Race Day 2 - RS Feva Worlds

As 102 excited sailors arrived at Clearwater Community Sailing Centre there was a buzz in the air due to the breezy conditions. With a good 15 knots blowing through the boat park the sailors were all very keen to hit the race course. Once the sailors and coaches had received the dinghy brief (with the usual content around kill chords) all the sailors were pumped to get on the water.

After a short delay, the sailors were released from the beach. The Race Committee had selected race area ‘A’, which meant a long sail/tow to get out into the Gulf of Mexico. The sailors arrived at the race area in light winds as the morning’s initial breezy conditions faded away.  

Race 4 (1st of the day) started in light, tricky conditions but GBR7064 (Tom Story and Rupert Jameson) had a very little issue in leading the fleet to the windward mark with a significate lead and then on to the finish. CZE6965 Jakub & Veronika were 2nd with the Canadian team CAN7036, making a surprise appearance in the top 10 with a 3rd. After the disappointment of day 1, Tom & Rupert had made a clear statement to the fleet that they were still in the hunt for the world title.

As the wind began to build during race 5 USA6851, Dieter & Conrad got back on form with another outstanding bullet, this result will leave them first overall with GBR7064 in 2nd and 3rd was GBR7063, Ben & Abi. 

Race 6 & 7 were raced in slightly more breeze as the Gulf of Mexico came to life to provide champagne conditions. 12-15 knots with the slow rolling waves made for perfect racing conditions, GBR7063-Ben & Abi completely embraced the fresh conditions with 2 bullets. In race 6, GBR6985 William & Becky Caiger sailed very well to finish 2nd, just in front of GBR7064 Tom & Rupert. In the last race of the day (race 7) USA6851 Dieter & Conrad, returned to the front of the fleet with a second closely following by GBR7064 Tom & Rupert.

As the boats reached back to the beach, many of sailors were guided home by the dolphins that came out to play. Clearwater and the race team had delivered another spectacular day of racing.

Watch the day 2 video here!

Overall results at the end of day 2 
1st – USA6851 Dieter Creitz & Conrad Miller 
2nd – GBR7063 Ben Hutton-Penman & Abi Jayasekara       
3rd – GBR7064 Tom Storey & Rupert Jameson                    
4th – GBR6985 William Caiger & Becky Caiger         
5th – CZE6965 Jakub Dobry & Veronika Cibulkova     

Full results come be found here.