Sled won the second race of the day at the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week while regatta and circuit leaders Quantum Racing completed a disappointing day scoring a sixth then eighth. But over a day that saw more ups and downs for the majority of the teams, Doug DeVos’s crew still leads the regatta by four points just as they did this morning.
Sled, Azzurra and Onda all started from the committee boat end of the line but Sled had enough speed to work the middle left before crossing to the right. Their key move was finding a nice lift on the right to bring them up towards the starboard layline. A short hitch and Takashi Okura’s team led around the top mark ahead of Azzurra, with Platoon second and Onda third.
Sled hung on to win comfortably with Azzurra second but once more Platoon just pipped Onda at the finish line to make it a better day for last year’s world champions, Platoon going 3,3 for the day, Onda 4,4. Quantum Racing lead on 29pts, Azzurra are second on 33pts, and three boats, Platoon, Phoenix and Luna Rossa, are all on 34pts.
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