Skandia Sail for Gold heads into the endgame - Day 4 Report



8:11 PM Thu 9 Jun 2011 GMT
'Skandia Sail for Gold - Day 4 2011' Ian Roman
A relative calm descended on Weymouth Bay this morning, after the battering from the day before. But there was no less tension or aggression in the racing in Day 4 of the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta, as the fleets moved into the endgame. Skandia Sail for Gold is also the penultimate round of the ISAF World Sailing Cup. The bigger fleets were split into gold and silver fleets for the penultimate two days of racing, before the decisive medal races on Saturday. In the 470 Men the overnight leaders, Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) and the third-placed French ...


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