Duel of the Gold Stars in Race 3 of Bacardi Cup

by Janet Maizner and Lynn Fitzpatrick on 8 Mar 2007 Hamish Pepper and David Giles had a stellar start about four boats down from the committee boat. To his right was the other gold star in the fleet, Freddie Loof and Anders Ekstrom.

The two gold stars spent most of the 10.5 mile race trying to get around one another. That’s not to say that others didn’t find themselves out in the lead or in the mix.

Portugal’s Fabian MacGowan and Federico Engelhard managed to hold onto the lead around the first weather mark, the first leeward mark and all the way up the second beat.

That’s a long time to stay composed when you have Loof/Ekstrom, Szabo/Liljedahl, Pepper/Giles, Miller/Voigt and Kusznierewicz/Zycki to hold off. Heading up the top of the second weather leg it was clear that each of the top four boats wanted to protect the right. Pepper/Giles bowed out of the tacking drill and stayed to leeward while Loof/Ekstrom kept trying to get to the right of MacGowan/Englehard. At the top of the beat MacGowan/Engelhard was ahead and Pepper/Giles crossed Loof/Ekstrom to tack onto the starboard layline.

Down the run the devil in sheep’s skin wanted the right, but was forced left by the Swedes. Staying low the Kiwis took the lead. Szabo/Liljedahl slipped by MacGowan/ Englehard by getting room at the mark. Going up the final beat the Kiwis favored the right and the Swedes and Szabo/Lilijedahl went middle right. When the threesome crossed well up the beat in heavier air, Pepper and Giles were ahead.

The regatta leaders arrived at the dock smiling. Pepper said that Giles made him look good as the breeze came up. 'They’re the ones with the medals' he said referring to his coach and crew, 'I’m still trying to get my first'. Coach, Aaron McIntosh and crew, David Giles each have an Olympic bronze medal. McIntosh won the bronze in board sailing at the Sydney games and Giles won his in the Star Class at the Atlanta games.

Annabel, the other member of Hamish & Co., is in Valencia providing updates to all of the Star sailors missing out on the 80th Annual Bacardi Cup and Magnus Liljedhal’s birthday while they practice with their America’s Cup teams.

Ian Percy, Andrew Simpson, Carl Anderson, Mark Mendleblatt, Mark Strube, Andy Horton, Phillippe Presti, Francesco Bruni, Phil Trinter, Torben Grael and Paul Cayard – we miss you and hope you’ll be in Miami for next year’s Star Worlds.

Sail-World NZL:

The second NZ crew in the event, Olympic Squad members, Rohan Lord and Miles Addy had a better day, finishing 14th, their best place so far in the series, and lie in 18th pleace overall. After a slow start to the series, and given the way points are distributed, their best option as this stage is to get into the top 12 overall, which will be a creditable result in this 75 strong fleet.

Bacardi Cup Third Day and Overall Results after three races

1. Pepper/Giles – NZL. 2. Loof/Ekstrom – SWE. 3. Domingos/Santos – 3 pts. 4. Szabo/Liljedhal – USA. 5. Dannesboe/Heinonen – SUI. 6. Murray/Palfrey – AUS. 7. Kusznierewicz/Zycki. 8. Pickel/Borowski – GER. 9. MacGowan/ Engelhard – ARG. 10. Bromby/McNiven – BER. Rohan Lord/Miles Addy - NZL. 14

