Apr 5, 2010
The final session of the 2nd Australian F16 National Titles today was characterised by a dying breeze of about 5 knots and difficult choppy seas.
Pim and Marlene were regularly to the first mark the quickest with some excellent starts and great speed upwind but Adrian and Jess on the Viper and the Tony Barrett and Emile Barrett on the cat rig BLADES showed amazing speed on the kite legs.
These three races gave the closest racing with the most position changes for the series. The finish of race 8 was a nail biter with Tony Barrett on his cat rig BLADE coming from third to win the race at the finish line with his brother Emile also on the cat rig blade coming second with Adrian and Jess taking third.
It was widely expected that the lighter cat rig boats would dominate the lighter races. Nobody told Adrian and Jess though they managed to score wins in races 7 and 9.
