SailJuice Blog

Nasty weather brought the Tornado World Championships to a close without the final day’s racing being contested, which leaves Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby as the new champions. This is Glenn’s second title and his helmsman’s 6th Tornado World title.

Congratulations to the Aussies, who were favourite to win, but who looked far from winning this event after a topsy-turvy day one, when they notched up scores of 14,23. Gradually throughout the week they ground themselves back into contention, taking the lead on what would become the last day of racing.

The other frontrunners in this event will be delighted with their performance. The French team of Yann Guichard and Alexandre Guyader were leading earlier in the week, but will still be pleased to have secured bronze. Perhaps though they will be a little frustrated not to have beaten… Read the rest