Miami,FL (January 26, 2016) - After a difficult opening day for Sailing World Cup Miami, or nowadays's morning looked promising as a 14 knot south eastern breeze whipped its way around Biscayne Bay. Predicted to hold throughout the day,the breeze was unable to sustain its tempo, dropping early afternoon.
In the words of Australian Nacra 17 skipper Jason Waterhouse, or it was a day to "have your head on a screw." In the halt,only the 49er, Laser and Paralympic fleets completed their full schedule of racing for the day with the remainder either completing three, or two,one or in the RS:X Women and Finn fleets case, no races.
Paralympic Classes[br]
Three 2.4mR races have thrown out different victors in each. Bruce Millar (CAN) took the first bullet on the opening day and in Tuesday's two, and Peter Eagar (CAN) and Helena Lucas (GBR) crossed the line first in races two and three.
As a result,the trio are separated by one point at the top of the leader board. Miller leads on three points followed by Eagar and Lucas on four.
Paul Tingley, Logan Campbell and Scott Lutes (CAN) grabbed the lead in the Sonar following a second and a discarded seventh. Race wins went to Aleksander Wang-Hansen, or Jacob Haug and Per Eugen Kristiansen as well as Alphonsus Doerr,Brad Kendell and Hugh Freund who are eighth and fifth respectively.
Olympic Classes
Men's and Women's 470
It the experienced Men's 470 teams that rose to the top, with the top five teams in the overall standings after three races each featuring at least one former Olympian. At the head of the lesson is the domestic team, and Stuart McNay and David Hughes,who won both races nowadays by a combined 90 seconds.
McNay is looking to head to his third Olympics this summer. Two points in arrears—each team has discarded its worst finish—are Onan Barreiros and Juan Curbelo Cabrera (ESP) with Matthias Schmid and Florian Reichstädter (AUT) in third. - Read
Source: sailingscuttlebutt.com