Graham Sherring's baby six metre Sports Boat Quantum Sails continued to produce unmatched boat speed to dominate her class in the 2008 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week on a windy Pioneer Bay today.

Skipper Sherring and his two crew mates including Cousin Neil Sherring and Troy Ruston were a little drenched and red eyed when they returned to the Abel Point Marina earlier today.

"We had enough water over the deck to sink a maxi and the little tacker pitched head first into a few waves but she bobbed up and got truck- in again".
"The little boat has her moments slogging uphill which means our race strategy is primarily focused around sending it down wind".

"Sure the rig was twitching a bit when she pitched into the back of the waves but thankfully it all held together and the ride was one that we will remember for a while". Graham Sherring said.

Quantum Sails in spite of being the baby of the fleet including Australia's fastest designs including the Noel Leigh Smith skippered Vivace has blown her rivals away with a convincing 2-1-1-1 score card.

They won today's 20n/ml race around the cans finishing 3 minutes 6 seconds ahead of the West Australian Melges 24 Northshore Simrad while Victorian Cam Rae helmed Bendigo Private a Thompson 8 into third another 2 minutes 26 seconds off the pace.

The result has allowed the aggressively sailed Quantum Sails to extend her lead to 13 points while Bendigo Private 9-3-3-3 and Vivace 1-4-9-5 head into a match race on Tuesday to resolve which crew will press Quantum Sails in the final races of the series which concludes next Thursday.

by Ian Grant

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