Australian 470 Girls Move into Seventh Position
WAIS 470 sailors Elise Rechichi and Belinda Stowell worked their way up the leader board on day two of racing, moving into seventh overall following a third and a 12th.
Rechichi and Stowell had a great first race, showing plenty of speed as they finished second before equipment issues hampered their second race.
“We really had to fight for it in the first race,” said Stowell.
“We just lost second on the finish line to the Kiwis, it was a really good race and we fought hard which we’re pretty happy with. We had something blow out on the spinnaker in the second one. For people who check everything that was pretty annoying. We lost boats and ended up back in the pack which set us back quite a bit.
“We’re really happy that we’re doing well in these conditions and we could have been in the top seven in every race so far,” she said.
“Those equipment points cost us a lot which is very disappointing, we’ve just got to be quite diligent and refocus for tomorrow. I’ll go and do my equipment checks and again make sure we’re on top of everything and hope that nothing else goes wrong.”
We’ve got six races more and we’ve spent a few points that we didn’t need to spend so we’ve got to try and be quite good with that in the next six.”