After waiting all day for the wind to build, Principal Race Officer Peter Reggio was forced to abandon the day’s schedule at 1520 hours with insufficient breeze on the racecourse.
The loss of the semifinal round today sees the event advance to the match racing final tomorrow morning where Chris Bake’s Team Aqua, led by Cameron Appleton, will square off against Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis Racing, with Terry Hutchinson as skipper. The two crews won Group A and B, respectively, with 5-1 records.
Additional racing will take place as follows:
3rd and 4th place: Synergy Russian Sailing Team vs. Mascalzone Latino
5th and 6th place: BMW ORACLE Racing vs. Team Sea Dubai
7th and 8th place: 17 vs. No Way Back
9th and 10th place: Katusha vs. Ceeref
11th and 12th place: Ironbound vs. Peninsula Petroleum
13th and 14th place: Puerto Calero Islas Canarias vs. AEZ RC 44 Sailing Team
Each match is a one race sudden death, winner take all. Event organizers have moved the start time forward by an hour to 1100 with the hopes of completing each match.
No racing will be conducted after 1300 as the afternoon is set aside for practice for the fleet racing portion of the regatta, Friday through Sunday.
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ORACLE RC 44 Cup Miami hits wind block 8th December 2010