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The leaderboard had a different look to it after yesterday's racing at the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen world championship in Napier, with the British duo of Steve Goacher and Tim Harper leading the regatta with only two days remaining.
Goacher and Harper benefitted from the discard coming into play, meaning they could provisinally drop their 19th from race one. They finished second in yesterday's race and sit on 12 points, four ahead of Australians Nick Jerwood and Janet Jerwood.
Matthew Owen and Andrew Reed, also from Australia, slipped to third after leading for a couple of days. Ashley Smith and Adam Kingston were two of the biggest movers, dropping their 35th to jump to fourth in the overall classification.
Yesterday's race was sailed in a light north-east breeze but the short chop rather than rolling swell of the past few days allowed the bigger crews to get out on the side decks and even do a bit of hiking.
Nick and Janet Jerwood, from South of Perth YC, read the shifts well to take their first gun of the championship and leaped back into contention.
“Two days to go but we still have to sail the best race you can," Nick Jerwood said. "the wind is way too localised. You can be four or five boat lengths away from somebody and be in totally different conditions so you just have to sail the best you can with what you have at that point in time. It is just going to be a case of how fast you can get round that race course. We actually used toe straps for the first time in the regatta today and it was great so I am looking forward to more of that in the final two days.”
Today's racing is expected to see more breeze, which should suit some of the bigger crews.
Results (Top 10 of 57 entries, after 5 races with 1 discard)
1 GBR 4021 Steve Goacher / Tim Harper - (19),8,1,1,2 = 12pts
2 AUS 3986 Nick Jerwood / Janet Jerwood - 5,2,8,(20),1 = 16pts
3 AUS 3684 Matthew Owen / Andrew Reed - 2,4,7,9,(12) = 22pts
4 HKG 3972 Ashley Smith / Adam Kingston - (35), 46,4 = 28pts
5 GBR 4005 David McKee / Mal Hartland - 7,10,2,10,(23) = 29pts
6 GBR 3760 Jeremy Davy / Martin Huett - 9,5,10,7,(16) = 31pts
7 NZL 3840 Murray Gilbert / Jonathan Burgess - (32), 9,6,13,5 = 33pts
8 NZL 3091 Hayden Percy / Scott Pedersen - 1,6,22,5,(25) = 34pts
9 GBR 4004 Charles Apthorp / Alan Green - 6,(53),14,2,15 = 37pts
10 AUS 3859 David Yu / Chris Nelson - 3,1,9,26,27 = 39pts
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