Brothers Jesse and Zander Kirkland moved up two spots to 24th place after the fifth day of the Rolex Olympic Class Regatta going on in the waters of Biscayne Bay, Miami.
Zander Kirkland said, “On the whole, we felt pretty frustrated with today’s sailing after having two top 5s turn into a 22nd and 21st. Though these results are fairly good for us, having "tasted the fruits" of the top of the fleet, we felt quite disappointed with being unable to finish the races how we wanted. If anything, we've seen the sheer quality of the top of the fleet and the consistency required on every rounding, every gybe, every tack etc. throughout the race. Another disappointment of the day was found in our downwinds where we failed to find any sort of rhythm and ended up losing boats on most downwinds. Having said this, we are pleased that we are able to find the top end of the fleet with quality starts, and hopefully with more time in the boat (fine tuning boathandling and getting faster), we will be able to crank out some top finishes!”.
The brothers started the day in 26th place moved up the two spots after finishing 29th in race thirteen the first race of the day, before finishing race fourteen in 22nd, they then finished the third race of the day in 21st place and now have a total of 314 points.
Manu Dyen & Stephane Christidis from France are the current leaders 87 points, with Nico Delle Karth & Nikolaus Leopold Resch from Australia are in second with 98 points and Simon Karstoft & Jonathan Bay from Denmark are in third with 102 points.
Rolex Olympic Class Regatta Standings after 15 Races
87 Dyen, Manu & Christidis, Stephane - FRA
98 Delle Karth, Nico LM & Resch, Nikolaus Leopold - AUT
102 Karstoft, Simon & Bay, Jonathan - DEN
108 Norregaard, Allan & Lang, Peter - DEN
110 Lehtinen, Lauri & Bask, Kalle - FIN
113 Phillilps, Will & Phillips, Sam - AUS
138 Rocherieux, Yann & Lagraviere, Morgen - FRA
143 Burling, Peter & Tuke, Blair - NZL
144 Cook, Gordon & Lowden, Hunter - CAN
148 Briesenick-Pudenz, Lennart & Massmann, Julian Morten - GER
152 Kruger Andersen, Peter & Thorsell, Nicolai - DEN
160 Storck, Erik & Moore, Trevor - USA
167 Evans, Dave & Powys, Ed - GBR
176 d'Ortoli, Julien & DELPECH, Noe - FRA
178 Fricke, Leopold & Huber, Lorenz - GER
226 Makino, Yukio & Takahashi, Kenji - JPN
232 Kostov, Pavle & Cupac, Petar - CRO
233 Must, Peeter & Horrocks, Carl - USA
236 Zajac, Thomas & Czajka, Thomas - AUT
237 Gooderham, Billy & Hogan, Ian - CAN
256 Dimou, Dionisis & Michalis, Pateniotis - GRE
275 Ladha, Jonthan & Inkpen, Daniel - CAN
304 Goldsberry, Jonathan & Smythe, Charlie - USA
314 Kirkland, Jesse & Kirkland, Alexander - BER
315 Dubreucq, Matthieu & Parekh, Trevor - CAN
323 Kalynchev, Pavlo & Dzhienbaev, Sergey - RUS
324 Pasquali, Joey & Giffen, Rory - USA
332 Bishop, Alex & Smith, Val - USA
346 Brockmann, Ricardo & Morales, Andres - MEX
348 Piccini, Francisco & Correa, Juan Martin - ARG
395 Dale, Rob & Grierson, Kevin - CAN
405 Frost, Robert Arbuckle, Thomas CAN
405 Murrieta, Jorge Xavier Murrieta, Alejandro MEX
425 McCloskey, Cameron Aakhus, Eric USA
442 Brockmann, Erik Mariscal, Jeronimo MEX
454 Morris, Dan Cayard, Danny USA
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