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Race Report

Apr 04 2009

Not a big turn out this Saturday being Ching Ming weekend. Of the four boats that competed in Friday’s HKNVR only Suzzane raced again on Saturday. In total, seven boats made it to the line. Conspicuously absent was Rupert, who had placed 3rd on Friday’s race, thereby honoring the fleet…

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Well Saturday was another memorable day of racing. The forecast was for force 5 to 6 winds with off shore winds approaching 8. Earlier in the morning the match racing had to be cancelled for lack of wind. And, need less to say, the big winds never came. The winds…

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Pre Worlds ‘Mañana’ we always thought meant tomorrow – as in, “a day from now”. What we learned from one of the Spanish sailors was that it really means “not today”. Maybe tomorrow, maybe a week from now, but one thing for certain – not today! On 1 June five…

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FFirebowl 1 (2006)

Nov 07 2006

Firstly, the first thing is to say First Things First, and so it is, although they had to wait THE WHOLE of last season to get their first series win in the last series of the last season (if you are following me here), it is CONGRATULATIONS to the insatiable…

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Nedlloyd 4&5 (2006)

Nov 07 2006

From China National Day to Taiwan National Day… when and/or should they be the same day? Saturday, Sep 30th Nederllloyder 4. And so it is, a puffy old day but certainly enough wind to encourage Howard-Grinner to post course 5 rather gleefully… And I must say, I did wonder why…

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