Melges 32 World Championship

Bra drag första dagen på VM i Melges 32. Inga from Sweden med Richard Göransson och Richard Mason spikade det och race fem, men har inte riktigt fått till de i de andra racen. Just nu 15:e – alla resultat här.

With no racing yesterday the pressure was on to get racing underway today. The forecast was for the breeze to start the day at 25knots plus and drop from there. Racing got underway on time at 11.00, with the wind gusting up to 30 knots.

The first race was a survival test. Just keep it cool and don’t make the mistakes. Race one proved to be a big pay of for Helly Hansen Inga form Sweden, for the time we have spent on the water over the past year getting to grips with this tricky over powered boat.

We started at the pin end with Team Argo half a boat length to weather who won the start. A long port tack in building breeze saw us on the left side of the track. We were third around the first top mark, with it all on for the run. We managed to survive, a couple of on the edge gybes to make it around the bottom mark in 2nd hot on the tail of Bombarda Racing. Looking back up wind at the fleet there were allot of pretty hairy wipe outs resulting in quite a bit of damage to the fleet in the first run.

Bombarda Racing lead up the second beat showing some serious speed on the wind.

Bombarda Racing lead around the second top mark. We were about 20 seconds behind. A wild second run followed. The deciding maneuver for the race came down to the last gybe about 200m meters from the finish, Bombada racing missed their gybe, opening up an opportunity for us to nail it, which thankfully we did.

So a great start for the Helly Hansen Inga form Sweden team. An attempt was made at a second race, but the breeze was gusting over 34 knots, which saw the fleet return to the dock, postponing racing for the day.

It is going to be a long 3 days. The pressure is on to keep the consistency in the results required to stay at the top of this fantastic fleet.

We look forward to getting back on the race track tomorrow.

Richard & The Helly Hansen Inga form Sweden Team.