2009 Asian Match Racing Championship
Day
2 - Kiwi's
dominate...
11:11:09 It was postcard sailing conditions for the championship fleet, with a north easterly gradient blowing at six to eight knots when Principal Race Officer John Taylor sent flights 7-10 away. 22 year old Auckland sailor Phil Robertson finished the first round robin with a perfect 6-0 score line on the Pulau Duyong basin in Kuala Terengganu this morning and then went out and repeated the dose in the afternoon, scoring another four wins on the go.
The
Terengganu local team Taring Pelangi, skippered by Hazwan Hazim Dermawan,
started this event with a bang by taking two early wins yesterday, but
they faded today losing to Dunstan, Robertson and the second Malaysian
team, Team Malaysian Armed Forces, skippered by Mohd Razali Mansor. These
two teams will compete again at the Malaysian Match Racing titles on 23rd
to 26th November along with another dozen teams and the winner of that
event will also gain entry into the blue ribbon Monsoon Cup line up. Malaysian
crew members that will be competing in a couple weeks time should take
a look at the daily video highlights at: http://www.monsooncup.com.my/video.php
to get a measure of the conditions and what can be expected from them
when its their turn.
The
Japan Match Racing Champion Kan Yamada and his Team J.F.P. finished yesterday
with a perfect 4-0 winning record. Today it was not so easy. Pre-event,
Yamada had signaled that Michael Dunstan and his SLAM Racing team would
be hard to beat and so it was, with Yamada going down to the three time
Australian Match Racing champion.
However
it was far from a perfect morning for Dunstan. In his match against Hong
Kong sailor Martin Kaye, Dunstan had a good start but picked the wrong
side of the course down the final run, to convert a ten boat-length lead
into a five boat-length loss as he slowed on the island shore line, while
Kaye had both pressure and current out wide.
The key match of the afternoon was between Robertson and Dunstan and it was all over before it began with Dunstan incurring a penalty in the starting box and losing the start badly and was six lengths behind at the top mark. Dunstan did his penalty on the finishing line, finishing 99 seconds behind his Kiwi rival.
Dockside Dunstan commented 'Phil out sailed us in that match, the rust is showing. We will certainly have to lift our game in the semis.'
Only a few words from Robertson. 'We are on track, we just have to keep the concentration up.'
After
the first full round and part way through the second, the overall scores
are as follows:
Team New Zealand WAKA Racing
Phil Robertson 10-0
Team J.F.P - (JYMA) Kan Yamada 7-4
SLAM Match Race Team - (Royal Sydney Yacht Club) Michael Dunstan 7-3
Team Hong Kong - (Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club) Martin Kaye 7-4
Taring Pelangi - (TESA) Hazwan Hazim b. Dermawan 3-7
Team 'EM' - (Royal Varuna Yacht Club) Morten Jakobsen 1-9
MAF 1 Mohammad Razali Mansor 1-9
For more information and access to high resolution images and daily video's go to www.monsooncup.com.my
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