Bundock and Ashby second in Princess Sophia regatta Tornado'

by Darren Bundock on 17 Apr 2003 After their Day One Black flag Darren Bundock and Glen Ashby were in 9th place. With 5 races now sailed they've been able to drop that. Now they are second to Mitch Booth. Darren Bundock reports...

Only one race today due to extreme conditions. The race started in 25 knots and kept building. The Tornado course is the furthest course offshore and suffered the worst from the fresh land breeze.

After the 1st race the race committee sent the fleet back to shore.

The race was one by Sven Karsenbarg from Holland, who gained a nice shift from the right hand side of the course on the last upwind. Mitch Booth narrowly took second from myself and Glenn. The Spanish were fourth.

It was a spectacular race with plenty of capcizes and gear failure.

Now after 5 races we can discard our worst race which enables us to sky rocket up the result list.

1.NED Booth 6,2,4,2,2 (10)

2.AUS Bundock/Ashby BFG,1,6,1,3 (11)

3.ESP Eckavari 2,13,7,4,4 (17)

4.GBR Styles 14,6,2,6,8 (22)

5.FRA Backes 3,14,3,5,12 (23)

6.GBR McMillian 13,3,8,3,10 (24)

7.FRA Revil 5,4,10,DNC,5 (24)

8.NED Karsenbarg BFD,15,1,11,1*6 (33)

9.FRA Guilchard 7,11,9,7,23 (34)

10.GER Landenburger 15,7,11,18,7 (40)

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