Star World Championship at Coral Reef Yacht Club - Day 3
by Star Worlds 2016 13 Apr 2016 07:57 BST
7-17 April 2016
At 10.15am the Race Committee got teams off on race day 3 at the Star Worlds 2016 to complete the third race of the schedule. Plenty of sunshine and very light conditions.
Race three got underway after a postponement due to light winds around 4- and 6 knots at depending in which place of the course you were measuring it.
The Race Committee waited for the wind to establish and 12.35 pm the first Warning Signal was shot with a Course 3 (five legs) at 2 miles a leg, 5 knots of wind speed and a pretty flat water with a beautiful blue sky.
They had to go through three attempts before having a clear start: The first was postponed to adjust the starting line se they avoided a general recall. The second one, The RC was forced to order a general recall when the majority of the fleet was over at the pin before the gun. And finally the third one was completely clear.
With each day the competition the Star fleet grew more intense. Torben Grael had a great start but it was not enough to reach the top: He went to the left with some of the top sailors that were expecting for a lefty but the middle-right side of the course was finally favor and those ones that went to left couldn't cross the fleet despite to a wonderful start.
Augie Diaz and Bruno Prada got the first mark in second place behind Brian Ledbetter who was leading the fleet. Diego Negri also was very close at the third place.
On the downwind leg, engaged in a one-on-one battle for the best position, Augie gain the advantage of a good speed being the first boat to round the downwind mark.
Diego Negri, who was coming behind Augie also took the opportunity of this battle and got second place maintaining almost all the race when at the end Brian Ledbetter stole his position and Negri finished at 4th place behind Robert Cullen who made a great recovery along the race.
After the first downwind, Augie took the controlling position over the fleet rounding all the marks first positioning solidly in the top in today's race and now he leads the table for 6 points forward of Diego Negri.
Tomorrow the teams will have a Lay Day where they will enjoy a Sailor's BBQ at the historic Stiltsville - a group of wood stilt houses located one mile south of Cape Florida on sand banks on the edge of Biscayne Bay. Thus event is sponsored by Boston Beer and Coral Reef Yacht Club.
Results after Day 3: (top ten, 3 races)
1-Augie Diaz / Bruno Prada
2-Diego Negri / Sergio Lambertenghi
3-Andrew Macdonald / Brad Nichol
4-Lars Schmidt Grael / Samuel Goncalves
5-Brian Ledbetter / Joshua Revkin
6-George Szabo / Steve Mitchell
7-Luke Lawrence / Ian Coleman
8-Peter Vessella / Phil Trinter
9-Eric Doyle / Payson Infelise
10-Tom Londrigan Jr / TC Belco
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