Star

Place	Boat	Skipper	Crew	Sail #:	Fleet	1	2	3	Total
1	NZL 8187	PEPPER Hamish	Giles David	8187	ISOL	2.0	3.0	1.0	6
2	SWE 8256	Loof Fredrik	Ekstrom Anders	8256	SC	8.0	2.0	2.0	12
3	AUS 7836	Murray Ian	Palfrey Andrew	7836	LMac	6.0	5.0	6.0	17
4	POL 8170	Kusznierewicz Mateusz	Zycki Dominik	8170	ISOL	4.0	9.0	7.0	20
5	BER 8044	Bromby Peter	McNiven Bill	8044	ISOL	5.0	11.0	10.0	26
6	GER 7991	Miller Matthias	Voight Manuel	7991	UB	7.0	7.0	17.0	31
7	USA 8273	Szabo George	Liljedahl Magnus	8273	SDB	15.0	15.0	4.0	34
8	AUT 8226	Spitzauer Hans	Nehammer Christian	8226	H	14.0 [AVG]	17.0	11.0	42
9	CRO 7955	Lovrovic Marin	Mikulicic Sinisa	7955	ISOL	19.0	12.0	13.0	44
10	SUI 8138	Marazzi Flavio	Hofer Donat	8138	TB	14.0	4.0	27.0	45
11	NOR 8186	Melleby Eivind	Pedersen Petter Morland	8186	NOR	12.0	14.0	20.0	46
12	ITA 8281	Modena Luca	Marchesini Michele	8281	NG	11.0	18.0	31.0	60
13	GER 8213	Pickel Marc	BORKOWSKI Ingo	8213	Brm	10.0	48.0	8.0	66
14	USA 8043	Kohlhas Jock	Scott Larry	8043	BisB	23.0	1.0	44.0	68
15	USA 8129	Reynolds Mark	Haenel Hal	8129	SDB.	24.0	21.0	24.0	69
16	SUI 8232	Dannesboe Henrik	HEINONEN Eki	8232	TB	20.0	46.0	5.0	71
17	ARG 7907	MAC GOWAN FABIAN	ENGELHARD Federico	7907	OL	28.0	34.0	9.0	71.0001
18	NZL 8061	Lord Rohan	Addy Miles	8061	ISOL	22.0	35.0	14.0	71.0002
19	USA 8132	Brun Vince	Brophy Doug	8132	SDB	31.0	13.0	28.0	72
20	IRL 8028	O'Connell Maurice	Cooke Ben	8028	ISOL	1.0	56.0	19.0	76
21	USA 8286	Anderson Karl	Morey Edward	8286	BH	35.0	16.0	26.0	77
22	USA 8268	DANE John	Sperry Austin	8268	MoB	9.0	41.0	30.0	80
23	HUN 8166	Tenke Tibor	Bendicsek Jozsef	8166	Ore	25.0	31.0	25.0	81
24	USA 8095	Weissenberger Gunti	Wagner Will	8095	NCB	32.0	33.0	18.0	83
25	SWE 8238	Lofstedt Tom	Larsson Martin	8238	RS	27.0	10.0	47.0	84
26	CAN 8143	Cramer Brian	Bjorn Tyler	8143	LOC	29.0	40.0	22.0	91
27	USA 8059	Hovey Bear	Dayton Lee	8059	Mid	30.0	39.0	23.0	92
28	SUI 8085	Zimmermann Lorenz	Furer Andreas	8085	LUV	26.0	25.0	42.0	93
29	ITA 8277	Irrera Renato	Cristaldini Corrado	8277	Pal	21.0	32.0	45.0	98
30	USA 8250	Macdonald Andy	Fatih Brian	8250	NH	17.0	69.0	15.0	101
31	USA 8195	Maccausland John	Schofield Bob	8195	CR	76.0 [BFD]	6.0	21.0	103
32	NED 8263	Jorissen Sander	Veldhuizen Erik	8263	Med	33.0	27.0	46.0	106
33	POR 8145	Domingos Afonso	Santos Bernardo	8145	CP	76.0 [BFD]	28.0	3.0	107
34	GBR 7601	Hicks Michael	Hicks Patrick	7601	Sol	41.0	51.0	16.0	108
35	CAN 6756	Hendershot Will	Vranderick Alain	6756	Q	37.0	38.0	33.0	108
36	USA 8111	Brethorst Rick	Nielson Chris	8111	LS	39.0	29.0	41.0	109
37	GER 7971	Stanjek Robert	Kleen Frithjof	7971	BF	3.0	76.0 [DNF]	34.0	113
38	USA 8231	Museler Chris	Lidecis Erik	8231		43.0	8.0	64.0	115
