Nacra 17 Worlds 2018 @Aarhus, Day 3: Lange & Carranza lead

Photo: Sailing Energy / World Sailing. If yesterday was and Arg day with Majdalani & Bosco owning the yellow fleet today it was another white & light blue day on the overall lead.
Current Olympic champs, Santi Lange & Cecilia Carranza were the only ones to maintain consistence through the 4 races held today for the blue fleet (2,3,5 & 4) , the Golden crew obtained the overall lead after a total of seven races completed for both fleets in this qualifying stage.

South America got another performer today, almost a perfect day for Samuel Albrecht & Gabriela Nicolino de Sá scoring two bullets a 2nd plus a 14th to position themselves in 2nd overall. Defazio & Knuppel , from Uruguay and coached by our good friend Andrew Mac Pherson also got a 1st in race 6.

Waterhouse & Darmanin had day to forget yesterday, not even a full race and they got BFD on failed black starts, but today the Aussies actually could sail R5,R6 & R7 (4th were dsq and didn’t start) and three top 5 places put them nack on track for a 3rd overall.

Yellow fleet sailed only two races, Cenholt & Lubeck 2 & 10 for the day and Majdalani & Bosco 20 & 2, a good recovery for the young Arg crew, who were caught in R6 off guard along many top teams.
A capsize from the first day put them a little back now in 5th position overall, but plenty left and the kids continue to score impressive performances.

After owning Day 1 in the foiling breeze Tita & Banti got  a bit complicated within the tricky course conditions from last two days. Unable to display their superior foiling speed the Italians are suffering Aarhus unstable breeze this week: dsq, 16,13,16 in that last four races for the team which used to dominate the Class … two days ago! Still much left for this Worlds so no discount them at all.

Top ten below, full results available here