Britain’s sailors made the best of a long and frustrating day on the water on day four of the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Palma, Majorca, on Wednesday (8 April).
A further day of highly changeable, unstable wind conditions led to long delays, with the majority of classes unable to start racing until gone 1630 local time and returning to shore as the sun set across Palma Bay.
When racing finally did get underway at the Princess Sofia Trophy, Skandia Team GBR’s Finn and 49er sailors posted another set of strong results in spite of the tricky conditions.
In the 470 Women’s fleet, Hannah Mills and Katrina Hughes were able to shake off their false start on Monday with a solid 4,1 from their two races today. The Development Squad sailors have now leapfrogged teammates Penny Clark and Saskia Clark to take fifth place in the leaderboard, with Clark-Clark in sixth with scores of 14,4 for their efforts.
“We managed to get off the start line well today which was a pretty big thing and just get on the first shift – that was all our aim was,” said Mills, recalling their penalty for a false start on Monday.”
“We’d like to knock in some consistent results tomorrow to hopefully put us in a good position for the medal race,” Mills continued. “After getting a black flag earlier in the week, we can’t really afford any more disasters!”
Bryony Shaw is currently just outside medal contention in sixth place respectively in the RS:X women’s windsurfing event, while RYA Volvo Youth Squad sailor Izzy Hamilton has broken into the top ten in this major senior circuit regatta.
In the Paralympic 2.4mR class, Helena Lucas sits in bronze medal position with Megan Pascoe close behind in fourth. She’s place 18th overall with Charlotte Dobson in 19th.
The Princess Sofia Trophy runs through until Friday 10 April. For full results and further information, visit http://www.skandiateamgbr.com/events/princsoftrop/Pages/princsoftrop.aspx
