Erste Private Banking Dragon European Championship – Final Morning – We Have Wind & Plenty Of It

Hooray!  We’re all set for a fantastic last day here in Balaton.  For the first time all week we woke up to the sound of the wind in the trees outside our house and from the media centre I can hear the waves breaking on the lake shore just across the lawn from us.  The wind has clocked a bit overnight and is now around South Westerly and well into the teens.

Its going to be a nail biting finish today with just one race to sail and the championship still wide open.  Although Markus Wieser leads Anatoly Loginov by three points with Stephan Link eight points adrift in third it is far from a done deal as none of these boats has a good discard.  Here’s a quick reminder of the overall top ten as we go into the final day:-

1 UKR 7 – Bunker Queen – Markus WIESER, Sergey PUGACHEV, Matti PASCHEN – 1, 1, 11, (BFD), 4, 7 = 24

2 RUS 27 – Annapurna – Anatoly LOGINOV, Andrey KIRILYUK, Alexander SHALAGIN – 2, 3, (18), 5, 10, 9 = 29

3 GER 1036 – Dragon Holly – Stephan LINK, Frank BUTZMANN, Michael OBERMAIER – 17, 2, 2, 1, (49), 10 = 32

4 RUS 90 – Zenith – Dmitry BEREZKIN, Anatoly KUDRITSKIY, Aleksey BUSHUEV – 11, 6, (DSQ), 8, 6, 6 = 37

5 FRA 400 – Tamm Ha Tamm – Christian BOILLOT, Michael LIPP, Mikael MEUNIER – 10, 9, (20), 12, 7, 4 = 42

6 UKR 8 – Bunker Team – Lars HENDRIKSEN, Igor SIDOROV, Georgiy LEONCHUK – 12, 10, (23), 3, 12, 8 = 45

7 GBR 716 – Jerboa – Gavia WILKINSON-COX, Mark HART, Henry BAGNALL – 6, 13, 6, 15, 9, (26) = 49

8 NED 305 – Dawn – Abram DE WILDE, Rudi HOFMAN, Pier DE IONGH – 4, (33), 16, 14, 18, 2 = 54

9 RUS 69 – Murka 7 – Olga WHITE, Vadim STATSENKO, Martin LEIFELT – 26, 4, 5, 4, 20, (DSQ) = 59

10 GER 1067 – Caroroo 2 / C 3 – Reemt REEMTSMA, Petra REEMTSMA, Lorenz JENSEN – 14, 12, (39), 25, 8, 3 = 62

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