ISAF NATIONS CUP DUBAI - INDIA MAKE WINNING START TO NATIONS CUP BATTLE

ISAF NATIONS CUP DUBAI - INDIA MAKE WINNING START TO NATIONS CUP BATTLE

03.04.2006: ISAF NATIONS CUP DUBAI - INDIA MAKE WINNING START TO NATIONS CUP BATTLE



UAE suffer opening defeat to Turkey after light winds delay start of regional qualifier at Dubai International Marine Club

New Asian champions India made a winning start to the 2006 ISAF Nations Cup in Dubai today (Monday) while the UAE suffered defeat in the opening match race exchanges.

After exceptionally light winds had delayed the start of the regional qualifying event by several hours, Indian skipper Mahesh Ramchandran and his crew quickly showed the form which took them to the gold medal at last month’s Asian Championships as racing got under way in the late afternoon.

The Indians were comfortable winners over the crew skippered by Cedric Le Rest and representing the event hosts, Dubai International Marine Club, as the battle started for a place in the grand final of the ISAF Nations Cup in Ireland in September.



Turkey, skippered by Orkun Soyer, also opened with a win against Ahmed Shaheen’s all-Emirati crew who are the UAE’s official representative in the event and must beat the odds if they are to go through to the showdown at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Ireland.

Since losing to Germany in the final of the Dubai Match Race in January, the Indians have been unbeatable, capturing their own national match racing title the following month before securing Asian gold in Doha.

"The crew are very comfortable with each other now," said skipper Ramchandran after the opening win in the round robin series which will ultimately send two teams through  to the final on Friday. "No-one was happy sitting around waiting for the wind to get up, and it was good to start sailing."

Eagerly waiting to go into action at Dubai International Marine Club was a second UAE crew skippered by Yousuf Khalid Mohammad and including his brothers, Adel and Hamed, as well as Tawfeeq Al Marzouki and Ahmed Mohammed Al Mutawar.



Regardless of the results this week, the UAE is guaranteed at least one place in the grand final. The Dubai team skippered by Bekky Britton are already through to climax of the event in Ireland in September as the only all-ladies crew entered in the regional qualifier.

Also contesting the Dubai qualifying round are a crew representing Jebel Ali Sailing Club and skippered by Christopher Graham.

The teams are competing in a daily round-robin series of match races aboard four V1/Lutra-30 Sport Boats, and enthusiasts can follow the event by visiting www.dimc-uae.com/sailing/isaf

The Dubai qualifying round will be followed by other qualifiers in Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Great Britain, Ecuador, the US Virgin Islands and New Zealand over the next four months as teams from around the world battle for a place in the grand final.



- Tony Lewis, Total Communications Dubai -

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03.04.2006 / MaP

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