The RS Aero World Championship is underway at Black Rock YC, Australia.
The results Tuesday are showing four races completed for each of the three championship fleets.
Leading the Aero 5 fleet is Sophie Jackson of Australia, leading the Aero 7 is Marc Jacobi of the USA and leading the Aero 9 is Liam Willis of Britain.
Willis has a clean-sheet in the Aero 9, winning the first four races, he leads from Keith Willis, with Aussie Simon Reffold in third place.
In the Aero 7 Jacobi took the first three races before Britain’s Peter Barton managed a win in race 4. Jacobi leads by two points from Aussie Rhett Gowans who racked up a string of second place finishes.
Sophie Jackson in the Aero 5 has took two wins and leads by two points from Megan Ridgway of Australia. Caitlin Atkin of Britain won the opening race and is in third place.
The other Aero 5 race winner was David Ellis of Britain.
After an evening of New Year’s Eve celebrations and day off on New Years Day racing resumes on 2 January with three more races.
RS Aero 5 World Championship (29 entries)
1st AUS 2675 Sophie Jackson 3 1 3 1 – – 8 pts
2nd AUS 3006 Megan Ridgway 4 2 2 2 – – 10 pts
3rd GBR 3062 Caitlin Atkin 1 4 8 4 – – 17 pts
4th GBR 3081 Ned Stattersfield 2 6 7 5 – – 20 pts
5th GBR 3063 David Ellis 5 3 1 14 – – 23 pts
6th JPN 3055 Kazuyoshi Nakao 6 8 6 3 – – 23 pts
7th GBR 3060 Sammy Isaacs-Johnson 8 5 9 6 – – 28 pts
8th AUS 2825 Chris Brain 11 9 5 9 – – 34 pts
9th AUS 1680 Philippa Danks 13 13 4 7 – – 37 pts
10th GBR 3053 Jane Peckham 7 14 10 11 – – 42 pts
RS Aero 7 World Championship (38 entries)
1st USA 3121 Marc Jacobi 3 1 1 1 – – 6 pts
2nd AUS 3050 Rhett Gowans 2 2 2 2 – – 8 pts
3rd GBR 3070 Noah Rees 4 3 3 4 – – 14 pts
4th GBR 3087 Peter Barton 1 6 5 5 – – 17 pts
5th AUS 2500 Michael O’Brien 6 4 4 3 – – 17 pts
6th AUS 3095 Gary Ratcliffe 5 5 7 6 – – 23 pts
7th AUS 2818 Peter Milne 8 7 6 7 – – 28 pts
8th GBR 2915 Simon Blake 9 9 9 8 – – 35 pts
9th USA 3067 Andy Mack 10 8 10 10 – – 38 pts
10th AUS 2046 Nick Collis-George 12 11 11 13 – – 47 pts
RS Aero 9 World Championship (10 entries)
1st GBR 3120 Liam Willis 1 1 1 1 – – 4 pts
2nd GBR 3119 Keith Willis 3 3 5 2 – – 13 pts
3rd AUS 2490 Simon Reffold 2 2 6 7 – – 17 pts
4th USA 3118 Derek Bottles 7 7 2 3 – – 19 pts
5th AUS 2049 David Andrew 6 4 4 6 – – 20 pts
6th AUS 1188 Peter Stephinson 5 5 3 8 – – 21 pts
7th AUS 1196 Glenn Attrill 4 6 7 4 – – 21 pts
8th AUS 1194 Andrew Giles 11 9 8 5 – – 33 pts
9th AUS 2820 Jason Wilson 8 8 9 9 – – 34 pts
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