April 4, 2009

We'll take second but...

“Today’s race was fluky, there was a lot of current, it was a hard, hard, hard day. Rob Greenhalgh (GBR) did a really great job on tactics. He made a couple of key calls and was spot on with what he said. He had a great day.”

“We pre-planned our start on port tack, different to everyone else, and our duck to the right hand side of the first beat. We were comfortable with that decision and we were first at the weather mark. Today was the type of day in which you could easily come in last. It was hard. The runs were very long because there was a lot of current going against the boats. The current was filling the breeze upwind because we were going with it and was dropping the breeze on the downwind legs, so that’s why you saw a lot of passing downwind. In the end, it took one little breeze line that Telefonica Blue had, that we didn’t, to make all the difference. We’ll take second; but one day, we won’t be the bridesmaids, we’ll be wearing the white dress!”


-Kenny's comments on placing second in today's Rio In Port race