Swuzzlebubble still in front
New Zealand remained on course yesterday to take the world yachting trophy, the Half Ton Cup, for a third consecutive year after the fourth of the five-race series. With only the three-day long off-shore race to go, lan Gibbs’s Swuzzlebubbie maintained its over-all lead in the series from the Dutch challenger Lamstraal Van Kats and Britain’s Rollercoaster. Tony Bouzaid’s Waverider, the defending champion, ended the day in sixth place over all after a win in yesterday’s third
and final Olympic race had helped to wipe out the deficit of his disastrous twenty-first place in the short off-shore race on Sunday and Monday. Waverider romped home yesterday ahead of Britain’s Smiffy, but Swuzzlebubble’s sixth was enough for Gibbs to preserve his over-all lead in the series. The New Zealand boat has 159.375 points, ahead of Lamstraal Van Kats and Rollercoaster equal on 147.5. Jina (France) on 141.25 points, and Solution Too (Netherlands) and Waverider both on 140.5
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