Nacra 15 BA 2018 Youth Olympics Qualifiers: Day 1 by Laurens Morel

All images Laurens Morel / Saltycolours.com. Full gallery  Nacra 15 Class fb.  First day of racing for the Youth World Sailing Cat, the Nacra 15 with curved boards. The foiling version wont be used in Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympics.

After four races Shannon Dalton & Jayden Dalton from Australia lead with a good margin over the Benno Mastaller & Chloe Collenette (GBR) & Bjarne Bouwer & Eliott Savelon from Netherlands.

Pics by Laurens Morel show nice action. We have two boats here training almost every day, feedback is the boat has lots of power but also tends to pitch in the breeze waves.

Racing is being held at Medemblik, 28 young crews participating, coming mainly from Europe , two from Australia , two from Singapore & one from Tunisia.

Live Tracking at sailracer.org/eventsites/live-screen-tracking.asp?eventid=210949

Top ten below, full results at  nacra15class.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Day1.htm

No Zeilno Naam Pts 1 2 3 4
1 AUS 37 Shannon Dalton, Jayden Dalton 8 1 4 1 2
2 GBR 19 Benno Marstaller, Chloe Collenette 20 3 13 3 1
3 NED 93 Bjarne Bouwer, Eliott Savelon 21 2 2 12 5
4 SUI 81 Max Wallenberg, Amanda Bjork-Anastassov 22 4 7 2 9
5 ITA 77 Leonardo Chiste, Sofia Leoni 36 7 6 20 3
6 AUS 45 Georgia Payne, Emma Jones 37 13 8 8 8
7 FRA 99 Doran Gouron Le Roch, Axel Nicoleau 38 5 21 6 6
8 GBR 70 Bobby Hewitt, Freddie Simes 42 11 5 19 7
9 POL 5 Tymoteusz Cierzan, Oskar Niemira 47 8 11 13 15
10 NED 41 Floris Lampe, Laila van der Meer 51 17 3 18 13