Excerpt From: Front to Back and Front Again
Full Article: Regattanews.com
27 September 2007
American boat Glory, was putting in another fine performance in spite of the difficult circumstances. She has had an up and down week, posting a couple of thirds alongside some lower placings. Today she finished fourth and owner John Buchan was suitably pleased even though they had their share of the problems, in the Cala di Volpe it was really crazy. Boats were sailing to the mark in two different winds. There was a southerly and a northerly and it was a fight till one took over. We were in pretty good shape there at one time and then everything just changed hands. It was like two boat races. We were probably seventh or eighth (at the Cala di Volpe). A lot of velocity hit us on the way back. We had 25 knots pretty steady for quite a while and we were pretty happy considering the boat is not a heavy-air boat. We did a couple of good tacks and picked some boats off.
Buchan was impressed with the performance of Windquest, I've got to hand it to Windquest. They did a great job. They seemed to be able to stay out there. A few times they looked they were going to go down the toilet and they were able to hold it off. All the boats seem pretty close and it is pretty close competition. If anyone screws up they have a hard time getting back unless they pick the windshifts or something.