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Photo: Jen Hughes |
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“Gordon is really sailing aggressively,” praised Hill, the reigning national champion. “When conditions get up to 25 knots and these boat gets up on the plane they are very strenuous to helm. Gordon held it all together. Congratulations to him and his team.”
Nutcracker has the fire-power of America’s Cup sailor and past Etchells world champion Ben Lamb on board as tactician. The combination of Lamb, the two owners and core Melbourne crew plus couple of Sydney ring-ins is melding into solid challenge for a trophy placing, which would be their best result since joining up with the dominant Sydney fleet two seasons ago.
“It’s all coming together for us,” said Baker. “We’ve put in a fair bit of work in over the last couple of years; we knew eventually we’d string a good day together and we are wrapped to be mixing it with the good guys. It was hot, windy, and fluky coming out of the west and there are some tired boys and girls looking forward to an early night.”
The class was fortunate to have Olympic sailor turned coach Neville Whitty handling the on-water umpire role and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s race management team led by Rob Ridley ran another excellent day for the eight crews.
Forecast conditions are dubious for Monday March 19, the final day of the 2017-18 Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy. Overnight southerlies 20-30 knots may have all but petered out by the scheduled start of race seven, at 1100hrs, then teams can expect a dodgy transition period before the wind clocks left and afternoon sea breezes reach the course.
Results at http://www.farr40.asn.au/results/
Forecast conditions are dubious for Monday March 19, the final day of the 2017-18 Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy. Overnight southerlies 20-30 knots may have all but petered out by the scheduled start of race seven, at 1100hrs, then teams can expect a dodgy transition period before the wind clocks left and afternoon sea breezes reach the course.
Results at http://www.farr40.asn.au/results/
Lisa Ratcliff
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