Last weekend saw the provide of the Extreme Sailing Series to Singapore's Marina Bay. We went downwardly to select care of some of the activity on the final hateful solar daytime of contest on the Sunday. The conditions was perfect, enough of sunshine together with a skillful breeze too.
The Extreme Sailing Series was established inwards 2007 together with is the master copy 'stadium-style' racing circuit designed for spectators, delivering exciting activity unopen to the shore. This fourth dimension approximately Singapore hosted the opening human activity of the 2014 global tour. Nine teams from 7 nations are taking business office this yr which includes some of sailing's almost legendary figures, including winners of America's cup, globe champions, tape breakers together with Olympic heroes, including Sir Ben Ainslie. Once in ane trial again amongst the racing at that topographic point was a host of fun activities for the theater unit of measurement equally good equally nutrient together with potable stalls together with best of all entry to sentry the racing was free! Singapore was in ane trial once again represented besides with Team Aberdeen Singapore taking part.
It truly turned out to hold upwards a pretty exciting weekend for spectators which included a major crash betwixt 2 of the teams (Team Aberdeen Singapore together with France's Groupama Sailing Team) due to the windy conditions on the Saturday. Luckily everyone was OK together with both teams were able to create got business office on the Lord's Day later on some repairs had been made overnight.
We spent an entertaining afternoon watching the teams inwards the in conclusion races on the Lord's Day and, of course, were cheering on the British squad inwards particular. In the halt the standings later on hateful solar daytime 4 of the contest together with twenty-nine races are equally follows:
Position / Team / Points
1st - Alinghi (SUI) Morgan Larson, Stuart Pollard, Pierre-Yves Jorand, Nils Frei, Yves Detrey - 217 points.
2nd - The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Sarah Ayton, Pete Greenhalgh, Kinley Fowler, Nasser Al Mashari - 193 points.
3rd - Realstone (SUI) Jérôme Clerc, Arnaud Psarofaghis, Bruno Barbarin, Thierry Wassem, Sebastien Stephant - 178 points.
4th - Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) Dean Barker, Glenn Ashby, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Edwin Delaat - 168 points.
5th - Groupama sailing squad (FRA) Franck Cammas, Sophie de Turckheim, Tanguy Cariou, Thierry Fouchier, Devan Le Bihan - 160 points.
6th - Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, Hans-Peter Steinacher, Mark Bulkeley, Nick Blackman, Haylee Outteridge - 156 points.
7th - J.P. Morgan BAR (GBR) Sir Ben Ainslie, Nick Hutton, Paul Goodison, Pippa Wilson, Matt Cornwell -152 points.
8th - Gazprom Team Russian Federation (RUS) Igor Lisovenko, Paul Campbell-James, Alister Richardson, Pete Cumming, Aleksey Kulakov - 128 points.
9th - Oman Air (OMA) Rob Greenhalgh, Tom Johnson, Will Howden, Hashim Al Rashdi, Musab Al Hadi - 128 points.
10th - SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Køstner, Thierry Douillard, Peter Wibroe, Nicolai Sehested - 126 points.
11th - Team Aberdeen Singapore (SIN) Nick Moloney, Adam Beashel, Scott Glen Sydney, Tom Dawson, Justin Wong - 82 points.
12th - GAC Pindar (AUS) Seve Jarvin, Troy Tindill, Ed Smyth, Sam Newton, Alexandra South - 59 points.
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| J.P. Morgan BAR - The British squad skippered past times Quadruple Olympic Gold together with Silver medalist, Sir Ben Ainslie |
The Extreme Sailing Series 2014 moves on for Act 2 to Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on the 19th - 22nd March 2014,
Act iii - Qingdao, China - 1st - quaternary May 2014,
Act 4 - Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation - 26th - 29th June 2014,
Act v - Cardiff, Great Britain - 22nd - 25th August 2014,
Act vi - Istanbul, Turkey - 11th - 14th September 2014,
Act 7 - Mediterranean (host nonetheless to hold upwards confirmed) - 2d - fifth Oct 2014
and Act 8 - Sydney, Commonwealth of Australia - 11th - 14th Dec 2014.
If you'll hold upwards inwards ane of these locations over those dates create endeavour together with select care of some of the activity for yourself this yr too!