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Auckland, NZ
February 28, 2008

Today the sun shone, we got to discard the 53 points that were dragging us down from the race we didn’t finish on Tuesday, and we placed third in the first race of the day. With a 16th in the second race today at the 2008 International Tornado World Championship, we pulled all the way back from 22nd overall place to tenth.

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Photo: Richard Gladwell www.sail-world.com

With high pressure centered over Auckland, prospects for good wind didn’t look too favourable but it was a lovely summer day and the sea was flat. By the time we started the first race the northeasterly sea breeze had filled in at around 6-8 knots and then increased to a very steady 10-12 knots for the second race of the day. 

We got a great start in the first race at the pin end along with Francesco Marcolini from Italy, Roman Hagara from Austria and Bruce Kendall from New Zealand. Roman led around the first windward mark of the three-lap course while we were fourth. The second time around we’d moved up to third while Francesco had taken over the lead from Roman. Our little lead group pulled clear of the rest of the pack, fighting for dominance all the while but we finished in the same order.

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Roman Hagara - - Photo: Will Calver ©2008 www.oceanphotography.co.nz
Our second start wasn’t so hot but we salvaged a good finish from possible disaster. As the seconds ticked down to the gun we were stuck in a group that looked like starting early. We took our foot off the gas and were slow getting off the line but we didn’t have to worry about the recall signals. At the first windward mark we were 20th. We improved that to 19th the next time around and 16th at the finish. In all, seven boats were called over early, including some of those around us.

With two days and four races remaining we are facing some serious work ahead to move up in the standings. But we feel good about our boat speed and tactics this week. Without Tuesday’s breakdown to load up our overall score, our points compare favourably with the top boats in contention here.

It seems we’ll have some fresh conditions to wrap this up. The weather calls for 10 to 15 knot northeasterlies tomorrow and 20 to 25-knot northerlies on Saturday. 

Our host club for this event is the Takapuna Boating Club. You can download full results at Takapuna Tornado Worlds. We want to acknowledge all the support from our sponsor, Advanced Equities.

Sail fast,

Johnny Lovell & Charlie Ogletree - Team Advanced Equities I

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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