PUMA!

Det bidde Puma som tog hem VOR inporten i Galway. Oskar Kihlborg har som vanligt skickat bilderna. Från VOR sajten:

For a while it seemed like it would, once again, be Blue's day - they won the first race by more than a minute while PUMA came third after a disappointing start - but then things changed. PUMA got a good start in the second race and never gave up their lead, match racing Telefonica Blue in the latter stages and coming out on top. Better still for Read, their strategy helped Ericsson 3 take second and Blue, coming home in third, had to settle for the day's runner-up award because of the added emphasis attached to the second result.

Read said: "The first race might have been a better race than the second race believe it or not because I didn't have a great start, but you could feel that the boat had wheels in that race and to get back to a third after the hole we dug earlier, that's a great race. To get a great race out of a mistake, that's a big deal.
"Second race, you get the best start and you go the right way, sure enough you're gonna win - what a concept. We knew we needed to get some boats in between Telefonica Blue and us, which is why we put in so many tacks. Rob Greenhalgh, our tactician, made some great calls and did a really nice job out there today. Every once in a while it all comes together."