Several yachts were sailing well south of the rhumb line, with Jelik V throwing in an early tack to get back above, while Hi Fi and Freefire both waited until around early afternoon and the Genuine Risk superyacht a further hour before changing their direction in the search for boatspeed.
Rolex China Sea Race 2012 is set to start tomorrow, April 4th, with 26 competitors on the start line, including the Dubois 90 Maxi, Geoff Hill’s sailing yacht Genuine Risk.
Dubois 90 sailing yacht Genuine Risk owned by Geoff Hill will compete in the Rolex China Sea Race which starts on Wednesday 4 April. Purchased in 2011, Geoff enthuses that the luxury yacht Genuine Risk is “an amazing boat” – built to state-of-the-art specifications in 2004 at a total cost in excess of US$8 million.
Hugo Stenbeck’s Dubois 90, Genuine Risk, left it until the last race to snatch overall victory in Class 1 from Richard Matthews’ Humphries 54, Oystercatcher XXVIII by a single point.