Star Studs -- Updated 3 Oct Oct 2, 08:49
Congrats to Hamish Pepper and crew Carl Williams (NZL, BMWOR sailing team) who won the first race yesterday at the hotly-contested 2006 Star Class World Championship being held this week in San Francisco Bay. We'll keep looking for some decent pictures -- any picture for that matter -- of the Pepper/Williams duo. In the meantime, full results and some images (including the one below) are on the St Francis YC website.
The St Francis website reports that, "The westerly breeze proved very shifty all afternoon, ranging from as much as 13 knots to as little as 5, with the pressure spread out all over the course. Racing began in an ebb, turning to a flood late afternoon. Hamish Pepper and crew Carl "Tiny" Williams (New Zealand) took the first win of the 6-day series with seeming ease...."
The St Francis website reports that, "The westerly breeze proved very shifty all afternoon, ranging from as much as 13 knots to as little as 5, with the pressure spread out all over the course. Racing began in an ebb, turning to a flood late afternoon. Hamish Pepper and crew Carl "Tiny" Williams (New Zealand) took the first win of the 6-day series with seeming ease...."
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Start of yesterday's Race 1 of the 2006 Star Worlds in San Francisco, won by Hamish Pepper and our own Carl Williams.
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UPDATE (1845 Tue 3 Oct) -- Our thanks to Richard Gladwell, editor of Sail World NZ, for sending us the nice photo above of Hamish and Carl racing in the Star Worlds earlier this week. Photo by San Francisco's Chris Ray.
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