It was a day of snakes and ladders on Wednesday at the Finn Silver Cup
at Malcesine, Italy. Racing started early again with the same solid
north wind,
but the difference was that light rain greeted the sailors. Temperatures
remained warm so nobody was complaining. The first race started with 15 knots of
wind and the usual pin end favoured line and the race to the
cliffs on the left was popular. So popular that several boats started
early and three boats were scored as OCS, while one other disqualified
for
touching the pin mark. Martin Robitaille (CAN) and Peter McCoy (GBR)
had the best starts and were first to the cliffs and first at mark 1.
They
sailed well to hold their positions and take first and second
respectively, ahead of regatta leader Jorge Zarif (BRA). Race 2 began much the usual way, but had a
few twists and turns for the fleet than previously. After
starting in 10 to 12 knots the wind died gradually on the first run and
on the second beat temporarily stopped on the far left, before filling
in
again from the north. This was the first time the right side of the
course paid all week, but the sailors that returned left further up the
course
gained the most. Zarif and Jakub Marciniak (POL) mastered the conditions
best and moved through the fleet to finish first and second, with
Robitaille
in third.
Race 3 was the most difficult of all. The
wind had dropped to under 5 knots for the start and a big
left windshift made starting on starboard difficult. The boats that
started at the committee boat had much more wind and took a big
advantage
immediately. This group of 12 boats managed to stay in pressure for the
first beat and eventually the pressure returned evenly over the race
course.
From this group Zarif, Ondrey Teply (CZE) and Arkadiy Kistanov (RUS),
emerged to finish top three.
With a 3, 1, 1 Jorge Zarif has taken a
solid 13 point lead with three races left in the championship.
Martin Robitaille moved into second following a 1, 3, 5. He sits five
points ahead of Jake Lilley (AUS) in third who scored a 6, 7, 7 today.
Two races are scheduled Thursday morning at 8am.
Results after eight races
| 1 | BRA 109 | Zarif Jorge | 11,0 | 1 | (4) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | CAN 110 | Robitaille Martin | 24,0 | (7) | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | AUS 41 | Lilley Jake | 29,0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | (dsq) | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| 4 | RUS 6 | Kistanov Arkadiy | 32,0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | (10) | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| 5 | GBR 29 | McCoy Peter, | 34,0 | 5 | 5 | (10) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
| 6 | NOR 1 | Pedersen Anders | 38,0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | (18) | 13 |
| 7 | POL 7 | Marciniak Jakub | 49,0 | (18) | 6 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | ITA 213 | De Luca Umberto | 51,0 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | (ocs) | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | GER 595 | Gorgels Simon | 69,0 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 11 | (24) |
| 10 | ITA 214 | Bevilacqua Riccardo | 69,0 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 6 | (20) |
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