Race 7

8-12knots from the south saw race 7 underway at 2pm after a lunch break. Two Australians featured at the front with the Bancroft team leading (though unknowingly OCS) from Gosford sailors Peter Ray & Gareth Wells (AUS356). The UK contingent were close behind though and showed their strength downwind with pank barber leading into the bottom mark from Searle/Bell. Searle/Bell passed Pank/Barber up the next work & the Bancrofts succumbed to a broken rudder pintle. McLellan/matthews (GBR687) came from 7th at the top mark to take 4th place up the work after playing the shifts up the left side of the course. On the next downwind leg the ever-present Fells/Cunningham picked up some pressure to round close behind Pank/Barber with Searle/Bell in third. Places remained the same with Searle/Bell & fells Cunningham splitting the bottom gate to tussle for 2nd at the finish line. Fells/Cunningham crossed in 2nd place but later discovered they were OCS. Local sailors Ian & Scott Cunningham chose this race to show their hand with a fast finishing 6th.

Results of race 7 were;

1. Snatch, Pank/Barber (GBR746) 2. Sprint, Searle/Bell (GBR 725) 3. Beercan, McLellan/Matthews (GBR687) 4. Masters Apprentices, Plain/Plain (AUS313) 5. Teaz, Ray/Wells (AUS356) 6. Warlord, Cunningham/Cunningham (AUS354)