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Sail-World.com : Norths Sails Australia secure top five at Hamilton

Norths Sails Australia secure top five at Hamilton

'North Sails took the top five spots overall at 2008 Hamilton Island Race including series winner ’Cougar II’'    Jack Atley©    Click Here to view large photo

Being amongst 14 grand prix boats charging off the startline was a great feeling for Norths’ NZ Marketing Director, Andrew Wills. 'It was pretty scary too as the masts lean over to windward huge amounts when the canters luff on the line,' he says.

North Sails Australia secured the top five spots at the end of racing, and each day of the event served up a south-easterly that started out with a fair amount of strength in it, easing back to 10 knots later in the week.

'It was great to go over to Aussie and see how fiercely they compete on IRC, often with races being decided by one second,' says Andrew Wills. 'We actually lost one place on count back after tying with someone.'

'We had a fantastic team on-board the boat and a lot of people commented on how amazing it is to see that the team on Pussy Galore are more like family than friends. That is largely credit to the way Anatole and Lissy Masfen treat their crew with such generosity and respect.'

The grand prix division boats were:

 

Place

Sailmaker

Boat Name

Skipper

1

 North

COUGAR II

Alan Whiteley

2

 North

QUEST

Bob Steel

3

 North

LIVING DOLL

Michael Hiatt

4

 North

YENDYS

Geoffrey Ross

5

 North

WILD JOE

Steven David

6

 Quantum

QUANTUM RACING

Raymond Roberts

7

 North

XLR8

Graeme Troon

8

 North

PUSSY GALORE

Anatole Masfen

9

 North

WILD OATS X

Robert Oatley

10

 North

SHOCKWAVE- CLUB MARI

Andrew Short

11

 North

AUDI CENTRE MELBOURN

Chris Dare

12

 North

BLACK JACK

Peter Harburg

13

 Doyle

SECRET MENS III

Geoffrey Boettcher

14

 Doyle

WIRED

Rob Bassett

 

 



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