Melges 32 Hamilton Island - Long Island Race

10:38 AM Fri 26 Aug 2011 GMT

'Melges 32 - Hamilton Island RW 2011' Tracey Walters Click Here to view large photo

Today was the Hamilton Island Race Week Long Island Race for the Melges 32 fleet.

With low cloud and 15 knots, Anthony Passmore's ' Planit' port gybed the fleet to be first to the Dent Island turning mark. Steve O'Rourke team 'Red Panther' followed closely.

After plenty of tacking up the Island to keep out of the tide, the first to tack to Denmam Island was Planit, followed by Max Star and Panther.

Once around Long Island, the spinnakers were set and boats gybed in close contact.

Max Star, Angus Reid, won the race by a boat length to Planit, then six lengths back to Panther.

Desperado, Noel Leigh-Smith, leads the point score by one point going into tomorrow's last race.

Melges 32


Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	Sers Score	Race 10	Race 9	Race 8	Race 7	Race 6	Race 5	Race 4	Race 3	Race 2	Race 1
1		582	DESPERADO	Noel Leigh-Smith	20.0	5.0	2.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	2.0	[5.0]	1.0	2.0
2		323	FUNNELWEB	Stephen Girdis	21.0	[6.0]	5.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	5.0	4.0
3		USA158	MAXSTAR	Angus Reid	23.0	1.0	[6.0]	4.0	3.0	4.0	2.0	4.0	2.0	2.0	1.0
4		BOW320	ROCK N' ROLL	Kim Williams	28.0	4.0	1.0	3.0	4.0	3.0	4.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	[5.0]
5		GBR700	PANTHER	Stephen O'Rourke	45.0	3.0	3.0	7.0C	7.0C	7.0C	7.0S	[7.0F]	4.0	4.0	3.0
6		183	PLANIT	Anthony Passmore	48.0	2.0	4.0	7.0C	7.0C	[7.0C]	5.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	6.0

by Heath Walters

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