Hi guys
Day two started for us with the Quarter Finals. We were deemed to race the mighty Dave Perry who beat us in the semis at the Knickerbocker Cup. We started the first race real well by putting a double penalty on him in the pre start and lead, with a comfortable margin, for the whole race. Race two didn’t go as well or too plan. We controlled the start of the pre start and then hit some big waves, losing our speed with 1 minute to go and he hooked us forcing us to the horribly unfavoured right hand side.
Race 3, the decider, winner goes through. We lead in to the line with 1 minute 30 to go. We got ourselves into a spot of bother, fighting tide, tight on pin lay and did our best to hold our position. Dave was to windward with gauge but closed it up. With 10seconds to go we were clearly not laying the pin but with time ticking over Dave thankfully tacked off letting us follow, making the pin and winning the left hand side of the course. We proceeded to claim the left and held a 4 length lead though out the race to win.
Semi finals were next against fellow Kiwi team, Laurie Jury. We only had one race due to the day getting old and managed to scrape in a victory to lead the series 1-0. We will be back tomorrow for the final day to try and finish off the semis and take then see if we can pull out our A game and take the competition.
Cheers WAKA Boys
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