Thursday 13 August 2009

Americans top both Senior & Junior Fleets going into the final day of British Nationals

Americans Roger Dorr and Jack Johansson turned on the jets today to stand atop the leader boards of both the Senior and Junior Fleets.

Dorr finished a strong 2nd and Johansson nailed a 1st in the only race of the day.  In Senior Fleet, Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick moved into the top ten and stands at the top of the girls championship chase.  All of Team USA in in the top 31, with good drops to come.  In the Junior Fleet every American is in the championship Gold division, and Team USA's Ben Kern came from behind to make it an American 1-2 in today's race and move up to 5th overall.  Adele Whitmyer scored 5th to end the day in 3rd overall, and Ian MacDiarmid faded from 1st place after a tough kinetics flag to finish 10th, but moved up to 8th overall to make it 4 Americans in the top ten. 

Coach Paine has called for an 8:15 rigged/ready time, so it's bunky time.  Please send all your positive thoughts our way here in Largs as some of America's best junior sailors put aside the butterflies and get ready to do battle for all the marbles tomorrow for the British Optimist Championship!


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