Bundock and Ashby holding fourth - Tornado Europes
Yesterday the sailors enjoy a much deserved rest day and took the time to enjoy the local sites of Greece, some sailors enjoyed the beaches of Khalkidhiki, others Mount Olympus and some the waterfalls at Edessa as the winds turned to the north (land breeze) and the temperatures soared into the high 30's.
'Bundock and Ashby'
Jeff Crow/ Sport the Library ©
Today two races were scheduled but the sailors woke to the northley breezes once again. The race committee chose to postpone the racing and keep the sailors ashore as the breeze tried to swing to the seabreeze. After one hour of postponement the seabreeze finally filtered in across the bay, however it was not to last!
The first race of the day started in the seabreeze of approximately 10 knots, and it was the Italians Marcolin/Bianchi that had a great start and good pace to lead the fleet around the first mark. It seems to be a trend all week that one side of the course or the other was extremely favoured. Today it was left side on the the first upwind leg, right to middle the next upwind leg, and right the final time as the seabreeze shutdown and the land breeze filtered back in. The Greeks team of Paschalidis/Trigonis worked there way to the front and took the winner's gun.
With the land breeze battling the seabreeze, the race committee sent the sailors back to the shore for one hour until the land breeze had proven it was to stay. The sailors headed back to the race course at 17.30 only to have the land breeze turn patchy and inconsistent. The race committee tried hard to keep on schedule with the number of races but this proved impossible and the race committee called it a day.
With only one race completed on Day 4 of the 2008 Tornado European Championship, the two French teams of Yann
GUICHARD / Alexandre GUYADER and Billy BESSON / Arnaud JARLEGAN are locked in a very tight battle for the lead. GUICHARD / GUYADER lead for the first two days, but were overtaken by BESSON / JARLEGAN on Day 3. They are now tied on points, but GUICHARD / GUYADER have retaken the lead on the tiebreak. 
The home team, and defending 2007 European Champions, Iordanis PASCHALIDIS / Kostas TRIGONIS have held steadily to third place, and are only three points back of the leaders. The current World Champions Darren BUNDOCK / Glenn ASHBY are in fourth place with 28 points; and they still have a chance to get onto the podium.
The last day of racing is tomorrow and it will be a battle to the end.
PROVISIONAL OVERALL RESULTS - AFTER 7 RACESPOS SAIL# HELM CREW R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 PTS 1 FRA 71 GUICHARD, Yann GUYADER, Alex 1 1 5 2 12 6 2 17 2 FRA 5 BESSON, Billy JARLEGAN, Arnaud 10 3 2 3 3 2 4 17 3 GRE 7 PASHALIDIS, Iordanis TRIGONIS, Kostas 6 4 3 6 1 5 1 20 4 AUS 8 BUNDOCK, Darren ASHBY, Glenn 4 2 7 7 7 1 7 28 5 GBR 4 MCMILLAN, Leigh HOWDEN, Will 7 5 8 1 11 14 6 38 6 FRA 11 MORVAN, Francois VANDAME, Mathieu 3 7 12 5 4 10 OCS 41 7 ITA 257 MARCOLINI, Francesco BIANCHI, Eduardo 2 10 6 DNF 15 9 3 45 8 AUT 3 HAGARA, Roman STEINACHER, Hans Peter 5 6 9 12 13 8 5 45 9 FRA 1 REVIL, Xavier ESPAGNON, Christophe 8 12 1 11 5 12 14 49 10 ARG 1 LANGE, Santiago ESPINOLA, Carlos 9 8 11 8 2 11 13 49 11 GER 7 POLGAR, Johannes SPALTEHOLZ, Florian 11 11 4 10 14 4 10 50 12 AUT 8 ZAJAC, Thomas CZAJKA, Thomas 13 9 15 4 8 7 12 53 13 GER 5 MITTELMEIER, Tino MITTELMEIER, Niko 12 13 10 13 10 3 9 57 14 GRE 1 KOSMOGLOU, Efstratios THEODORAKIS, Dimitrios 14 15 DNF 9 16 16 8 78 15 GRE 41 MOURIKIS, Kostas GIRIS, Kostas 15 16 16 15 6 15 15 82 16 GRE 9 MAVROS, Nikos PARIANOS, Polis 16 14 17 16 19 17 11 91 17 UKR 11 KALYNCHEV, Pavlo SHAFRANYUK, Andriy DNF DNC 13 14 9 13 DNC 95 18 ITA 259 SAPONARA, Michele MISSO, Marco 17 17 14 17 18 18 OCS 101 19 GER 1049 BETZ, Markus HOLZSCHUH, Stephanie 19 20 19 19 17 19 16 109 20 ITA 25 SCLAVI, Lorenzo REGGIO, Paolo 18 19 18 18 20 DNF 17 110 21 GRE 77 PAPADOPOULOS, Mihalis PAVLIDIS, Raphael 20 18 20 20 DNC DNC 18 119 22 GRE 17 GIACHOUDIS, Sotiris VEZIROGLOU, Dimitris 21 21 DNF DNF 21 DNF 19 128
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