The US sonar team of Alphonsus Doerr/Bradley Kendell/Hugh Freund followed up two second place finishes on Thursday with two fourths and their first win of the regatta in Hyeres. They have now finished in the top four in five straight races after a ninth place opener and are poised for a top three finish with two races left.

Caleb Paine’s run of success in the Finn class races came to and end as 30th and 24th place finishes ended a run of four top seven finishes. In the 2.4m category Dee Smith had a solid 4th-9th-8th day to remain the top American while in the Nacra 17 race the team of Bora Gulari/Louisa Chafee were not great in their first three races of the day with three finishes outside of the top 12 (22nd-13th-16th) before really improving for their best finish so far in fifth in race nine.

In the men’s 470 Stuart Mcnay/David Hughes ended a run of three straight eighth place finishes when they were 15th and over on the women’s side the team of Anne Haeger/Briana Provancha were 16th. Christopher Barnard was 24th and 31st in his two Laser races on Friday following a nice seventh place finish on Thursday.

Over in the 49er Thomas Barrows II/Joseph Morris (US Virgin Islands) had one of their best days with 13th and 21st place finishes while in the men’s RS:X Pedro Pascual was on the course side to start so he finished 41st. Finally in the women’s RS:X Marion Lepert was unable to follow up a fourth place finish to wrap up Thursday with much success as she was 28th.

The 2.4m, Sonar, and RS:X men’s categories all wrap up on Saturday. There will be two races in the 2.4m and the sonar categories while RS:X will go three times. 

All the other categories will have their final races before the field is cut for Sunday’s final race. In the 49er, men’s and women’s 470, Nacra 17, and RS:X women’s categories that means three races while the Finn category has one race and Laser has two.

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