Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship – Day 4

[caption id="attachment_5776" align="alignnone" width=""]photo by Jorge Cousillas[/caption]Buenos Aires, November 24, 2012. Report by Jerelyn Biehl. Bethlem and Bianchi Continue to Dominate at the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship Reigning Snipe World champions Bruno Bethlem and Dante Bianchi continue to dominate the fleet by sailing a consistent 3 races to put them 11 points in the lead. Sailing 3-3-7 today, they remain atop the leader board, yet two Japanese teams of Junichiro Shiraishi and Shinsei Ueda and Yasushi Kondo and Shingo Ishikawa put the pressure on tied for 2nd overall with 25 points. Shiraishi/Ueda had a difficult day with a Z-flag penalty/11 - 26 and a win in the last race, still good enough to keep them tied for second. Following in 3rd is fellow Brazilian and multi-world champion Mario Tinoco with Gabriel Borges crewing. Tinoco/Borges, Kondo/Ishikawa and Mateus Tavares & Daniel Claro (BRA) all had sub-10 finishes today in the more consistent 8-12 knot breeze. With the 6th race now on the table, a drop race has been calculated.

by SCIRA Office 11/25/2012

Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship – Day 4 Image — photo by Jorge Cousillas

Buenos Aires, November 24, 2012. Report by Jerelyn Biehl.

Bethlem and Bianchi Continue to Dominate at the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship

Reigning Snipe World champions Bruno Bethlem and Dante Bianchi continue to dominate the fleet by sailing a consistent 3 races to put them 11 points in the lead. Sailing 3-3-7 today, they remain atop the leader board, yet two Japanese teams of Junichiro Shiraishi and Shinsei Ueda and Yasushi Kondo and Shingo Ishikawa put the pressure on tied for 2nd overall with 25 points. Shiraishi/Ueda had a difficult day with a Z-flag penalty/11 – 26 and a win in the last race, still good enough to keep them tied for second.

Following in 3rd is fellow Brazilian and multi-world champion Mario Tinoco with Gabriel Borges crewing. Tinoco/Borges, Kondo/Ishikawa and Mateus Tavares & Daniel Claro (BRA) all had sub-10 finishes today in the more consistent 8-12 knot breeze. With the 6th race now on the table, a drop race has been calculated.

Racing finishes tomorrow with hopes for a possible 3 races and the championship still open. The winner will determine the Western Hemisphere & Orient champions who earn an automatic berth into the 2014 Worlds to be held in Rio de Janeiro next September.

About the Snipe:
Hosted by Yacht Club Olivos, this is the 4th time the Snipe Class has returned to Argentina for the championship which has been held since 1950, with the first event held in Havana, Cuba. SCIRA (Snipe Class International Racing Association) is celebrating its 81st year of competition with fleets in 27 countries and over 31,000 boats built.

Updates can be found at SnipeToday FB page

Full results can be found at: www.yco.com.ar

Additional photos by Jorge Cousillas, El Ojo Nautico can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301044693333588.59575.100002841796468&type=3

