Defending Champions Take Lead

Yesterday saw day one of racing at the J/22 World Championships and with a tenth in race 1, to be followed by a bullet in each of races 2 and 3 it is the South African team of Ian Ainslie, Greg Davis and Charles Nankin who have taken an early lead.

The opening races of the series saw a steady 5-10 knot wind which increased to 10-15, with sixty boats on the start line.

Ian Ainslie is the defending World Champion and will be pleased with this clear indicator after three races.

Whilst ISAF does not have a complete report, the preliminary results after three races are as follows. A total of nine races are scheduled to complete the series, with racing continuing until 12 October.

Provisional Results
Position – Crew – R1 – R2 – R3 – Total
1. Ian Ainslie, Greg Davis & Charles Nankin (RSA) – 1, 1, 10,12
2. Eric Faust, John Greening & Bonner Cordelle (USA) – 2, 6, 5 – 13
3. Bill Drahiem, Scott Self & Jim Bookhout (USA) – 3, 14, 4 – 21
4. Terry Flynn, Randy Borges & Paul Grenauer (USA) – 9, 2, 12 – 23
5. Scott Nixon, David Van Cleef & Ted Kaczmarski (USA) – 19, 3, 3 – 25
6. Rob Johnston, Stephen Andre & John Skiles (USA) – 8, 12, 9 – 29
7. Ray Wulff, Joe Gibson, Jenn Wulff & Jason Currie (USA) – 15, 8, 7 – 30
8. Scott Young, John Bartlett & Gregg Plunkett (USA) – 17, 16, 1 -34
9. Greg Fisher, Jeff Elber, Jo Ann Jones & Kaven Elber (USA) – 6, 9, 21 – 36
10. Marvin Beckmann, Chris Klein & Scott Cheaey (USA) – 12, 5, 20ZFP – 37