The first leg of The Tall Ships’ Races, Baltic Series started to St Petersburg on Sunday 5 July.
Each crew has radio contact with the committee vessel every 12 hours and reports its coordinates. After this the race committee makes preliminary leaderboard in classes. All vessels coordinates are published online every 12 hours at the website
http://www.tallshipsraces.com/baltic.
Оn June 6 at 5 o’clock, after first 12 hours of racing under building wind, the situation was the following: Russian sail training ship “MIR” moving at 6 knots took the leadership in A class and the whole fleet. Hot on her heels is the Poland’s flagship Dar Mlodziezy and Christian Radich from Norway. Unfortunately, Russian sailer Yunyi Baltiets lacked wind and goes only 15th in class. The four masted sail training barque Sedov did not started the race and moves to St.Petersburg in a cruise mode. The B class leaders are schooners Rupel, Jens Krogh and Albanus.
The hardest competition is in C and D classes (C class ships are modern rigged ships, without spinnaker and D class are the same rigged but with spinnaker). There are only three Russian yachts in C class – Akela (8th place), Zvezda (12th place) and Neva (16th place). The Class D leader is Hebe III from the Czech Republic. Russian Varyag, Nika and Adventure take second, third and fifth places.
Overall results ща Russian ships in classes:
Class А:
Mir – 1
Yunyi Baltiets – 19
Sedov – did not started
C and D classes:
Adventure (D) – 5
Akela (С) - 8
Argo (D) – 19
Bylina (D) – 9
Varyag (D) – 2
Diana (D) – 17
Elena (D) – 26
Zvezda (С) - 12
Neva (С) - 16
Nika (D) – 3
Siberia (D) – 22
