Brits on top

Leader Mark Bulkeley reports on the Tornado Worlds in Palma

The boat park and the Jury Room were busy last night at the Tornado Worlds in Palma. While competitors were repairing their boats, the Jury had seven protests to hear and of these four were dismissed and one was considered invalid.

“The sailors do not seem to understand the requirement to fly the red flag when protesting and that’s why some protests were not heard”, explained International Jury Chairman Pat Healy.

Day 2 of the Tornado Worlds started with shifty conditions on the water and the boats had to wait for more than an hour before the wind direction was stable enough to start racing. From the Southeast to east the wind was blowing at 14 knots and gusty.

The Dutch team Mitch Booth/Herbert Dercksen had a very good day with a second and a first. The UK's Leigh McMillan and Mark Bulkeley put in two thirds and have taken over the leader from Charlie Ogletree and John Lovell. “The races today weren’t easy. Really shifty and we tacked and jibed at least 10 to 12 times on each leg”, commented Booth.

“In such conditions one little mistake cost us 20 positions in 200 meters and it was difficult to recover them. The first race was easier than the second”, added German Roland Gaebler who finished fourth in race three and 27th in race four.

French Youth team Gabart/Romain had another excellent result, coming fifth in race three. “We feel very motivated to be sailing among the best sailors in the world," said Gabart.



Above: Roman Hagarah

Mark Bulkeley GBR Tornado sailor and leaders at the Worlds gives his perspective on today's racing: "The pin end was heavily favoured on race one and many boats chose to tack onto port and find a gap, boats that could immedietely got out into the wind and the favoured tack. Santiago Lange was one of these and he led the fleet from start to finish. We rounded the top mark 15th and sailed a very sensible race in the shifty conditions to chip away each leg and finally finish third taking a few boats down the last run. The pressure was filtering in from the left and big gains were made playing that side of the course. Darren Bundock was a casualty of the conditions and scored a 32nd. Other results of note included a fourth for Roland Gaebler. Day one leaders Lovell and Ogletree were in the top 5 but a costly error on the last run saw them lose places as they ran out of wind.

"Race 2 started shortly after the end of race 1, much to the surprise of the fleet. The wind was shifting through 45 degrees and up and down in strength, however the race started and again the pin was favoured. Mitch Booth won the pin and along with Bundock we had a great start from the pin too. We sailed most of the way to the left before tacking in one of the new bands. Roman Hagara managed to get across from the middle and would lead the fleet for most of the race. We rounded the top mark 6th and again set about chipping away at the fleet. The race turned into a bit of a one way track after this and it was downwind where we moved up to fourth and then third, passing the Greeks on the final run to the finish.

"Mitch Booth and Herbert Dercksen won the race on the final run to add to their second in the first race. Bundock and Forbes had a better race finsihing 5th. There were some casualties of the conditions, and these included Lovell and Ogletree who were nearly last at the first mark but battled to score a 16th."

The weather forecast for the two races scheduled for tomorrow is 15 knots from the east.

