It looks like Bundy / Gashby do not have to race the last day now to win........

In Brief:
Bundock/Ashby score 1, 2.
Bundock/Ashby have a 13 point lead over Austrians Hagara/Steinacher
Breeze 10 knots increasing to 12 knots for the second race
Spectator fleet of over 100 boats watch today's racing.
In Detail:

The day started with a light offshore gradient breeze that slowly died away to the building sea breeze. Winners for the day were AUS - Bundock/Ashby and ARG - Lange/Espinola both scoring a 1 and 2. The first race saw ARG- Lange/Espinola lead Bundock/Ashby for 2 laps and Bundock/Ashby passing Lange/Espinola on the final upwind. The second race of the day saw a complete roll reversal with Lange/Espinola taking revenge and passing Bundock/Ashby on the final upwind.

Roman Hagara had a bad start in the first race after doing a little match racing with Bundock/Ashby, Hagara broke free of the Australians cover to move down the line, unfortunately the bottom end of the line was crowded and Hagara got caught up. Allowing the Australian pair to reach down the line again and roll the Austrian pair seconds after the start. Hagara recovered well to get back to 11th by the finish.

The Australians now lead the Austrians by 13 points going into the final day. Argentinean heroes Lange/Espinola trail the Austrians by only 6 points. The Greek team of Paschaladis/Trigonis have had a very consistent second stage of the regatta to crawl back to 5th position.

Bundock said "today was the make or brake day. We went for it on the starting line and probably had the two best starts of the day. We were able to get clear off the line and could sail our own race. We have still two races to go but now I life is a little easier after todays results."

Ashby commented "it was disappointing not to win both races as we were so close, but in hind-sight it was probably the best thing for the sport with the Argentines winning the last race in front of so many spectator boats. The crowds went ballistic. I have never seen a sailing spectator fleet like this before"

Tomorrow is the final day with two races scheduled starting at 1 pm and a final start time of 3pm.

Pl B# Sail # Crew Tot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 7 AUS8 Darren Bundock & Glenn Ashby 17 (6) 2 4 2 1 5 1 2
2 16 AUT3 Roman Hagara & Hans Peter Stein acher 30 1 8 1 3 2 (33) 11 4
3 43 ARG1 Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola 36 7 (23) 8 4 12 2 2 1
4 2 GER7 Johannes Polgar & Florian Spalteholz 53 15 1 (28) 10 4 4 4 15
5 21 GRE7 Lordanis Paschaladis & Constantinos Trigonis 59 (31) 3 13 7 9 11 5 11
6 3 FRA7 Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader 74 9 (31) 14 18\RDG 6 16 6 5
7 15 FRA5 Billy Besson & Arnaud Jarlegan 77 10 (21) 15 1 18 3 21 9
8 1 FRA1 Xavier Revil & Christophe Espagnon 83 2 5 22 24 11 7 12 (26)
9 27 FRA11 François Morvan & Matthieu Vandame 85 8 29 9 15 10 6 8 (31)
10 4 ESP1 Fernando Echavarri & Anton Paz 87 11 13 12 22 7 19 (26) 3