Rolex Swan 45 World Championship - A world champion emerges

8:13 PM Sat 18 Sep 2010 GMT

'Earlybird, Swan 45 World Champion - Rolex Swan Cup' &copy Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi

Rolex Swan 45 World Championship - When we left the Swan 45 fleet in Porto Cervo after yesterday's race, leader Hendrik Brandis allowed that the top of the leaderboard was still wide open. His words rang true today in the eighth and, what would turn out to be, final race. The tricky conditions ensured that it was anyone's race to win or lose. With the forecast for light winds, the Race Committee struggled to find enough breeze over the whole of a coastal course for the Maxi, Grand Prix and Sparkman & Stephen fleets. After a postponement of over two ...

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by Jill Campbell