REGATES ROYALES 23 SEPTEMBRE 2015 - METEO TROP MAUVAISE POUR LANCER UNE COURSE - LES DRAGON SONT RESTES A QUAI
After three races, the 38 boat strong Dragon fleet has a new leader, Germany's Michaël Schmidt with Mario Wagner and Stefan Waack (M3). With a third place on the opening day in light airs and a double win yesterday the German crew are in first place with five points, which is a fourteen point edge on UK's Ivan Bradbury (Blue Haze) who debuted with a clean score, but yesterday only got a disappointing fifth and a ninth. British female skipper Gavia Wilkinson-Cox (Jerboa) was definitely more consistent (9, 3, 2) and is now in second position whilst Italian Giuseppe Duca (Cloud), who had a good start, only finished 29th and will have to rely on discards to get back in the battle for the podium. The “French armada”, consisting of ten teams out of 38, is having ups and downs on the overall scoreboard, with Jean-Pierre Gailes, Commodore du YCC, Marc Nieuwbourg and Sébastien Decroix (Child’s Dream), being the best placed crew in 11th. Hopefully the milder wind conditions expected forThusday and Friday will enable the committee to launch at last four more races, opening up the game again despite the German team's strong margin.
