Zach Railey Currently 9th

Another great performance from the Olympic Champion Ben Ainslie (GBR) on the fourth day of racing for the Finns at the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta moves him into a narrow, but significant, seven point lead at the top of the fleet after posting a first and second on Wednesday. Pieter Jan Postma (NED) moves up to second place after winning the second race of the day while Jonathan Lobert (FRA) drops one to third, with just two more races to sail before the medal race split.

What was initially supposed to be a lighter day on the waters of Weymouth Bay turned into a tough day's sailing as the wind once again treated the Finn fleet to physically challenging upwind sailing and sleigh ride sailing downwind. For the first race of the day the Finns were racing on the Nothe course, the proposed course area for all the medal races. In an offshore wind, with the high land at the top of the course it can be a shifty, fickle nightmare for the sailors.

Zach Railey (USA) didn't have the best day with a 16, 11. He said, “Not a good day results wise. My lack of body weight was really exposed today. But I am becoming more comfortable with te wind shifts.”

Result after eight races (one discard) 1 GBR Ben Ainslie 15 2 NED Pieter Jan Postma 22 3 FRA Jonathan Lobert 26 4 ESP Rafa Trujillo 38 5 CRO Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic 39 6 EST Deniss Karpak 41 7 DEN Jonas Hoegh Christensen 46 8 NZL Dan Slater 56 9 USA Zach Railey 62 10 SLO Gasper Vincec 70


(yachte.com)