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Ed Baird and Russell Coutts Photo: MartinezStudio.es |
It was Russell Coutts, tactician this week on Katusha, first RC44 event since Rovinj, Croatia in October last year, but enjoyed his return to the fleet. “It’s been a great event here in Cascais. Today wasn’t our prettiest a few mistakes but we did enough to win, so that feels good.” |
The fight was now on for third place. With just nine-points separating Peninsula Petroleum in third from sixth place Synergy Russian Sailing Team everyone needed to sail their own race and hope they came out on top.
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It wasn’t until the final metres into the finish line where Peninsula got themselves trapped between Aegir (GBR) and CEEREF (SLO), that it was all over, they went from twelfth to fifteenth and handed Synergy the final place on the podium.
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Katusha crew Photo: MartinezStudio.es |
“We had a great day today, it was very exciting and I think we probably had the best day, which was a surprise for us as much as anyone. In the second race we had the question of what jib do we use as the storm came through, the wind got a little stronger so we changed for our smaller one but then the wind died as we started to race so we really struggled, the guys did a great job changing sails downwind and then we gained a boat place on each leg after that which was a really great job by the crew,” said Ed Baird, tactician, Synergy Russian Sailing Team.
In the overall standings Team Aqua retains the golden wheels with just three-points from the first two events, their closest rivals Artemis Racing and Peninsula Petroleum, both on nine-points.
RC44 Cascais Cup 2012 Ranking
(After eleven races sailed)
1 Katusha
3 7 1 4 4 3 2 1 4 9 4 – 42
2 Team Aqua
8 1 3 9 6 5 6 3 1 6 1 – 49
3 Synergy Russian Sailing Team
1 10 7 5 5 6 10 13 10 2 3 – 72
4 Ironbound
14 15 2 7 7 2 3 4 7 3 10 – 74
5 Peninsula Petroleum Sailing Team
4 13 11 14 1 1 5 2 2 7 15 – 75
6 Artemis Racing
7 3 8 13 12 7 1 11 5 4 6 – 77
7 RC44 Team CEEREF
5 2 6 1 11 8 7 5 8 13 12 – 78
8 No Way Back
6 4 4 11 3 13 13 7 3 12 8 – 84
9 AEZ Sailing Team
12 14 5 12 10 4 4 6 6 10 7 – 90
10 Puerto Calero
10 9 9 6 8 9 12 8 13 8 2 – 94
11 RUS-7 Sail Racing Team
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9 11 13 2 2 11 9 12 16(BFD) 1 9 – 95
12 Team Cascais
2 5 12 3 13 10 11 15 12 5 5 (2)- 95
13 Aegir
11 6 14 8 16(DNS) 16(DNS) 8 14 16(BFD) 11 13 – 133
14 Team Nika
13 8 10 10 16(DNS) 16(DNS) 16(DNS) 10 11 14 11 – 135
15 AFX Capital Racing Team
15 12 15 15 9 12 16(DNF) 9 9 16(OCS) 14 (4)- 145
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