Nacra 17 @Kieler Woche: Day 4

Some of the top French & Dutch teams were not present at Kieler Woche, nevertheless the level of competition remained strong. With offshore gusty conditions, making a tricky race course to complete. After 12 races Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin are leading entering the Medal race, followed by Iker Martinez-Tara Pacheco and Zajak-Frank.
Good debut for the 2nd ARG crew, Gonzalez Smith brothers, Lucas & Moira, coming from the F18 and H16 Panam experience, that for sure helped them to manage this speedy and sensitive Nacra 17.

Cecilia Carranza & Esteban Blando were performing all week, yesterday were 2nd overall, and today 4th before the final 6th race, they scored a rather high 12th and ended 7th finally losing once more the medal race by a spot as this time ISAF has changed the scoring game one more time … and only 6 crews will participate in the Medal race… next event they will make it with 3 crews, and next with 1…..

Having good level across the same flag team it is a nice scenario, like the Dutch & French crews, as  all the pressure and competition will benefit all. And there is a 3rd Arg young crew Piñeyrua-Greggi, that for sure will improve in next events.

Interesting definition tomorrow with the Aussie Young Guns and the Olyumpic 49er Veteran.

The less crews in a final medal race the easier for the leaders to maintain their spot, so reducing the number is going back to the old system and having a Medal race is almost non sense. Needless to say that as I remarked at Palma that you could not participate in the entire qualifying series and still win the event, something similar happened here, and for ie Bissaro-Sicouri had 2 DNF in the final races making their entire previous top 5-10 efforts futile.

Next event will be Nacra 17 World Cup in July, more info later.

Top Ten below..  Full results at Here
Tracks at https://livecenter.kieler-woche.de/classes/nacra-17/