It sucks to see so much broken gear in one day heck one freaking race!
Take a look at silver fleet... Uli is posting very respectable numbers! It looks like wind and waves might be Uli and Seabass's thing!
Steve and Juke are also rocking the silver fleet.
Right on! You know those two are having a freaking ball! All those 300's make you strong! 🙂
I was looking at the results earlier, but they aren't sorted in a way that makes sense, not sure if that's because they were still entering data? But, I did see a DNF and some DNCs for Mike and others. I was hoping there was better news coming...
Knowing nothing about the incident(s), all we can do as fans is hope for redress, but even if they get it, it will be hard to maintain, let alone improve, overall position in the regatta.
Big time bummer for those guys...
Mike
good lord.
Really bummed to be out of the running for a top result but we are very happy with our event and it is what it is. The intensity in gold fleet today was insane... racing was super tight and aggressive. Paired with the conditions of 18-23 (some reports of 25 but I'm not sure I believe that) it was really easy to make mistake and break something. We had 2 crappy starts and I thought for sure we could lean on our upwind speed (which was fast against all the boats around us). But in these conditions all the Euros are fast! I considered myself lucky to make it out of the windward roundings alive as 3/4 of the fleet arrived at nearly the same time with lots of boats coming in on port within the zone.
Mitch Booth broke both daggerboards in race 1.
Taylor did break a pole but was second around the windward mark and still finished 21st in race 3.
I love suicide port approaches at weekend regattas, but with a fleet of 30 or more boats, especially if they're good, nothing good happens in the middle third of the fleet. Unless you're the jury looking for hearings for your resume, or own a fiberglass repair shop...
Mike
Lots of wind yesterday and short steep waves, we broke our mainsheet shackle so didn't finish the 2nd race.
There was quite a lot of damage on the course, mainly broken spin poles though.
Although this Wildcat had it a bit worse:
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Reiss/Whitehead got a bullet in the first race on Saturday! Doing very well in the next race
Sweet! Uli/Seabass got a 3 in the first silver fleet race.
Reiss-Whitehead 4 in second race of the day. Looks like there will be at least one more today. Lots of wind today but flatter sea state
I understand that this is an international site, but I have a question for US sailors.
Was this the best showing for US sailors at a F18 Worlds? 4 boats in the Top 50, 2 boats in the Top 20 and 1 boat in the Top 5 - not including Easton/Burd who had equipment failure, but were looking like Top 10/15. Is the US F18 sailor talent the deepest it has ever been?
What were the best finishes for Team USA at the H16 Worlds or Tornado Worlds (historically)? I know there have been some good finishes, but don't know specifics.
Was this the best showing for US sailors at a F18 Worlds? 4 boats in the Top 50, 2 boats in the Top 20 and 1 boat in the Top 5 - not including Easton/Burd who had equipment failure, but were looking like Top 10/15. Is the US F18 sailor talent the deepest it has ever been?
What were the best finishes for Team USA at the H16 Worlds or Tornado Worlds (historically)? I know there have been some good finishes, but don't know specifics.
Tom, the short answer, yes. Excluding the 2012 F18 Worlds in Long Beach, CA this was the deepest and best showing of US F18 teams. The F18 fleet has come a very long way in the last 10 years.
So if you're getting beat by an F18 in a handicap race it's probably not the F18 number that's beating you, right Mr. Hart?
Here the three videos which sum up the event:
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