1st race Thursday:
Pretty clean start, a couple over-early's, but don't know who they are yet.

Wind is 10-12 knots, not much chop, not much kelp today. Great sailing conditions.

Here are the positions the second time around the weather mark:

1. Ashby
2. Guck
3. Hoekstra
4. Scotty Anderson
5. Bieke
6. Philpott
7. Dubois
8. Drummond
9. Callabria
10. Daniel
11. Cope
12. Booth
13. Melvin
14. Ogletree

OKAY, finish positions for the first race on Thursday:

1. Ashby
2. Guck
3. Hoekstra
4. Scotty Anderson
5. Bieke
6. Bieke
7. Dubois
8. Callabria
9. Booth
10. Melvin
11. Daniel
12. Cope
13. Drummond
14. Philpott
15. Atkins
16. Ogletree
17. Landenberger
18. Kinder
19. Erik Andersson
20. Gaynor

And the overall positions after 6 races as roughly calculated by Rick out on the course, including the one throwout:

1. Guck, 8 points
1. Ashby, 8 points
3. Melvin, 19 points
4. Booth, 32 points
5. Dubois, 35 points
6. Ogletree, 42 points
7. Scotty Anderson, 44 points
8. Philpott, 56 points
9. Kinder, 63 points
10. Landenberger, 64 points
10. Callabria, 64 points
12. Daniel, 66 points

Stay tuned for the second race.

wow - that's a nail biter!

I think some said that Friday's forcast is for 2o to 25... this might be the deciding race

Remember Asby won every race of the last worlds... Lars won every race at the North Americans.

True heavy weights!

If they end up tied, will they then bring back in the score for their -throw out- races? Or do they keep the throw outs, and look at who beat whom, last?

The guy that had the most bullets wins if there is a tie.

First you do a count back, most 1s then most 2s and if still tied after that its who won the last race.

Thursday, second race:
They had a general recall at the first start attempt.

Here are the positions at the last leeward gate, with only the last upwind and downwind finish legs to go:

1. Ashby
2. Dubois
3. Guck
4. Melvin
5. Scott Anderson
6. Ogletree
7. Booth
8. Hoekstra
9. Ben Moon, AUS
10. Landenberger
11. Daniel
12. Kinder
13. Callabria
14. Pease Glaser
15. Gaynor
16. Atkins
17. Ben Hall
18. Marstrom
19. Erik Andersson

Finish positions coming up soon.

Ashby would love to keep that boat between them...Great stuff!

Finish positions for the 2nd race on Thursday:

1. Ashby
2. Dubois
3. Guck
4. Melvin
5. Ogletree
6. Scotty Anderson
7. Booth
8. Ben Moon
9. Landenberger
10. Hoekstra
11. Daniel
12. Callabria
13. Pease Glaser
14. Kinder
15. Gaynor
16. Atkins
17. Philpott
18. Cope
19. Micky Todd,ESP
20. Saarberg
21. Smyth
22. Marstrom

Points for the top seven after seven races overall:
1. Ashby, 9 points
2. Guck, 11 points
3. Melvin, 23 points
4. Dubois, 37 points
5. Booth, 39 points
6. Ogletree, 47 points
7. Scotty Anderson, 50 points

great stuff ! heat is on for 18-20 knts wind tomorrow!
Lars has to take some risks ......
This will be an awesome fight!

Great stuff! Lars has to take some risks tomorrow....
18-20 knts wind > gonna be an awesome fight ....

Just curious, How come only two races a day? Is it a logistical issue with a 100 boats. From Marys post it seems they are done racing for the day by 1pm. Why not 4 races in a day if the conditions are good?

Would you play four halves of basketball a day at the champinoship level?

The class rules spec this out. The tornado's also do two races a day at the championship level

I didn't know the bows could be hacked off of these boats with a dagger board like that. Anyone got pix and the story of that poor boat? Didn't have my camera. Must have been a frustrating day on the water.

heh? Do tell.

Stand by Jake, someone will post something. The story I heard was pretty good. Apparently someone got angry and hacked the bow off of their boat with the DB.

Wow...now THAT's a temper tantrum.

It's in the rule book, it came with your USSailing membership.

Holy chalupa... Can you say 69!!!

(EDIT: I hope it was his own boat at least...)

Mike