Volvo

After three days of racing we head in to the finals and gold fleet racing. After a good first day with a 1st and 2nd, day two did not quite go as planned, I got caught on the wrong side of the first beat and took a swim on the final run, to end up 8th in the first race. But, I sorted myself out and won the next race.

Day three has been quite a peculiar day, the racing was delayed while a weather front and the threat of storms passed over, but when racing did finally get underway I sailed well in the tricky conditions to finish 2nd and 1st to take the lead overall.

After returning ashore I was made aware that I had been yellow flag penalised at the start of race 5 without hearing or seeing the Jury’s signals. I thus filed a protest and asked for redress.
After a quick hearing the protest committee came to the decision that the Jury had acted properly by blowing a whistle, displaying a yellow flag and hailing my sail number, I could therefore not gain redress.
Just because I was unable to hear or recognise that I was being signalled was not good enough. I feel a little frustrated and let down because if I had been made aware I could have quickly taken my penalty and carried on racing to get a result for the race.

On the positive side I’m still in 2nd place on the leader board as we head in to the final 2 days.

The weather forecast doesn’t look great for tomorrow, so fingers crossed we get perfect sailing conditions.

Paul

Team Volvo for life Results after day 3  

Paul Goodison, laser 2nd
Sarah Ayton and Saskia, 470 7th
Helena Lucas, 2.4 mR, 11th- no racing on day 3
Ben Ainslie, Finn, 4th 
Nick Dempsey, RS:X Mens, 2nd  

All the results can be found  http://rmocr.ussailing.org/2011/Results.htm

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