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Sail-World.com : Audi MedCup: Equipment damage on TeamOrigin
Audi MedCup: Equipment damage on TeamOrigin
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The start of the weekend certainly bought the wind on this, a very different day of the Audi Med Cup Cartagena. As the weather experts had predicted a solid north easterly wind was well established when the race teams arrived at the dock so without further delay the sailors hit the water.
TEAMORIGIN went into race one leading the regatta with a good eight point margin on Emirates Team New Zealand and sailed a convincing race, coming back from an average start they managed to weave through the fleet beating Bribon by just one second and Emirates TNZ took first.
Christian Kamp, trimmer: ' We had not such a good start but two really good runs on the first race, we stayed in the pressure and were able to overtake boats on both downwind legs to come in third'
Race two presented a different set of challenges. Stronger winds and big seas have historically not been good bed fellows to TEAMORIGIN and today was no different. The team struggled to keep up with the front of the fleet in the sea state, fighting for boat speed every leg, but disaster struck right at the end of the race. Rounding the island just off Cartagena a problem with the headstay at the front of the boat meant the foredeck crew had to drop the jib, signalling game over for TEAMORIGIN in that race.
'We hadn't had the greatest of races - we always seem to have problems with these coastal races but we fought hard,' said tactician Iain Percy.
The shore crew will have a busy evening but with three races scheduled for tomorrow, the last day of the event, TEAMORIGIN are still very much in the hunt.
For full race results from today click here
by Team Origin Media
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7:58 PM Sat 28 Aug 2010 GMT
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