39	UKR 8247	GUREYEV Vasyl	KOROTKOV Volodymyr	8247	Ukr	16.0	61.0	38.0	115
40	CHI 8181	Zuazola Rodrigo	Fuentes Marcos	8181	Val	18.0	63.0	39.0	120
41	HUN 7900	Forintos Robert	Komm Andras	7900	Ore	40.0	30.0	52.0	122
42	SUI 8009	Gautschi Christoph	Konig Jurg	8009	Bod	13.0	57.0	55.0	125
43	UKR 8157	Anosov Arthur	Dolan Mark	8157	SL	34.0	19.0	76.0 [DNS]	129
44	USA 8222	Merriman Rick	Munroe Eric	8222	SDB	76.0 [BFD]	44.0	12.0	132
45	ESP 7581	Bermudez Roberto	Arrarte Pablo	7581	Barc	76.0 [BFD]	23.0	35.0	134
46	GER 7545	Hampe Alex	Conrads Chris	7545	ZuW	38.0	67.0	29.0	134
47	USA 8072	Smith Doug	Moore Mike	8072	SBC	76.0 [BFD]	22.0	37.0	135
48	USA 8215	Allen Bill	Hatfield Bruce	8215	WH	42.0	62.0	32.0	136
49	ITA 7227	Lillia Stefano	Canali Cicio	7227	Mu	46.0	54.0	36.0	136
50	GER 7816	Girr Fritz	HASCHE Marko	7816	AM	76.0 [BFD]	20.0	48.0	144
51	GER 7865	Lehnert Stefan	Menning Peter	7865	Bre	45.0	49.0	53.0	147
52	USA 8083	Chiarella John	Carlson Bob	8083	Sun	47.0	42.0	59.0	148
53	USA 8128	Bingham Julian	Cruthirds Troy	8128	MoB	76.0 [BFD]	26.0	50.0	152
54	ITA 8183	Tamburini Antonio	Ricci Renzo	8183	SI	76.0 [BFD]	36.0	43.0	155
55	USA 7866	Manderson John	Semler Matt	7866	Mid	36.0	47.0	76.0 [OCS]	159
56	USA 7934	Von Schwarz Karl	Wharton Rich	7934	AN	44.0	52.0	66.0	162
57	USA 7814	Donald Keith	Carlson Michael	7814	AN	49.0	50.0	68.0	167
58	USA 8245	Zambella Joe	Davidson Jeremy	8245	BH	76.0 [BFD]	55.0	40.0	171
59	USA 7579	Seeling Timothy	Rogers Chris	7579	CD	52.0	58.0	65.0	175
60	ITA 8291	Veggetti Andrea	Coppa Franco	8291	FdAL	76.0 [BFD]	24.0	76.0 [OCS]	176
61	CHN 7784	Li Hongquan	Wang He	7784	ISOL	51.0	68.0	60.0	179
62	GER 7863	Meyer Klaus	Struve Dirk	7863	Brm	76.0 [BFD]	43.0	62.0	181
63	USA 8069	Mueller Fritz	Weinstein Bob	8069	BisB	76.0 [DNF]	37.0	69.0	182
64	USA 8000	Walker Harry	Jensen Darin	8000	BisB	48.0	76.0 [DNS]	58.0	182
65	GER 823	Thomsen Dierk	Thomsen Lars	823	Glu	50.0	66.0	67.0	183
66	USA 8084	Teitge Bob	Koresjka Adam	8084	BisB	76.0 [BFD]	59.0	51.0	186
67	USA 8067	Oti Jose	May Henry	8067	GBT	76.0 [BFD]	53.0	61.0	190
68	USA 7370	Emmet Rob	Avellon Guy	7370	AN	76.0 [BFD]	70.0	49.0	195
69	USA 7970	Hopkins Sam	Pytlak John	7970	AN	53.0	72.0	70.0	195
70	SUI 7645	Wyss Daniel	Stegmeier Beat	7645	ZU	76.0 [BFD]	65.0	54.0	195
71	USA 81	Bingham Julian	Clark Buddy	81	MoB	76.0 [BFD]	64.0	56.0	196
72	ARG 8239	Pendola Martin	SIMONET ARIEL	8239	BA	76.0 [BFD]	45.0	76.0 [OCS]	197
73	GER 8016	Rauch Hubert	Schappeler Ingo	8016	And	76.0 [DSQ]	71.0	57.0	204
74	USA 7567	Buckley Davis	Hardin Chris	7567	AN	76.0 [DNF]	60.0	76.0 [DNF]	212
75	USA 7434	Parks Bill	Anderson Clark	7434	WH	76.0 [DNF]	76.0 [DNS]	63.0	215