Day Four at the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship saw a major turn-over, the tricky conditions shuffling the the top rankings.
Peter Duncan’s Raza Mixta (USA, 3-3) taking the overall lead from Bora Gulari’s New England Ropes (USA, 15-9) who crashed to fifth overall, eight points off the new leader after leading the event up to now.
Harry Melges IV on Zenda Express (USA, 1-4) also came back into contention, jumping to second place, six points behind the leader and tied on points with Bruce Ayres’ Monsoon (USA, 5-2), now completing the provisional podium.
With only one race to sail, the overall leader Raza Mixta of Peter Duncan, with Victor Diaz de Leon calling the tactics and Erik Shampain, Matt Pistay and Morgan Trubovich in the crew, has a strong six-points margin ahead of team Zenda Express of Harry Melges IV and Bruce Ayres’ Monsoon.
Taki 4 of Niccoló Bertola (ITA, 16-19) in 14th overall, holds the leading position in the Corinthian division.
The British team of Richard Thompson (12-17) on Black Seal gain another place, now 17th overall.
2022 Melges 24 World Championship – Leaders after 11 races, 1 discard (31 entries)
1st USA856 Raza Mixta – Peter Duncan (13)-13-3-1-5-1-4-2-9-3-3 46 pts
2nd USA866 Zenda Express – Harry Melges IV 1-5-5-SCP11-2-11-12-7-3-1-4 50 pts
3rd USA851 Monsoon – Bruce Ayres 5-3-(12)-2-3-7-8-8-7-5-2 50 pts
4th USA864 Dark Energy – Laura Grondin 6-2-10-7-4-12-2-1-6-(18)-1 51 pts
5th USA820 New England Ropes – Bora Gulari 4-1-2-(15)-7-2 16-5-5-2-15-9 52 pts
6th USA849 Full Throttle – Brian Porter 10-6-6-8-9-(15)-3-10-1-11-12 76pts
7th USA858 Lucky Dog – Travis Weisleder 3-8-9-4-(22)-9-7-6-5-4-22 77 pts
8th USA865 Pacific Yankee – Drew Freides 2-(17)-7-17-15-4-1-3-10-9-15 83 pts
9th GER859 Nefeli – Peter Karrie 8-4-14-(21)-12-5-6-9-12-10-6 86 pts
10th CAN853 Zingara – Richard Reid 15-15-11-10-1-(18)-14-12-8-8-8 102 pts