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Singapore's Renfred Tay skippering Amanda leapt with joy as they crossed the finish line and corrected out into first place on the only Cruising Class race scheduled today. Fredrik Anderson's Oceanis 46.1 Constanza took line honours but had to settle on second place at the end of the day. Tetsuro Ogino's Sun Magic 44 Missy was the only other boat to finish in the class as the remaining four competitors either withdrew or retired to be scored Did Not Finish. More TOTGR 2009 news and results can be found at: http://www.topofthegulfregatta.com TOTGR 09 Photo Gallery: http://www.asianyachting.com/photos/photo.htm?TOTGR09 Race
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Slow
but sure start to racing... 
Visiting
CYCA Commodore Matt Allen's Beneteau 44.7 Ichi Ban made the most
of the conditions to post two first and fastest's, to promptly go to the
top of the Racing Class. With a lack of entries in the Sportsboats they
have been given a run with the bigger IRC Racing boats. Race 1 saw Kipsan
Beck's Shaw 6.5 Pornstar and Ray Waldron's Phuket 8 Vino
finish in 2nd and 3rd respectively to give the small boats an advantage.
Race 2 saw the bigger boats take the lead with Pascal Leray's Jarkan 38
Breakaway take second place and lift to second overall. Gary
Baguely's Holman & Pye El Coyote claimed third place in front
of Pornstar but a better pointscore has allowed Pornstar
slip into third overall.
The hotly contested One Design Platu class lived up to everyone's expectations.
Fourteen boats vying for the best starting position, then splitting to
either side of the course before coming back together at the windward
mark to see who was in the lead. Scott Duncanson's crew managed to dig
The Ferret out from the second row and come to the fore on the
final downwind to snatch first place in Race 1. After leading the fleet
around the course Khun Aek's Naiad slipped to second place and
Aussie champion Ray Roberts showed his sailing expertise to claim third
place for Wikki in Race 1. Having a good turn of speed Rays crew
carried out a bit of tweaking that shows you can't keep a good team down.
Nils Razmilovic shot Stingray off the startline and despite having
to dip the stern of Naiad managed to round the top mark first
and go on to take victory in Race 2. Second place for Ray Roberts has
them tied with Stingray for second overall. Third place for Scott Duncanson's
The Ferret added to the Race 1 win has them topping the overall
leaderboard but there is a long way to go and obviously won't have it
all there own way.
In
the Ocean Multihulls David Wales C750S The Sting maybe the smallest
boat in the class but made up for it by scoring second and first places
to take the overnight lead. Radab Kanjanavanit's F9-A Cedar Swan
triumphed in Race 1 and fourth place in Race 2 has them holding second
overall. Peter Dywer's Firefly 850 Sea Property took line honours
in both races but scored fourth and second places, so after handicaps
were calculated ended the day in third overall. David Race's C28R Free
Wheeler scored two third places to be tied in third place with Sea
Property.
The
IRC Racing 2 Class saw Leif Ho's Carrena take out the daily double
in the only race completed today. John Higham RS Elite OD Prosecco
is just out of the factory in Thailand and climbed into second spot with
a very low handicap. The Thai Navy 1 Farr MRX managed to sail back into
contention with third place after being of the pace in the early stages.
