Congressional Cup - Strong finish for Finns



7:30 AM Sat 26 Mar 2011 GMT
'Congressional Cup - Long Beach YC - Day 4' Rich Roberts &copy
Not much was going Finland's way at first in the Long Beach Yacht Club's 47th Congressional Cup. The Finns' finishes were lousy --- first in only one of the first six races Tuesday, and then tactician Nils Bjerkas slipped overboard Wednesday, but that was OK because it marked a turning point. Staffan Lindberg's team still won the race and, rolling past the rough early stages this week, found enough of its form to win eight of its last 12 matches, including one by 10 seconds against 2009 champion Johnie Berntsson in a Scandinavian showdown Friday. The final runaway win against ...


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