Report from the Sea Dubai Sailing Team
Posted on Thursday, July 29 @ 03:13:02 CDT by Editors
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28th July 2010. Valencia, Spain. Sea Dubai takes fourth place in the match racing round of the RC44 Valencia Cup. After an average start on the first day they excelled on the second winning all four matches majestically.
Favouring the right hand side of the course for the matches today, Wednesday, paid off in the end but it was touch and go in the first match when Ceeref on the left got better boat speed and took the lead but it didn’t last long and Sea Dubai gained the advantage on the downwind leg to make an excellent and exciting finish.
‘Yesterday we tried a few changes on the boat and maybe we weren’t as comfortable as usual and it showed in the way we sailed,’ said match race skipper Markus Wieser. ‘We went back to normal today and the results say everything. Racing is a lot about how you feel mentally, when you lose one race and something’s different it’s hard to get away from that and create a positive image for the next race. We all had fun sailing today and we worked so well as a team which really showed and I’m really happy with how things went.’
Other matches today were very tight with such a high level of racing in the class it means manoeuvres are sharp and mistakes mean losses. The strong breeze and sea state meant cautious and spectacular pre starts with the highly responsive boats spinning and ducking then drawing to a halt before the start and even going backwards to gain the advantage.
Thoughts now turn to the fleet racing and the match race skippers will pass on valuable information to the fleet race skippers. There is a practice race today, Thursday, and three days of fleet racing get underway on Friday.
(Match racing final results)
1. Team Aqua / Cameron Appleton (UAE) 9-1, 9 points
2. Artemis / Terry Hutchinson (SWE) 8-2, 8 points
3. BMW ORACLE Racing / Russell Coutts (USA) 8-2, 8 points
4. Team Sea Dubai / Markus Weiser (UAE) 6-4, 6 points
5. 17 / James Spithill (USA) 6-4, 6 points
6. Katusha / Paul Cayard (RUS) 5-5, 5 points
7. No Way Back / Ray Davies (NED) 5-5, 5 points
8. Ceeref / Rod Davis (SLO) 5-5, 3 points*
9. Islas Canarias Puerto Calero / José Maria Ponce (ESP) 2-8, 2 points
10. Mascalzone Latino Audi Team / Tommaso Chieffi (ITA) 1-9, 1 point
11. AEZ RC44 Sailing Team / Christian Binder (AUT) 0-10, 0 points
(* includes 2-point penalty deduction
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