505 European Championships at Sopot, Poland - Day 2
by 505 Class Association 30 Aug 2007 07:31 BST
28 August - 1 September 2007
Change in conditions brings change at the top
Wednesday saw lighter conditions than Tuesday at around 13 knots and in some nice sunshine, three races were sailed.
Winners of race one Ian Pinnell & Carl Gibbon, had a disastrous day by their standards, and have dropped out of the running for now, leaving it to the Danish crew of Jorgen and Jacob Bojsen-Moller and the two German crews of Wolfgang Hunger/Holger Jess and Boris Herrmann/Julien Kleiner to battle for the lead.
The Bojsen-Moller's experience paid off as they posted 1st, 6th and 2nd on the day to take the overall lead, this was a couple of points better than Hunger/Jess with 6th, 1st and 4th, but, by a point, the day belonged to Herrmann/Kleiner with 4th, 3rd and 1st. This was good enough to lift them into third place overall, just two points behind the leaders.
Everything to play for going into day 3, with two races scheduled.
Results after Day 2:
1 DEN-8923 Jorgen Bojsen-M. Jacob Bojsen-M. 3, 1, 6, 2, 12pts
2 GER-8940 Wolfgang Hunger Holger Jess 2, 6, 1, 4, 13pts
3 GER-8915 Boris Herrmann Julien Kleiner 6, 4, 3, 1, 14pts
4 DEN-8620 Jan Saugman Morten Ramsbak 7, 7, 2, 3, 19pts
5 GER-8728 Meike Schomaker Rainer Gorge 12, 3, 4, 6, 25pts
6 GER-8862 Stefan Bohm Gerald Roos 5, 18, 5, 7, 35pts
7 AUS-8920 Michael Quirk Pete Holden 14, 2, 15, 5, 36pts
8 GER-8806 Lutz Stengel Daniel Wehden 9, 10, 12, 10, 41pts
9 GBR-8882 Ian Pinnell Carl Gibbon 1, 19, 11, 12, 43pts
10 GBR-8908 Jim Hunt Norman Byrd 15, 11, 9, 8, 43pts
Other GBR
17 GBR-8935 Russell Short Andrew Short 18, 8, 24, 22, 72pts
20 GBR-8835 Charlie Walters Dougal Cram DNF 5, 10, 18, 87pts
36 GBR-8925 Martin Wedge Scott Allen DNF 35, 33, 26, 148pts
42 GBR-8907 Jim Berry David Barnes DNF 45, 39, 39, 177pts