73 A sailors registered today with just two still to arrive.

I asked a few competitors who they thought would fill the top five spots and the order went roughly
Ashby, Brewin, Bundock, Collett and Landenberger.

One sailor said Darren Bundock has spent the past five weeks training. The guy said in the first week He was ahead of Bundy but by the second Darren was well out in front.

So its all on for young and old from tomorrow.

I grabbed a few images before my old digital camera played up but did get a shot of Team NZ's Dean Barker, Glenn Ashby and UK tornado olympian Will Howden

http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q183/hihosilver1953/Australian%20A%20Class%20Nationals%202010/

The racer breakup is 16 from NSW, 24-Qld,21-Victoria, 8-NT,1 each from West Australia, FRA, (Phillipe Presti) and GBR (Will Howden) and 3-NZ-(Murray Philpott,Stu Bettany and Dean Barker).

Eight Northern Territory competitors signed up. Most found their way through the floodwaters. Chris Battenberg and John Gibson went the long way round, driving from Darwin to Melbourne to collect a new cat and then drove back north to Queensland.
Competitors ages range from 17 to 72.