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After a deserved layday, 3 heats were raced on Friday. Races 7 and 8, followed by race 6 that wasn’t raced on Wednesday due to the lack of wind.

The currents were so strong in the bay that most of the sailors were over the line for the first race and 3 starts had to be given. They raced in a wind of force 3, going up to force 5, in a 1.50 m swell and a crossed sea. Once again there were a few breakages.

For race seven, the three Australians dominated and took the top three places: Rohan VEAL, followed by the World Champion Mark THORPE and Les THORPE. They were just infront of Ian FORDSIKE, third in the overall results (before today’s races). The first Japanese, Tsutomu TANAKA, is seventh out of the 32 that raced yesterday.

Only 30 raced for heat eight, and it was the same people in a different order on the finish line : Mark THORPE, Rohan VEAL and Les THORPE, just before Yasuhiro WATANABE, fourth on the finish line.

And finally, for race six, there were 26 people on the starting line following a series of breakages. More and more wind, less and less people! Same first 4 as for race 8. Patrick RUF was fifth, Sven KLOPPENBURG sixth and the first girl, Liz PUDNEY, finished in 13 place.

Full results are available on the event website at the address below.