87 Sailors from 13 nations were greeted to light wind and sunny conditions on the first day of the ASAF Youth Sailing Championships being held at Abu Dhabi. The forecast, although light, did look promising and all boats were released from the beach and headed to their respective courses so that they were ready to race as soon as the wind came in and by 1200 the wind had settled in and all classes were racing.
Optimist
The 58-boat Optimist class sails in two fleets, the regular and the Green fleet.
Saif Saeed Al Mansoori (UAE) sits at the top of the results list after first, second and fourth place finishes: "It feels good to start the week with positive results but there are lots of races to go," explained Mansoori.
Mansoori continued: "It was a pressure and shifts day out there so I just focused on that, there was one tough call in the second race where I decided to tack out left on the last beat as I saw a band of pressure coming down and I think I gained a few places, it was a good decision."
Nicolce Scholer (HKG) has made her mark on the fleet already, posting first, second and first positions and leads the Optimist (Girls) division.
Laser 4.7
Dominating the Laser 4.7 (Boys) was Thomas Norton (HKG), who picked up two firsts.
It's the start he wanted explained Thomas: "It was pretty good, I had a poor finish in the third race of the day, but it's all about keeping it simple on the first day, stick to the shifts and work hard.
"The conditions were light, patchy at first, it picked up a bit but then dropped off for the final race. In the first race I had a nice little battle with Rashed Ahmed Saleh Ateeq Al Hemeiri (UAE) and in the second race he was pretty close behind," concluded Thomas Norton.
Rashed Ahmed Saleh Ateeq Al Hemeiri (UAE) and Abdulla Mohamed Yousef Al Beshr (UAE) are second and third respectively.
Marie Oldeman (NED) leads the Laser 4.7 (Girls). "I had a good first day, it was quite light all day," commented Marie. "The last race was a bit dodgy, we just started in 8 knots and it dropped down to four, it was a really long course so it took ages, Marie concluded.
Stephanie Norton (HKG) and Molly Highfield(HKG) are second and third respectively.
Laser Radial
Eissa Sultan Jumaa Al Marzooqi (UAE) won the boys Laser Radial race after some confusion about the course. It was a good day said Al Marzooqi: "The third race I had a great lead and just extended from there, it was tough just really light winds." Al Marzooqi continued: "I came off the line with quite good speed, I tacked across the rest of the fleet, covering the fleet, extending the lead and just staying in front."
Saif Ibrahim Ali Al Marzooqi (UAE) and Somaskandan Sivakumar (IND) are in second and third place respectively.
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Racing continues for all classes on Wednesday 6 April through to Saturday 9 April at Abu Dhabi.
Results are provisional as of 17:50 on April 5, 2016
Optimist Green Fleet
Sailed: 3, Discards: 0, To count: 3, Entries: 13, Scoring system: Appendix A
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
 UAE |
Dhabya Khaled Yousef Al Mansoori | 2.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| 2nd |
UAE |
Zayed Saleh Al Hammadi | 3.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| 3rd |
 IND |
Sachin Ganesh | 4.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| 4th |
 HKG |
Sean Lau | 1.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| 5th |
IND |
Thulsi Mouva | 6.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| 6th |
UAE |
Brian | 9.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| 7th |
UAE |
Hazzaa Al Hammadi | 5.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 22.0 | 22.0 |
| 8th |
UAE |
Mohammed Al Marshoudi | 7.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 |
