Melges 24 World Championship - Shifty conditions test tacticians

7:26 PM Tue 10 Aug 2010 GMT

'Day 3 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship 2010' Pierrick Contin ?

2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship day four in Tallin, Estonia saw two races sailed in ten to fifteen knot shifty breezes giving the skippers and tacticians several head scratching moments out on the Baltic. Carlo Fracassoli on Gullisara led the first race from the off and managed to hold off sustained challenges from fellow Italian Alberto Bolzan on Hurricane Murphy & Nye as well as Kristian Nergaard on Baghdad to take his first race win of the championship. The second race saw a major right hand shift soon after the start, which trapped several of the top teams out ...

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by Justin Chisholm and Fiona Brown