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WOXI Photo: Salty Dingo |
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Romanza Photo: Salty Dingo |
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Hooligan Photo: Salty Dingo |
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Photo: Salty Dingo |
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Drumfire Photo: Salty Dingo |
“Rafa had been living in New Zealand and the Australian Sailing Team, who we sponsor, managed to encourage him to come and live in Australia and coach the Finns for the next Olympic Games,” Blackmore said.
“I always steer the starts and I did the first windy legs today and then Rafa did the rest. He’s a lovely bloke, fantastic; but we just don’t understand what he’s saying some of the time, that’s all,” he added.
The IRC Division 2 is proving tough for those trying to chase down the Botin 40 Team Hollywood, (owned by Ray Roberts), given their perfect scorecard of three corrected time wins.
“The boat’s probably one of the nicest boats I’ve ever sailed. Marcelino Botin has designed a beautiful boat and we now just have to sail her well. Today was a very tricky day of sailing and we had a really tight race with Victoire. They were ahead for most of the race but we got a break on them. They’re sailing really well and close to us. It’s on every day,” Roberts said.
A broken rudder pulled up the New Zealand Rapido 60 Romanza who weren’t able to finish their long race. Dale Mitchell’s Lombard trimaran, Morticia, leads the Multihull Racing division ahead of Stardust.
Hamilton Island Division One Leader Drumfire, Phillip Neil’s Hoek TC78 design, is ahead of Robert Vaughan’s Muir 64 Van Diemen III on a countback in the pointscore for what should be renamed ‘the grand division’ with the beautiful hull shapes of the classic designs among the vintage maxis such as Condor.
The Hamilton Island Cruiser Racer and Multihull Divisions, Non-spinnaker and Trailables started from the Eastern Course and enjoyed variations on a theme that included a downwind run in flat water through the scenic Long Island Sound.
The trailables were the first home, rewarded for their long haul to the Eastern start line with a straight run west to Pine Island and home. First home was BSC Sailing School and overall the local Rhumbmaid with the crew name ‘Team Effort’ leads the series by two points.
Three days of racing for 233 yachts marks the midway point of the 35th edition of Race Week and now there will be a break in the on-water schedule, on Wednesday August 22, with racing set to resume on Thursday.
Results for all divisions
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