| 9th |
UAE |
Khaled Al Blooshi | 8.0 | 14.0 DNC | 7.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 |
| 10th |
 FRA |
Maximilien Victor | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 8.0 | 36.0 | 36.0 |
| 11th |
 GBR |
Thomas Fitzsimons | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 42.0 | 42.0 |
| 11th |
UAE |
Rashed Ahmed Al Swaidi | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 42.0 | 42.0 |
| 11th |
UAE |
Alhur Ahmed Al Swaidi | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 14.0 DNC | 42.0 | 42.0 |
Optimist (M)
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
UAE |
Saif Saeed Al Mansoori | 1.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
| 2nd |
UAE |
Mohamed Abdulla Al Hammadi | 3.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| 3rd |
HKG |
Duncan Gregor | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| 4th |
UAE |
Abdulaziz Abdulla Al Hammadi | 2.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| 5th |
UAE |
Outhman Abdelkrim Al Hammadi | 7.0 | 3.0 | 16.0 | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| 6th |
IND |
Chitresh Tatha | 6.0 | 6.0 | 14.0 | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| 7th |
UAE |
Ahmed Samir Al Maghrebi | 14.0 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 27.0 | 27.0 |
| 8th |
GBR |
Noah Fisk | 10.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 27.0 | 27.0 |
| 9th |
UAE |
Ebraheem Saleh Al Hammadi | 8.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 |
| 10th |
GBR |
Jamie Wilkinson | 16.0 | 14.0 | 3.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 |
| 11th |
UAE |
Mohamed Saeed Al Mansoori | 20.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 |
| 12th |
 AUS |
Isaac Schotte | 15.0 | 15.0 | 7.0 | 37.0 | 37.0 |
| 13th |
IND |
Navyn Prabhakar | 17.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 |
| 14th |
UAE |
Al Harith Ismail Al Ali | 5.0 | 13.0 | 25.0 | 43.0 | 43.0 |
| 15th |
HKG |
Pasu Chu Kwai Chung | 12.0 | 12.0 | 20.0 | 44.0 | 44.0 |
| 16th |
UAE |
Abdulla Adnan Al Mansoori | 9.0 | 24.0 | 12.0 | 45.0 | 45.0 |
| 17th |
IND |
Neelanand Ramakrishnan | 19.0 | 17.0 | 11.0 | 47.0 | 47.0 |
| 18th |
UAE |
Ghaith Sultan Al Farsi | 11.0 | 18.0 | 21.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 |
| 19th |
HKG |
Yip Pet Tsun | 13.0 | 22.0 | 18.0 | 53.0 | 53.0 |
| 20th |
IND |
Anirudh Kivalur Sivakumar | 23.0 | 16.0 | 17.0 | 56.0 | 56.0 |
| 21st |
HKG |
Lumiere NG | 18.0 | 20.0 | 23.0 | 61.0 | 61.0 |
| 22nd |
UAE |
Khamees Ibrahim Al Hammadi | 22.0 | 21.0 | 19.0 | 62.0 | 62.0 |
| 23rd |
UAE |
Falah Bader Al Memari | 25.0 | 25.0 | 13.0 | 63.0 | 63.0 |
| 24th |
UAE |
Mayed Rahimah | 21.0 | 19.0 | 27.0 | 67.0 | 67.0 |
| 25th |
UAE |
Ahmed Salem Rashed Al Remeithi | 24.0 | 23.0 | 24.0 | 71.0 | 71.0 |
| 26th |
 GRE |
Athos Trigkonis | 27.0 | 28.0 | 22.0 | 77.0 | 77.0 |
| 27th |
UAE |
Khalifa Al Marzooqi | 26.0 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 78.0 | 78.0 |
| 28th |
UAE |
Zayed Rahimah | 28.0 | 27.0 | 29.0 | 84.0 | 84.0 |
| 29th |
GBR |
Ross McGarth | 29.0 | 32.0 DNC | 28.0 | 89.0 | 89.0 |
| 30th |
FRA |
Pierre Victor | 32.0 DNC | 32.0 DNC | 30.0 | 94.0 | 94.0 |
| 31st |
HKG |
Faolan Whyte | 32.0 DNC | 32.0 DNC | 32.0 DNC | 96.0 | 96.0 |
Optimist (W)
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
HKG |
Nicolce Scholer | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2nd |
HKG |
Jasmine Scholer | 2.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| 3rd |
 NED |
Mathilde Oldeman | 3.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| 4th |
HKG |
Emily Wong | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| 5th |
 TUR |
Karya Basaraner | 7.0 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 6th |
IND |
