France's Olivier Backes and crew Matthieu Vandame, need only to post decent results in Saturday's first two races and cash in their second discard by sitting out the last one of the event hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. Despite a black flag disqualification for jumping the start line in Friday's first race, won by Australia's Rod Waterhouse and Chris Ray. But then the men from Marseille finished the day with a first and third from 60 boats in the Gold fleet at the Globaltech Formula 18 World Championship, Long Beach, USA.
F18 - Globaltech World Championship, after 12 races (117 entries)
1st Gold FRA 36 Olivier Backes/ Matthieu Vandame SNMarseille 28 pts
2nd Gold NED 2 Oscar Zeekant / Karel Begemann WSV Warder 44 pts
3rd Gold NED 7 Mischa Heemskerk / Bastiaan Tentij WSV Braasemermeer 45 pts
4th Gold SUI 1 Billy Besson / Jeremie Laguarrigue SRV 47 pts
5th Gold NED 1933 Gunnar Larsen / Gerhard van Geest KZVS 49 pts
6th Gold AUS 888 Darren Bundock / Jeroen van Leeuwen Toukley Sailing Club 58 pts
7th Gold NED 3 Coen De Koning / Thijs Visser WSV Hoorn 68 pts
8th Gold SWE 7 Tim Shuwalow / Thomas Ekefalk KSSS 70 pts
9th Gold FRA 4 Gurvan Bontemps / Benjamin Amiot Societe des régates de Vannes 76 pts
10th Gold FRA 5 Emmanuel Boulogne / Frederic Moreau Club voile du Touquet 81 pts
11th Gold BEL 888 Carolijn Brouwer / Wouter Samama OSRC Oostende 82 pts
12th Gold USA 284 Taylor Reiss / Matthew Whitehead St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club 82 pts
13th Gold USA 11 Michael Easton / Tripp Burd NENSA 93 pts
14th Gold NED 2010 Jorden Veenman / Frank de Waard Catpoint 93 pts
15th Gold FRA 99 Pierre Le Clainche / Antoine Joubert Societe des Regates de Vannes 93 pts
16th Gold USA 323 Robbie Daniel / Hunter Stunzi red gear Yacht Club/ CCSC 94 pts
17th Gold AUS 331 Jason Waterhouse / Brett Goodall BeYC 96 pts
18th Gold FRA 33 Charles Hainneville / David Fanouillere CNPV 112 pts
19th Gold ITA 13 Vittorio Bissaro / Carlo De Paoli Frglia Vela Malcesine 139 pts
20th Gold ARG 1643 Cruz Gonzalez Smith / Mariano Heuser Yacht Club Argentino 139 pts
Full F18 results available here
G New
15 September 2012 8:28