| MIAMI, FL. USA-(9-3-2004) It didn’t look or feel like a sailing regatta today as the 93- boat Bacardi Cup fleet went searching for wind on Biscayne Bay. Despite the shifty light breeze, the race was won with a long lead by the Portuguese duo of Alfonso Domingos and crew Bernardo Santos. With half the races completed, they are now in first place overall at the Bacardi Cup.
Second place went to Austrians Hans Spitzauer and crew Andreas Hanakamp, followed by Americans George Szabo and crew Mark Staube in third place. Most of yesterday’s leaders were caught in the back of the pack with no wind.
The Austrians were in ninth position after the first and second marks and as crew Hanakamp put it, “we were on a good tack after rounding the second mark and just kept going. We had more luck today.”
It was a big disappointment for six-time Bacardi Cup Champion Mark Reynolds who was among the four teams disqualified for an early start after waiting more than an hour to start the race. The Irish team of Maxwell Treacy and crew Anthony Shanks were also disqualified for an early start for the second day in a row, thus ending the race for them.
Americans Howie Shiebler and crew Will Stout finished in fourth place and move up to fourth place overall behind Bermudans Peter Bromby and crew Lee White who finished in 13th place and are now third overall.
Canadian Olympian Ross Macdonald and crew Mike Wolfs finished in fifth place today and move up to second overall. “It was a tough race today with incredibly shifty wind, so shifty that nothing was for certain. We were extremely conservative as anything could get thrown at you and holding to a fifth place through the race was the best part of the day,” said Macdonald.
Marc Pickel the skipper of the German team best expressed the day. “It was very shifty wind and basically we didn’t get it right. We went right up the middle and passed a few boats and then got stuck there,” he said. Pickel and crew Ingo Borkowski placed 61st today.
2004 BACARDI CUP DAY THREE RESULTS – Top 10
Skipper/Crew (Country)
Afonso Domingos/Bernardo Santos (Portugal)
Hans Spitzauer/Andreas Hanakamp (Austria)
George Szabo/Mark Staube (USA)
Howie Shiebler/Will Stout (USA)
Ross Macdonald/Mike Wolfs (Canada)
Peter Wyss/Urs Joss (Switzerland)
Rohan Lord/Andrew Taylor (New Zealand)
Andy Lovell/Magnus Liljedahl (USA)
Bill Allen/Lichter (USA)
Steven Kelly/William Holowesko (Bahamas)
2004 BACARDI CUP OVERALL DAY TWO – Top 10
Skipper/Crew (Country)/finishes of each race and total points
Afonso Domingos//Bernardo Santos (Portugal), 7-7-1,15
Ross Macdonald/Mike Wolfs (Canada), 3-13-5,21
Peter Bromby/Lee White (Bermuda), 18-1-13,32
Howie Shiebler/Will Stout (USA), 26-5-4,35
Flavio Marazzi/Enrico De Maria (Switzerland), 9-4-24,37
Colin Beashel/David Giles (Australia), 15-10-16,41
Marko Dahlberg/Ville Kurki (Finland), 32-6-19,57
Andy Lovell/Magnus Liljedahl (USA),10-42-8, 60
Hans Spitzauer/Andreas Hanakamp (Austria), 8-51-2,61
John Dane III/Henry Sprague (USA), 6-27-31,64
Jali Makila/Erkki Heinonen (Finland), 29-17-18,64
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