For this last day of qualification for the finals, no time-out for the 19 crews!
With about 15 knots of wind in the natural harbour and 9 run rounds, the leaders of the ranking played musical chairs and Australians of AUS2 passed in head follow-ups very closely by the women French crew of FRA3 compound of students of Brest who had already run the World in 2016 in Australia. France holds the podium with the crew 100 % Normandy of FRA2 who maintains his place in the head trio.
At the end of this third day of competition, the picture of the selected crews is finally known. In the Golden circle, will be in confrontation 11 first ones of the classification, which allows France to count three crews on four in the race. In the Silver circle , 9 other crews.
From tomorrow meters are put back to zero for the competitors and everything is allowed to dream about a podium .
They said: “we took some pleasure on the water after two a little bit difficult days but we managed to erase our errors of the beginning. We are in the 10th place today what qualifies us for the circle Now it is good for us. We are going to keep navigating here because it is very different from our home ” Matthias Puxkandl, skipper of the Austrian crew,15th in the temporary general ranking.
