Second day

It was almost no wind. Race committee tried to gave the start twice but they failed. After almost couple hours of waiting some stable wind has came, and the race committee managed to give the start and to carry out quite good race. Some competitors has gave up to get the wind and appeared quite too far from the start area with sails dropped. Two of Italian were so late that they could not start at this race.

After good start and good tacking first 3 boats BLR1, SWE1 and RUS7 got good advantage against the rest of fleet. During first downwind course they could increase this advantage and sail quite free from battle with others. Second tacking did not give any surprise – most of the top competitors kept their position. During second downwind course BLR1 was penalized for the rule 42. Due to that SWE1 and RUS7 could come very close to him so SWE1 appeared first at the mark, BLR1 was second and RUS7 third. After the tacking BLR1 took back first position with good advantage to second racer. RUS7 was third, but he has passed SWE1 just before the mark. At the end of downwind course RUS7 came very close to BLR1 and managed to pass him at the course to the finish. He finished just in few centimeters before BLR1. SWE1 came third wile another Russian RUS15 came very close to him and finished 4-th.

So after 3 races 2 Russians are in the top three: Nickolay Chernikov (RUS7) at first position, and Sergey Komissarov is third. German Jan Kurfeld is between them in second position.

Andrey Balashov, who was Silver at Olimpic Games in 1976 in finn class, was guest of the Silver Cup this day. His impression was: “This championship is one of most difficult regattas. Such conditions are very good school for the competitors.”

Comments from Peter Kula: it was a very light wind. BLR1 received very good advantage from very beginning, when he was in 30 meters ahead from second. RUS7 is very light and he came from laser. His laser technique helped him to make boat moving all the time. His movements at the boat were so light unlike to heavy finn sailors. I think it was key of his success.

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