Briton Colin Jeff dominated the final race which took place this morning off Kota Kinabalu, he lead from start to finish followed by his brother Owen ahead of third place Italian Alex Carrera. Once again the spectators had now idea as to what was going on as the commentary appeared to be only available in the pits area. Thus it was similar to watch an early movie, yes there was the whine of engines but no one new who was who. Half way through the race yellow flags were waved, why we can only guess, so the boats slowed and ran a few laps in convoy before sprinting to the finish. There was no indication as to how many laps were raced but I found out later a race is normally 30 laps.
The shame is that people were ignorant about the fact that Colin Jeff's win was the 3rd this year and he ending the day with 67 point out of 80, second place in the championship went to Alex Carrera with 39 points. I do not know the third place overall as could not identify the boat but think it was Latvian Uvis Slakteris who has had a string of fourth places.
The question on everyone's tongue is will the race return next year, if it does hopefully the local organiser will get their act together and provide decent information, that the public and the competitors deserve. this year there were too many people waling around with Official badges who did not have a clue about what was going on.
David Ogden
Yacht Watch Service
Monday, December 3, 2007
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