Dutchman Pieter Heerema briefly took the overall lead of the Dragon World Championship after winning race 2, but defending champion Andy Beadsworth hit back with a win in race 3 to move into the overall lead.
After a short wait for the wind to settle, Pieter Heerema sailing with Lars Hendriksen and George Leonchuck, took race 2 ahead of Russia’s Dmitry Samokhin, Andrey Kirilyuk and Jasper Harding with Klaus Diederichs, Jamie Lea and Diego Negri taking third place.
This put Heerema is in a three-way tie on seven points with Grant Gordon, Ruairidh Scott, Sophia Weguelin and James Williamson of Britain, and Andy Beadsworth, Ali Tezdiker and Simon Fry.
In the second race of the day (R3) it was Beadsworth who took his first win of the championship to move into the overall lead ahead of Grant Gordon, with Klaus Diederichs, Jamie Lea and Diego Negri in third place.
Russia’s Anatoly Loginov, Vadim Statsenko and Alexander Shalagin are now fourth overall with Pieter Heerema dropping to fifth. In sixth place is the Japan boat skipperd by Peter Gilmour sailing with Yasuhiro Yaji and Sam Gilmour.
After two-thirds for the day Klaus Diederichs commented on how much he enjoyed racing today:
“Two great races in superb sailing conditions. We really enjoyed it out there today, it was really worth the wait earlier in the day whilst the wind conditions established.”
Nick Rogers, Leigh Behrens and Simon Burrows of Australia lead the Corinthian series in tenth place overall.
Dragon World Championship – Leaders after Race 3 (34 entries)
1st TUR1212 Andy Beadsworth / Ali Tezdiker / Simon Fry 2 5 1 – – 8 pts
2nd GBR820 Grant Gordon / Ruairidh Scott / Sophia Weguelin / James Williamson 1 6 2 – – 9 pts
3rd GBR819 Klaus Diederichs / Jamie Lea / Diego Negri 5 3 3 – – 11 pts
4th RUS27 Anatoly Loginov / Vadim Statsenko / Alexander Shalagin 4 4 5 – – 13 pts
5th NED412 Pieter Heerema / Lars Hendriksen / George Leonchuck 6 1 7 – – 14 pts
6th JPN56 Peter Gilmour / Yasuhiro Yaji / Sam Gilmour 3 8 6 – – 17 pts
7th RUS76 Dmitry Samokhin / Andrey Kirilyuk / Jasper Harding 7 2 10 – – 19 pts
8th NED411 Charlotte Ten Wolde / Juliette Ten Wolde / Pedro Andrade / Janka Holan 18 9 4 – – 31 pts
9th GER1058 Kai Michael Schaper / Jochen Schuemann / Klaus Skripalle 9 14 12 – – 35 pts
10th AUS205 Nick Rogers / Leigh Behrens / Simon Burrows 19 7 11 – – 37 pts
11th AUS184 Stephen Locke / Reuben Rosolin / Patrick Vos 11 11 22 – – 44 pts
12th GBR763 Simon Barter / James Barter / Donald Wilks 13 13 18 – – 44 pts
13th AUS203 Andrew Foulkes / Andrew Bennett / Matthew Stafford 12 10 23 – – 45 pts
14th GBR600 Robert Campbell / Richard Timms / Andrew Biddle 14 17 15 – – 46 pts
15th AUS201 Ray Chatfield / Peter Massee / Karen Chatfield 15 19 13 – – 47 pts
