Bundock & Ashby final report from Barcelona

by Darren Bundock on 10 Apr 2003 Weather conditions today were ideal and what we had been looking for all week.

At the start of race 4 the wind had increased to 15 knots from the sea breeze direction and it was perfect.

Olympic Gold Medallist Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher lead the entire race to win from the French team of Revil/Guillemette.

We had a great start to be 2nd at the first mark and held on to 2nd until the final down wind only to have a massive knot in the spinnaker halyard and slip to 5th at the finish.

Race 5 we lead the entire race only to discover at the presentation we had been blacked flaged (early start). Mitch Booth won the race from the Spanish team of Echavarri/Pazrcn.

Even though we were disqualified from the last race and religated to 2nd position overall we were extremely please with our performance.

Final results - 62 Entries, 20 Nations
www.bosw.org
1.ESP Echavarri/Pazrcn 4,9,3,10,2(18)
2.AUS Bundock/Ashby 8,6,1,5,BFD(20)
3.FRA Revil/Guillemette 2,14,10,2,6(20)
4.NED Booth/Howden 12,8,12,3,1(24)
5.GER Landenberger/Polgar 9,7,2,8,14(26)

We are catching the ferry tonight to Mallorca to compete in the Princess Sofia Regatta.

The regatta website is www.trofeoprincesasofia.org
Registration 12-13 April
Racing 14-18 April


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Marinepool, FSE Robline, Subaru-All Wheel Drive, Ronstan, Tacktick, Ullman Eye Wear.

Supported by:
Australian Yachting Federation, Australian Institute of Sport, NSWIS, AOC & VSaW.