Mascalzone clings on to the lead

It wasn’t even as though they had a spectacular day, but Vincenzo Onorato’s team on Mascalzone Latino found themselves having increased their lead in the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship. Mainsheet trimmer Adrian Stead commented: “The first race was very good, scoring a third. The second and third races we were mid-line and going right - with the left paying - so they were recovery races. Last race we did a pretty awesome recovery on the first beat to come back from 27^th to 11^th, although we didn’t convert it, coming in 15^th. There were plenty of snakes and ladders out there, and we did OK, probably fourth best boat of the day, and we extended on Barking Mad.”

Jim Richardson’s local team clung on to second overall with scores of 7,24,6. While Mascalzone and Barking Mad retained their places on the leaderboard from the night before, behind them all sorts of place changing was going on. Biggest beneficiary from today’s three light-wind races on Rhode Island Sound was Cannonball, with Dario Ferrari posting an incredible set of scores – 5,5,3 – to leap 11 places up the rankings to fourth overall. The Italian owner was bubbling over with excitement. “I have just decided to give up sailing, because after today I will never repeat anything like that. This proved what a fantastic class the Farr 40 is. It shows that anyone can win in this fleet."

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