Juhi Nital Desai | 11.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 | 21.0 | 21.0 |
| 7th |
UAE |
Salama Adnan Al Mansoori | 5.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 23.0 | 23.0 |
| 8th |
UAE |
Salama Mohamed Al Beshr | 9.0 | 14.0 | 5.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 |
| 9th |
IND |
Ishwariya Ganesh | 12.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 |
| 10th |
UAE |
Dhuha Mohamed Al Beshr | 6.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 |
| 11th |
IND |
Lepakkshi m.k. | 8.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 |
| 12th |
UAE |
Ghala Mohamed Al Beshr | 13.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 |
| 13th |
IND |
Nithya Balachander | 10.0 | 9.0 | 13.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 |
| 14th |
UAE |
Alyazyeh Ebrahim Al Mansoori | 15.0 DNC | 12.0 | 10.0 | 37.0 | 37.0 |
Laser 4.7 (M)
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
HKG |
Thomas Norton | 1.0 | 1.0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| 2nd |
UAE |
Rashed Ahmed Saleh Ateeq Al Hemeiri | 2.0 | 2.0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| 3rd |
UAE |
Abdulla Mohamed Yousef Al Beshr | 3.0 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 4th |
HKG |
Preston Tso | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| 5th |
UAE |
Hamza Ismail Al Ali | 13.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 20.0 | 20.0 |
| 6th |
UAE |
Ahmed Younes Abdulla Al Hammadi | 5.0 | 3.0 | 12.0 | 20.0 | 20.0 |
| 7th |
UAE |
Mohammed AbdelKrim Al Hammadi | 9.0 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 21.0 | 21.0 |
| 8th |
HKG |
Oskar Tulberg | 10.0 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 21.0 | 21.0 |
| 9th |
UAE |
Abdulla Saif Alamoodi | 12.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 23.0 | 23.0 |
| 10th |
IND |
Mahesh Balachander | 4.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 23.0 | 23.0 |
| 11th |
IND |
Venkat Krishna Karumanchi | 8.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 23.0 | 23.0 |
| 12th |
UAE |
Khalfan Mohamed Bugarraah Al Hemeiri | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 23.0 | 23.0 |
| 13th |
IND |
Rishab Nayar | 11.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 37.0 | 37.0 |
| 14th |
IND |
Pranavaidiya Kumaravel | 14.0 | 14.0 | 14.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 |
| 15th |
IND |
Arvind Arumugam Murugan | 15.0 | 17.0 DNC | 17.0 DNC | 49.0 | 49.0 |
| 16th |
UAE |
Hamdan Ebrahim Yaqoob Al Mansoori | 17.0 DNC | 17.0 DNC | 17.0 DNC | 51.0 | 51.0 |
Laser 4.7 (W)
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
NED |
Marie Oldeman | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| 2nd |
HKG |
Stephanie Norton | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
| 3rd |
HKG |
Molly Highfield | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 |
Laser Radial (M)
| Rank | Nat | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |
UAE |
Saif Ibrahim Ali Al Marzooqi | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
| 2nd |
IND |
Somaskandan Sivakumar | 1.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 |
| 3rd |
UAE |
Mohamed Abdulla Al Marzooqi | 3.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| 4th |
HKG |
Malik Hood | 4.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| 5th |
UAE |
Eissa Sultan Jumaa Al Marzooqi | 2.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 OCS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| 6th |
UAE |
Abdulla Sultan Ibrahim Al Marzouki | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| 7th |
UAE |
Ahmed Thani Al Shamsi | 7.0 | 9.0 DNC | 9.0 DNC | 25.0 | 25.0 |
| 8th |
UAE |
Abdulrahman Abdulla M.J Al Marzooqi | 9.0 DNC | 9.0 DNC | 9.0 DNC | 27.0 | 27.0 |
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