Pride in placings at worlds

TASMANIAN sailor Jock Calvert has missed out on making the gold medal fleet in the Finn class at the world wailing championships in Aarhus Denmark, but has finished the regatta with a first and two seconds places in the Silver fleet.

Overall, he finished 48th in the fleet of more than 90 sailors contesting this Olympic men’s single-handed dinghy class and second in the silver fleet. The regatta was sailed in mostly light breezes, but on the second last day a violent squall hit the Finn fleet, forcing the race to be abandoned.

Jock’s best place was a 17th in the huge fleet and now he is off to Slovenia for the Under 34 worlds for the Finn class.

“In all, it was a shame how I started my week, missing gold fleet was a real blow,” Jock wrote on his Facebook page.

“But I got some real positives out of my experiences in the silver fleet, and leave the regatta with good feelings.”

Only one race was completed for the final day for the Finns, with race 10 being abandoned halfway through.

In the first race Jock led around the top mark the first time but “got rolled on the short reach and was second on the downwind leg”.

In the second race, Jock had moved through the fleet to be third on the first downwind leg, then first and second halfway up the beat.

In other events, brother and sister Nathan and Haylee Outterridge won the Naca 17 multihull class, finishing the Gold fleet with a 1-2-5 score.