Worlds, Day Four Overview
By Secretary. Filed in Race reports |
David Seaman, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 – Overview, Day four.
Melbourne turned on a scorcher today, with a fiery northerly breeze. After one false start and a general recall, the fleet was extremely well behaved and got off to a clean start at the second attempt. The black flag obviously has some effect at this late start in the Regatta.
With a course running towards Altona Beach, the fleet separated to both sides of the course. At the end of the first beat to the gate, Grant Alderson led, he was overtaken on the downwind leg by 3880, Craig Rainey. By the time they returned to the kite run the the wing mark, the order was Alderson, Parkin, Apthorp and Bax.
The wind then did a Melbourne north of Port Phillip favourite, the south of the course had a southerly cooler breeze, and the north stayed with an increasing northly heat blast. At the finish (after a wide course change), it was No Bull (Grant Alderson) from Art Gekko (Mike Hart) by a short half head. Next was ff (Charles Apthorp), Ffrenetic (Murray Gilbert) and **** (Barry Parkin).
A draw with one race to go!
Results here