Etchells Class Pre-Worlds – Win for Lawrie Smith at warm-up event

The final day of the Etchells Pre-Worlds at Cowes finished with two more races completed.

With all races counting, Lawrie Smith and his crew on Mila GBR 1502 were the event winners with 18 pts.

Smith, sailing with Richard Parslow, Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro, and Ben Saxton finished with 31, 1, 1, 3.

In second place was Peter Duncanof the USA sailing with Andrew Palfrey and Mark Mandleblatt, with 1, 7, 12, 1 for a total of 21 pts

Third was Shaun Frohlich, sailing with Duncan Truswell and Ed Wright on 30 pts.

Top Corinthian team was Barry Parkin’s Bungee Smuggler (USA 1424).

Focus is now on the Etchells 2022 World Championship which was scheduled to start racing on Monday 19 September.

Following the death of HM The Queen, the schedule of racing for the Worlds will be reduced to five days to take account of the State Funeral on 19 September.

The Opening Ceremony will now take place on the evening of the 20 September.

2022 Etchells Pre-Worlds – Final Leaders after 4 races (33 entries)

1st   GBR 1502 Lawrie Smith  – – 13 1 1 3 – – 18 pts
2nd   USA 1453 Peter Duncan – – 1 7 12 1 – – 21 pts
3rd   GBR 1459 Shaun Frohlich  – – 3 14 4 9 – – 30 pts
4th   GBR 1470 James Markby  – – 7 5 13 6 – – 31 pts
5th   HKG 1496 Mark Thornburrow – – 17 8 3 5 – – 33 pts
6th   AUS 1505 Martin Hill  – – 8 13 14 2 – – 37 pts
7th   GBR 1460 Paul Brotherton  – – 10 10 9 8 – – 37 pts
8th   GBR 1438 Ante Razmilovic  – – 6 3 2 34/DNF – – 45 pts
9th   GBR 967 George Downer – – 2 29 10 11 – – 52 pts
10th   GBR 1493 Paul Ward  – – 12 20 7 14 – – 53 pts
11th   AUS 1466 Chris Hampton  – – 28 4 5 19 – – 56 pts
12th   GBR 1441 Peter Rogers  – – 5 19 22 10 – – 56 pts
13th   USA 1456 D Craig Mense  – – 22 16 6 12 – – 56 pts
14th   NZL 1499 Anatole Masfen  – – 25 17 11 4 – – 57 pts
15th   HKG 1407 Jamie McWilliam  – – 30 2 20 15 – – 67 pts
16th   USA 1427 Stephen Benjamin – – 4 28 19 16 – – 67 pts
17th   USA 1424 Barry Parkin- – 15 12 29 13 – – 69 pts
18th   CAN 1072 Sam Thompson  – – 20 26 8 22 – – 76 pts
19th   USA 1378 Marvin Beckmann  – – 34/UFD 9 16 17 – – 76 pts
20th   GBR 1351 Jon Warwick – – 9 15 27 26 – – 77 pts

Full results available here . . .