Offshore Rules will be focusing on the Melges 32 and Farr 40 Classes at this year's Key West Race Week.
Check back regularly for our exclusive daily reports, video action from the racecourse and on the dock sailor interviews....
Race 6 Videos....
20 January 2010 22:30:51
Race 6 Finish...
20 January 2010 20:03:33
Breeze for the final beat up to around eight knots...
Samba take a comfortable victory ahead of Star and then New Wave and then Fantasticaa and Yasha.
Next:
Argo
Calvi
Ninkasi
Ramrod
Red
Flat Stanley
Arethusa
We are on our way in now and will upload race 6 videos and the on the dock interviews as soon as we can...
Race 6 2nd Leeward Gate...
20 January 2010 19:38:40
Samba by a long way from Star, then New Wave then, Yasha in a scrap for the overlap with Fantasticaa
Next:
Argo
Calvi Network
Ninkasi
Ramrod
Red
Heartbreaker
Arethusa
Flat Stanley
Shakedown
Leenabarca
Lake Effect
Bronco
Dark n Stormy
Teasing Machine
Celeritas
Race 6 Second windward mark...
20 January 2010 19:19:25
Samba
Star
Yasha
Ninkasi
New Wave
Argo
Fantasticaa
Arethusa
Red
Ramrod
Heartbreaker
Calvi Network
Lake Effect
Flat Stanley
Race first leeward gate..
20 January 2010 19:02:19
Breeze down to five knots or less again...
Moat pressure was on the right...
Samba still lead from New Wave..
Then
Heartbreaker
Shakedown
Yasha
Red
Fantasticaa
Star
Calvi
Bronco
Ramrod
Ninkasi
Argo
Teasing Machine
Lake Effect
Leenabarca
Barbarians
Arethusa
Flat Stanley
Dark n Stormy
Race 6 1st Windward Mark....
20 January 2010 18:54:01
The right of the course paid early on on the leg due perhaps to a little extra pressure.
Left came good a little at the end...
Samba on the right timed their tack to the left to perfection and lead the fleet around the top mark...
Next:
New Wave
Yasha
Heartbreaker
Star
Arethusa
Fantasticaa
Bronco
Ninkasi
Ramrod
Red
Lake Effect
Argo
Flat Stanley
Team Barbarians
Shakedown
Teasing Machine
Race 6 underway...
20 January 2010 18:32:12
Clean start with boats well spread down the line...
Teasing Machine got a nice start in the middle of the line...
Fantasticaa also away well...
Wind is around six knots and currently in left phase so entire fleet on long port tack in first few minutes of the beat.
Samba and Leenabarca looking strong in the middle of the course at this point.
Video: Race 5
20 January 2010 17:29:02
R5 Finish...
20 January 2010 17:14:22
Drifting conditions prevailing...
New breeze filled in from the right of the course on the final downwind...
Yasha take a well deserved win...
Then
Bronco
Leenabarca
Fantasticaa
Red
Arethusa
Ninkasi
Barbarians
Flat Stanley
Calvi
Samba
Heartbreaker
Star
New Wave
Lake Effect
Celeritas (hit finish boat!)
Argo
Shakedown
Ramrod
Dark n' Stormy
Vampire
Teasing Machine
Race 5 second windward mark...
20 January 2010 16:46:43
Yasha making the most of the one sided racecourse. First out to the left and into the new breeze to extend their lead to around two minutes at the top mark. Wind is sub five knots right now...
