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Thailand Worlds Overall

5 April 2014

Christian Birrell and Sam Brearey have closed out the 2014 Fireball World Championships with one race to spare.

The day started with a three knot out going tide with four knots of wind battling into it. PRO Mike Rogers and his team elected to keep the fleet on nthe beach until the breeze settled in.

At 12pm the AP flag came down and the fleet headed out in 8 knots of breeze.

After one general recall the fleet got under way with the tide having a huge influenece. The left side was paying but the trick was to tack well under the lay line and let the tide carry you up to the mark.

Allison / Blenkle did well to lead around the first mark closely followed by Birrell and Brearey. The latter quickly took the lead down the run and were never headed.  The rest of the fleet were tightly bunched with some notable placings at the top mark. Goacher and Crossley in third, Jalina and Cameron in fifth and the Swiss in sixth.

Bachelor and Schulz were on the back foot and had to work hard to climb up through the fleet. On the second lap Bachelor movewd to second and by the third lap Schulz was up to third.

In a last ditch effort to take the title Schulz and Sheppard gybed away down the run but it backfire sending them back to fifth.

So after heat nine the top four were secured not needing to sail the last race.

Brearey and Brrell headed to the beach while Bachelor and Gordon set off for a tight battle for the last race win.

Bachelor came out in front with Gordon second and Schulz in third bringing the 2014 worlds to a close.

 

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Overall Results 

No

Sailno

Name

Scores

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

1

GBR 15107

Christian Birrell, Sam Brearey

15.0

1

1

(dsq )

1

2

4

2

3

1

(dnc)

2

GBR 15087

Nathan Batchelor, Sam Pascoe

15.0

2

2

(3 )

3

3

1

(4 )

1

2

1

3

AUS 15062

Ben Schulz, Doug Sheppard

20.0

(4 )

4

4

2

1

3

1

2

(5 )

3

4

AUS 15071

Thomas Gordon, Jack Fletcher

26.0

(5 )

3

5

(8 )

4

2

3

4

3

2

5

AUS 15048

Heather MacFarlane, Chris Payne

34.0

3

(6 )

1

4

5

(6 )

5

6

6

4

6

AUS 15032

Greg Allison, Allen Blenkle

38.0

(7 )

5

2

5

(dnf )

5

6

5

4

6

7

CAN 15024

Joe Jospe, Tom Egli

58.0

6

(11 )

6

10

7

8

7

9

(12 )

5

8

GBR 15092

Veronica Falat, Ben Falat

65.0

9

7

9

6

8

(11

(dnf )

7

10

9

9

FRA 14793

Erich Moser, Jean-Francois Nouel

65.0

8

9

8

7

6

9

10

8

(13

(dnf)

10

AUS 14814

Steve Goacher, Peter Crossley

69.0

(10 )

8

(10 )

9

10

7

9

10

9

7

11

AUS 14812

Dick McCulloch, Glenn Stewart

78.0

12

10

7

(dnf )

9

(13 )

8

11

11

10

12

SUI 14859

Christina Haerdi-Landerer, Cedric Landerer

95.0

11

14

12

11

13

(15

(15 )

15

7

12

13

GBR 14887

Bryan Sargeant, William Sargeant

99.0

13

12

13

13

14

10

11

(17

(16 )

13

14

AUS 15011

Jaline Thompson-Kambas, Cameron Philcox

102.0

17

(18 )

14

16

15

(dns )

12

12

8

8

15

RSA 14901

David Laing, Mark Dee

102.0

14

13

(16

(15 )

11

12

14

13

14

11

16

AUS 14510

Jim Hughes, Tom Hughes

106.0

15

(19 )

11

12

12

14

13

(16 )

15

14

17

AUS 15076

Tim Ninnes, Taylor Neighbour

124.0

16

15

15

14

16

(dnf )

17

14

17

(dnc)

18

SUI 14921

Maja Suter, Thomas Boehm

139.0

19

16

17

17

17

(dnf )

16

18

19

(ocs)

19

AUS 14265

Kevin Luff, Peta Luff

153.0

21

21

18

19

(dnf )

16

18

(dnc )

18

ocs

20

AUS 14747

Daniel Wolch, Alan Schaiars

160.0

20

20

19

18

(dns )

17

(dnc)

dnc

dnc

dnc

21

THA 10338

Jirawat Jodkby, Dylan Whitcraft

167.0

18

17

(dnf

(dnf)

dnc

dnc

dnc

dnc

dnc

dnc

                     

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