Today Friday the 30th of October, saw the 12 teams competing for the Student Yachting Worlds, go at it for their last day of racing. All was left to fight for with second place through to 6th only points apart. The Italians had cleaned up and had secured 1st position yesterday and are now the 2009 Student Yachting World Cup champions.
The race committee had a plan to get two windward leeward races off today but resulted in only one as the winds in Marsielle decided not to hold out for the final race.
RACE 1 today and Race 14 of the championship got underway in a 6 knot flukey breeze. ‘3 Mobile’ CIT Team were off to a great start and in the top 5 of the fleet. They went on to round the windward mark in 4th position and continued their battle on the downwind reaching the leeward mark in 4th having held off the fighting pack.
However USA had taken a wild gamble and were the first to gybe and went out left on the downwind they gained 7 places and climed from 8th at the windward to 1st at the leeward mark. Where the committee decided to finish the race. CIT finished in 4th, Italy 3rd, France 2nd and USA 1st. This led to a shuffle on the overall leaderboard.
The Overall Standings of the 2009 Student Yachting World Cup in Marsielle France are:
1st – ITALY – 24points.
2nd – CZECH REPUBLIC – 45points.
3rd – FRANCE (Audencia) – 48points.
4th – USA – 49points.
5th – CIT – 49points.








