Here's what I saw; Alinghi won the start but tacked away after a long drive on stbd towards the port layline. I think TNZ was slowly creeping up onto their lee bow, so they decided to tack away. Big mistake. Shortly afterwards, TNZ tacks to port and gets a lift, rounds in front and holds that way to the leeward gate. They went to the left side of the gate, Alinghi took the right behind them. Instead of tacking over to sit on top of Alinghi right away, TNZ allowed a bit of separation, then tacked, and when they came together, the Swiss had made some advance, and after two more lee bow attempts, were able to get on top of TNZ and stay there. TNZ had one more shot at them on the run, but intead of trying to get into a fight, they gybed away. I hope they can figure it out tomorrow, I would like to see it go all 9 races.

Last edited by Timbo; 06/30/07 12:23 PM.

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