Results

Pos	Sail no	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot
1	GBR 420	Leigh McMillan/Mark Bulkeley	12	4	3	3	22
2	ARG 1	Santiago Lange/Carlos Espinola	1	8	1	14	24
3	USA 808	John Lovell/Charlie Ogletree	5	1	8	16	30
4	AUT 380	Roman Hagara/Hans Peter Steinacher	13	5	10	2	30
5	FRA 279	Xavier Revil/Laurent Guillemette	10	9	6	13	38
6	ESP 1	Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz	9	6	13	12	40
7	FRA 28	Yann Guichard/Christophe Espagnon	4	11	9	19	43
8	FRA 295	Olivier Backes/Laurent Voiron	22	3	11	11	47
9	POR 1	Diego Cayolla/Nuno Barretto	RDG	RDG	16	8	48
10	AUS 967	Darren Bundock/John Forbes	8	7	30	5	50
11	NED 1	Mitch Booth/Herbert Dercksen	20	32	2	1	55
12	RUS 97	Andrey Kirilyuk/Valery Ushkov	29	14	7	9	59
13	FRA 293	François Gabart/David Romain	2	25	5	28	60
14	GER 1087	Johannes Polgar/Carsten Happel	23	12	18	7	60
15	POR 2	Hugo Rocha/Luis Beito	14	13	34	6	67
16	CAN 369	Oskar Johansson/John Curtis	3	19	29	18	69
17	SWE 199	Martin Strandberg/Kristian Mattsson	32	16	14	10	72
18	SWE 201	Hans Wallen/Christoffer Rappe	18	21	17	20	76
19	SLO 1	Dusan Puh/Alan Biderman	31	2	12	35	80
20	GRE 1	Dimitris Theodorakis/Andonis Bougiouris	19	18	41	4	82
21	NZL 87	Aaron McIntosh/Mark/Kennedy	17	20	24	25	86
22	PUR 1	Enrique Figueroa/Jorge Hernandez	7	17	40	24	88
23	FRA 282	Matthieu Souben/Gurvan Bontemps	21	10	21	36	88
24	ESP 121	Jose Mª Ponce/Ramon Illan	11	39	20	21	91
25	NED 162	Sven Karsenbarg/Mischa Heemskerk	38	15	23	26	102
26	BRA 37	Mauricio Santa Cruz/Henrique Pelicano	35	26	28	15	104
27	ESP 7	Francisco Sanchez Ferrer/Juan Manuel Barrionuevo	24	36	19	29	108
28	RUS 007	Sergey Dzienbaev/Oleg Ryazantsev	15	RDG	36	31	109,3
29	GER 1090	Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann	48	34	4	27	113
30	ESP 23	Toni Rivas/Fabian Escude	6	33	47	37	123
31	ESP 2004	Enrique Garcia de Soto Lastra/Fernando Sales	26	30	25	43	124
32	ESP 11	Manuel Calavia/Carlos Varea	37	22	22	46	127
33	DEN 1	Peder Ronholt/Soren Schmidt Jorgensen	33	29	32	34	128
34	FRA 276	Baptiste Balzeau/Gaël Ledoux	42	35	15	42	134
35	ITA 5	Vincenzo Sorrentino/Giorgio Colombo	30	28	46	30	134
36	UKR 21	Stanislav Golimbiyevskyy/Oleksandr Meninkov	39	41	26	33	139
37	CAN 1	Eric Holden/Mark Coakley	34	31	37	47	149
38	ITA 257	Francesco Marcolini/Edoardo Bianchi	27	27	OCS	39	156
39	RUS 27	Alexey Chekrygin/Sergey Bogatkin	OCS	44	33	17	157
40	RUS 77	Konstantin Emelyanov/Alexander Yanin	43	37	39	38	157
41	FRA 286	François Morvan/Matthieu Vandame	OCS	23	35	40	161
42	FRA 278	Guillaume Coyon/Lucas Millieret	25	38	49	49	161
43	SUI 227	Martin Rusterholz/Michiel Fehr	36	43	45	41	165
44	FRA 281	Besson/Arnaud Jarlegan	OCS	24	OCS	22	172
45	FRA 260	Moana Vaireaux/Romain Petit	28	42	51	51	172
46	CZE 52	Zdenek Pavlis/Jri Pavlis	47	53	43	32	175
47	HUN 1	Arpad Litkey/Peter Szaniszlo	49	49	27	53	178
48	AUT 381	Thomas Zajac/Thomas Czajka	16	DNC	38	DNC	180
49	BRA 52	Luiz Eduardo Adler Pimentel Duarte/Gualberto Naldi	41	47	42	50	180
50	GBR 415	Leo Farrow/Tristan Lamb	40	46	50	45	181
51	GRE 11	Constantinos Gkiris/Andreas Tsamitas	45	52	DNF	23	183
52	GBR 404	Jonathan Hutchcroft/Marcus Lynch	51	40	48	52	191
53	GBR 402	Andrew Walsh/Ed Barney	46	48	44	54	192
54	GRE 7	Iordanis Paschalides/Christos Garefis	DNF	DNF	31	44	201
55	ITA 7	Giuseppe Angilella/Giovanni Barraja	50	51	52	55	208
56	BRA 51	Jose Roberto de Jesus/Fernando Jacobina	52	45	55	57	209
57	ESP 5	Bernardo Benítez/Miguel Quintana	44	50	DNC	DNC	220
58	GER 1024	Günter Mörtl/Walter Kerf	56	55	54	56	221
59	BRA 43	Alex Leal/Thiago K Leal	55	DSQ	57	48	223
60	ESP 277	Pablo de Villar Farrés/Nicolás de Virgiliis	53	DNF	53	58	227
61	GBR 398	John Bernard Ready/Angus Roberts	54	54	DNC	DNC	234
62	ESP 3	Oriol Bou Bohé/Eduardo Olmos	DNC	56	56	DNC	238