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RC44 Oman Cup- Ironbound has Scoop of the day

by vsail.info on 1 Feb 2013
Ironbound’s scoop parts company with her stern - RC44 Cup Oman, Day 1 Pierre Orphanidis/VSail.info http://www.vsail.info
On the first day of fleet racing at the RC44 Oman Cup, Team Aqua’s bow hit the stern of Ironbound at the first weather mark of the last race.

When Ironbound was rounding the bottom gate, first a piece of the bottom of her scoop came off and then the entire scoop fell off.

For the full set of images from Pierre Orphanidis of www.vsail.info http://www.vsail.info/2013/01/31/photo-gallery-rc44-ironbounds-scoop-falls-off!click_here

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