Ficker Cup day 1- Battle on for Congressional Cup place

1:40 AM Fri 18 Mar 2011 GMT

'Ficker Cup Day One' Rick Roberts &copy Click Here to view large photo

Ficker Cup is an, ISAF grade 2 event. - When Bob Hughes awakened this Thursday morning, he should have realized that it wasn't his day. 'There were flames in the [guest] house this high,' he said, his hand at chest level. The black flag came in the afternoon during day one competition of the Ficker Cup, a Grade two event on the ISAF scale that will determine the tenth and final entry for next week's Grade One 47th Congressional Cup. The leaders at five to zero are Italy's Simone Ferrarese, the twenty-first ranked match racer in the world, and William ...

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by Rich Roberts