Tuesday, March 8, 2011

COBRA 750

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Builder: Cobra Yachts (UK)

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Match Racing - Volvo Lake Constance Regatta Day 3


Author: John Roberson

AUSTRALIA AND FRANCE LEAD THE SEMI-FINALS

Australian skipper Neville Wittey, and Frenchman Luc Pillot are both 1 - 0
up in the first-to-win-three race semi-final of the Volvo Lake Constance
2000 Match Racing Regatta. With light and fickle winds again disrupting
the schedule, they will have to wait until Monday to continue their battle
for places in the final, in this fourth event on the Swedish Match Tour.

Wittey is facing French America's Cup skipper Bertrand Pace, while Pillot
is matched against the up-and-coming young Dane, Jesper Radich Johansen.
Both took control of the one semi-final race sailed, on the start line, and
then hung on to their advantage through difficult conditions.

Both skippers won their way through to the semis by beating more fancied
opponents in the quarter finals. Neville Wittey downed America's Cup
skipper, and fellow Australian, Peter Gilmour 2 - 0, while Luc Pillot
inflicted a similar defeat on Sweden's Magnus Holmberg.

Gilmour was second on the Swedish Match Tour scoreboard after the first
three events, but is likely to drop a place or two after his poor result at
this regatta. Also likely to be knocked off the top rung of the ladder are
Team New Zealand, skippered by Hamish Pepper at this event, finishing in
sixth place.

Magnus Holmberg had come through the early rounds undefeated, and headed
the leaderboard going into the quarter finals. Luc Pillot commented about
his semi-final race against Radich Johansen, "He is young and tough, he
makes it hard for us older guys."

For Neville Wittey, this event is an important part of his training for the
Olympics, at which he will represent Australia in the Soling class. After
making the cut into the semis he talked about his expectations coming to
this event, "It would have been presumptuous of me to assume, in this
company, that I'd make it to the semi-finals, but I would obviously hope
so.

"We are sailing pretty well at the moment. We are doing a lot of sailing
in the Soling class, so certainly it doesn't come as a shock, but we are
very happy with the way we got there. I didn't think we'd do it quite this
way, it's been great."

Conditions on Lake Constance were mostly light and shifty, making life very
difficult for the competitors, and throwing a larger than normal element of
luck into the series. The regatta concludes on Monday, with the remained
of the semi-finals to be completed, and then the finals.

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