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Sail-World.com : Norths Sails Australia secure top five at Hamilton

Norths Sails Australia secure top five at Hamilton

'North Sails took the top five spots overall at 2008 Hamilton Island Race including series winner ’Cougar II’' Jack Atley© Click Here to view large photo

Being amongst 14 grand prix boats charging off the startline was a great feeling for Norths’ NZ Marketing Director, Andrew Wills. 'It was pretty scary too as the masts lean over to windward huge amounts when the canters luff on the line,' he says.

North Sails Australia secured the top five spots at the end of racing, and each day of the event served up a south-easterly that started out with a fair amount of strength in it, easing back to 10 knots later in the week.

'It was great to go over to Aussie and see how fiercely they compete on IRC, often with races being decided by one second,' says Andrew Wills. 'We actually lost one place on count back after tying with someone.'

'We had a fantastic team on-board the boat and a lot of people commented on how amazing it is to see that the team on Pussy Galore are more like family than friends. That is largely credit to the way Anatole and Lissy Masfen treat their crew with such generosity and respect.'

The grand prix division boats were:

Place	Sailmaker	Boat Name	Skipper
1	North	COUGAR II	Alan Whiteley
2	North	QUEST	Bob Steel
3	North	LIVING DOLL	Michael Hiatt
4	North	YENDYS	Geoffrey Ross
5	North	WILD JOE	Steven David
6	Quantum	QUANTUM RACING	Raymond Roberts
7	North	XLR8	Graeme Troon
8	North	PUSSY GALORE	Anatole Masfen
9	North	WILD OATS X	Robert Oatley
10	North	SHOCKWAVE- CLUB MARI	Andrew Short
11	North	AUDI CENTRE MELBOURN	Chris Dare
12	North	BLACK JACK	Peter Harburg
13	Doyle	SECRET MENS III	Geoffrey Boettcher
14	Doyle	WIRED	Rob Bassett

For more Norths NZ racing news click here

by Zoe Hawkins 9:35 PM Tue 23 Sep 2008 GMT

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