Tornado Europeans 2010: Day 2

By Andrew Dowley- Tornado European Championships, Day Two – Only one race today.
Today provided different conditions from yesterday with a postponement for most of the day until 4pm.
The teams took to the water for a very tricky race with lots of shifts, the left hand side of the course close to the rocks seemed to pay which was unusual. The racing was very close even though teams took different routes they appeared at the top mark close together. The battle was as hot as ever between the Greek team of Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis and Roland and Nahid Gaebler, they match raced each other from start to finish.
The course was shortened after two laps with the wind quickly disappearing, Roland Gaebler commented saying “It was lucky we had one race today with the conditions”.

There are also some other teams to be watched at the top, although sitting in 9th place the German team of Veit Hemmeter and Michael Gloor have some good results but their DNS is holding them back.
In 3rd, 4th and 5th are Martin Rusterholz and Jean Marc Cuanillon (SUI), Dieter Maurer and Peer Axel Rahn (GER) and Nikolaos Mayros and Alexandros Tagaropoulos (GRE). All teams have great results and are only separated by 5 points, I bet Peer Axel Rahn (organiser of Travemunde week and this year’s Tornado Worlds) is glad to be on the water sailing this time.

Only 20 points separate 15th and 26th on the results board and everything is to play for tomorrow. With the black clouds coming over the Alps and a storm warning for tonight and tomorrow the sailors are hoping they can get out on the water.
Results:
www.tornado-class.org/events/2010europeans/results.htm
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