Another day of consistently light and fluky conditions put paid to hopes of the World Class Performance Mistral squad making the final top twenty at the Mistral World Championships at Noumea in the French Polynesian Islands at the weekend.

Nick Dempsey (Peterborough) and Dominic Tidey (Hampshire) finished in twenty fourth and twenty fifth place overall respectively in the men’s Gold fleet, which was won quite significantly by Lars Kleppich (Australia).

Helen Cartwright (Liverpool) and Christine Johnston (Hampshire) also finished one place apart in twenty ninth and thirtieth overall in the women’s fleet. Their world title was decided with a race to spare after Barbara Kendall (New Zealand) won for the second year in a row.

NEW CALEDONIA: Mistral World Championships (after 7 days)
Men Gold Fleet (after 11 races, 1 discard)
1, Lars Kleppich (Aus) 2,2,14,3,3,3,6,3,10,4,1 – 37pts
2, Tony Philp (Fiji) 3,1,7,4,1,7,19,8,5,7,8 – 51pts
3, Marcos Galvan (Arg) 11,7,11,7,29,5,3,7,1,6,18 – 76pts
British Placings:
24, Nick Dempsey – 17,4,2,4,25,44,23,31,8,25,32 – 171pts
25, Dominic Tidey – 9,18,5,10,37,11,28,18,26,30,23 – 178pts
48, Adrian Jones – 7,OCS,19,6,48,46,43,36,42,37 – 333pts

Men Silver Fleet (after 11 races, 1 discard)
1, Gao Chuanwei (Chn) 16,23,29,36,5,5,18,5,11,7,1 – 120pts
2, Kevin Stittle – 31,29,25,25,3,18,3,4,BFD,6,3 – 147pts
3, Jehunatan Ben Zeev (Chn) 35,28,31,34,10,10,4,7,6,4,18 – 152pts
British Placings:
8, Ben Proffitt – 33,21,19,26,14,19,16,18,3,BFD,9 – 178pts
11, Alan Jackson – 30,11,24,29,14,9,29,14,17,32,5 – 182pts
21, Matthew Wemms – 34,22,37,25,23,14,30,27,25,15,32 – 247pts

Women’s fleet (11 races, 1 discard)
1, Barbara Kendall (Nzl) 1,2,1,2,2,6,2,2,4,4, DNC – 26pts
2, Faustine Merret (Fra) 8,21,31,15,1,1,1,10,1,6,1 – 65pts
3, Lise Vidal (Fra) 12,7,21,7,9,5,4,23,15,9,5 – 94pts
British Placings:
28, Helen Cartwright – 25,23,8,9,33,26,35,44,31,22,34 – 246pts
29, Christine Johnston – 10,10,2,5,35,34,38,41,36,DNF,42 – 253pts
46, Jessica Ash – 53,45,43,54,38,57,40,47,33,40,22 – 415pts