18ft Skiff International Regatta day 2 - The Boys from Down Under



3:55 AM Tue 24 Aug 2010 GMT
'18ft Skiff International Regatta - day 2' Erik Simonson/ h2oshots.com ?
18ft Skiff International Regatta day 2. There's some gambling going on at the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, and it's paying off bigtime for the boys from Down Under. Australian sailors---Herman Winning, Michael Coxon and Winning's dad Woody---have been rolling the waves on port tack starts and now occupy the top three positions in the 13-boat fleet. Port tack starts with no right of way hoping to cross starboard tackers are risky at best, but when it works the payoff has been huge by eliminating a laborious tack---always tricky on an 18---and launching the perpetrators directly into the best ...


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