Dibba, Oman: Bertrand Pace and the crew of AISM have won their fourth consecutive offshore leg of the EFG Bank Sailing Arabia The Tour.
The fifth leg of EFG Bank Sailing Arabia The Tour, the region’s longest offshore yacht race saw the eight Farr 30 one designs set sail from Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah bound for Zighy Bay in Oman, via the Strait of Hormuz and past the most visually spectacular part of the race course, the flat desert giving way to the mountainous Musandam Peninsula.
The 24-hour long leg was a tense game of snakes and ladders for the majority of the competitors.
Only AISM consistently performed well, leading for the majority of the leg. Some, including Cedric Pouligny-steered BAE Systems, lying in second place overall, got stuck along the course and found themselves racing among the backmarkers.
For others the most tactically tricky leg of EFG Bank Sailing Arabia The Tour to date worked in their favour with Kay Heemskerk’s Delft Challenge – TU Delft scoring their best result of the whole race coming home in second place.
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