Fireball Worlds Day 1
SRR La Rochelle
Just one race today for the 101 Fireballs from 10 countries. The Very hot day resulted in light sea breeze conditions. After a postponement waiting for the wind to fill in the fleet were away. Martyn Lewis and Richard Bailey lead at the windward mark and held the lead for the first lap. By the end of the run Chips Howarth and Vyv Townend had moved in to the lead. On the final beat the extra pressure was to be found on the starboard layline which mixed up the top ten Matt Burge & Richard Wagstaff moved through to second with Dave Wade & Ben McGrane 3rd Ludovic Allaume and Etienne Perdon 4th and Lewis and Bailey holding 5th.