Race
1 had the better breeze, though the fleet waited afloat for nearly an
hour before getting away. The new U23 European Champion, Nils Theuninck
took the win from Muscat and USA’s Luke Muller.
Muscat and Muller were also looking good in Race 2, leading at the top
mark from Scott. However the wind all but disappeared downwind and a
massive shift to the right up the second beat reshuffled everything.
Olezza emerged to take the win from Antoine Devineau, from France, with
Scott holding on to third.
Muscat dropped to fifth, but holds the overnight lead while Muller paid the price of being on the wrong side of the shift to drop to 14 and ends the day in sixth overall.
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Scott summarised his day, “I suppose it
was all right, but I’m glad we managed to get in two races to get back
in time for a late lunch. It was flicking right and then coming half way
back so it was a bit unstable. Tricky racing.”
In the second race, “There was a lot of pin end bias, and the fleet was quite back from the line, so it was quite hard to get away on starboard. The boats that managed to get out from the pin on port early managed to do really well and those that couldn’t really struggled.”
At one point it got so light that, “I was a little bit worried that it would completely shut down and we’d have to try again. It was all right for what it was. When it’s light like that and you are racing in 72-boat fleet you have got to expect that. Obviously I am completely biased as I ended up third. And I think with Palma, racing in that light stuff is always part of the racing. I don’t think I have been to Palma once when we haven’t had racing like that.”
The current Olympic champion is preparing for the upcoming Hempel Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, but had to skip the recent European Championships because of his commitments with Land Rover BAR.
“The conditions there looked great and it looked like a great regatta. But it was never in my programme to go. I am having to be a little bit selective of the regattas I do just because of my other commitments. After Palma I hope to do Hyeres and Marseille and then Aarhus, and probably out to Japan after that.”
On the training in Japan so far. “I haven’t been out since last year when we did one trip in October, which was good, but the tricky thing with Japan is that it’s quite a seasonal venue, so to get Games conditions is quite tricky with the European circuit going on and that’s taking a little bit of management. We don’t just want to go and learn to sail in a completely different venue. We’ll make sure we go out each year, but it will be more normal than the training for Rio.”
Racing in Palma continues at 11.00 on Tuesday
Results after two races
1 ESP 7 Alejandro Muscat 7
2 GBR 41 Giles Scott 9
3 ARG 48 Facundo Olezza 13
4 SUI 1 Nils Theuninck 13
5 FIN 218 Tapio Nirkko 16
6 USA 91 Luke Muller 17
7 ITA 59 Alessio Spadoni 17
8 BRA 109 Jorge Zarif 19
9 USA 6 Caleb Paine 21
10 NOR 1 Anders Pedersen 23
In the second race, “There was a lot of pin end bias, and the fleet was quite back from the line, so it was quite hard to get away on starboard. The boats that managed to get out from the pin on port early managed to do really well and those that couldn’t really struggled.”
At one point it got so light that, “I was a little bit worried that it would completely shut down and we’d have to try again. It was all right for what it was. When it’s light like that and you are racing in 72-boat fleet you have got to expect that. Obviously I am completely biased as I ended up third. And I think with Palma, racing in that light stuff is always part of the racing. I don’t think I have been to Palma once when we haven’t had racing like that.”
The current Olympic champion is preparing for the upcoming Hempel Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, but had to skip the recent European Championships because of his commitments with Land Rover BAR.
“The conditions there looked great and it looked like a great regatta. But it was never in my programme to go. I am having to be a little bit selective of the regattas I do just because of my other commitments. After Palma I hope to do Hyeres and Marseille and then Aarhus, and probably out to Japan after that.”
On the training in Japan so far. “I haven’t been out since last year when we did one trip in October, which was good, but the tricky thing with Japan is that it’s quite a seasonal venue, so to get Games conditions is quite tricky with the European circuit going on and that’s taking a little bit of management. We don’t just want to go and learn to sail in a completely different venue. We’ll make sure we go out each year, but it will be more normal than the training for Rio.”
Racing in Palma continues at 11.00 on Tuesday
Results after two races
1 ESP 7 Alejandro Muscat 7
2 GBR 41 Giles Scott 9
3 ARG 48 Facundo Olezza 13
4 SUI 1 Nils Theuninck 13
5 FIN 218 Tapio Nirkko 16
6 USA 91 Luke Muller 17
7 ITA 59 Alessio Spadoni 17
8 BRA 109 Jorge Zarif 19
9 USA 6 Caleb Paine 21
10 NOR 1 Anders Pedersen 23
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