Mirsky Racing Team struck down, but not out
Danish Open Day Four report from Kinley Fowler, Mirsky Racing Team.
Mirsky Racing Team
'Once again, we woke up to yet another team member with food poisoning. This time our bowman, Graeme Spence had been struck and was unable to sail with us today.
With two crew sick throughout the round robin, and only 6 wins to qualify we were lucky to make it through to the semis, but at the start of the day we were on equal ground with Sebastian Col with both teams on 1 win. With Graeme out, we were missing a large chink of our team and it showed as Col dominated throughout the series. We were given one win to take the scores to 2-2 in the 4th race when Col received a penalty in the prestart, but he won the 5th prestart convincingly and managed to extend his lead to qualify to the finals.
We were given a chance at revenge over Johnnie Berntesson's black flag penalty yesterday as he lost to Ian Williams in their semis, and at first we thought it was going to come quickly. We won the first race of our petit finals convincingly, and were leading in the second race until he managed to roll us just before the bottom mark. This gave him the choice of which side of the course he wanted and he chose the heavily favoured right. The next time the two boats met, Berntesson had extended to a comfortable lead which he kept up to the finish. The next race, Berntesson pushed out to the right again and managed to gain a small advantage which he defended well to win the series.
Congratulations to Ian Williams and his team for taking out the title.'
A special thanks to Line7, Harken and the Royal Perth Yacht Club for their support
www.mirskyracingteam.com
by Kinley Fowler - Mirsky Racing Team 
mudgeeraba, QLD
