Tõnu Tõniste & co. Estonian Champions
After a very nice evening hosted by Pärnu Yacht Club at Hotel Strand night club right on beach with excellent view to the Pärnu bay the second day here in Pärnu was a opposite to yesterday. Rain, temperature appr. 16 to 18 degrees.
The day's racing started at 11.00 am just outside the harbour of Pärnu. The first race was raced in easterly winds with a velocity of 4 to 6 m/s. First race winner Sitting Duck / SWE 508 (Claes Röjning). For the second race the wind shifted to SE but with the same velocity as in the first. In the middle of the second beat upwind the wind suddenly died and shifted to S-SW and picked up to app. 8 m/s. The rest of the race was just a speedway race around the buoys. Race winner after these interesting happenings was Lenny / EST 645 (Tönu Töniste).
The third race started in a SW wind with a velocity of appr. 6 m/s. The fleet beating upwind the wind picked up making the first rounding between really tight. The downwind leg was already a show of the true speed of the Melges 24. But then towards the end of the second beat up the wind picked up even more. Blasting downwind in appr. 10 to 12 m/s wind a couple of nice wipe outs were seen and also placings changing. Race winner in the last start was Tönu Töniste & co. and they won overall their second Estonian Championship title with a comfortable 8 point margin over Claes Röjning helming SWE 508.
Next stop in Helsinki only 2 weeks from now - Finnish Open Championship
Full results below:
Estonian Championship 2007 Pärnu Yacht Club, Pärnu, Estonia
Sail no Name Captain I II III IV V VI VII Points
1 EST 646 Lenny TÕNISTE Tõnu 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 10
2 SWE 508 Sitting Duck RÖJNING Claes 4 4 5 1 1 5 3 18
3 FIN 529 Land Rover EKBLAD Sami 3 6 11 4 2 2 4 21
4 EST 645 Zuxu SARASKIN Peter 5 7 4 7 6 3 2 27
5 FIN 650 Pohjola-Foneta Finder HAKOLA Tomi 1 8 8 5 4 4 6 28
6 FIN 214 Mazda HARJULAHTI Esa 6 5 1 6 10 7 5 30
7 FIN 316 Team Uusikaupunki JEFIMOFF Henri 10 2 6 8 7 6 9 38
8 EST 476 Black Pearl VIHUL Tiit 11 3 12 9 5 8 7 43
9 FIN 425 Magic Marine THESLEFF Samuel 7 DNF 7 2 8 11 11 46
10 FIN 662 Kaiser Soze PERIMAA Jaakko 9 9 3 10 BFP 9 8 48
11 FIN 437 Black Sea BARCK Jonathan 8 11 10 12 BFP 10 10 61
12 FIN 573 Manta TUOMINEN Mauri 13 10 9 11 DNS DNS DNS 71
13 SUI 697 Storm ASTRUP Morten E. 12 DNF 13 13 9 12 DNF 73