Pl	Sail #	Crew	Fm	Subgroup	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Tot
1	30997	Bruno Bethlem & Dante Bianchi	BRA	Senior	1	5	2	3	3	(7)	14
2	31033	Junichiro Shiraishi & Shinsei Ueda	JPN	Senior	9	1	3	11\ZFP	(26)	1	25
3	31071	Yasushi Kondo & Shingo Ishikawa	JPN	Senior	12	2	(24)	7	1	3	25
4	31961	Mario Tinoco & Gabriel Borges	BRA	Senior	11	(26)	1	4	5	5	26
5	31066	Mateus Tavares & Daniel Claro	BRA	Senior	3	(25)	15	8	6	4	36
6	28701	Luis Soubie & Diego Lipszyc	ARG	Senior	8	9	12	(16)	2	6	37
7	29818	Paulo Santos & Thiago Sangineto	BRA	Master	2	11	6	(38)	11	14	44
8	30288	Augie Diaz & Kathleen Tocke	USA	Master & Mixed	(22)	7	5	21	10	9	52
9	31040	Eduardo Fumagallo & Alejandro Noe	ARG	Master	15	4	4	24	9	(51\OCS)	56
10	29887	Augusto Amato & Constanza Alvarez	ARG	Senior & Mixed	7	19	9	13	8	(32)	56
11	30439	Brian Kamilar & Enrique Quintero	USA	Senior	6	21	(26)	18	7	10	62
12	31002	Yuuichi Ooi & Noriaki Sakai	JPN	Senior	17	8	13	(37)	24	2	64
13	31047	Felipe Sabino & Víctor Sabino	BRA	Junior	13	13	(33)	10	22	12	70
14	29886	Federico Calabrese & Gonzalo Ramos Vertiz	ARG	Senior	5	3	16	20	27	(29)	71
15	29829	Pablo Defazio & Mariana Foglia	URU	Senior & Mixed	23	29	(31)	5	4	13	74
16	31062	Adolfo Benavidez Ruiz & Guido Morlachetti	ARG	Senior	(51\OCS)	12	10	15	15	24	76
17	30266	Breno Valdetaro Bianchi & Luiz Felipe Caneppa	BRA	Senior	4	31	8	(35)	13	22	78
18	31109	Ricardo Rezende & Arthur Souza	BRA	Senior	19	15	(35)	25	12	11	82
19	30711	Yasuhiro Oguri & Naoyuki Nanba	JPN	Junior	16	14	20	(29)	18	15	83
20	31004	Rafael Gaglioti & Henrique Wisniewski	BRA	Senior	14	10	30	22	(51\DSQ)	8	84
21	31008	Javier Moyano & Javier Matheu	ARG	Senior	20	22	14	11	21	(35)	88
22	31121	Felipe Linhares & Alex Juk	BRA	Senior	10	27	25	9	(28)	18	89
23	28984	Mariano Arroyo & Nicolás Coppari	ARG	Senior	27	16	7	33\ZFP	16	(38)	99
24	29003	Takeshi Yoshioka & Takairo Maruko	JPN	Senior	(51\OCS)	18	32	2	20	34	106
25	30473	Ernesto Rodriguez & Esteban Echavarría	USA	Senior	25	20	34	(51\ZFP)	14	16	109
26	28026	Federico Waksman & Paolo Sassi	URU	Senior	(40)	24	39	12	19	21	115
27	30690	Felipe Cunha & Luiz Eduardo Garrido	BRA	Senior	32	34	18	6	(36)	27	117
28	29675	Naoki Inoue & Tsunenari Kawal	JPN	Master	18	6	22	(44)	30	42	118
29	29112	Kevin Reali & Timothy King	USA	Senior	36	30	23	17	(39)	19	125
30	30544	Juliana Duque & Marcus Cunha	BRA	Junior & Mixed	30	17	(41)	32	23	25	127
31	30453	Martín Viale & Agustín Pérez Gori	ARG	Senior	26	(40)	11	34	33	28	132
32	31070	Mitsugu Nakajima & Kazuhiro Ito	JPN	Senior	28	33	17	38\ZFP	17	(51\OCS)	133
33	29228	Matías Chemes & Jorge Chemes	ARG	Junior	31	(38)	19	27	35	30	142
34	30949	Brenda Quagliotti & Victoria Courtade	ARG	Women	39	32	21	14	40	(41)	146
35	31091	Mario Urban & Rafael Sapucaia	BRA	Senior	29	36	37	(51\OCS)	25	20	147
36	28663	Andrea Foglia & María Tato	URU	Women	21	42	(43)	30	38	17	148
37	28697	Franco Camba & Federico Secchi	ARG	Senior	24	23	28	(43)	34	40	149
38	28699	Cara Vavolotis & Rachel Pokorny	USA	Women	38	28	29	31	29	(39)	155
39	28645	Carlos Castrillo & Axel Chamson	ARG	Master	43	(44)	38	19	41	23	164
40	29671	Tarasa Davis & Kim Calnan	USA	Senior & Women	37	(43)	27	36	37	37	174
41	30604	Emanuel Aghem & Luciano Pesci	ARG	Junior	33	35	(51\OCS)	51\ZFP	31	33	183
42	28643	Patricio Middleton & Néstor Valdés	CHI	Master	(42)	37	40	39	42	26	184
43	30691	Rafael Martins & Mila Beckerath	BRA	Mixed	35	39	44	(51\DNF)	32	36	186
44	30487	Roberto Malsch & Carmina Malsch	CHI	Senior & Mixed	44	(45)	45	43\ZFP	44	31	207
45	30492	Alejandro Triggiano & Diego Hardie	ARG	Senior	34	41	42	40	(51\DNF)	51\DNC	208
46	28845	Sebastián Rodriguez Estruch & Juan Felipich	CHI	Senior	(48)	47	46	26	47	45	211
47	30819	Francisco Pérez & Leonel Cabrera	CAN	Senior	45	(50)	36	45	43	43	212
48	30594	Tomás Rodriguez & Benjamín Aylwin	CHI	Master	47	(49)	47\RDG	47	45	44	230
49	29318	Christopher Hains & Barbara Mann	CAN	Master	46	48	48\RDG	46	46	(51\DNC)	234
50	30953	Leonardo Taboada & Daniela Harfush	BRA	Senior & Mixed	41	46	(51\DNF)	51\ZFP	51\DNC	51\DNC	240