lead

John Kilroy and Paul Goodison sneak ahead at the Melges 32 World Championship

Friday September 28th 2012, Author: Joy Dunigan, Location: United States

An additional three races were completed today at the 2012 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by the New York Yacht Club.

John Kilroy on Samba Pa Ti, with tactician Paul Goodison delivered a 1-2-8 punch to take the lead, five points ahead of Alec Cutler on Hedgehog with Richard Clarke on tactics in second. Steve Howe's Warpath with tactician Morgan Larson is currently seated third.

Kilroy's stance on day four of Worlds was focused and strong. He blasted off the line in race one and two (races seven and eight in the series of ten) extending on the first beat. In race one, he maintained a lead of more than a minute and a half at the finish line. In the second race of the day, he trailed game winner Pieter Taselaar on Bliksem by a few moments. An eighth place finish in race nine secured an overnight lead of the World Championship.

Race three proved to be challenging for every player, with the exception of Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalzone Latino with Nathan Wilmot as tactician as he too was able to get out front in the shifty breeze and rain maintaining position for the win. Benjamin Schwartz's Pisces came on strong to take second. Roberto Tomassini Grinover on Robertissima was third.

Saturday marks the final day of competition. One race remains with a start at 11.00.

Full results below

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Full results:

 

Pos Sail no Yacht Skipper R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Dis Net
1 USA 13131 Samba Pa Ti John Kilroy 20 8 1 12 1 1 1 2 8 [20] 34
2 BER 1 Hedgehog Alec Cutler 5 7 2 4 7 6 4 4 11 [11] 39
3 USA 32917 Warpath Stephen Howe 2 15 4 7 8 3 8 3 12 [15] 47
4 USA 230 Pisces Benjamin Schwartz 4 1 19 2 4 13 11 14 2 [19] 51
5 USA 169 Bliksem Pieter Taselaar 7 16 6 11 5 11 7 1 9 [16] 57
6 ITA 2121 Mascalzone Latino Vincenzo Onorato 12 2 13 19 19 7 6 5 1 [19] 65
7 USA 2 Goombay Smash William Douglass 3 3 12 29 9 9 3 21 7 [29] 67
8 ITA 229 Bombarda Andrea Pozzi 1 6 9 3 2 26 21 6 30 [30] 74
9 SUI 1 Robertissima 1 Roberto Tomasini Grinover 6 21 5 20 3 14 16 9 3 [21] 76
10 USA 136 Rougarou Andy Lovell Burt Benrud 14 5 16 13 6 4 30 15 16 [30] 89
11 ITA 487 Torpyone Edoardo Lupi 8 4 3 6 22 22 22 19 6 [22] 90
12 USA 180 Volpe Ryan DeVos 13 9 10 24 21 12 2 22 17 [24] 106
13 USA 128 Argo Jason Carroll 9 27 14 31 13 2 14 13 14 [31] 106
14 ITA 212 Fantastica Lanfranco Cirillo 11 14 7 26 16 15 23 24 5 [26] 115
15 USA 174 Leenabarca Alex Jackson 28 24 11 9 30 10 10 12 15 [30] 119
16 JPN 199 Mamma Aiuto Naofumi Kamei 16 10 22 14 10 24 19 8 31 [31] 123
17 IVB 007 INTAC Mark Plaxton 23 11 8 25 18 20 26 10 13 [26] 128
18 USA 184 Bronco Michael Dominguez 18 23 23 21 12 17 18 16 4 [23] 129
19 USA 1215 Delta Dalton DeVos 26 18 15 18 11 23 9 30 10 [30] 130
20 USA 157 Mojo Steve Rhyne 19 12 27 16 17 8 15 23 22 [27] 132
21 JPN 233 Swing Keisuke Suzuki 15 13 34/DNF 1 23 25 17 20 19 [34] 133
22 JPN 218 Esmeralda Makoto Uematsu 21 28 17 10 14 19 27 11 26 [28] 145
23 SWE 321 Inga From Sweden Richard Goransson 32 19 34/OCS 22 15 29 5 7 29 [34] 158
24 USA 134 Catapult Joel Ronning 10 17 29 30 29 5 20 27 21 [30] 158
25 USA 211 Arethusa Philip Lotz 25 25 18 5 26 18 25 28 23 [28] 165
26 JPN 203 Yasha Samurai Yukihiro Ishida 24 22 24 27 20 16 33 17 27 [33] 177
27 USA 201 Groovederci Deneen Demourkas 17 29 25 17 24 21 32 26 18 [32] 177
28 JPN 5095 SLED Takashi Okura 34/DNF 34/DNC 20 8 32 31 12 31 20 [34] 188
29 USA 208 Celeritas Malcolm Gefter 22 26 30 23 27 33 24 18 24 [33] 194
30 USA 162 Zetiana Alexis Michas 27 31 21 15 31 32 28 25 32 [32] 210
31 USA 126 Flat Stanley T. Sheehan / T. McSweeney 30 34/DNF 28 32 25 28 13 29 28 [34] 213
32 USA 1315 Ninkasi John Taylor 31 20 26 33 28 27 29 32 33 [33] 226
33 JPN 210 Quetefeek Daisuke Kimura 29 30 31 28 33 30 31 33 25 [33] 237

 

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