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Lammerts van Bueren has mused about what has kept so-called "meter boats" such as SALLY and BRANTA sailing. Broke formation, put their rails down, and did what meter boats do best: they started flying to windward. On their impromptu race course back in April, BRANTA was still leading SALLY after they rounded the windward mark when an extraordinary thing happened: Reineman suddenly spun BRANTA in a circle. When SALLY was about four boat lengths ahead, Koehler luffed his yacht up into the wind until BRANTA caught up. "We're racing?". [Extracted from the article] |