WAKA Racing winning in the heat in Malaysia. Image copyright Gareth Cooke/Subzero Images.
by Garth Ellingham
‘Its hot, its humid and its sticky’. Terengganu has given us everything we expected, except for no rain. The food is to die for, but taxi drivers don’t like it when five all pile into their little Protons. Along with all the greatness Malaysia has to offer, the sailing has been outstanding. We still remain undefeated after completing 10 races and guaranteed the top qualifying spot. Despite our good run so far we have a big task at hand tomorrow to pull this win off with some very tough racing ahead.
We started today well taking two early victories before a short break and rest from the intense heat. Coming back out onto the water for a long afternoon spell we picked our game up and sailed a lot better. Our best races of the day were from the two Malaysian teams Hazim and Mansor. Against Hazim he picked the first shift well out of the unfavoured side to gain the first cross. After a few tacks and close manoeuvres we managed to get a spinnaker hoist inside him and take the lead around the bottom. From here we extended and took a comfortable lead. With an early lead to us against Mansor he sailed well to stay close behind. He picked a couple of great shifts up the second beat to be up our tail pipe around the top mark for the last time. We then held this fraction of a lead to cross the finish line one length ahead.
A fantastic day for the Waka’s which we're stocked with. Another great feed and good night's sleep is required to be on top of our game tomorrow. We plan to up the intensity a little and take on everyone as if they are the best in the world!
Waka Racing would like to thank Ian from Tax Management NZ for helping the team get up here to compete, along with Stefan of Widex, Pacific Sports Community Trust, Ross Munro of Line 7, RNZYS, Simon from Frontend Design and the WAKA racing supporters club for all their help and generosity.
WAKA Racing
Asian Match Racing Championships
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