Glenn Bourke takes the lead in ‘Musto’
Day 3 of the Laser SB3 National Championships at Hayling Island was long, cold, wet and windy. 5 races were sailed in a shifty northerly 20-25 knot breeze. Volvo Ocean Race CEO, Glenn Bourke had another strong day to take the lead from Russell Peters on ‘Tack Tick’. But it wasn’t all plain sailing for the leaders today, as the top three all found themselves black-flagged in the second race. Lawrie Smith took advantage of this to win his first race of the championships. Jono Shelley and yours truly on ‘PricewaterhouseCoopers’ came in second with Jez Entwistle ‘S4B’ close behind in 3rd place.
Paul Lovejoy, ‘Badger Racing’, won the first race, but had mixed results following his OCS in the second, including a rare dead-heat for 13th with Andrew Dallas’s ‘Hullabaloo’ in race 4. An OCS for Craig Burlton’s ‘Team Touareg’ in the second race seemed to spur him on, getting his best results of the championship for the remaining races (2,4,4) and making it into the top 10 overall.
The 2006 National Champion, Geoff Carveth also fell to the black flag in the final race, but with the second discard coming into effect today, moved up to 4th overall. Mark Rushall and his team on ‘Risk Premium’ showed consistently good form to climb up the rankings to 5th place.
With 3 races tomorrow to complete the championships and conditions forecast to ease, we might see Glenn Bourke crowned SB3 National Champion title for the second time.
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